* 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 – Joey DeMaio, American bass guitarist

Bill Haley & His Comets ' cover version of the song, recorded on July 7, 1954 ( three weeks after Turner's version first topped the R & B charts ), featured the following members of the Comets: Johnny Grande ( piano ), Billy Williamson ( steel guitar ), Marshall Lytle ( bass ), and Joey Ambrose ( saxophone ).

*" Joey " ( 1954 ) ( peak position on Cash Box No. 22 ) ( released by MGM Records as catalog number 11716, with the flip side " And So I Walked Home ")

On August 18, 1954, Charles Gioe was shot to death by mafia soldiers controlled by Joseph " Joey " Glimco after he accidentally interfered in a dispute Glimco was having with a contractor building a Howard Johnson's restaurant.

Kevin S. Bright ( born November 15, 1954 ) is an American television executive producer and director whose credits include Dream On, Friends, and Joey.

( On June 4, 1954, Los Angeles-based heavyweight boxer Clarence Henry, who was managed by Mafiosi Frank " Blinky " Palermo, was arrested in New York City for attempting to bribe Oakland, California middleweight Bobby Jones to throw his June 11 Madison Square Garden match with Giardello.

The Indochina struggle was a war to stay out of in 1954, when Gen. Ridgway estimated it would take a minimum of 10 to 15 divisions at the outset to win a war the French were losing.

The mechanism of action of these drugs has not been completely worked out, but certain of them appear to act by reducing the oxidised form of iodine before it can iodinate thyroglobulin ( Astwood, 1954 ).

The present edition of crystal data ( Af ), published in 1954 as Memoir 60 of the Geological Society of America, is now out of print.

It was first tried out on a conventional submarine, the Albacore, in 1954.

In 1954, Secretary of the Air Force Harold E. Talbott sought out DeMille for help in designing the cadet uniforms at the newly established United States Air Force Academy.

The territory's border with Ethiopia, marked out in 1897 by France and Emperor Menelik II of Ethiopia, was later reaffirmed by agreements with Emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia in 1945 and 1954.

In Des Teufels General ( The Devil's General ) of 1954, a Luftwaffe general named Harras loosely modeled after Ernst Udet, appears at first to be cynical fool, but turns out to an anti-Nazi who is secretly sabotaging the German war effort by designing faulty planes.

* 1954 – McCarthyism: Joseph Welch, special counsel for the United States Army, lashes out at Senator Joseph McCarthy during hearings on whether Communism has infiltrated the Army giving McCarthy the famous rebuke, " You've done enough.

Martin's diminished participation became an embarrassment in 1954 when Look magazine used a publicity photo of the team for the magazine cover but cropped Martin out of the photo.

" On 10 February 1954 in Meherastana U. P., India, Meher Baba publicly and explicitly declared his Avatarhood for the first time, spelling out on his alphabet board " Avatar Meher Baba Ki Jai.

In 1954, however, a partial collectivization was carried out, with peasants being urged, and often forced, into agricultural co-operatives.

Until 1954, when the uniforms had " Athletics " spelled out in script across the front, the team's name never appeared on either home or road uniforms.

In 1936 – 1954, Toynbee's ten-volume A Study of History came out in three separate installments.

They finally won the first semi against Essendon, and the following year took out their only premiership so far, beating Geelong and then Melbourne in the 1954 VFL Grand Final.

Guaraldi's first recording was made in November 1953 with Cal Tjader and came out early in 1954.

Between 1949 and 1954, a total of 109 investigations were carried out by these and other committees of Congress.

Measurements of the energy and arrival directions of the ultra-high energy primary cosmic rays by the techniques of " density sampling " and " fast timing " of extensive air showers were first carried out in 1954 by members of the Rossi Cosmic Ray Group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Clark et al., Phys.

It should also be noted that on March 20, 1954, a cartoon was published in The New Yorker depicting the ( Addams125 of the book The World of Chas Addams ) family at rest in the den with two hands coming out of the record player changing the records.

After graduating in 1954, Janmaat started a study in aeronautical engineering, but had to drop out two years later after his father could no longer afford the tuition fees.

Mutara made many changes ; in 1954 he shared out the land between the Hutu and the Tutsi, and agreed to abolish the system of indentured servitude ( ubuhake and uburetwa ) the Tutsis had practised over the Hutu until then.

These awards, however, were handed out on a discretionary rather than a regular basis ( no award was given at the 26th Academy Awards held in 1954 ), and were not competitive since there were no nominees but simply one winning film per year.

During the Algerian War ( 1954 – 62 ), the agency created the Organization of the French Algerian Resistance ( ORAF ), a group of counter-terrorists whose mission was to carry out false flag terrorist attacks with the aim of quashing any hopes of political compromise.

James was definitely out of his element when it came to music, but Benjamin Britten's operatic version of " The Turn of the Screw " ( 1954 ) has become one of the composer's most popular works.

For instance, it caused him to drop out of the lead role in Hobson's Choice ( 1954 ).