* 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

The first successful installation of a Speedramp, spring of 1954, was in the Hudson and Manhattan RR Station in Jersey City to connect the Erie RR to the Hudson & Manhattan Tubes.

* Hudson Motor Car Company, an automobile manufacturer in the USA ( founded 1909 – merged 1954 to American Motors ) and its various products:

Universal-International Pictures wanted to follow up on the pairing of Wyman and Hudson from Douglas Sirk's Magnificent Obsession ( 1954 ).

* Rip Van Winkle ( 1932 – 1954 ) Grofe worked on this tone poem for over two decades, before starting over and reworking the thematic material into the Hudson River Suite

Success and recognition came in 1954 with Magnificent Obsession in which Hudson plays a bad boy who is redeemed opposite the popular star Jane Wyman.

American Motors Corporation ( AMC ) was an American automobile company formed by the 1954 merger of Nash-Kelvinator Corporation and Hudson Motor Car Company.

In January 1954, Nash-Kelvinator Corporation began acquisition of the Hudson Motor Car Company ( in what was called a merger ) to form American Motors.

The deal was a straight stock transfer ( three shares of Hudson listed at 11⅛, for two shares of AMC and one share of Nash-Kelvinator listed at 17⅜, for one share of AMC ) and finalized in the spring of 1954, forming the fourth-biggest auto company in the U. S. with assets of US $ 355 million ( US $ in dollars ) and more than $ 100 million in working capital.

Upon the formation of American Motors in 1954, the plant assembled 1955 Nash and Hudson Ramblers ( 2-and 4-door sedans ); as well as Nash Canadian Statesman and Hudson Wasp ( 4door sedans ).

* Tilbury, Ontario Assembly Plant – Another plant AMC inherited from the 1954 merger ; this one via Hudson.

In 1954, American Motors Corporation ( AMC ) was formed from the merger of Nash-Kelvinator and the Hudson Motor Car Company.

Christie Brinkley ( born Christie Lee Hudson ; February 2, 1954 ) is an American model and actress.

The Hudson Motor Car Company made Hudson and other brand automobiles in Detroit, Michigan, from 1909 to 1954.

In 1954, Hudson merged with Nash-Kelvinator Corporation to form American Motors.

After the company's high-priced Jet compact car line failed to capture buyers in its second straight year, Hudson was acquired by Nash-Kelvinator ( makers of Nash and Rambler ) automobiles in 1954.

On January 14, 1954, Hudson merged with Nash-Kelvinator Corporation to become American Motors.

) Although the 1955 Hudson used the inner body shell of the Nash, the car incorporated a front cowl originally designed by Spring and the Hudson team to be put on the 1954 Step-Down platform.

The Metropolitan was also sold as a Hudson when Nash and Hudson merged in 1954 to form the American Motors Corporation ( AMC ), and later as a standalone marque during the Rambler years, as well as in the United Kingdom and other markets.

Although Nash merged with Hudson in 1954, and marketed the car as a Hudson Metropolitan in 1955, " demand never took off from the original level ", primarily because the Metropolitan was slow by North American standards.

Mass transit service after the end of electric interurban service was provided by Oregon Motor Stages, but that company suspended all operations following a drivers strike in 1954.

* Wilbur Shaw, ( October 31, 1902-October 30, 1954 ) Three time Indianapolis 500 winner and former president of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

Other sponsors, whose products appeared during the original openings, were Procter & Gamble for Cheer and Lilt Home Permanent ( 1954 – 57 ), General Foods for Sanka ( 1955 – 57 ), Ford Motor Company ( 1957 – 58 ), and Westinghouse company ( 1958 – 60 ).

An Anglia saloon tested by the British Motor magazine in 1954 had a top speed of and could accelerate from 0-in 29. 4 seconds.

" He had been interested in motorcycles but in 1954 he saw an advertisement for the Universal Motor Racing Club at Brands Hatch offering laps for 5 shillings.

SsangYong originally started out as two separate companies ; Ha Dong-hwan Motor Workshop ( established in 1954 ) and Dongbang Motor Co ( established in 1962 ).

The following year, Nuccio Bertone designed the prototype for the Alfa Romeo Giulietta Sprint, which was presented at the 1954 Turin Motor Show.

One unused but operational concept car that languished for years in the North Hollywood, California shop of car customizer George Barris, Ford Motor Company's " Lincoln Futura " from 1954, received a new lease on life as the Batmobile in the Batman series that debuted in 1966 on the ABC Television Network.

Early cars used AC's elderly two-litre overhead cam straight-six engine ( first seen soon after the end of the First World War ), which, according to a 1954 road test by Motor magazine, gave a top speed of and in 11. 4 seconds and a fuel consumption of.

A car tested by The Motor magazine in 1954 had a top speed of and could accelerate from 0-in 24. 1 seconds.

Nicollet Station, a carhouse originally built for the Motor Line, was kept and expanded by TCRT, but was torn down as the system was dismantled in 1953 – 1954.

* 1954 ( 1 ) Motor City Open

In May 1954, Nash-Kelvinator Corporation announced that it had merged with the Hudson Motor Company to form American Motors Corporation ( AMC ).

In 1954 they changed their name back to Fuji Precision Industries, and in 1961 changed the name back again to Prince Motor Company.

Warren Wilbur Shaw ( October 31, 1902-October 30, 1954 ) was a noted American racing driver and president of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway from 1945 until his death.

The 38th International 500-Mile Sweepstakes was held at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway on Monday, May 31, 1954.

The company purchased Meteor Motor Car Company in Piqua, Ohio in 1954.

The Motor magazine tested a Husky in 1954 and found it to have a top speed of and acceleration from 0-in 24. 3 seconds.