1954
year
1954 (MCMLIV) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1954th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 954th year of the 2nd millennium, the 54th year of the 20th century, and the 5th year of the 1950s decade.
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 19th century – 20th century – 21st century |
| Decades: | 1920s 1930s 1940s – 1950s – 1960s 1970s 1980s |
| Years: | 1951 1952 1953 – 1954 – 1955 1956 1957 |
EventsEdit
- October 18 – Texas Instruments announces the worldwide first transistor radio.
BirthsEdit
- 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 - 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 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
DeathsEdit
- 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 releasedEdit
Hit songsEdit
- Sh-Boom – Crew Cuts
New booksEdit
- 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
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