1954

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Centuries:	19th century – 20th century – 21st century
Decades:	1920s 1930s 1940s – 1950s – 1960s 1970s 1980s
Years:	1951 1952 1953 – 1954 – 1955 1956 1957

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1954 (MCMLIV) was a common year starting on Friday in the Gregorian calendar.

Events

May 17 - The Supreme Court of the United States decides to desegregate schools in Brown v. Board of Education.
August 1 - The First Indochina War ends.
September 17 - The book Lord of the Flies by William Golding is published.
October 18 – Texas Instruments announces the first transistor radio.

Births

January 6 - Anthony Minghella, British movie director (d. 2008)
January 9 - Lance Hoppen, American singer-songwriter and musician (Orleans)
January 23 - Richard Finch, American bass guitarist (KC & the Sunshine Band)
January 29 – Oprah Winfrey, American talk show host
February 7 - Dieter Bohlen, German music mogul
February 15 - Matt Groening, American creator of The Simpsons and Futurama
February 16 - Iain Banks, Scottish writer
February 18 - John Travolta, American actor
February 20 - Patty Hearst, American heiress
February 21 - Ivo van Damme, Belgian athlete (d. 1976)
March 1 – Ron Howard, American actor, director
March 1 - Igor Kisch, Czech politician, Minister of Health and doctor
March 1 - Catherine Bach, American actress
March 16 - Nancy Wilson, American guitarist (Heart)
March 25 - Miran Anes, Albanian politician and judge (d. 2012)
April 1 - Jeff Porcaro, American drummer (Toto) (d. 1992)
April 11 - Abdullah Atalar, Turkish academic
April 19 - Trevor Francis, English footballer
April 23 – Michael Moore, documentary movie maker
April 23 – Tony Atlas, American professional wrestler
April 28 - Jimmy Barnes, Australian singer
April 28 - Mary Jo Randle, British actress
May 8 - Clive Wood, British actor
May 13 - Johnny Logan, Irish singer
May 17 - David Zippel, American lyricist
May 20 - David Paterson, former Governor of New York
May 21 - Janice Karman, American voice actress
June 20 - Michael Anthony, American bass guitarist (Van Halen)
June 25 - David Paich, American keyboardist (Toto)
June 30 - Serzh Sargsyan, President of Armenia
July 17 - Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany
July 28 - Hugo Chávez, President of Venezuela (d. 2013)
July 28 - Gerd Faltings, German mathematician
August 12 - Francois Hollande, President of France
August 15 - Stieg Larsson, Swedish writer (d. 2004)
August 16 - George Galloway, British politician
August 25 – Elvis Costello, British singer
September 6 - Carly Fiorina, American politician
September 21 - Shinzo Abe, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 2022)
September 30 - Mitch Lewis, Canadian multi-instrumentalist
October 9 – Scott Bakula, actor
October 10 - David Lee Roth, American singer (Van Halen)
November 1 - László Kerekes, drijor and Hungarian composer
November 14 - Condoleezza Rice, former United States Secretary of State
November 24 - Susan Gilmore, British actress
December 15 - Zivko Jovanović, Serbian politician and judge
December 20 - László Levin, politician Hungarian (d. 2009)
December 25 - Annie Lennox, Scottish singer (Eurythmics)
December 28 - Denzel Washington, American actor
December 29 – Albrecht Böttcher, German mathematician
December 30 - Pnina Rosenblum, Israeli business woman and politician
December 31 - Alex Salmond, First Minister of Scotland
December 31 - Hermann Tilke, German racing circuit designer

Deaths

May 19 – Charles Ives, American composer
June 7 – Alan Turing, mathematician
June 9 - Alain LeRoy Locke, American writer
July 13 – Frida Kahlo, Mexican painter
August 6 – Emilie Dionne, one of the Dionne Quintuplets
November 3 – Henri Matisse, painter
November 29 – Enrico Fermi, physicist

1954 Media

January 14: Marilyn weds DiMaggio.
Photograph of Miss Tina Knowles
Foreign Office Minister Hugo Swire meeting Kailash Satyarthi, 2014 Nobel Peace Prize winner in London, 9 March 2015.
Katey Sagal at the 2010 Comic Con in San Diego
Oprah in Miami on her "The Life You Want" tour, October 2014.
Bill Mumy at the 2013 Phoenix Comicon in Phoenix, Arizona.
Andrey Karlov, Russian Ambassador to Turkey (2013-2016) and North Korea (2001-2006)
Matt Groening at the 2010 Comic Con in San Diego
Rene Russo on October 12, 1996 in Washington D. C.

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