* 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

* Jon Herington ( born 1954 ), jazz guitarist.

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.

On November 16, 1954 she gave birth to her second son, Jon Garth Murray, fathered by her boyfriend Michael Fiorillo.

* Jon Owen Jones ( born 1954 ), Welsh politician

Jon Owen Jones ( born 19 April 1954 ) is a Welsh politician.

In 1970, a 1954 Ford Popular-based kit car, the Siva Edwardian ( MTR 5 ), was used by Jon Pertwee to become " Bessie ", the Doctor's sprightly Edwardian roadster on the long-running science-fiction television show, Doctor Who.

In 1977, the original Thompson Twins line-up consisted of Tom Bailey ( born 18 January 1954, Halifax, Yorkshire ) on bass and vocals, Pete Dodd on guitar and vocals, John Roog on guitar, and Jon Podgorski ( known as " Pod ") on drums.

* Jon Brant ( 1954 -), American bass player

Lockhart is best known for her roles as TV mothers, first as Ruth Martin, the wife of Paul Martin ( portrayed by Hugh Reilly ), and the mother of Timmy Martin ( played by Jon Provost ) in the 1954 CBS series, Lassie ( a role that she played from 1959 – 64 ).

Winter was born in Aberdeen, Scotland, and made his first film appearance at the age of six in The Little Kidnappers ( 1954 ) winning, along with his co-star Jon Whiteley, an Academy Juvenile Award.

* Jon King ( born 1954 ), musician

Prendergast Medallists: ( 5 total ) 1954: Bill Taggart, 1977: Joe Angel, 1978: Kevin Taylor, 1994: Jon Stagg, 2002: Leigh Willison, 2008: Conor Davidson

Jon Scieszka ( SHEH-ska: which means " path '" in Polish ) was born September 8, 1954 in Flint, Michigan and is an American author of children's literature, best known for his collaborations with illustrator Lane Smith.

Jon Hall is perhaps best remembered by later audiences as the star of the television series Ramar of the Jungle, which ran from 1952 to 1954.

Jon Fredrik Baksaas ( born 1954 ) is the CEO of Telenor.

* 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 ).