* 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

Three of Gershwin's songs (" They Can't Take That Away From Me " ( 1937 ), " Long Ago and Far Away " ( 1944 ) and " The Man That Got Away " ( 1954 )) were nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song, though none won.

* 1954: Three Loves ( Mittsu no ai )

*" One in Three Hundred " ( 1954 ) by J. T. McIntosh relates the discovery there will be a great increase in the Sun's solar output causing the Earth's oceans to boil away.

Three months earlier, on April 12, 1954, Bill Haley & His Comets recorded " Rock Around the Clock ".

Three Coins in the Fountain is a 1954 American romantic comedy film directed by Jean Negulesco and starring Clifton Webb, Dorothy McGuire, Jean Peters, Louis Jourdan, Rossano Brazzi, and Maggie McNamara.

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

In 1953, he had his most dramatic role as the doomed but brave husband of unfaithful Barbara Stanwyck in Titanic and in 1954 played the ( fictional ) novelist John Frederick Shadwell in Three Coins in the Fountain.

* Down Three Dark Streets ( 1954 )

* Three Hours to Kill ( 1954 )

Three previous state constitutions — those of 1954, 1975, and 1978 — were superseded in turn.

* Loves of Three Queens ( 1954 )

McNamara's second film role was in Three Coins in the Fountain ( 1954 ).

* " Black and White " ( Three Dog Night song ), a song written in 1954 by David I. Arkin and Earl Robinson

* The Happiness of Three Women ( 1954 )

Leo Baxendale ( born 27 October 1930 in Preston, Lancashire ) is a British cartoonist, who was the creator of the classic Beano strips Little Plum ( 1953 ), Minnie the Minx ( 1953 ), The Bash Street Kids ( created October 1953, began publication February 1954 ) and The Three Bears ( 1959 ).

Her other films include: Rich, Young and Pretty ( 1951 ), Small Town Girl ( 1953 ), Three Sailors and a Girl ( 1953 ), Athena ( 1954 ), Deep in My Heart ( 1954 ), Hit the Deck ( 1955 ), and The Girl Most Likely ( 1957 ).

* Paul Hansard, in The Three Musketeers ( 1954 )

* Paul Hansard, in The Three Musketeers ( 1954 )

Among his better known works are the Variations for Orchestra ( 1954 – 5 ); the Double Concerto for harpsichord, piano and two chamber orchestras ( 1959 – 61 ); the Piano Concerto ( 1964 – 65 ), written as an 85th birthday present for Igor Stravinsky ; the Concerto for Orchestra ( 1969 ), loosely based on a poem by Saint-John Perse ; and the Symphony of Three Orchestras ( 1976 ).

His follow-up work to the Hymnus Paradisi was an extended setting of the Latin Mass for soloists, chorus and orchestra, named Missa Sabrinensis after the River Severn and first performed in Worcester Cathedral as part of the Three Choirs Festival in 1954.

In 2010, the newly built fireboat Three Forty Three replaced the John D. McKean, which entered service in 1954, as Marine 1.

* Laurence Payne in The Three Musketeers ( TV serial ) ( 1954 )

* Three Coins in the Fountain ( 1954 )