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Year '''1954''' ('''[[Roman numerals|MCMLIV]]''') was a [[common year starting on Friday]] (link will display full 1954 [[Gregorian calendar]]).
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== Events of 1954 ==
===January===
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[[Image:Gentlemen Prefer Blondes Movie Trailer Screenshot (34).jpg|thumb|130px|right| [[January 14]]: [[Marilyn Monroe|Marilyn]] weds [[Joe DiMaggio|DiMaggio]].]]
* [[January 1]] - The [[Soviet Union]] ceases to demand [[war reparations]] from [[East Germany]].
* [[January 12]] - [[Avalanche]]s in [[Austria]] kill more than 20.
* [[January 15]] - [[Mau Mau]] leader [[Waruhiu Itote]] is captured in [[Kenya]].
* [[January 17]] - In [[Yugoslavia]], [[Milovan Djilas]], one of the leading members of the [[League of Communists of Yugoslavia]], is relieved of his duties.
* [[January 20]] - The US-based [[National Negro Network]] is established with 40 charter member [[radio station]]s.
* [[January 21]] - The first nuclear-powered [[submarine]], the [[USS Nautilus (SSN-571)|USS ''Nautilus'']], is launched in [[Groton, Connecticut]], by [[First Lady of the United States]] [[Mamie Eisenhower]].
* [[January 25]] - The foreign ministers of the [[United States]], [[United Kingdom|Britain]], [[France]] and the [[Soviet Union]] meet at the [[Berlin Conference, 1954|Berlin Conference]].
===February===
* [[February 3]] - Queen [[Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom|Elizabeth II]] becomes the first reigning [[monarch]] to visit [[Australia]].
* [[February 10]] - After authorizing $385 million over the $400 million already budgeted for military aid to Vietnam, US [[President of the United States|President]] [[Dwight Eisenhower]] warns against [[United States]] intervention in [[Vietnam]].
* [[February 23]] - The first mass [[vaccination]] of children against [[polio]] begins in [[Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania]], [[United States]].
* [[February 25]] - Lt. Col. [[Gamal Abdel Nasser]] becomes premier of [[Egypt]].
===March===
* [[March 1]] - Officials announce that an American [[hydrogen bomb]] test has been conducted on [[Bikini Atoll]] in the [[Pacific Ocean]].
* [[March 1]] - [[U.S. Capitol shooting incident (1954)|U.S. Capitol shooting incident]]: Four [[Puerto Rican independence movement|Puerto Rican nationalists]] open fire in the [[United States House of Representatives]] chamber and wound five; they are apprehended by security guards.
* [[March 9]] - American journalists [[Edward Murrow]] and [[Fred W. Friendly]] produce a 30-minute ''[[See It Now]]'' documentary titled ''[[Joseph McCarthy|A Report on Senator Joseph McCarthy]]''.
* [[March 12]] - [[Finland]] and [[Germany]] officially end the [[state of war]].
* [[March 13]] - French troops begin battle against [[Vietminh]] in [[Dien Bien Phu]].
* [[March 19]] - [[Joey Giardello]] knocks out [[Willie Tory]] at [[Madison Square Garden]] in the first [[television|televised]] prize [[boxing]] fight shown in color.
* [[March 23]] - In Vietnam, the [[Viet Minh]] capture the main airstrip of [[Battle of Dien Bien Phu|Dien Bien Phu]] - French forces are partially isolated.
* [[March 25]] - The [[26th Academy Awards]] ceremony is held.
* [[March 25]] - [[RCA]] manufactures the first color [[Television|TV]] set (12" screen; price: $1,000).
* [[March 25]] - [[Soviet Union]] recognizes [[sovereignty]] of [[East Germany]] but Soviet troops remain in the country.
* [[March 28]] - Puerto Rico's first television station, [[WKAQ-TV]], goes on the air.
* [[March 29]] - [[C-47 Skytrain|C-47]] with French nurse [[Genevieve de Galard]] on board is incapacitated on [[Battle of Dien Bien Phu|Dien Bien Phu]] runway.
* [[March 30]] - [[Canada]]'s first [[Rapid transit|subway]] opens in [[Toronto]].
===April===
* [[April 1]] - President [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]] authorizes the creation of the [[United States Air Force Academy]] in [[Colorado]].
* [[April 3]] - [[Vladimir Mikhaylovich Petrov (diplomat)|Vladimir Petrov]] [[Petrov Affair|defects]] from the [[Soviet Union]] and asks to seek [[political asylum]] in [[Australia]].
* [[April 4]] - Legendary conductor [[Arturo Toscanini]] experiences a lapse of memory during a concert. At concert's end, his retirement is announced, and Toscanini never conducts in public again.
* [[April 7]] - [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]] gives his "[[domino theory]]" speech during a news conference.
* [[April 14]] - [[Aneurin Bevan]] resigns from the [[Labour Party (UK)|UK Labour]] [[shadow cabinet]].
* [[April 16]] - Vice President [[Richard Nixon]] announces that the United States may be “putting our own boys in Indochina regardless of Allied support.”
* [[April 22]] - [[United States Senate|Senator]] [[Joseph McCarthy]] begins hearings investigating the [[United States Army]] for being "soft" on [[Communism]].
===May===
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* [[May 6]] - [[Roger Bannister]] runs the first [[four-minute mile]].
* [[May 7]] - [[Vietnam War]]: The [[Battle of Dien Bien Phu]] ends in a [[France|French]] defeat (the battle began on [[March 13]]).
* [[May 14]] - The [[Boeing 707]] is released after about two years of development.
* [[May 17]] - [[United States Supreme Court]] hands down its decision in [[Brown v. Board of Education]] of [[Topeka, Kansas]] 347 US 483 1954.
* [[May 17]] - The [[Petrov Affair|Petrov]] [[Royal Commission]] in [[Australia]] begins its inquiry.
* [[May 20]] - [[Chiang Kai-shek]] is reelected [[president of the Republic of China]] by the [[National Assembly of the Republic of China|National Assembly]].
* [[May 22]] - The common [[Nordic Passport Union|Nordic Labour Market]] act is signed.
* [[May 29]] - [[Robert Menzies]]'s government is re-elected for a 4th term in [[Australia]].
===June===
* [[June 9]] - [[McCarthyism]]: [[Joseph Welch]], special counsel for the [[United States Army]], lashes out at [[United States Senate|Senator]] [[Joseph McCarthy]] during hearings on whether [[Communism]] has infiltrated the Army.
* [[June 14]] - The words "under God" are added to the [[United States]] [[Pledge of Allegiance]].
* [[June 15]] - [[UEFA]] (the Union of European Football Associations) is formed in [[Basel]], [[Switzerland]].
* [[June 17]] - A [[military coup]] occurs in [[Guatemala]].
* [[June 18]] - [[Pierre Mendès-France]] becomes prime minister of [[France]].
* [[June 27]] - [[Guatemala]]n President [[Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán]] steps down in a [[CIA]]-sponsored [[Operation PBSUCCESS|military coup]], triggering a bloody civil war that would continue for more than 35 years.
* [[June 27]] - The world's first [[nuclear power|atomic power station]] opens at [[Obninsk]], near [[Moscow]].
===July===
* [[July 1]] - The [[Nordic Passport Union|common Nordic Labour Market act]] comes into power.
* [[July 1]] The United States officially begins using the international unit of the [[nautical mile]] equal to 6076.11549 ft. or 1852 meters
* [[July 4]] - End of [[rationing]] of [[meat]] - the last form of [[Rationing in the United Kingdom during and after World War II|food rationing in Britain]].
* [[July 4]] - [[Germany national football team|West Germany]] beats [[Hungary national football team|Hungary]] [[1954 World Cup Final|3-2]] to win the [[1954 FIFA World Cup]].
* [[July 5]] - The [[Andhra Pradesh High Court]] is established.
* [[July 15]] - The maiden flight of [[Boeing 707]] occurs.
* [[July 21]] - [[First Indochina War]]: The [[Geneva Conference (1954)|Geneva Conference]] partitions [[Vietnam]] into [[North Vietnam]] and [[South Vietnam]].
* [[July 28]] - The [[Situationist International]] is founded.
===August===
* [[August]] - First flight of a [[B-52 Stratofortress]].
* [[August 6]] - Emilie Dionne, one of the [[Dionne Quintuplets]], dies of [[asphyxiation]] following an [[epileptic seizure]] at Sainte Agathe, [[Quebec]].
* [[August 16]] - Volume 1, Issue 1 of ''[[Sports Illustrated]]'' is published.
* [[August 24]] - President of [[Brazil]], [[Getulio Vargas]], commits suicide; he's been accused of conspiracy to murder an air force officer.
===September===
* [[September 3]] - The last new episode of ''[[The Lone Ranger]]'' is aired on [[radio]] after 2,956 episodes over a period of 21 years
* [[September 6]] - [[SEATO]] treaty signed in [[Manila]], [[Philippines]] [[KOVR]] went on the air.
* [[September 8]] - The [[Southeast Asia Treaty Organization]] (SEATO) is established in [[Bangkok]], [[Thailand]].
* [[September 9]] - An earthquake centered on the city of [[Chlef|Orleansville]] in [[Algeria]]: 1500 dead and thousands homeless.
* [[September 11]] - First [[Miss America]] Pageant broadcast on [[television]].
* [[September 14]] - [[Soviet Union|USSR]] tests [[nuclear weapon]].
* [[September 24]] - [[Edward Pilgrim]] commits suicide hastened by bureaucracy.
* [[September 25]] - [[Footscray Football Club]] wins their first [[Grand Final]].
* [[September 26]] - [[Japan]]ese ferry [[Toya Maru]] sinks during a [[typhoon]] in the [[Tsugaru Strait]] killing more than 1,100.
* [[September 30]] - [[USS Nautilus]], 1st atomic-powered vessel ([[submarine]]), commissioned by the [[US Navy]].
===October===
* [[October 11]] - [[Vietnam War]]: The [[Viet Minh]] takes control of [[North Vietnam]].
* [[October 11]] - [[Hurricane Hazel]] crosses over [[Haiti]], killing 1,000.
* [[October 15]] - [[Hurricane Hazel]] makes U.S. landfall - it is the only recorded [[Category 4 hurricane]] to strike as far north as [[North Carolina]].
* [[October 18]] - [[Texas Instruments]] announces the development of the first [[Transistor radio]].
* [[October 20]] - [[Dock worker]]s' [[Strike action|strike]] expands in [[England]].
* [[October 23]] - [[West Germany]] joins [[NATO]].
* [[October 25]] - [[Landslide]]s caused by heavy rains hit [[Salerno]], [[Italy]], killing about 300.
* [[October 26]] - Member of [[Muslim Brotherhood]] [[Mahmoud Abdul Latif]] tries to kill [[Gamal Abdal Nasser]].
* [[October 31]] - [[Algerian War of Independence]]: The [[Algerian National Liberation Front]] begins a revolt against [[France|French]] rule.
===November===
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* [[November 1]] - The [[National Liberation Front (Algeria)|FLN]] attacks Representative and public buildings of the France colonial power.
* [[November 2]] - Dock workers' strike in England ends.
* [[November 5]] - [[Japan]] and [[Burma]] sign in [[Rangoon]] a separate [[Burma-Japanese peace treaty|treaty of peace]] to end the formal state of war.
* [[November 10]] - US President [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]] dedicates the [[USMC War Memorial]] (Iwo Jima memorial) in [[Arlington National Cemetery]].
* [[November 12]] - The main immigration port-of-entry in [[New York Harbor]] at [[Ellis Island]] closes.
* [[November 14]] - [[Egypt]]ian president [[Mohammed Naguib]] is deposed - [[Gamal Abdel Nasser]] replaces him.
* [[November 23]] - The [[Dow Jones Industrial Average]] rises 3.27 points, or 0.86%, closing at an all-time high of 382.74. More significantly, this is the first time the Dow has surpassed its [[1929]] peak level reached just before that year's [[Wall Street Crash of 1929|crash]].
* [[November 30]] - In [[Sylacauga, Alabama]], a 4 kg piece of the [[Hodges Meteorite]] crashes through the roof of a house and badly bruises a napping woman, in the first documented case of an object from [[outer space]] hitting a person.
===December===
[[December 1]] The first [[Hyatt Hotel]], The Hyatt House Los Angeles, opens. It is the first hotel in the world built outside of an airport.
* [[December 2]]
**[[Second Red Scare|Red Scare]]: The [[United States Senate]] votes 67 to 22 to condemn [[Joseph McCarthy]] for "conduct that tends to bring the Senate into dishonor and disrepute."
**Taiwan-United States Mutual Defense Treaty. [http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Mutual_Defense_Treaty_between_the_United_States_of_America_and_the_Republic_of_China]
* [[December 4]] - The first [[Burger King]] is opened in [[Miami, Florida]], [[USA]]
* [[December 24]] - [[Laos]] gains full independence from [[France]].
===Undated===
*[[New Zealand]] [[inventor]], [[Sir William Hamilton]] invented the worlds first water [[pump-jet]] engine, later named the "Hamilton Jet".
* The first [[kidney transplant]]s are done in [[Boston, Massachusetts|Boston]] and [[Paris]].
*The [[Boy Scouts of America]] desegregates on the basis of race.
*Gerbils ([[Meriones Unguiculatus]]) are brought to the United States by Dr. Victor Schwentker.
*[[Unification Church]] is founded.
* Case of [[Lothar Malskat]], who had admitted that he had painted the [[fresco]]es in [[Marienkirche, Lübeck|Marienkirche]] himself, goes into trial.
* The [[TV Dinner]] is introduced by [[United States|American]], [[Gerry Thomas]].
*Choreographer [[George Balanchine]]'s production of ''The Nutcracker'' is staged for the first time in New York, becoming an annual tradition there, and still being revived as of 2007.
*[[Korea]] use of [[Gimpo International Airport]] possible.
===Ongoing===
* [[Marshall Plan]]
===Fictional===
The following are references to year 1954 in fiction:
[[Robert A. Heinlein]]'s short story, [[The Year of the Jackpot]] takes place in 1954.
==Births==
{{Year in other calendars|Japanese=[[Shōwa]] 29}}
===January-February===
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* [[January 2]] - [[Henry Bonilla]], American politician
* [[January 3]] - [[Jim Ross]], American wrestling commentator
* [[January 4]] - [[Dave Ulliott|Dave "The Devilfish" Ulliott]], English professional poker player
* [[January 5]] - [[Alex English]], American basketball player
* [[January 6]] - [[Anthony Minghella]], British film and theatre director (d. [[2008]])
* [[January 12]] - [[Howard Stern]], American radio host
* [[January 13]] - [[Trevor Rabin]], South African-American musician
* [[January 14]] - [[Tom Cheney (cartoonist)|Tom Cheney]], American cartoonist
* [[January 15]] - [[Jose Dalisay, Jr.]], Filipino writer
* [[January 17]] - [[Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.]], son of [[Robert F Kennedy]]
* [[January 19]] - [[Katey Sagal]], American actress and singer
* [[January 19]] - [[Ted DiBiase]], American professional wrestler
* [[January 22]] - [[Peter Pilz]], Austrian politician
* [[January 23]] - [[Franco De Vita]], Venezuelan singer and songwriter
* [[January 29]] - [[Oprah Winfrey]], American actress, talk show hostess, producer, and publisher
* [[January 29]] - [[Yukinobu Hoshino]], Japanese cartoonist
* [[February 1]] - [[Bill Mumy]], American actor and musician
* [[February 2]] - [[Christie Brinkley]], American model
* [[February 7]] - [[Dieter Bohlen]], German singer
* [[February 9]] - [[Christopher Gardner]], American entrepreneur
* [[February 9]] - [[Kevin Warwick]], Cyborg Scientist
* [[February 11]] - [[Noriyuki Asakura]], Japanese composer
* [[February 12]] - [[Philip Zimmermann]], American cryptographer
* [[February 13]] - [[Donnie Moore]], American baseball player (d. [[1989]])
* [[February 15]] - [[Matt Groening]], American cartoonist
* [[February 18]] - [[John Travolta]], American actor
* [[February 19]] - [[Socrates (football player)|Socrates]], Brazilian footballer
* [[February 20]] - [[Anthony Stewart Head]], English actor
* [[February 20]] - [[Patty Hearst]], American heiress and kidnapping victim
* [[February 23]] - [[Viktor Yushchenko]], [[President of Ukraine]]
* [[February 25]] - [[John Doe (musician)|John Doe]], American musician
* [[February 27]] - [[Neal Schon]], American guitarist
===March-April===
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* [[March 1]] - [[Ron Howard (director)|Ron Howard]], American actor, director, producer
* [[March 4]] - [[François Fillon]], [[Prime Minister of France]]
* [[March 4]] - [[Peter Jacobsen]], American professional golfer
* [[March 4]] - [[Catherine O'Hara]], Canadian actress
* [[March 4]] - [[Irina Ratushinskaya]], Russian writer
* [[March 4]] - [[Willie Thorne]], English snooker player
* [[March 4]] - [[Adrian Zmed]], American actor and dancer
* [[March 6]] - [[Harald Schumacher]], German football goalkeeper
* [[March 8]] - [[David Wilkie (swimmer)|David Wilkie]], Scottish swimmer
* [[March 9]] - [[Bobby Sands]], Irish Republican, Long Kesh hunger striker
* [[March 13]] - [[Valerie Amos, Baroness Amos|The Baroness Amos]], British politician
* [[March 15]] - [[Craig Wasson]], American actor
* [[March 16]] - [[Nancy Wilson (guitarist)|Nancy Wilson]], American singer, musician, and actress
* [[March 17]] - [[Lesley-Anne Down]], British actress
* [[March 18]] - [[James F. Reilly]], astronaut
* [[March 19]] - [[Indu Shahani]], Indian educationist and [[Sheriff of Mumbai]]
* [[March 23]] - [[Geno Auriemma]], American basketball coach
* [[March 24]] - [[Robert Carradine]], American actor
* [[March 26]] - [[Kazuhiko Inoue]], Japanese [[seiyu]] (voice actor)
* [[March 29]] - [[Karen Ann Quinlan]], American right-to-die cause célèbre (d. [[1985]])
* [[April 2]] - [[Susumu Hirasawa]], Japanese musician
* [[April 5]] - [[Guy Bertrand (broadcaster)]]. Canadian linguist and radio personality.
* [[April 7]] - [[Jackie Chan]], Hong Kong-born actor
* [[April 7]] - [[Tony Dorsett]], American football player
* [[April 8]] - [[John Schneider]], American actor ("Dukes of Hazzard")
* [[April 9]] - [[Dennis Quaid]], American actor
* [[April 9]] - [[Steve Holt (Canadian musician)|Steve Holt]], Canadian musician
* [[April 10]] - [[Anacani]], Mexican-born American singer ''[[The Lawrence Welk Show]]''
* [[April 10]] - [[Peter MacNicol]], American actor
* [[April 14]] - [[Bruce Sterling]], American science fiction writer
* [[April 15]] - [[Seka]], American actress
* [[April 16]] - [[Ellen Barkin]], American actress
* [[April 17]] - [[Riccardo Patrese]], Italian race car driver
* [[April 26]] - [[Alan Hinkes]], British Mountaineer
* [[April 28]] - [[Robert Sargent Shriver III]], son of [[Eunice Kennedy Shriver]]
* [[April 29]] - [[Jerry Seinfeld]], American comedian
* [[April 29]] - [[Jake Burton Carpenter]], founder of [[Burton Snowboards]]
===May-June===
* [[May 1]] - [[Archie Norman]], British politician and businessman
* [[May 5]] - [[Dave Spector]], American television personality and commentator
* [[May 7]] - [[Philippe Geluck]], Belgian cartoonist
* [[May 7]] - [[Amy Heckerling]], American film director
* [[May 8]] - [[David Keith]], American actor
* [[May 8]] - [[John Michael Talbot]], American musician
* [[May 11]] - [[Judith Weir]], British composer
* [[May 19]] - [[Phil Rudd]], Australian drummer ([[AC/DC]])
* [[May 26]] - [[Danny Rolling]], American Murderer (d. [[2006]])
* [[May 27]] - [[Pauline Hanson]], Australian politician
* [[June 5]] - [[Nancy Stafford]], American actress and Christian author
* [[June 9]] - [[John Hagelin]], American physicist and U.S. Presidential candidate
* [[June 9]] - [[Elizabeth May]], leader of the [[Green Party of Canada]]
* [[June 15]] - [[James Belushi]], American actor
* [[June 16]] - [[Sergey Kuryokhin]], a [[Russians|Russian]] [[piano]] player, avant-garde composer, improvisor, performance artist and actor (d.[[1996]])
* [[June 19]] - [[Ted Coombs]], American artist
* [[June 19]] - [[Kathleen Turner]], American actress
* [[June 20]] - [[Michael Anthony (musician)|Michael Anthony]], American bassist and founding member of the hard rock group [[Van Halen]]
* [[June 20]] - [[Ilan Ramon]], [[Israeli Air Force]], [[Israel]] first [[astronaut]] (d. [[2003]])
* [[June 22]] - [[Freddie Prinze]], American actor and comedian (d. [[1977]])
* [[June 26]] - [[Steve Barton]], American actor (d. [[2001]])
* [[June 27]] - [[Ron Kirk]], Mayor of Dallas, Texas
* [[June 28]] - [[Ava Barber]], country singer ''[[The Lawrence Welk Show]]''
* [[June 29]] - [[Rick Honeycutt]], American baseball player and coach
* [[June 30]] - [[Pierre Charles]], [[Prime Minister of Dominica]] (d. [[2004]])
===July-August===
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* [[July 5]] - [[John Wright (cricketer)|John Wright]], [[New Zealand national cricket captains|New Zealand cricket captain]]
* [[July 6]] - [[Willie Randolph]], American baseball player, coach, manager
* [[July 10]] - [[Neil Tennant]], British musician
* [[July 13]] - [[Sezen Aksu]], popular [[Turkey|Turkish]] female singer
* [[July 15]] - [[Tarak Dhiab]], Tunisian footballer
* [[July 16]] - [[Jeanette Mott Oxford]], American politician
* [[July 17]] - [[Angela Merkel]], [[Chancellor of Germany]]
* [[July 22]] - [[Pierre Lebeau]], Canadian actor
* [[July 25]] - [[Walter Payton]], American football player (d. [[1999]])
* [[July 27]] - [[Philippe Alliot]], French race car driver
* [[July 28]] - [[Hugo Chavez]], Venezuelan President
* [[August 1]] - [[Michael J. Badnarik]], American software engineer and presidential candidate
* [[August 2]] - [[Sammy McIlroy]], Northern Irish footballer and football manager
* [[August 4]] - [[Uwe Wittwer]], Swiss artist
* [[August 11]] - [[Joe Jackson (musician)|Joe Jackson]], British singer
* [[August 12]] - [[Sam J. Jones]], American actor
* [[August 12]] - [[Pat Metheny]], American jazz guitarist
* [[August 13]] - [[Nico Assumpção]], [[Brazil]]ian bass player
* [[August 14]] - [[Mark Fidrych]], American baseball player
* [[August 15]] - [[Mary Jo Salter]], American poet
* [[August 16]] - [[James Cameron]], Canadian-born film director
* [[August 17]] - [[Anatoly Kudryavitsky]], Russian-Irish writer
* [[August 20]] - [[Tawn Mastrey]], American disc jockey, music video producer (d. [[2007]])
* [[August 20]] - [[Al Roker]], American television broadcaster
* [[August 21]] - [[Ivan Stang]], American author and publisher
* [[August 21]] - [[Steve Smith (musician)|Steve Smith]], American drummer
* [[August 23]] - [[Charles Busch]], American director, writer, and actor
* [[August 25]] - [[Elvis Costello]], British singer
* [[August 29]] - [[István Cserháti]], Hungarian keyboardist (d. [[2005]])
* [[August 31]] - [[Julie Brown]], American actress, singer-songwriter and screenwriter
* [[August 31]] - [[Caroline Cossey]], English model
===September-October===
* [[September 1]] - [[Dave Lumley]], Canadian ice hockey player
* [[September 10]] - [[Mark W. Everson]], incoming President and Chief Executive Officer of the American Red Cross
* [[September 13]] - [[Steve Kilbey]], Australian musician
* [[September 17]] - [[Joël-François Durand]], French composer
* [[September 18]] - [[Dennis Johnson]], American basketball player (d. [[2007]])
* [[September 21]] - [[Shinzo Abe]], Japanese politician
* [[September 23]] - [[Charlie Barnett (actor)|Charlie Barnett]], American actor (d. [[1996]])
* [[September 26]] - [[Kevin Kennedy (baseball)|Kevin Kennedy]], baseball manager and television host
* [[September 28]] - [[Steve Largent]], American football player and congressman
* [[September 30]] - [[Barry Williams]], American actor
* [[October 1]] - [[Martin Strel]], Slovenian swimmer
* [[October 3]] - [[Dennis Eckersley]], baseball player
* [[October 3]] - [[Stevie Ray Vaughan]], American musician (d. [[1990]])
* [[October 3]] - [[Al Sharpton]], American politician and minister
* [[October 7]] - [[Robert A. Schuller]], American televangelist and son of [[Robert H. Schuller]]
* [[October 9]] - [[Scott Bakula]], American television actor
* [[October 9]] - [[John O'Hurley]], American television actor and game show host
* [[October 10]] - [[David Lee Roth]] Lead Singer of Rock Band Van Halen
* [[October 12]] - [[Les Dennis]], English television presenter and actor
* [[October 13]] - [[Mordechai Vanunu]], Israeli nuclear technician
* [[October 15]] - [[Tanya Roberts]], American actress
* [[October 15]] - [[Peter Bakowski]], Australian poet
* [[October 23]] - [[Ang Lee]], Taiwanese film director
* [[October 24]] - [[Mike Rounds]], Governor of South Dakota
===November-December===
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*[[November 2]] - [[Pat Croce]], American entrepreneur
*[[November 2]] - [[Angela Webber]], Australian author, TV writer, producer and comedian (d. [[2007]])
*[[November 3]] - [[Brigitte Lin]], actress
*[[November 3]] - [[Adam Ant]], English singer
*[[November 3]] - [[Kathy Kinney]], American actress and comedienne
*[[November 6]] - [[Catherine Crier]], American television journalist
*[[November 7]] - [[Kamal Haasan]], Indian actor
*[[November 8]] - [[Michael D. Brown]], U.S. Undersecretary of Emergency Preparedness and Response
*[[November 8]] - [[Kazuo Ishiguro]], Japanese-born British author
*[[November 13]] - [[Chris Noth]], American actor
*[[November 14]] - [[Condoleezza Rice]], [[U.S. Secretary of State]]
*[[November 14]] - [[Yanni]], Greek musician
*[[November 14]] - [[Willie Hernández]], Puerto Rican [[Major League Baseball]] player
*[[November 15]] - [[Aleksander Kwaśniewski]], [[President of Poland]]
*[[November 16]] - [[Andrea Barrett]], American author
*[[November 16]] - [[Bruce Edwards]], golf caddy (d. [[2004]])
*[[November 23]] - [[Bruce Hornsby]], American singer
*[[November 26]] - [[Dan Kwong]], American performance artist, playwright
*[[November 27]] - [[Patricia McPherson]], American actress
*[[November 29]] - [[Joel Coen]], American film director, producer, screenwriter, and editor
*[[December 1]] - [[Bob Goen]], American television personality and game show host
*[[December 2]] - [[Dan Butler]], American actor
*[[December 2]] - [[Stone Phillips]], American television journalist
*[[December 3]] - [[Grace Andreacchi]], American author
*[[December 7]] - [[Mark Hofmann]], American forger and murderer
*[[December 10]] - [[Jack Hues]], English musician
*[[December 11]] - [[Jermaine Jackson]], American singer
*[[December 11]] - [[Prachanda]], Nepalese Communist leader
*[[December 13]] - [[John Anderson (musician)|John Anderson]], American country music singer-songwriter
*[[December 14]] - [[Ib Andersen]], Danish dancer
*[[December 14]] - [[Alan Kulwicki]], American race car driver (d. [[1993]])
*[[December 18]] - [[Ulrich Roth]], German musician guitarist in rock band Scorpions
*[[December 20]] - [[Michael Badalucco]], American actor
*[[December 20]] - [[Sandra Cisneros]], American writer
*[[December 21]] - [[Chris Evert]], American tennis player
*[[December 24]] - [[José María Figueres]], Costa Rican politician, President [[1994]]-[[1998]]
*[[December 25]] - [[Annie Lennox]], British singer
*[[December 26]] - [[Susan Butcher]], American dog-sled racer (d. [[2006]])
*[[December 28]] - [[Denzel Washington]], American actor
*[[December 31]] - [[Alex Salmond]], Scottish politician
===Unknown dates===
* [[Albert Oehlen]], German painter
* [[Chris Riley (Priest)]], prominent Australian youth worker
* [[Nenad Prokic]], Serbian playwright
* [[Pat Metheny]], American Jazz Great
* [[Ray Ratto]], sports columnist
* [[Sid Meier]], American computer game designer
==Deaths==
===January-June===
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* [[January 18]] - [[Sydney Greenstreet]], English actor (b. [[1879]])
* [[January 20]] - [[Fred Root]], English cricketer (b. [[1890]])
* [[January 31]] - [[Edwin Armstrong]], electrical engineer (b. [[1890]])
* [[February 12]] - [[Dziga Vertov]], Russian filmmaker (b. [[1896]])
* [[March 7]] - [[Otto Diels]], German chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1876]])
* [[April 13]] - [[Angus Lewis Macdonald|Angus L. Macdonald]], [[Nova Scotia]] Premier. (b. [[1890]])
* [[April 17]] - [[Lucreţiu Pătrăşcanu]], Romanian communist activist and sociologist (b. [[1900]])
* [[May 6]] - [[B.C. Forbes]], Scottish-born publisher (b. [[1880]])
* [[May 15]] - [[William March]], American writer and soldier (b. [[1893]])
* [[May 19]] - [[Charles Ives]], American composer (b. [[1874]])
* [[May 25]] - [[Robert Capa]], Hungarian-born photojournalist (b. [[1913]])
* [[April 10]] - [[Auguste Lumière]], French inventor (b. [[1862]])
* [[April 28]] - [[Léon Jouhaux]], French labor leader, recipient of the [[Nobel Peace Prize]] (b. [[1879]])
* [[June 7]] - [[Alan Turing]], British mathematician (b. [[1912]])
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* [[July 3]] - [[Reginald Marsh (artist)|Reginald Maarsh]], American artist (b. [[1898]])
* [[July 11]] - [[Henry Valentine Knaggs]], English physician and author (b. [[1859]])
* [[July 13]] - [[Frida Kahlo]], Mexican painter (b. [[1907]])
* [[July 13]] - [[Grantland Rice]], American sportswriter (b. [[1880]])
* [[July 14]] - [[Jacinto Benavente]], Spanish writer, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1866]])
* [[July 29]] - [[Coen de Koning]], Dutch speed skater (b. [[1879]])
* [[August 24]] - [[Getúlio Vargas]], [[President of Brazil]] (b. [[1882]])
* [[September 21]] - [[Kokichi Mikimoto]], Japanese pearl farm pioneer (b. [[1858]])
* [[November 3]] - [[Henri Matisse]], French painter (b. [[1869]])
* [[November 16]] - [[Albert Francis Blakeslee]], American botanist (b. [[1874]])
* [[November 28]] - [[Enrico Fermi]], Italian physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1901]])
* [[November 29]] - [[Dink Johnson]], American musician (b. [[1892]])
* [[November 30]] - [[Wilhelm Furtwängler]], German conductor (b. [[1886]])
* [[December 8]] - [[Claude Cahun]], French photographer and writer (b. [[1894]])
* [[December 23]] - [[René Iché]], French sculptor (b. [[1897]])
* [[December 30]] - [[Archduke Eugen of Austria]], Austrian field marshal (b. [[1863]])
==Ship events==
* [[List of ship commissionings in 1954]]
* [[List of ship decommissionings in 1954]]
==Nobel prizes==
* [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Physics]] - [[Max Born]], [[Walther Bothe]]
* [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Chemistry]] - [[Linus Carl Pauling]]
* [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Medicine]] - [[John Franklin Enders]], [[Thomas Huckle Weller]], [[Frederick Chapman Robbins]]
* [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Literature]] - [[Ernest Hemingway]]
* [[Nobel Peace Prize|Peace]] - The Office of the [[United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees]].
==Fields Medalists==
*[[Kunihiko Kodaira]], [[Jean-Pierre Serre]]
==See also==
* [[20th century]]
==Notes==
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==External links==
*[http://www.coinpage.com/1954-pictures.html 1954 Coin Pictures]
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