* 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

( Whitcombe and Tombs: Christchurch ) 1954, 211.

Heavenly Creatures is a 1994 New Zealand film directed by Peter Jackson, from a screenplay he co-wrote with his wife, Fran Walsh, about the notorious 1954 Parker – Hulme murder case in Christchurch, New Zealand.

The Parker – Hulme Murder was a murder and subsequent court case that occurred in Christchurch, New Zealand in 1954, in which Honora Rieper was murdered by her teenage daughter, Pauline Parker, and her best friend, Juliet Hulme.

On 22 June 1954, the body of Honora Rieper was discovered in Victoria Park, in Christchurch, New Zealand.

On 22 June 1954, the girls took Honora Rieper for a walk in Victoria Park in their hometown of Christchurch.

Parker and Hulme stood trial in Christchurch in 1954, and were found guilty on August 29 of that year.

Pauline Yvonne Parker ( born on 26 May 1938 ) is a woman from Christchurch, New Zealand who, together with her friend Juliet Hulme ( now known as acclaimed fiction author Anne Perry ), murdered her mother, Honora Rieper, on 22 June 1954.

The last tram to Papanui ran in 1954 with the trams being replaced by bright red buses run by the Christchurch Transport Board ( later the Red Bus Company ).

* Beattie, H. ( 1954, 1994 ) Our Southernmost Maoris Dunedin, NZ: Otago Daily Times ; Christchurch, NZ: Avondale Copy Studio.

From 1954 with the introduction of the DC-6s, Christchurch — Sydney and Auckland — Sydney were started, with TEAL now operating its own Christchurch — Melbourne and Auckland — Melbourne services.

This has been the aim of the director of the shooting development program, the New York staff of the Sportsmen's Service Bureau, and the SAAMI shooting preserve field consultants since the start of the program in 1954.

Since 1954 when an organ instrumental of " New Britain " became a bestseller, " Amazing Grace " has been associated with funerals and memorial services.

* 1954 – At Massena, New York, the groundbreaking ceremony for the Saint Lawrence Seaway is held.

London ; New York: Oxford University Press, 1954.

However, Cleveland only won a single pennant in the decade, in 1954, finishing second to the New York Yankees five times.

* 1948, Psychological Warfare, Washington: Infantry Journal Press ; revised second edition, 1954, New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce

* 1954 – Peter Hillary, New Zealand mountaineer

Ellis Island is an island in Upper New York Bay that was the gateway for millions of immigrants to the United States as the nation's busiest immigrant inspection station from 1892 until 1954.

In 1956, after the 1954 closing of the U. S. immigration station, the then Mayor of Jersey City, Bernard J. Berry, commandeered a U. S. Coast Guard cutter and led a contingent of New Jersey officials on an expedition to claim the island.

On 31 January 1954 Armstrong removed the air conditioner from the window and jumped to his death from the thirteenth floor of his New York City apartment.

W. W. Norton & Co., New York, 1954.

* Haight, Gordon S., ed., George Eliot: Letters, New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University Press, 1954, ISBN 0-300-01088-5.

The New York and Honduras Rosario Mining Company ( NYHRMC ) produced US $ 60 million worth of gold and silver between 1882 and 1954 before discontinuing most of its operations.

In 1954 Holden began exporting the FJ to New Zealand.

Holt as Minister for Labour at a Raymond Terrace, New South Wales Masonite factory in 1954.

New York: Vantage Press, 1954.

* 1954 – John Wright, New Zealand cricketer

* 1954 – Georgetown-IBM experiment: the first public demonstration of a machine translation system, is held in New York at the head office of IBM.

* 1954 – Ricky Skaggs, American singer-songwriter, musician, and producer ( New South )

* Current Biography 1954, New York, 1954

However, in January 1954, Oswald's mother Marguerite returned with him to New Orleans.

New York: Longmans Green, 1954.