* 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

A more complete list would also include Bradbury's `` The Pedestrian '' ( 1951 ), Philip K. Dick's Solar Lottery ( 1955 ), David Karp's One ( 1953 ), Wilson Tucker's The Long Loud Silence ( 1952 ), Jack Vance's To Live Forever ( 1956 ), Gore Vidal's Messiah ( 1954 ), and Bernard Wolfe's Limbo ( 1952 ), as well as the three perhaps most outstanding dystopias, Frederik Pohl and C. M. Kornbluth's The Space Merchants ( 1953 ), Kurt Vonnegut's Player Piano ( 1952 ), and John Wyndham's Re-Birth ( 1953 ), works which we will later examine in detail.

* 1954 – David Paymer, American actor

Frazetta authority David Winiewicz described the everyday working mode of operation in Li ' l Abner Dailies: 1954 Volume 20 ( Kitchen Sink, 1994 ):

David Abelevich Kaufman () ( 2 January 1896 – 12 February 1954 ) — better known by his pseudonym Dziga Vertov, or Vertof (, " spinning top ") — was a Soviet pioneer documentary film, newsreel director and cinema theorist.

" The order of the dedications has changed with the relative power of the United States and Britain, and with relative sales ; the 1954 version of the 14th edition is " Dedicated by Permission to the Heads of the Two English-Speaking Peoples, Dwight David Eisenhower, President of the United States of America, and Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth the Second.

* 1954 – David Newman, American composer and conductor

* 1954 – David Wilkie, Scottish swimmer

* 1954 – David Bret, Anglo-French biographer and broadcaster

* 1954 – David Worrall, Australian composer and polymedia artist

* 1954 – David Lee Roth, American singer ( Van Halen )

* 1954 – David Michaels, American professor and government official

Smith, David E., and Lantham, M. L., trans., 1954.

David Sarnoff with the first RCA videotape recorder, 1954.

* David Knowles-Regius Professor of Modern History ( 1954 – 1963 )

* David Edge ( born 1954 ), British former long-distance runner

In 1954, his first son, David Hoyt Lichtenstein, now a songwriter, was born.

He returned to England to star in Hobson's Choice ( 1954 ), directed by David Lean.

The twins were born in Sherman Oaks, California to David Olsen ( b. 1953 ) and Jarnette ( Jarnie ) Jones ( b. 1954 ).

The modernist house of Cameron Frye is located at 370 Beech Street, Highland Park, Illinois 60035, known as Ben Rose House designed by architects A. James Speyer, who designed the main building in 1954, and David Haid, who designed the pavilion in 1974, and once owned by photographer Ben Rose.

* David Thompson ( basketball ) ( born 1954 ), member of the Basketball Hall of Fame

David L. Roberts ( b. Lusk, Wyoming, 1954 ) founded the Medicine Bow Post newspaper in 1977, editing and publishing the newspaper until the early 1990s.

** Iain David Charteris, Lord Elcho ( 1945 – 1954 )

Joe Jackson ( born David Ian Jackson, 11 August 1954, Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire ) is an English musician and singer-songwriter now living in Berlin, whose five Grammy Award nominations span from 1979 to 2001.

* David Cantor ( born 1954 ), American actor and singer