1954

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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.

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 6 – Fulvio Lorenzetti, italian karateka (d. 2025)
• 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

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