* 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

From 1954 until 1990, the Army was known as the Czechoslovak People's Army ( ČSLA ).

Służba Bezpieczeństwa Ministerstwa Spraw Wewnętrznych () ( Security Service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs ), or just SB, was established in the People's Republic of Poland in 1954.

The State Council (), synonymous with the Central People's Government () since 1954 ( particularly in relation to local governments ), is the chief administrative authority of the People's Republic of China.

As a result of the Vietnam ( Second Indochina ) War ( 1954 – 75 ), Viet Cong and regular People's Army of Vietnam ( PAVN ) forces from the North unified Vietnam under communist rule.

Founded in 1954, the National Liberation Front ( FLN ) succeeded Messali Hadj's Algerian People's Party ( PPA ), while its leaders created an armed wing, the Armée de Libération Nationale ( National Liberation Army ) to engage in an armed struggle against French authority.

Later Liu became the First Vice Chairman of the National People's Congress, and held that position from 1954 – 59.

Victory in Vietnam: The Official History of the People's Army of Vietnam, 1954 – 1975.

The President of the People's Republic of China (, formerly called Chairman of the People's Republic of China from 1954 to 1975, or Guójiā Zhǔxí 国家主席, literally State Chairman ) is a ceremonial office and a part of State organs under the National People's Congress ( NPC ) and its incumbent is the head of state of the People's Republic of China ( PRC ).

After the implementation of the Constitution of People's Republic of China in 1954, Mao Zedong, who had served as the Chairman of the Central People's Government since 1949, was selected Chairman of the People's Republic of China.

* Zhang Dingcheng 張鼎丞 / 张鼎丞 ( 1898-1981 ; Yongding, Fujian ), Procurator-General, Supreme People's Procuratorate, 1954 – 1975

The Premier of the State Council of the People's Republic of China (), sometimes also referred to as the " Prime Minister " informally, is the Leader of the State Council of the People's Republic of China ( the " Central People's Government of the People's Republic of China " after 1954 ), who is the head of government and holds the highest-ranking ( Level 1 ) of the Civil service of the People's Republic of China.

This position was originally known as Premier of the Government Administration Council of the Central People's Government () and changed to its current name in 1954.

The first Constitution of the People's Republic of China was declared in 1954.

In 1954, the new government of the People's Republic of China moved the capital of Henan from Kaifeng to Zhengzhou, as a result of its economic importance.

* 1954 – Algerian War of Independence: The Algerian National Liberation Front begins a revolt against French rule.

Effectively started by members of the National Liberation Front ( FLN ) on November 1, 1954, during the Toussaint Rouge (" Red All Saints ' Day "), the conflict shook the foundations of the French Fourth Republic ( 1946 – 58 ) and led to its eventual collapse.

Shortly after the 1954 election, a new party, the Asante-based National Liberation Movement ( NLM ), was formed.

The war ended in 1954 but its sequel started in French Algeria where the French Communist Party played an even stronger role by supplying the National Liberation Front ( FLN ) rebels with intelligence documents and financial aids.

At the outbreak of the Algerian War in 1954, Ben Bella was based in Cairo where he had become one of the nine members of the Revolutionary Committee of Unity and Action which headed the Front de Liberation Nationale ( FLN ).

Mahmoud Mahmoud Atta () ( born 1954 ) is ( or was ) an American and alleged militant from Palestine Liberation Organization who was suspected to be responsible for bombing a bus in 1986 on the Israeli-occupied Palestinian West Bank, killing one and severely injuring three.

* Patty Hearst ( born 1954 ), now known as Patricia Hearst Shaw, American newspaper heiress and occasional actress, kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army in 1974

It had its origins in the National Renewal Front which was founded on September 23, 1954 and transformed in the National Liberation Front on October 17, 1958.

In 1954 he wrote his first compositions for historical spectacles of light and sound, Lisieux and The Liberation of Paris.

* National Liberation Front ( Algeria ), a socialist political party founded in 1954 for independence from France for Algeria

During the Algerian War of Independence ( 1954 – 1962 ), the French military used torture against the National Liberation Front and the civilian population.

Dominic McGlinchey ( 1954 – 10 February 1994 ) from Bellaghy, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland was an Irish republican paramilitary with the Irish National Liberation Army ( INLA ).

The legislation was prompted, in part, by attacks on the islands of Kinmen and Matsu in the Taiwan Straits by the Chinese People's Liberation Army in 1954.

In January 1954, the regime sent members of the Liberation Rally to disrupt a Muslim Brothers student gathering using loudspeakers ; the confrontation turned into a battle.

In the 20th century these types of conflict were often termed " Wars of National Liberation " and due to better armaments and a heavily politicised leadership strategy achieved much better results by wearing down the will of the Imperial power to continue with an expensive and politically unpopular struggle rather than militarily defeating them, although the Vietnamese also managed the latter against the French at Dien Bien Phu in 1954 leading to their expulsion from Indo-China.