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1954
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Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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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 |
1954 (MCMLIV) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar.
Events
- October 18 – Texas Instruments announces the worldwide first transistor radio.
Births
- January 6 - Anthony Minghella, British movie director (d. 2008)
- 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 - Catherine Bach, American actress
- 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
- May 13 - Johnny Logan, Irish singer
- May 20 - David Paterson, former Governor of New York
- 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 21 - Shinzo Abe, Prime Minister of Japan
- October 9 – Scott Bakula, actor
- November 14 - Condoleezza Rice, former United States Secretary of State
- December 25 - Annie Lennox, Scottish singer
- 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
Movies released
- Devil Girl from Mars
- On the Waterfront
- Rear Window
- The Seven Samurai
- 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954 movie)
Hit songs
- Sh-Boom – Crew Cuts
New books
- The Acrobats – Mordecai Richler
- Benton's Row – Frank Yerby
- The Bridge on the River Kwai (Le pont de la rivière Kwai) – Pierre Boulle
- The Caves of Steel – Isaac Asimov
- The Egyptian – Mika Waltari
- Explorers on the Moon- Hergé
- Histoire d'O (Story of O) – Pauline Réage
- The Horse and His Boy – C. S. Lewis
- I Am Legend – Richard Matheson
- Ideas and Opinions – Albert Einstein
- Katherine – Anya Seton
- Live and Let Die – Ian Fleming
- Lord of the Flies – William G. Golding
- The Lord of the Rings : The Fellowship of the Ring – J. R. R. Tolkien
- The Lord of the Rings : The Two Towers – J. R. R. Tolkien
- Love Is Eternal – Irving Stone
- Lucky Jim – Kingsley Amis
- Mandarins – Simone de Beauvoir
- Mary Anne – Daphne du Maurier
- Nectar in a Sieve – Kamala Markandaya
- Never Victorious, Never Defeated – Taylor Caldwell
- No Time for Sergeants – Mac Hyman
- Not as a Stranger – Morton Thompson
- The Royal Box – Frances Parkinson Keyes
- Sayonara – James A. Michener
- Sweet Thursday – John Steinbeck
- Under Milk Wood (Poetry) – Dylan Thomas
- Under the Net – Iris Murdoch
- The View from Pompey's Head – Hamilton Basso