* 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

* Major General AGV Paley 1954 – 11 Jan 1960

Writing was by Dragnet scripter Jack Robinson ( uncredited ) with art by Joe Sheiber ( June 23, 1952-Sept. 20, 1952 ), Bill Ziegler ( Sept. 22, 1952-January 9, 1954 ) and Mel Keefer ( Jan. 11, 1954-May 21, 1955 ).

* The Polish composer Jan Maklakiewicz ( 1899 – 1954 ) wrote the ballet in three scenes Cagliostro w Warszawie which premiered in 1938.

Cape Town International Airport was opened in 1954, a year after Jan Smuts Airport ( now OR Tambo International Airport ) on the Witwatersrand opened.

They include Executive Committee Member of Mambili Party, Accra ( 1935 – 37 ); General Secretary of National Council of Nigerian and the Cameroons ( 1944 – 45 ); President of the NCNC ( 1946 – 60 ); Vice-President of the Nigerian National Democratic Party ( 1947 – 60 ); Member for Lagos in the Legislative Council of Nigeria ( 1947 – 51 ); Member for Lagos and Leader of the Opposition in the Western House of Assembly ( 1952 – 53 ) Member for Onitsha in the Eastern House of Assembly ( 1954 – 60 ); Minister of Internal Affairs ( Jan .– September 1954 ); Minister of Internal Affairs, Eastern Region ( 1954 ); Member of His Excellency Privy Council, Eastern Nigeria ( 1954 – 59 ); Primer of Eastern Nigeria ( 1954 – 59 ); President of the Senate of the Federation ( Jan .- November 1960 ); Governor-General and Commander-in-Chief of Nigeria ( 1960 – 63 ); President of the Republic of Nigeria ( 1963 – 1966 ); and Chairman and Presidential candidate of the Nigeria People ’ s Party ( 1978 – 83 ).

Panhuysen first followed Monumental and Autonomous Art Studies at the Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht ( 1954 – 1959 ), and then followed Sociology of Art Studies at the University of Utrecht ( 1957 – 1961 ).

* 45th Air Division: 8 Oct 1954 – 18 Jan 1958 ; 20 Nov 1958 – 31 Mar 1970 ; 1 Jan 1975 – 15 Jun 1989

Harry J. Anslinger United States Commissioner of Narcotics, Jan. 1, 1954

* His and Hers ( Jan 7, 1954-Mar 13, 1954 )

*( 1878 – 1954 ) Stanisław Czajkowski, Polish landscape painter who studied at Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków as well as in Paris ; brother of Józef Czajkowski

* Fernando Paternoster ( Jan 1954 – May 56 )

* Art Plotnik, “ Twenty years on the Hill ; An Anniversary Interview with L. Quincy Mumford, Librarian of Congress: 1954 to the present ( 1974 )”, Wilson Library Bulletin ; Jan 1974, Vol.

* Maurice-Louis Dubourg ( 9 Dec 1936 – 31 Jan 1954 )

Ajax-Farrell Publications then published four issues of the second Phantom Lady title, cover dated Dec. 1954 / Jan.

* 2003 – Roger Voudouris, American singer-songwriter and guitarist ( b. 1954 )

* 1954 – Ellen Barkin, American actress

* 1954 – Mark Fidrych, American baseball player ( d. 2009 )

* 1954 – Stanley A. McChrystal, American general

* Adrian Zmed ( born 1954 ), American television personality and film actor

* 1954 – Mary Jo Salter, American poet

* 1954 – Sam J. Jones, American actor

* 1954 – Pat Metheny, American guitarist and composer ( Pat Metheny Group )

* 1954 – Chip Coffey, American psychic medium

* 1954 – Archie Griffin, American football player

* 1954 – Charles Busch, American actor and screenwriter

* 1954 – Gregory Abbott, American singer, musician and composer

* 1954 – Donald Petrie, American director

* 1954 – George Church, American biologist

* 1954 – Michael P. Kube-McDowell, American novelist

* 1954 – David Paymer, American actor

* 1954 – Bruce Sterling, American author

* 1954 – Michael Sembello, American musician and songwriter

Armoured trains saw use during the 19th century in the American Civil War ( 1861 – 1865 ), the Franco-Prussian War ( 1870 – 1871 ), the First and Second Boer Wars ( 1880 – 81 and 1899 – 1902 ), the First ( 1914 – 1918 ) and Second World Wars ( 1939 – 1945 ) and the First Indochina War ( 1946 – 1954 ).