* 1954 – Jon Krakauer, American author

* 1954 – Pat Travers, Canadian singer and musician

* 1954 – Thom Bray, American actor

* 1954 – Jane Campion, New Zealand director

* 1954 – Frank-Michael Marczewski, German footballer

* 1954 – John Lloyd, English tennis player

* 1954 – Derek Warwick, English race car driver

* 1954 – Paul Steigerwald, American sportscaster

* 1954 – Ray Jennings, South African cricketer and coach

* 1954 – Radio Pakistan broadcasts the " Qaumī Tarāna ", the national anthem of Pakistan for the first time.

* 1954 – Nico Assumpção, Brazilian bass player ( d. 2001 )

In 1954 – 55, Australia's batsmen had no answer to the pace of Frank Tyson and Statham.

* 1954 – James Charles Kopp, American murderer of Barnett Slepian

* 1954 – Sammy McIlroy, Irish footballer and manager

* 1993 – Alan Kulwicki, American race car driver ( b. 1954 )

After 1890 came philosopher Josiah Royce ( 1855 – 1916 ), botanist Liberty Hyde Bailey ( 1858 – 1954 ), the Southern Agrarians of the 1920s and 1930s, novelist John Steinbeck ( 1902 – 1968 ), historian A. Whitney Griswold ( 1906 – 1963 ), environmentalist Aldo Leopold ( 1887 – 1948 ), Ralph Borsodi ( 1886 – 1977 ), and present-day authors Wendell Berry ( b. 1934 ), Gene Logsdon ( b. 1932 ), Paul Thompson, and Allan C. Carlson ( b. 1949 ).

Alan Mathison Turing, OBE, FRS ( ; 23 June 1912 – 7 June 1954 ), was a British mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst, and computer scientist.

* 1954 – James Gleick, American author, journalist, and biographer

* 1954 – Benno Möhlmann, German footballer

* 1954 – Gary Peters, English footballer

In 1998, Pensacola Christian College produced a widely distributed videotape, arguing that this " leaven of fundamentalism " was passed from the 19th-century Princeton theologian Benjamin B. Warfield ( 1851 – 1921 ) to Charles Brokenshire ( 1885 – 1954 ), who served BJU as Dean of the School of Religion, and then to current BJU faculty members and graduates.

James was definitely out of his element when it came to music, but Benjamin Britten's operatic version of " The Turn of the Screw " ( 1954 ) has become one of the composer's most popular works.

Theda Arnold, present ( 1979 ) Post Master has copies of the National Archives Records showing later post masters to include, S. J. Robb, 1889 ; Dement Brown, 1891 ; Martha A. LaGrange, 1892 ; Benjamin F. Yoder, 1893 ; Jerome S. Rice, 1895 ; Wiliam H. Beck, 1899 ; Oscar Yoder, 1901 ; Martha A. LaGrange, 1903 ; Martha A. Miskimins, 1904 ; William R. Kirlin, 1928 ; Verna Bess Coen, 1954 ( acting ); Dale E. Howery, 1956 ; Theda Arnold, 1972, up to present day.

* Benjamin Blessum ( 1877 – 1954 ) Norwegian-American painter and illustrator

* William Justine ... Benjamin / ... ( 4 episodes, 1953 – 1954 )

His television acting credits include the role of Benjamin Franklin in Night Strike on Calvacade of America ( Apr 29, 1953 and Oct 19, 1954 ); and the role of Thaddeus Grimshaw in the episode Royal Carriage on My Friend Flicka ( Mar 16, 1956 ).

Jacob Benjamin Katznelson ( 1855 – 1930 ) wrote the poem, " Alilot Gibbor ha-Yehudim Yehudah ha-Makkabi le-Veit ha-Hashmona ' im " ( 1922 ); the Yiddish writer Moses Schulstein wrote the dramatic poem, " Yehudah ha-Makkabi " ( in A Layter tsu der Zun, 1954 ); Jacob Fichmann's " Yehudah ha-Makkabi " is one of the heroic tales included in Sippurim le-Mofet ( 1954 ).

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# Thomas Benjamin Cabbell Manners ( b. 1954 ), third and youngest son of Hon.

Ernest Benjamin Esclangon ( March 17, 1876 – January 28, 1954 ) was a French astronomer and mathematician.

* The line " The ceremony of innocence is drowned " is featured prominently in Myfanwy Piper's libretto for Benjamin Britten's opera The Turn of the Screw ( 1954 ).

In 1954, Redbook received the Benjamin Franklin Award for public service.

Other works include Paseo for guitar ( 1969 ), Sinfonia in Memoriam Benjamin Britten ( 1977 ), two violin concertos ( 1950, 1954 ), choral and chamber works ( including the 1956 Cello and Piano Sonata, recorded twenty years later for L ' Oiseau Lyre by Julian Lloyd Webber and John McCabe ) and works for piano and organ.

The first chairman, from 1954 to 1990, was Julius Nyerere ( president of Tanganyika 1962-1964 and of Tanzania 1964-1985 ); the second chairman, from 1990 to 1996, was Ali Hassan Mwinyi ( president of the Republic 1985-1995 ); the third CCM chairman, from 1996 until 2006, was Benjamin Mkapa, president of the Republic in 1995-2005.

* The novel Jemmy Button by the Chilean writer Benjamin Subercaseaux was published in the 1950s and translated from Spanish by Mary and Fred del Villar ( New York: The Macmilllan Company, 1954 ).

The 1954 Benjamin Award was presented to him for Elegy, a composition for orchestra.

* Francis Joins the WACS ( 1954 ) as General Benjamin Kaye and voice of Francis

* Benjamin ( Peterson ) ( born 1954 ), Eastern orthodox bishop

Its members at one time or another included Henry Tompkins ( 1870 – 1954 ); Donald Fincham ( 1916 – 1969 ); George Henry Lewes ( 1817 – 1878 ); Frederick William Walsh ( 1879 – 1923 ), who had been paralysed in an industrial accident but whose mind remained sharp ; Paul Juste Decours ; and Benjamin Fossett Lock ( honorary secretary of the Society 1880 – 1886 ), who resigned in 1886 over the Irish home rule debate.

Early in his career, he began a long association with Benjamin Britten, for whom he directed all but one of the composer's stage works, including all of the world premieres after 1954.

* Juliette Tomlinson, " Asher Benjamin -- Connecticut Architect ," Connecticut Antiquarian 6 ( 1954 )