* 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

* 1954 – G. S. Bali, Indian politician

* Saturday Night ( 1954, though unproduced until 1997 ) ( book by Julius J. Epstein and Philip G. Epstein )

The film was also re-released in 1954, with a written prologue added before the opening credits, advising that gangsters such as Tom Powers and Caesar " Rico " Bandello, the title character in Little Caesar ( played by Edward G. Robinson ), are a menace that the public must confront.

* Harold G. Hoffman ( 1896 – 1954 ), former Governor of New Jersey, who was mayor of South Amboy in 1925 and 1926.

In his Galaxy Five-Star Shelf column of December, 1954, he states, "... I actually did not become an earnest devotee of the form until 1944, about a year before the Atomic Age actually opened .... The first item I remember reading that could be classified as science fiction was H. G. Wells ' Men Like Gods, back in 1924 when I was a college sophomore.

* 1954: Jim G. Lucas, Scripps-Howard Newspapers, " for his notable front-line human interest reporting of the Korean War, the cease-fire and the prisoner-of-war exchanges, climaxing 26 months of distinguished service as a war correspondent.

* To the Wicklow Hills ( 1954 ); words by R. G.

* Bowen, E. G. ( 1954 ) The Settlements of the Celtic Saints in Wales.

For example, William Irish was the byline in Dime Detective Magazine ( February, 1942 ) on his 1942 story " It Had to Be Murder ", ( source of the 1954 Alfred Hitchcock movie Rear Window ) and based on H. G. Wells ' short story " Through a Window ".

Ring for Jeeves is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United Kingdom on 22 April 1953 by Herbert Jenkins, London and in the United States on 15 April 1954 by Simon & Schuster, New York, under the title The Return of Jeeves.

He was later the legal adviser to Governor G. Mennen Williams, his former law school classmate, from 1953 to 1954.

* Wiley G. Brooks ( 1941 – 1954 )

He received his PhD in 1954 from Nuclear Physics at the Collège de France, receiving the qualification after having written a thesis on the subject of very low radiation due to disintegration of nuclei ( Charpak & Suzor ).< ref > STUDY OF THE PERIOD OF THE 57 KEV LEVEL ASSOCIATED WITH THE DISINTEGRATION OF MTh4 < sub > 24 </ sub >-Suzor, F .; Charpak, G. 1954 Oct 01-Journal de Physique et le Radium ( France ) Changed to J. Phys.

The seventh season of Philco Television Playhouse began September 19, 1954 with E. G. Marshall and Eva Marie Saint in Chayefsky's Middle of the Night, a play which relocated to Broadway theaters 15 months later ; In 1956, Middle of the Night opened on Broadway with Edward G. Robinson and Gena Rowlands, and its success led to a national tour.

* James G. Douglas ( 1887 – 1954 ), supporter of Michael Collins, architect of Irish Free State Constitution, member of Irish Senate

* Ritchie R L G The Normans in Scotland ( Edinburgh, 1954 )( narrative of battle is p 256-70 )

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Jung, C. G. 1954.

* 1951, 1954 First partial English translations by E. Kadloubovsky and G. E. H. Palmer in two volumes: Writings from the Philokalia on Prayer of the Heart and Early Fathers from the Philokalia.

* G. Polya, Induction and Analogy in Mathematics Volume 1 Princeton University Press ( 1954 ) L. C.

* William G. Waite, the rhythm of twelfth century polyphony, Yale UP 1954 / 1976, which apart from a selective transcription of the organa dupla by Leonin contains many quotations from the contemporary theorists in his dissertation preceding the transcription.

* Waite, William G. The Rhythm of Twelfth Century Polyphony ( New Haven: Yale University Press, 1954 ).