* 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 – José María Figueres, Costa Rican politician

* José Hoebee ( 1954 )-Pop singer and member of girl group Luv '

* José N. Gándara Cartagena ( 1907 – 1954 ), Puerto Rican physician and public servant

Between 1954 and 1955, he joined fellow comedian José Miguel Agrelot in a theater show that took them to many Latin American communities in the United States.

* Guatemala: land reform occurred during the " Ten Years of Spring ", 1944 – 1954 under the governments of Juan José Arévalo and Jacobo Arbenz.

* 1954 — José Cuneo, Severino Pose

He is accused of irresponsible government spending, increasing inflation, and cronyism – which is symbolized by appointing his good friend and eventual successor José López Portillo as Finance Minister – violent devaluations of the peso, from 12. 50 MXP per dollar in 1954 to 20 per dollar in late 1976, as well as for rising debt.

Romberg was the subject of the 1954 Stanley Donen-directed film Deep in My Heart, in which he was portrayed by José Ferrer.

José María Figueres Olsen ( born in San José, Costa Rica, December 24, 1954 ), is a Costa Rican businessman, and politician.

* José Laurel, Jr., ( August 27, 1912-March 18, 1998 ) Member of the Philippine National Assembly from Batangas from 1943 to 1944, Congressman from Batangas ' Third District from 1941 to 1957 and from 1961 to 1972, Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Philippines from 1954 to 1957 and from 1967 to 1971, Assemblyman of Regular Batasang Pambansa from 1984 to 1986, Member of the Philippine Constitutional Commission of 1986 from June 2 to October 15, 1986 and a running-mate of Carlos P. Garcia of the Nacionalista Party in Philippine presidential election of 1957, placed second in the vice-presidential race against Diosdado Macapagal of Liberal Party ( Philippines )

Among them are: Oferenda, 1942, in bronze, located in the Ecumenical Cemetery São Francisco de Paula ; Monumento ao Colono, 1958, in bronze and granite, in the Primeiro de Maio Square ; Monumento ao Bispo Dom Joaquim Ferreira de Mello, 1942, in bronze and granite, on the Avenue Dom Joaquim ; Sentinela Farroupilha, 1935, in bronze, 20 de Setembro Square ; As Três Idades do Trabalho, in granite, Coronel Pedro Osório Square ; Dr. Luiz Pereira Lima, 1958, in bronze, Piratinino de Almeida Square ; Monumento ao Coronel Pedro Osório, 1954, in bronze and granite, Coronel Pedro Osório Square ; Monumento à Mãe, 1968, in bronze and granite, Coronel Pedro Osório Square ; Monumento ao Dr. José Brusque 1968, in bronze and granite, Coronel Pedro Osório Square.

After his military service, and now with two children, José Manuel and Helena ( born in 1954 ), Zeca finished his studies with an 11 ( out of 20 ) for a thesis about Jean-Paul Sartre.

In 1954, in order to ensure his stay, Spain granted him Spanish citizenship under the name José León Ramírez Reina, and the Falange assigned him the leadership of a construction firm that benefitted from state contracts.

* José Florio ( 1949 – 51 ), ( 1954 – 55 )

** José Diego Álvarez ( born 1954 ), Spanish footballer

* Camelia, a 1954 Mexican film adapted by José Arenas, Edmundo Báez, Roberto Gavaldón and Gregorio Walerstein.

* 1954 Francisco José Alcántara for La muerte le sienta bien a Villalobos

* José Sasía ( 1954 – 59 ), ( 1966 – 67 ), ( 1970 )

* José Diego Álvarez ( born November 1954 ), midfielder

In a 1954 discussion with José Maria Corredor, when asked which cellists he particularly admired, Pablo Casals said, " What a great artist Feuermann was!

Diego María de la Concepción Juan epomuceno Estanislao de la Rivera y Barrientos Acosta y Rodríguez ( December 8, 1886 – November 24, 1957 ) better known simply as Diego Rivera was a prominent Mexican painter born in Guanajuato, Guanajuato, and husband of Frida Kahlo ( 1929 – 1939 and 1940 – 1954 ).

The infamous " death flights ", theorized in Argentina by Luis María Mendía — and also used during the Algerian War ( 1954 – 1962 ) by French forces — were widely used, in order to make the corpses, and therefore evidence, disappear.

María Elena Salinas ( born August 1954 ) is the co-anchor of Noticiero Univision with Jorge Ramos, the most watched newscast by American Hispanics.

** María de los Angeles Queipo de Llano y Mencos ( b. Sevilla, 16 January 1954 )

* Doña María Isabel Patiño y Borbón ( Paris, 3 June 1936-Neuilly-sur-Seine, Paris, 15 May 1954 ) who had a short and tragic marriage with Sir James Goldsmith, by whom she had an only daughter.

* Cuando me vaya .... María Grever ( 1954 )