* 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

Lum and Abner was an American radio comedy network program created by Chester Lauck and Norris Goff that was aired from 1931 to 1954.

Prior to his tenured appointment to the University of Pennsylvania, Pritchard taught at Crozer Theological Seminary in Chester, Pennsylvania, 1942 – 1954, as the chair of Old Testament History and Exegesis.

' The Parade ' Shops, built in 1954 in north Blacon, are an example of Chester City Council building.

West Chester trolleys were replaced by buses in 1954 due to widening of West Chester Pike ; rush-hour trips to Westgate Hills lasted until 1958.

Warren Tufts ( December 12, 1925-June 7, 1982 ), born Chester Tufts, was an American comic strip and comic book artist-writer best known for his syndicated Western adventure strip Casey Ruggles which ran from 1949 to 1954.

* 2003 – Roger Voudouris, American singer-songwriter and guitarist ( b. 1954 )

* 1954 – Ellen Barkin, American actress

* 1954 – Mark Fidrych, American baseball player ( d. 2009 )

* 1954 – Stanley A. McChrystal, American general

* Adrian Zmed ( born 1954 ), American television personality and film actor

* 1954 – Mary Jo Salter, American poet

* 1954 – Sam J. Jones, American actor

* 1954 – Pat Metheny, American guitarist and composer ( Pat Metheny Group )

* 1954 – Chip Coffey, American psychic medium

* 1954 – Archie Griffin, American football player

* 1954 – Charles Busch, American actor and screenwriter

* 1954 – Gregory Abbott, American singer, musician and composer

* 1954 – Donald Petrie, American director

* 1954 – George Church, American biologist

* 1954 – Michael P. Kube-McDowell, American novelist

* 1954 – David Paymer, American actor

* 1954 – Bruce Sterling, American author

* 1954 – Michael Sembello, American musician and songwriter

Armoured trains saw use during the 19th century in the American Civil War ( 1861 – 1865 ), the Franco-Prussian War ( 1870 – 1871 ), the First and Second Boer Wars ( 1880 – 81 and 1899 – 1902 ), the First ( 1914 – 1918 ) and Second World Wars ( 1939 – 1945 ) and the First Indochina War ( 1946 – 1954 ).