* 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

One scene in the painting is drawn from the opening scene of the novel, and other scenes are drawn from the 1954 film Suddenly and the 1925 Sergei Eisenstein film Battleship Potemkin.

Sergei Sergeevich Sidorsky (, Syarhey Syarheyevich Sidorski,, translit: Siarhiei Siarhiejevič Sidorski, Sergey Sergeyevich Sidorsky ) ( born March 13, 1954 in Homiel, BSSR, Soviet Union ) was Prime Minister of Belarus from 10 July 2003 to 28 December 2010.

Sergei Sergeevich Sidorsky was born on 13 March 1954 in Homiel.

In 1954, a monument to him designed by sculptor Sergei Orlov was erected on Moscow's Tverskaya Street, the city's principal avenue, in front of the Moscow municipality.

** Sergei Kruglov ( June, 1953-March 13, 1954 )

He portrayed several more roles with the NYCO over the next seven years, including Dessalines in William Grant Still's Troubled Island ( 1949 ), the four villains in Jacques Offenbach's The Tales of Hoffmann ( 1949 ), Escamillo in Georges Bizet's Carmen ( 1949 ), Tchelio in Sergei Prokofiev's The Love for Three Oranges ( 1950 ), Tonio in Ruggero Leoncavallo's Pagliacci ( 1950 ), Timur in Giacomo Puccini's Turandot ( 1950 ), Alfio in Cavalleria rusticana ( 1950 ), The Messenger in the world premiere of David Tamkin's The Dybbuk ( 1951 ), the title role in Giuseppe Verdi's Rigoletto ( 1951 ), King Balthazar in Gian Carlo Menotti's Amahl and the Night Visitors ( 1952 ), Colline in Puccini's La bohème ( 1952 ), the title role in Béla Bartók's Bluebeard's Castle ( 1953 ), Count Almaviva in Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro ( 1954 ), Joe in Show Boat ( 1954 ), Germont in Verdi's La Traviata ( 1955 ), and Diomede in the New York premiere of William Walton's Troilus and Cressida ( 1955 ) among others.

As Sergei Korolev ’ s associate, he set up a rocket propulsion center in Dnipropetrovsk in the Ukraine which later formed the basis of his own OKB-586 design bureau in 1954.

At Geneva in 1954, to get the war in Indo-China settled, the British and French gave in to Russian and Communist Chinese demands and agreed to the setting up of a Communist state, North Viet Nam -- which then, predictably, became a base for Communist operations against neighboring South Viet Nam and Laos.

* 1896 – Dziga Vertov, Russian filmmaker ( d. 1954 )

* 1954 – Youri Egorov, Russian pianist ( d. 1988 )

The Georgetown experiment in 1954 involved fully automatic translation of more than sixty Russian sentences into English.

* 1954 – Dmitry Sitkovetsky, Russian violinist and conductor

* January 2 – Dziga Vertov, Russian filmmaker ( d. 1954 )

Following Russia's loss of the traditionally popular resorts of the Crimean peninsula ( transferred away from the Russian SFSR to the Ukrainian SSR in 1954 by Nikita Khrushchev ), Sochi emerged as the unofficial summer capital of the country.

Decca started recording in stereo on 14 – 28 May 1954, in Victoria Hall in Geneva, the first European record company to do so, only three months after RCA Victor began recording in stereo in the U. S. Decca archives show that Ernest Ansermet and the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande recorded Tamara by Mily Balakirev ; the overture to Benvenuto Cellini by Hector Berlioz ; Stenka Razin by Alexander Glazunov ; and Anatoly Liadov's Baba-Yaga, Eight Russian Folksongs, and Kikimora.

The first of these, AM-1 (" Атом Мирный ", Atom Mirny, Russian for " peaceful atom ") produced 5 MW of electricity ( 30 MW thermal ) and delivered power to Obninsk from 1954 until 1959.

From 1931 to 1944 and from 1954 to 1990, its name in both Russian and Ossetic languages was Ordzhonikidze () ( after Sergo Ordzhonikidze, a Georgian Bolshevik ), and from 1944 to 1954 it was officially called Dzaudzhikau () in Russian and Dzæwdžyqæw () in Ossetic.

Russian scientist Vladimir Vize ( 1886 – 1954 ) devoted his life to study the Arctic ice pack and developed the Scientific Prediction of Ice Conditions Theory, for which he was widely acclaimed in academic circles.

Throughout its 72-year history, the republic's borders changed many times, with a significant portion of what is now Western Ukraine being annexed by Soviet forces in 1939 and the addition of formerly Russian Crimea in 1954.

In February 1954 the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic ( RSFSR ) gave Crimea as a gift to Ukraine from the Russians ; even if only 22 percent of the Crimean population were ethnic Ukrainian.

* Valery Gazzaev ( born 1954 ), Russian football coach

Unable to find an academic position in Leningrad due to anti-Semitism ( he was unable to apply for a PhD program ), Lotman went to Estonia in 1950 and from 1954 began his work as a lecturer at the Department of Russian language and literature of Tartu University and later became head of the department.

Previously, in 1954, the anniversary celebrations included the transfer of Crimea from the Russian Republic to the Ukrainian Republic of the Soviet Union.

In 1954, Khokhlov was sent by the KGB to supervise two other men whose task was to kill George Okolovich, a chairman of the National Alliance of Russian Solidarists.

On 26 April 1954 Simferopol, together with the rest of the Crimean Oblast, was transferred from the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic to the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic by Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev.

His complete work was entitled “ The City of Russian Glory: Sevastopol in 1854-1855 ”, and was published in 1954 by the publishing house of the USSR Defense Ministry.

These were named and described by Russian paleontologist Evgeny Maleev in 1954, who thought they belonged to a large diving turtle-like reptile, 4. 5 metres long, that used the claws to harvest seaweed.

Silayev was born on born on 21 October 1930 in Baktyzino, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union, and graduated from the Kazan Aviation Institute in 1954 as a mechanical engineer.