* 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 – Ozzie Smith, American baseball player

Osborne Earl " Ozzie " Smith ( born December 26, 1954 ) is an American former baseball shortstop who played in Major League Baseball ( MLB ) for the San Diego Padres and St. Louis Cardinals from 1978 to 1996.

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

* Jane Avril of the Moulin Rouge ( 1954 ), by Jose Shercliff-Publisher: Macrae Smith Co

* Paul Smith ( academic ) ( born 1954 ), professor of Cultural Studies at George Mason University

* Paul Smith ( footballer born 1954 ), former professional footballer for Huddersfield Town and Cambridge United

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Initially unsure as to Barassi's best position, Smith played him as a second ruckman in 1954, despite his lack of inches for the position.

The Alexander Smith Carpet mill fell on hard times and ceased operation on June 24, 1954.

* Billy Smith ( pitcher ) ( born 1954 ), American pitcher in Major League Baseball, 1981

In 1954 Prima was offered to stay at the The Sahara in Las Vegas to open his new act with Keely Smith.

In 1954, newly built Nesconset Highway created a major commercial crossroad in Lake Grove, which prompted the construction of the Smith Haven Mall in 1968, which made the local residents become concerned about the impact of new businesses and increased traffic in their community.

* George William Smith ( sportsman ) ( 1874 – 1954 ), New Zealand track athlete, All Black rugby union player, also a founder of rugby league in Australasia

Even in the UK, he experienced problems: his first British film, The Sleeping Tiger, a 1954 film noir crime thriller, bore the pseudonym Victor Hanbury, rather than his own name, in the credits as director, as the stars of the film, Alexis Smith and Alexander Knox, feared being blacklisted in Hollywood due to working on a film he directed.

During the mid-20th century, partly as a result of cases such as Powell v. Alabama, 287 U. S. 45 ( 1932 ); Smith v. Allwright, 321 U. S. 649 ( 1944 ); Shelley v. Kraemer, 334 U. S. 1 ( 1948 ); Sweatt v. Painter, 339 U. S. 629 ( 1950 ); McLaurin v. Oklahoma State Regents, 339 U. S. 637 ( 1950 ); NAACP v. Alabama, 357 U. S. 449 ( 1958 ); Boynton v. Virginia, 364 U. S. 454 ( 1960 ) and probably the most famous, Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 347 U. S. 483 ( 1954 ), the tide against segregation began to turn.

George Iain Duncan Smith ( born 9 April 1954 ; often referred to by his initials " IDS ") is a British Conservative politician.

Duncan Smith was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1954.

During the 1950s, Bogarde came to prominence playing a hoodlum who shoots and kills a police constable in The Blue Lamp ( 1950 ) co-starring Jack Warner and Bernard Lee ; a handsome artist who comes to rescue of Jean Simmons during the World's Fair in Paris in So Long at the Fair, a film noir thriller ; an accidental murderer who befriends a young boy played by Jon Whiteley in Hunted ( aka The Stranger in Between ) ( 1952 ); in Appointment in London ( 1953 ) as a young Wing-Commander in Bomber Command who, against orders, opts to fly his 90th mission with his men in a major air offensive against the Germans ; an unjustly imprisoned man who regains hope in clearing his name when he learns his sweetheart, Mai Zetterling, is still alive in Desperate Moment ( 1953 ); Doctor in the House ( 1954 ), as a medical student, in a film that made Bogarde one of the most popular British stars of the 1950s, and co-starring Kenneth More, Donald Sinden and James Robertson Justice as their crabby mentor ; The Sleeping Tiger ( 1954 ), playing a neurotic criminal with co-star Alexis Smith, and Bogarde's first film for American expatriate director Joseph Losey ; Doctor at Sea ( 1955 ), co-starring Brigitte Bardot in one of her first film roles ; as a returning Colonial who fights the Mau-Mau with Virginia McKenna and Donald Sinden in Simba ( 1955 ); Cast a Dark Shadow ( 1955 ), as a man who marries women for money and then murders them ; The Spanish Gardener ( 1956 ), co-starring Michael Hordern, Jon Whiteley, and Cyril Cusack ; Doctor at Large ( 1957 ), again with Donald Sinden, another entry in the " Doctor films series ", co-starring later Bond-girl Shirley Eaton ; the Powell and Pressburger production Ill Met by Moonlight ( 1957 ) co-starring Marius Goring as the German General Kreipe, kidnapped on Crete by Patrick " Paddy " Leigh Fermor ( Bogarde ) and a fellow band of adventurers based on W. Stanley Moss ' real-life account of the WW2 caper ; A Tale of Two Cities ( 1958 ), a faithful retelling of Charles Dickens ' classic ; as a Flt.

She returned to theatre ( between films ) more often in the 1950s and 1960s, playing in London and on tour in such roles as Edith Fenton in The Hat Trick ( 1950 ); Felicity, Countess of Marshwood, in Relative Values ( 1951 and 1953 ); Grace Smith in A Question of Fact ( 1953 ); Lady Yarmouth in The Night of the Ball ( 1954 ); Mrs. St. Maugham in The Chalk Garden ( 1955 – 56 ), Dame Mildred in The Bright One ( 1958 ); Mrs. Vincent in Look on Tempests ( 1960 ); Mrs. Gantry ( Bobby ) in The Bird of Time ( 1961 ); Mrs. Moore in A Passage to India ( 1962 ); Mrs Tabret in The Sacred Flame ( 1966 and 1967 ); Prue Salter in Let's All Go Down the Strand ( 1967 ); Emma Littlewood in Out of the Question ( 1968 ); Lydia in His, Hers and Theirs ( 1969 ); and others.

The strip retained Fisher's signature until his death, however, and not until December 7, 1954 was the strip signed by Smith.

The 1954 film White Christmas referenced Smith.

The U. S. Supreme Court decisions in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka ( 1954 ); Powell v. Alabama ( 1932 ); Smith v. Allwright ( 1944 ); Shelley v. Kraemer ( 1948 ); Sweatt v. Painter ( 1950 ); and McLaurin v. Oklahoma State Regents ( 1950 ) led to a shift in tactics, and from 1955 to 1965, " direct action " was the strategy — primarily bus boycotts, sit-ins, freedom rides, and social movements.

Smith came to prominence playing for Oxford University, scoring centuries in three consecutive Varsity matches against Cambridge, from 1954 to 1956.