1954 (MCMLIV) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar.
Events
January
- January 1 - Soviet Union no longer demands war reparations from East Germany
- January 12 - Large-scale avalanches in Austria - over 20 dead
- January 14 - The Hudson Motor Car Company merges with Nash-Kelvinator Corporation forming the American Motors Corporation
- January 14 - Marilyn Monroe weds Joe DiMaggio.
- January 15 - Mau Mau leader Waruhiu Itote is captured in Kenya
- January 17 - In Yugoslavia, Milovan Djilas, Tito's second-in-command, is relieved of his duties
- January 20 - The National Negro Network is established with 40 charter member radio stations
- January 21 - The first nuclear-powered submarine, the USS Nautilus, is launched in Groton, Connecticut, by First Lady of the United States Mrs. Dwight D. Eisenhower.
- January 25 - The foreign ministers of the United States, Britain, France and the Soviet Union meet at the Berlin Conference.
- January 26 - Milpitas, California was incorporated as a city.
February
March
April
May
June
July-August
following a epileptic seizure at Sainte Agathe, Quebec.
September-October
November-December
unknown dates
Births
January
- January 2 - Henry Bonilla, American politician
- January 4 - Dave "The Devilfish" Ulliott, English professional poker player
- January 6 - Anthony Minghella, British film director
- January 12 - Howard Stern, American radio host
- January 14 - Tom Cheney, American cartoonist
- January 17 - Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., son of Robert F Kennedy
- 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
- February 1 - Bill Mumy, American actor and musician
- February 2 - Christie Brinkley, American model
- February 6 - Argusto Emfazie, American occultist and author
- February 12 - Philip Zimmermann, American cryptographer
- February 13 - Donnie Moore, baseball player (d. 1989)
- February 15 - Matt Groening, American cartoonist
- February 18 - John Travolta, American actor
- February 19 - 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, American musician
March-April
- March 1 - Ron Howard, American actor, director, producer
- March 4 - Catherine O'Hara, Canadian actress
- March 8 - David Wilkie, Scottish swimmer
- March 9 - Bobby Sands, Irish Republican, Long Kesh hunger striker
- March 13 - The Baroness Amos, British politician
- March 15 - Craig Wasson, American actor
- March 16 - Nancy Wilson, American singer, musician, and actress
- March 17 - Lesley-Anne Down, British actress
- 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 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 10 - Anacani, Mexican-born American singer The Lawrence Welk Show
- April 10 - Peter MacNicol, American actor
- April 15 - Seka, American actress
- April 16 - Ellen Barkin, American Actress
- April 17 - Riccardo Patrese, Italian race car driver
- April 18 - Rick Moranis, Canadian actor and comedian
- April 28 - Robert Sargent Shriver III, son of Eunice Kennedy Shriver
- April 29 - Jerry Seinfeld, American comedian
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 19 - Phil Rudd, Australian drummer (AC/DC)
- June 9 - John Hagelin, American physicist and U.S. Presidential candidate
- June 9 - Elizabeth May, Former executive director of Sierra Club of Canada
- June 15 - James Belushi, American actor
- June 20 - 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 30 - Pierre Charles, Prime Minister of Dominica (d. 2004)
July-August
- July 5 - John Wright, New Zealand cricket captains
- July 10 - Neil Tennant, British musician
- July 13 - Sezen Aksu, Popular Turkish female singer
- July 17 - Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany
- July 25 - Walter Payton, American football player (d. 1999)
- August 1 - Michael J. Badnarik, software engineer and U.S. Presidential candidate
- August 2 - Sammy McIlroy, Northern Irish footballer and football manager
- August 11 - Joe Jackson, British singer
- August 12 - Sam J. Jones, American actor
- August 13 - Nico Assumpção, Brazilian bass player
- August 14 - Mark Fidrych, baseball player
- August 16 - James Cameron, Canadian-born film director
- August 20 - Al Roker, American television broadcaster
- August 21 - Ivan Stang, American author and publisher
- August 23 - Charles Busch, American director, writer, actor and drag queen
- August 25 - Elvis Costello, British singer
- August 26 - Pauline Hanson, Australian politician
September-October
- September 3 - Luis Murillo, Ecuadorian musician
- September 13 - Steve Kilbey, Australian musician
- September 17 - Joël-François Durand, French composer
- September 21 - Shinzo Abe, Japanese politician
- September 23 - Charlie Barnett, American actor (d. 1996)
- September 26 - Kevin Kennedy, baseball manager and television host
- September 30 - Barry Williams, American actor
- October 1 - Martin Strel, Slovenian swimmer
- October 3 - Dennis Eckersley, Major League Baseball player
- October 3 - Stevie Ray Vaughan, American musician (d. 1990)
- October 3 - Al Sharpton, American politician and minister
- October 9 - Scott Bakula, American television actor
- October 10 - David Lee Roth, American singer
- October 13 - Mordechai Vanunu, Israeli nuclear technician
- October 15 - Peter Bakowski, Australian poet
- October 23 - Ang Lee, Taiwanese film director
- October 24 - Mike Rounds, Governor of South Dakota
November-December
- November 2 - Pat Croce, American entrepreneur
- 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 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 - Bruce Edwards, golf caddy (d. 2004)
- November 23 - Bruce Hornsby, American singer
- November 27 - Patricia McPherson, American actress
- 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 7 - Mark Hofmann, American forger and murderer
- December 11 - Jermaine Jackson, American singer
- December 14 - Ib Andersen, Danish dancer
- December 14 - Alan Kulwicki, American race car driver (d. 1993)
- December 20 - Michael Badalucco, American actor
- December 21 - Chris Evert, American tennis player
- December 25 - Annie Lennox, English singer
- December 26 - Susan Butcher, American dog-sled racer
- December 28 - Denzel Washington, American actor
Unknown dates
Deaths
January-June
- January 18 - Sydney Greenstreet, English actor (b. 1879)
- January 31 - Edwin Armstrong, Electrical Engineer (b. 1890)
- February 12 - Dziga Vertov, Russian filmmaker (b. 1896)
- March 7 - Otto Diels, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1876)
- March 31 - Edwin Howard Armstrong, American electrical engineer and inventor (b. 1890)
- May 6 - B.C. Forbes, Scottish-born publisher (b. 1880)
- 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)
July-December
- July 11 - Henry Valentine Knaggs, English physician and author (b. 1859)
- July 13 - Frida Kahlo, Mexican painter (b. 1907)
- July 14 - Jacinto Benavente, Spanish writer, 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 28 - Enrico Fermi, Italian physicist, 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 30 - Archduke Eugen of Austria, Austrian field marshal (b. 1863)
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