* 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 – Mary Jo Salter, American poet

* 1863 – Mary Church Terrell, American author and activist ( d. 1954 )

* Married: Mary Esta Jennings ( 1933 – 1943 ), Marjorie Greenblatt Mazia ( 1945 – 1953 ), Anneke van Kirk ( 1953 – 1954 )

* March 7 – The Broadway musical version of Peter Pan, which had opened in 1954 starring Mary Martin, is presented on television for the first time by NBC-TV with its original cast, as an installment of Producers ' Showcase.

* Frank Bunker Gilbreth, Jr. ( March 27, 1911 – February 18, 2001 ) ( age 89 ); married 1 ): Elizabeth Cauthen ( 1934 – 1954 ) 2 ): Mary Pringle Manigault ( 1954 – 2001 ); three children ( one from first marriage: Betsy ; two from second marriage: Rebecca, Dr. Edward Gilbreth ).

In 1954, a full-length version of the play aired on BBC Home Service, directed and adapted for radio by Peter Watts, and starring Joseph O ' Connor and Mary Wimbush.

In 1949 he married actress Jennifer Jones and they had one daughter, Mary Jennifer Selznick ( 1954 – 1976 ), who committed suicide by jumping from a 20th-floor window in Los Angeles on May 11, 1976.

After police found body parts in his house in 1957, Gein confessed to killing two women – tavern owner Mary Hogan in 1954, and a Plainfield hardware store owner, Bernice Worden, in 1957.

Most notably, Cyril Ritchard played Captain Hook in the 1954 musical adaptation which starred Mary Martin as Peter Pan.

* Mary Jane Clark ( born 1954 ), suspense novelist.

* Mary Castle ( 1931 – 1998 ), actress who appeared with Jim Davis in the syndicated western television series Stories of the Century ( 1954 – 1955 )

He married firstly, at Westminster in 1954, the Hon Mary Cythia Roche ( born 1934 ), a daughter of 4th Baron Fermoy.

Four of his early novels were made into films: Snowbound ( 1948 ) from The Lonely Skier ( 1947 ), Hell Below Zero ( 1954 ) from The White South ( 1949 ), Campbell's Kingdom ( 1957 ) from the book of the same name ( 1952 ), and The Wreck of the Mary Deare ( 1959 ) also from the book of the same name ( 1956 ).

The 39 syndicated episodes of The Honeymooners were filmed using Electronicam ( as well as the daily five minute syndicated series Les Paul & Mary Ford At Home in 1954 – 55 ), but with the introduction of a practical videotape recorder only one year away, the Electronicam system never saw widespread use.

Mary Kathleen Turner ( born June 19, 1954 ) is an American actress.

In 1954, Landrieu married Verna Satterlee, with whom he had nine children ( Mary, Mark, Melanie, Michelle, Mitchell, Madeleine, Martin, Melinda, and Maurice Jr .).

* The Mary Lou Williams Quartet featuring Don Byas ( 1954 )

Born Nazeer Gayed Roufail on 3 August 1923, he became a monk in 1954 under the name Father Antonios the Syrian after joining the Syrian Monastery of the Ever-Virgin Mary the Theotokos.

On 18 July 1954, Nazeer joined the monastic life at the Syrian Monastery of the Ever-Virgin Mary the Theotokos in Scetes in the Nitrian Desert ( Western desert in Egypt ).

They have three daughters, Mary Alma Stone ( born 1953 ), Teresa " Tere " Carrubba ( born 1954 ), and Kathleen " Katie " Fiala ( born 1959 ), and currently live in Solvang, California.

( The pope had proclaimed this title for Mary in his 1954 encyclical Ad caeli reginam.

When KJNB first started out in 1954, it was located in the basement of Mary Hall ( where Bat Cave is supposedly right now ).

On August 14, 1921, he married Mary E. McCloud ( 1882 – 1954 ).