* 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 – 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.

During the period of McCarthyism ( 1950 – 1954 ), Humphrey was accused of being " soft on Communism ", despite having been one of the founders of the anti-communist liberal organization Americans for Democratic Action, having been a staunch supporter of the Truman Administration's efforts to combat the growth of the Soviet Union, and having fought Communist political activities in Minnesota and elsewhere.

In 1954, against a backdrop of McCarthyism, six strangers are invited to a party in a secluded New England mansion.

* 1950-Senator Joseph McCarthy gains power, and McCarthyism ( 1950 – 1954 ) begins

" Paul H Douglas, McCarthyism and the Senatorial Election of 1954 ," Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society 95 # 1 2002. pp 52 +.

Between 1952 and 1972, he hosted at least five television shows – three different talk shows called The Al Capp Show ( 1952 and 1968 ) and Al Capp ( 1971 –' 72 ), Al Capp's America ( a live " chalk talk ," with Capp providing a barbed commentary while sketching cartoons, 1954 ), and a CBS game show called Anyone Can Win ( 1953 ).

He won directing Emmys for his work on the original 1954 CBS teleplay, Twelve Angry Men.

During this time she began acting for CBS ' popular Lux Radio Theater, making 22 appearances between 1935 and 1954.

Produced by Dorothy McCann, the radio series became a popular long-run hit, continuing on CBS until 6 January 1954, with Hersholt so strongly identified with the role that he received mail asking for medical advice.

But in 1954, he ventured into television, producing a two hour extravaganza called Light's Diamond Jubilee, which, in true Selznick fashion, made TV history by being telecast simultaneously on all four TV networks: CBS, NBC, ABC, and DuMont.

The series expanded to television with the Suspense series on CBS from 1949 to 1954, and again in 1962.

He was best known as the star of his own weekly NBC television show, The George Gobel Show, which ran from 1954 to 1960 ( the last season on CBS, alternating with The Jack Benny Program ).

CBS had once backed its own color system, developed by Peter Goldmark, and resisted using RCA's compatible process until 1954.

Another of his network assignments was The Morning Show, CBS ' short-lived challenge to NBC's Today in 1954.

In 1954, Lear was enlisted as a writer hoping to salvage the new Celeste Holm CBS sitcom, Honestly, Celeste !, but the program was canceled after eight episodes.

By then, Berle and his audience had probably burned out on each other, and Buick had even dropped sponsorship of the show at the beginning of the 1955 – 1956 season ( opting to sponsor Jackie Gleason's half-hour filmed edition of The Honeymooners ), after ratings fell dramatically during the 1954 – 1955 as well ( the higher ratings of his 1955 – 56 competition, The Phil Silvers Show on CBS, didn't help Berle, either ); though Berle would remain one of the nation's beloved entertainers, overall, the show that made him a superstar was clearly spent for steam and fresh ideas, and two subsequent attempts at television comebacks hosting his own show lasted barely a year each.

* Willy, as Wilma " Willy " Dodger, a lawyer for a vaudeville troupe in New York City ( CBS, 1954 – 1955 )

* A second live teleplay was broadcast on November 4, 1954, as the fourth episode of the CBS anthology series Climax !, starring Lillian Bronson, adapted by Fletcher herself, with music provided by her then-husband, Bernard Herrmann.

They also starred in various radio programs ( 1945 – 1949 ) and television shows ( 1954 – 1961 ) on both NBC and CBS.

The success of that television appearance led Gleason to produce a weekly variety program, Stage Show, hosted by the brothers on CBS from 1954 to 1956.

It premiered on November 1, 1999, and was the newest of the major networks ' morning shows, although CBS has made several attempts to program in the morning slot since 1954.

CBS has made several attempts at morning shows since 1954.

* Climax !, The Long Goodbye, adapted from the novel, CBS Television, 7 October 1954 ( Dick Powell as Marlowe )

He got his first tastes of television in the early 1950s, appearing as a comic on The Ed Sullivan Show and hosting two game shows, Up To Paar ( 1952 ) and Bank on the Stars ( 1953 ), before hosting The Morning Show ( 1954 ) on CBS.

The first screen interpretation of the Leiter character was in the 1954 CBS one-hour television adventure Casino Royale, broadcast as part of the dramatic anthology series Climax Mystery Theater, which ran between October 1954 and June 1958.

* Edward R. Murrow and Fred W. Friendly 1954 investigation for CBS's See It Now of Senator Joseph McCarthy's conduct in the anti-communism hearings and their 1960 CBS Reports television documentary, along with David Lowe, Harvest of Shame on the condition of migrant workers in agriculture.

The CBS series aired from January 8 to September 23, 1954.

CBS bought the TV rights for $ 1000, and on October 21, 1954 broadcast an hour-long adaptation on its Climax!