* 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

A large retail outlet, Temple's B & O Cash Store, shipped merchandise nationwide, before being bought by Sears and Roebuck in 1929 and later closed in 1954.

The party's fortunes began to sag during the early 1950s, and by 1954 the aggregate nationwide totals for U. S. Senate nominees was down to 30, 577.

To provide security beyond what could be provided by the police and to extend government control, a system of neighborhood or street committees had been established on a nationwide basis in 1954.

The 1954 edition of the parade was also the first program ever televised in the NTSC color television format nationwide on NBC.

In 1954, local housewives launched the " Suginami Appeal " against nuclear weapons, a petition that spread nationwide and ultimately collected 20 million signatures.

Various promotional schemes were tried: in 1954 the small town of Saranac Lake, New York ( home of the Adirondack Cottage Sanitarium ) won a nationwide competition selling Christmas Seals, the reward for which was hosting the world premiere of the Paul Newman film, The Silver Chalice ; the cast participated in a parade in the town's annual winter carnival.

* 1954, Case of Brown v. Board of Board of Education: ruled against " separate but equal " citing the arguments of Charles Sumner in his later case dealing with Sarah Roberts and finally had integrated schools nationwide.

The 1954 New Zealand general election was a nationwide vote to determine the shape of the Parliament of New Zealand's 31st term.

In 1954, when NBC became the first television network to broadcast color programs, WKY-TV subsequently followed as one of the very first local TV stations in the U. S. to broadcast its own color programming many years ahead of most other local stations nationwide, most of whom did not follow suit until the mid-1960s.

" Red Man was initially sold in a few Midwestern states ; it expanded ( in 1954 ) into the South and then ( in 1963 ) largely nationwide.

They took up a long residency at San Francisco's Black Hawk nightclub and gained great popularity touring college campuses, recording a series of albums with such titles as Jazz at Oberlin ( 1953 ), Jazz at the College of the Pacific ( 1953 ), and Brubeck's debut on Columbia Records, Jazz Goes to College ( 1954 ).

Lemmon's film debut was a bit part as a plasterer / painter in the 1949 film The Lady Takes a Sailor, but he was not noticed until his official debut, opposite Judy Holliday, in the 1954 comedy It Should Happen to You.

* 1954 – Elvis Presley made his radio debut when WHBQ Memphis played his first recording for Sun Records, " That's All Right.

His debut for the full senior side came on 2 October 1954, scoring a goal in a 2-0 England victory over Northern Ireland at Windsor Park, Belfast.

He made his stage debut in Joseph Colton's The Gay Dog in Preston on 6 September 1954, later becoming assistant stage manager.

O ' Toole began working in the theatre, gaining recognition as a Shakespearean actor at the Bristol Old Vic and with the English Stage Company, before making his television debut in 1954.

* The Silver Chalice ( 1954 ) starring Paul Newman ( film debut )

Ronnie later made a guest appearance on the October 18, 1954 episode (" Gracie Gives Wedding in Payment of a Favor ") playing a character named " Jim Goodwin " prior to his debut as a regular, and was formally introduced to the audience at the episode's conclusion.

The LSO made its debut performance on May 23, 1954, in the Central High School auditorium to an " enthusiastic reception.

Pleasance made his big-screen debut with The Beachcomber ( 1954 ).

In 1954, Saranac Lake hosted the world premiere of the Biblical epic film The Silver Chalice, Paul Newman's film debut.

He got his big break at age twenty-six when, in September 1954, he made his professional show-business debut at the now-demolished Nottingham Empire .< ref >

He was repetiteur at the Gärtnerplatz Theatre in Munich in 1952, and made his conducting debut with the operetta Gasparone at Potsdam theatre in 1954.

Michiya Mihashi, who originally sang Japanese folk min ' yō music and learned tsugaru-jamisen, released his debut single " Sake no Nigasa yo " as a recording singer in 1954.

Cowdrey made his England debut on the 1954-55 tour of Australia and New Zealand and made his maiden Test hundred at Melbourne in the Boxing Day Test match 1954.

Her debut Mercury recording session took place in February 1954 and she stayed with the label through 1959.

Though it initially tried to mimic Today when it debuted a morning show in a two-hour format in 1954, one year later, the show was cut to an hour because of the debut of the children's TV series Captain Kangaroo.

The Boy Friend for the Players ' Theatre was written in 1953 and went on to be produced in the West End at Wyndhams Theatre in January 1954 and on Broadway in 1954, introducing Julie Andrews in her Broadway debut.

Carroll's film debut was a supporting role in Carmen Jones ( 1954 ) as a friend of the sultry lead character.

Grodin's film debut was an uncredited bit-part in Disney's 1954 film 20, 000 Leagues Under the Sea.

Taylor made his feature film debut in the Australian Lee Robinson film King of the Coral Sea ( 1954 ), playing an American.

* King of the Coral Sea ( 1954 ) ( film debut )