* 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

Longtime infielder / manager Phil Cavarretta, who had been a key player during the ' 45 season, was fired during spring training in 1954 after admitting the team was unlikely to finish above fifth place.

In 1954, he was awarded a D. Phil.

After filming Lucky Me with Phil Silvers and Young at Heart ( both 1954 ) with Frank Sinatra, Day chose not to renew her contract with Warner Brothers.

* 1954 – Phil Bryant, American politician

Philip R. " Phil " Zimmermann Jr. ( born February 12, 1954 ) is the creator of Pretty Good Privacy ( PGP ), the most widely used email encryption software in the world.

* The 1955 film The Phenix City Story ( directed by Phil Karlson ) is a biopic film noir focusing on the rampant crime and corruption in the city ( then called " the wickedest city in the United States ") and the 1954 murder of newly-nominated Alabama Attorney General candidate Albert Patterson.

Crawford's Academy Award and larger-than-life persona eventually won him more diverse roles, and he would appear in such varied films as Phil Karlson's Scandal Sheet ( 1952 ), Fritz Lang's Human Desire ( 1954 ), Federico Fellini's Il bidone ( 1955 ) and Richard Fleischer's Between Heaven and Hell ( 1956 ).

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.

* Phil Webb ( 1954 – 1956 )

Commodore Josaia Voreqe Bainimarama, CF, MSD, OStJ, Fijian Navy, known commonly as Frank Bainimarama and sometimes by the chiefly title Ratu < ref name = Herald > Herald on Sunday, Phil Taylor, < u > Peaceful island village belies turmoil of national politics < u >, 2006-12-10, page 20 ( interview with Bainimarama's brother ).</ ref > ( born 27 April 1954 ), is a Fijian naval officer and politician.

Phillip Martin " Phil " Simms ( born November 3, 1954 ) is a former American football quarterback, and currently a television sportscaster for the CBS network.

The Phil Harris-Alice Faye Show ran until 1954, by which time radio had succumbed to television.

From 1954 to 1960 he led groups in New York that included newcomers Donald Byrd, Jackie McLean, and Phil Woods, recording as leader with these musicians for the Prestige and Atlantic labels.

In 1954 the Brunswick Symphony Orchestra came to Huddersfield as guests of the Phil, and the Phil visited Brunswick in the following year.

Phil Hugh Norman Rudd ( born Phillip Hugh Norman Witschke Rudzevecuis ; 19 May 1954 ) is an Australian drummer, best known for his membership in Australian hard rock band AC / DC from 1975 until 1983, and again from 1994 to the present.

But Tetley might have been an even bigger hit beginning in 1948, when he took on a concurrent continuing role on an equally popular comedy, playing obnoxious grocery boy Julius Abruzzio on The Phil Harris-Alice Faye Show until the show's finish in 1954.

In 1955, for example, a 1954 works car on loan to Cunningham won the Sebring 12 Hours in the hands of Mike Hawthorn and Phil Walters, and in May 1956 the team's entries for Maryland's Cumberland national championship sports car race included four D-Types in Cunningham's white and blue racing colors.

He received a BA at Oxford in 1954, an MA in 1959, and a D. Phil.

The CIA's Office of Policy Coordination adapted George Orwell's Animal Farm into an animated movie in 1954 that was released in England as production costs were considerably lower.

This theory was popularized by Ernst Mayr in his 1954 paper " Change of genetic environment and evolution ," and his classic volume Animal Species and Evolution ( 1963 ).

He appeared in three television series that aimed to bring archaeology to the public: ' Animal, Vegetable, Mineral ' ( 1952 – 60 ), which was a quiz game, an archaeological variant of Twenty Questions, ' Buried Treasure ' ( 1954 – 59 ), and ' Chronicle ' ( 1966 ), and was named British ' TV Personality of the Year ' in 1954.

In 1954, Irwin Allen started work on a second feature-length documentary film, this one about animal life on land called The Animal World ( completed in 1956 ).

He recorded DVD audio commentaries for Around the World in 80 Days ( 1956 film ), Animal Farm ( 1954 film ) and Fantasia ( 1940 film ).

In 1954, Wisner arranged for the funding of the Hollywood production of Animal Farm, the animated allegory based on the book written by George Orwell.

In 1954 the United States Department of Agriculture established the Plum Island Animal Disease Center.

Scenes from Nineteen Eighty-Four, along with the 1954 adaptation of Animal Farm, were featured in " The Two Winstons ", the final episode of Simon Schama's program A History of Britain.

His film credits include the 3-D film Dangerous Mission ( 1954 ), The Animal World ( 1956 ), The Story of Mankind ( 1957 ), The Big Circus ( 1959 ), The Lost World ( 1960 ), Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea ( 1961 ) ( later the basis of his TV series of the same name ), and Five Weeks in a Balloon ( 1962 ).

His output includes Ulysses ( 1947 ), a cantata on words by James Joyce ; scores to animated films, including Animal Farm ( 1954 ); a setting of the Scottish " poet and tragedian " William McGonagall's work, The Famous Tay Whale ( written for the second of Gerard Hoffnung's music festivals ); three string quartets ; and choral arrangements of Hungarian and Yugoslav folk songs.

Denham initially made his name in radio comedy series such as ITMA and Much Binding in the Marsh, and later provided all the voices for the animated version of Animal Farm ( 1954 ).

* Animal Farm ( 1954 )

* Prof Morris Gosling, Professor of Animal Behaviour from 1998 – 2008 at Newcastle University, and Director from 1993 – 9 of the Institute of Zoology ( 1954 – 61 )