* 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

* 1895 – Siegfried Handloser, German physician ( d. 1954 )

Siegfried Adolf Handloser ( 25 March, 1895 – 3 July, 1954 ) was a Doctor, Prof. Dr.

* 1881 – Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist, German field marshal ( d. 1954 )

* 1912 – Eva Ahnert-Rohlfs, German astronomer ( d. 1954 )

* 1868 – Hugo Eckener, German pilot and businessman ( d. 1954 )

* 1954 – Peter Endrulat, German footballer

* 1888 – Thea von Harbou, German author and actress ( d. 1954 )

The 08 / 15 film trilogy of 1954 – 55 concerns a sensitive young German soldier who rather be playing the piano who fights on the Eastern Front without understanding why, and no mention is made of genocidal aspects of Germany's war in East.

In Des Teufels General ( The Devil's General ) of 1954, a Luftwaffe general named Harras loosely modeled after Ernst Udet, appears at first to be cynical fool, but turns out to an anti-Nazi who is secretly sabotaging the German war effort by designing faulty planes.

* 1860 – Eugen Schiffer, German politician ( d. 1954 )

* 1954 – Francis Buchholz, German bassist ( Scorpions )

* 1954 – Dieter Bohlen German composer

From 1954 to 1990, the 17th of June was an official holiday in West Germany to commemorate the Uprising of 1953 in East Germany, even with the name " Day of the German Unity ".

* 1888 – Heinz Guderian, German general ( d. 1954 )

* West Germany, from 1954 to 1990, the Day of German Unity

* 1908 – Peter Anders, German tenor ( d. 1954 )

* 1886 – Wilhelm Furtwängler, German conductor ( d. 1954 )

* 1954 – Wolfgang Dremmler, German footballer

* 1954 – Hans Robert Hiegel, German architect

* 1954 – Katharina Thalbach, German actress and film director

* 1954 – Gerd Faltings, German mathematician

In 1954, he received the Karlspreis ( English: Charlemagne Award ), an Award by the German city of Aachen to people who contributed to the European idea, European cooperation and European peace.

* 1954 – Reinhold Heil, German musician and composer ( Spliff )

* 1954 – Hans-Jürgen Baake, German footballer