* 1954 – John Lloyd, English tennis player

* 1954 – Derek Warwick, English race car driver

* 1954 – Gary Peters, English footballer

* 1954 – Elvis Costello, English singer-songwriter and producer

* 1954 – Trevor Francis, English footballer

* 1954 – Captain Sensible, English singer-songwriter and musician ( The Damned and Dead Men Walking )

According to Emile Benveniste ( 1954 ), the earliest written occurrence in English of civilisation in its modern sense may be found in Adam Ferguson's An Essay on the History of Civil Society ( Edinburgh, 1767 – p. 2 ): " Not only the individual advances from infancy to manhood, but the species itself from rudeness to civilisation.

* 1954 – Hanif Kureishi, English author and playwright

* 1954 – Steve Steen, English actor

* 1879 – Sydney Greenstreet, English actor ( d. 1954 )

* European Thought in the Eighteenth Century by Paul Hazard ( 1946, English translation 1954 )

It was unveiled in late 1954, and taken, in January 1955, to UllswaterWestmorland in the English Lake District for its initial trials.

* Derrida, Jacques, 1954 ( French ), 2003 ( English ).

* 1954 – Mike Pickering, English disc jockey and musician ( Quando Quango and M People )

* 1876 – Henry Blogg, English lifeboatman, George Cross and British Empire Medal recipient ( d. 1954 )

* 1954 – Alan Turing, English mathematician and computer scientist ( b. 1912 )

* 1954 – Len Davies, English wrestling promoter, founded Real Quality Wrestling

* 1954 – Neil Oatley, English engineer and designer

* 1954 – Neil Tennant, English singer-songwriter and musician ( Pet Shop Boys and Electronic )

* 1954 – Trudie Styler, English actress

* 1954 – John Gidman, English footballer

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 – Stephen Venables, English mountaineer

* 1954 – Wreckless Eric, English singer-songwriter

* 1954 – John Gregory, English football manager

* 1954 – Pat Metheny, American guitarist and composer ( Pat Metheny Group )

* 1954 – Gregory Abbott, American singer, musician and composer

* 2008 – Marios Tokas, Cypriot composer ( b. 1954 )

* 1954 – François Valéry, French singer-songwriter and composer

* 1954 – Dieter Bohlen German composer

* 1954 – Noriyuki Asakura, Japanese composer

* 1954 – Idabelle Smith Firestone, American composer and songwriter ( b. 1874 )

* 1954 – Marios Tokas, Greek-Cypriot composer ( d. 2008 )

* 1954 – Robert Carl, American composer

* 1954 – José María Vitier, Cuban composer and pianist

* 1954 – Robert Beaser, American composer

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

* 1954 – David Newman, American composer and conductor

* 1954 – Johnny Logan, Irish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and composer

* 1870 – Oscar Straus, Viennese composer ( d. 1954 )

* 1954 – Noel Gay, English composer, ( b. 1898 )

* 2007 – Richard Joseph, British games soundtrack composer ( b. 1954 )

* 1954 – David Worrall, Australian composer and polymedia artist

* The 1954 Broadway musical The Golden Apple by librettist John Treville Latouche and composer Jerome Moross is freely adapted from the Iliad and the Odyssey, re-setting the action to the American state of Washington in the years after the Spanish-American War, with events inspired by the Iliad in Act One and events inspired by the Odyssey in Act Two.

* 1954 – Kenneth Atchley, American composer

* 1954 – Sanjoy Bandopadhyay, Bengali sitar player and composer

* 1954 – Scott Fields, American guitarist and composer

* October 20 – Charles Ives, American composer ( d. 1954 )

* Orlando Jacinto Garcia ( born 1954 ), Cuban-born American composer