1954
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1954 was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar.
Events
January-February
March-April
May
June-July
August-October
- August - First flight of a B-52 Stratofortress.
- August 6 - Emilie Dionne, one of the Dionne Quintuplets, dies of asphyxiation following a 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 3 - The last new episode of the Lone Ranger is aired on radio after 2,956 episodes over a period of 21 years
- September 8 - The Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) is established in Bangkok, Thailand
- September 9 - An earthquake centered on the city of Oleansville in Algeria - 1500 dead and thousands homeless
- September 11 - First Miss America Pageant broadcast on television
- September 14 - USSR tests nuclear weapon
- September 30 - USS Nautilus, 1st atomic-powered vessel (submarine), commissioned by the US Navy
- October 11 - Vietnam War: The Viet Minh takes control of North Vietnam.
- October 18 - Texas Instruments announces the worldwide first Transistor radio.
- October 26 – Member of Muslim Brotherhood Abdul Munim Abdul Rauf tries to kill Gamal Abdal Nasser
- October 31 - Algerian War of Independence: The Algerian National Liberation Front begins a revolt against French rule.
November-December
(Iwo Jima memorial) in Arlington National Cemetery
Undated
Births
January-February
- January 2 - Henry Bonilla, American politician
- January 6 - Anthony Minghella, director
- January 12 - Howard Stern, radio host
- January 22 - Peter Pilz, Austrian politician
- January 23 - Franco De Vita, Venezuelan singer/songwriter
- January 29 - Oprah Winfrey, American actress, talk show host, producer, and publisher
- January 29 - Yukinobu Hoshino, Japanese mangaka
- February 1 - Bill Mumy, actor, musician
- February 2 - Christie Brinkley, model
- February 6 - Argusto Emfazie, occultist, author
- February 12 - Philip Zimmermann, American cryptographer
- February 15 - Matt Groening, cartoonist
- February 18 - John Travolta, actor
- February 19 - Socrates, football player
- February 20 - Anthony Stewart Head, actor
- February 20 - Patty Hearst, socialite
- February 25 - John Doe, musician
- February 26 - Michael Bolton, singer
March-July
- March 1 - Ron Howard, actor, director, producer
- March 4 - Catherine O'Hara, actress
- March 13 - The Baroness Amos, British politician, first black woman in the UK Cabinet
- March 16 - Nancy Wilson (guitarist), band founder, singer, actress
- March 17 - Lesley-Anne Down, actress
- March 24 - Robert Carradine, actor
- April 7 - Jackie Chan, actor
- April 9 - Dennis Quaid, actor
- April 10 - Peter MacNicol, actor
- April 15 - Seka, actress
- April 17 - Riccardo Patrese, Italian racing driver
- April 18 - Rick Moranis, actor, comedian
- April 29 - Jerry Seinfeld, comedian
- May 1 - Archie Norman, politician and business man
- May 7 - Amy Heckerling, director
- May 8 - David Keith, actor
- June 9 - John Hagelin, physicist and U.S. Presidential candidates
- June 22 - Freddie Prinze, actor and comedian (d. 1977)
- June 26 - Steve Barton, actor
- June 27 - Ron Kirk, mayor of Dallas, Texas
- July 10 - Neil Tennant, British musician
- July 25 - Walter Payton, American football player (d. 1999)
August-December
- August 1 - Michael J. Badnarik, software engineer and U.S. Presidential candidates
- August 11 - Joe Jackson, British singer
- August 14 - Mark Fidrych, baseball player
- August 16 - James Cameron, film director
- August 20 - Al Roker, television broadcaster
- August 21 - Ivan Stang, author and publisher of the first screed of the Church of the SubGenius.
- August 25 - Elvis Costello, singer
- August 26 - Pauline Hanson, politician
- September 13 - Steve Kilbey, Australian musician
- September 23 - Cherie Booth, wife of Tony Blair
- September 26 - Kevin Kennedy, baseball manager and television host
- September 30 - Barry Williams, actor
- October 1 - Martin Strel, Slovenian swimmer
- October 3 - Stevie Ray Vaughan, musician
- October 3 - Dennis Eckersley, baseball player
- October 9 - Scott Bakula, American television actor
- October 13 - Mordechai Vanunu, Israeli nuclear technician imprisoned for revealing Israeli secrets
- October 24 - Mike Rounds, Governor of South Dakota
- November 14 - Condoleezza Rice, U.S. Secretary of State
- November 14 - Willie Hernández, baseball pitcher
- November 15 - Aleksander Kwaśniewski, President of Poland
- November 16 - Bruce Edwards, golf caddy, (d. 2004)
- November 27 - Patricia McPherson, American actress
- December 2 - Dan Butler, American actor
- December 14 - Ib Andersen, dancer
- December 14 - Alan Kulwicki, race car driver (d. 1993)
- December 20 - Michael Badalucco, actor
- December 26 - Susan Butcher, American dog-sled racing champion
Unknown dates
Deaths
- January 18 - Sydney Greenstreet, English actor (b. 1879)
- February 12 - Dziga Vertov, Russian filmmaker (b. 1896)
- March 31 - Edwin Howard Armstrong, electrical engineer and inventor
- May 6 - B.C. Forbes, financial publisher
- May 19 - Charles Ives, American composer
- April 10 - Auguste Lumière, one of the inventors of cinema (b. 1862)
- June 7 - Alan Turing, mathematician
- July 11 - Henry Valentine Knaggs, physician and author
- July 13 - Frida Kahlo, Mexican painter (b. 1907)
- July 14 - Jacinto Benavente, Spanish writer (b. 1866)
- July 29 - Coen de Koning, Dutch speed skater
- August 24 - Getúlio Vargas, President of Brazil
- September 21 - Kokichi Mikimoto, pearl farm pioneer
- November 3 - Henri Matisse, painter
- November 28 - Enrico Fermi, Italian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1901)
- November 29 - Dink Johnson, jazz musician (b. 1892)
- November 30 - Wilhelm Furtwängler, conductor
- December 8 - Claude Cahun, photographer and writer
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