* 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 – Jackie Saunders, American actress ( b. 1892 )

* 1892 – Jackie Saunders, American silent film actress ( d. 1954 )

* October 6 – Jackie Saunders, silent movie actress ( d. 1954 )

* Jackie Slater ( born 1954 ), American football player

By then, Berle and his audience had probably burned out on each other, and Buick had even dropped sponsorship of the show at the beginning of the 1955 – 1956 season ( opting to sponsor Jackie Gleason's half-hour filmed edition of The Honeymooners ), after ratings fell dramatically during the 1954 – 1955 as well ( the higher ratings of his 1955 – 56 competition, The Phil Silvers Show on CBS, didn't help Berle, either ); though Berle would remain one of the nation's beloved entertainers, overall, the show that made him a superstar was clearly spent for steam and fresh ideas, and two subsequent attempts at television comebacks hosting his own show lasted barely a year each.

In 1954, Jackie Gleason chose their band to star in a weekly television show that centered on their band.

** Jackie Chan ( born 1954 ), Chinese actor, action choreographer, film director, producer, martial artist, screenwriter, singer and stunt performer

* Jackie Parker – player ( QB / HB / WR / K / P ), 1971 ( Edmonton Eskimos 1954 – 62 ; Toronto Argonauts 1963 – 65 ; BC Lions 1968 ).

Jackie Brenston played in Fulson's band between 1952 and 1954.

The Voyages are frequently adapted into film, from Georges Méliès ' fanciful 1902 film Le Voyage dans la Lune ( aka A Trip to the Moon ), to Walt Disney's 1954 adaptation of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, to the 2004 version of Around the World in 80 Days starring Jackie Chan.

From 1954 to 1960 he led groups in New York that included newcomers Donald Byrd, Jackie McLean, and Phil Woods, recording as leader with these musicians for the Prestige and Atlantic labels.

His other film credits include The Jackie Robinson Story ( 1950 ), Carmen Jones ( 1954 ), Porgy and Bess ( 1959 ), A Raisin in the Sun ( 1961 ), with Sidney Poitier, Ruby Dee and Claudia McNeil, and a memorable turn as Mr. Prentice ( again playing opposite Poitier ) in the 1967 feature film Guess Who's Coming to Dinner.

After Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in 1946 with the Montreal Royals of the International League, the Southern Association adhered to the Jim Crow segregation laws of the time and only once permitted an African-American to play in the circuit: Nat Peeples of the 1954 Atlanta Crackers, the only black player in the league's history.

Charles and Lee Lee had since found each other in Hong Kong and on April 7, 1954, they had a son named, Kong-sang Chan ( which means, " born in Hong Kong " Chan ), better known as Jackie Chan.

In 1954, Chan upped the ante for revues by introducing circus stunts that included:

At Geneva in 1954, to get the war in Indo-China settled, the British and French gave in to Russian and Communist Chinese demands and agreed to the setting up of a Communist state, North Viet Nam -- which then, predictably, became a base for Communist operations against neighboring South Viet Nam and Laos.

Although the Pancha Sila ( Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence ) was the basis of the 1954 Sino-Indian border treaty, in later years, Nehru's foreign policy suffered through increasing Chinese assertiveness over border disputes and Nehru's decision to grant political asylum to the 14th Dalai Lama.

It had been during this period that Mao had first learned of the imported western concept of socialism from a newspaper article, and intrigued, he read several pamphlets by Jiang Kanghu ( 1883 – 1954 ), a student who had founded the Chinese Socialist Party in November 1911.

* 1954 – The anti-National Service Riots, by Chinese Middle School students in Singapore, take place.

Halliday's first academic position was Assistant Lecturer in Chinese, at Cambridge University, from 1954 to 1958.

Chinese administrative geography was drawn mainly during the 1949 and 1954 administrative reorganizations.

On September 28, 1954, the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party re-established the Central Military Commission as the leader of the PLA and the people ’ s armed forces.

By 1954 an estimated 2, 500 Soviet naval advisers were in China — possibly one adviser to every thirty Chinese naval personnel — and the Soviet Union began providing modern ships.

In 1954, Lim Chin Siong, along with his Chinese High senior, Fong Swee Suan, was introduced to Lee Kuan Yew.

Several jointly owned Sino-Soviet corporations were established, but Mao considered these to impinge on Chinese sovereignty and in 1954 they were quietly dissolved.

The MIC joined the National Alliance comprising the United Malays National Organization ( UMNO ) and the Malaysian Chinese Association ( MCA ) in 1954 which became the Barisan Nasional in 1973 with further expansion in the number of component parties.

** Lo Ta-yu 羅大佑 / 罗大佑 ( 1954 -; ancestral Meixian, Guangdong ; born in Miaoli, Taiwan ; Hakka pronunciation: Lo Tai Rhiu ), Influential singer-songwriter who revolutionized Chinese pop and rock music in the 1980s

Clive Chin ( born on 14 May 1954 in Kingston, Jamaica ) is a Chinese Jamaican record producer whose work includes recordings by The Wailers, Dennis Brown, Lee Perry and Black Uhuru, among others.

* " Compendium of Phonetics in Ancient and Archaic Chinese ", The Bulletin of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm, 1954.

Peng Dehuai () ( October 24, 1898 – November 29, 1974 ) was a prominent Chinese Communist military leader, and China's Defense Minister, from 1954 to 1959.

The CTA claims that the 5. 4 million number is a decrease from 6. 3 million in 1959 while the Chinese government claims that it is an increase from 2. 7 million in 1954.

* Chen Yang ( TV host ) ( born 1954 ), Chinese TV host and newspaper columnist

In 1954, China was facing famine and the United States was enjoying surplus harvests, so the FOR organized the Surplus Food for China campaign to convince the government to send food to the Chinese.

Until 1954, Hohhot was referred to in Chinese as Guisui ( 歸綏 pinying: Guīsuī, Wade-Giles: Kweisui ), which is the abbreviation of the two districts of the city Guihua ( 歸化, arch.

* Zhou Xiaowen ( born 1954 ), Chinese filmmaker

A very large Friendship Guesthouse was constructed in 1954, one of dozens across China, to receive the Soviet " elder brothers " who came to assist Chinese development prior to tensions emerging between Soviet and Chinese leadership.

Some Problems of Chemical Kinetics and Reactivity, first published in 1954, was revised in 1958 ; there are also English, American, German, and Chinese editions.