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Year 1954 (MCMLIV) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. Events January DiMaggio]]. - January 1 The Soviet Union ceases to demand war reparations from East Germany.
- January 10 - British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) Flight 781, a de Havilland Comet jet plane, disintegrates in mid-air due to metal fatigue and crashes in the Mediterranean Sea near Elba. All 35 people on board are killed.
- January 12 Avalanches in Austria kill more than 200.
- January 14 Marilyn Monroe marries baseball player Joe DiMaggio.
- January 15 Mau Mau leader Waruhiu Itote is captured in Kenya.
- January 17 In Yugoslavia, Milovan Djilas, one of the leading members of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia, is relieved of his duties.
- January 20 - The U.S.-based National Negro Network is established with forty-six member radio stations.
- January 21 The first nuclear-powered submarine, the , is launched in Groton, Connecticut, by First Lady of the United States Mamie Eisenhower.
- January 25 The foreign ministers of the United States, Britain, France and the Soviet Union meet at the Berlin Conference.
February March April May June July August September October November December Date unknown Births January - January 2 Henry Bonilla, American politician
- January 3 Ross The Boss, American heavy metal/punk guitarist
- January 4
- January 5 Alex English, American basketball player
- January 6 Anthony Minghella, British film and theatre director (d. 2008)
- January 7 Jos Mar a Vitier, Cuban music composer and pianist.
- January 12 Howard Stern, American radio host
- January 13 Trevor Rabin, South African American musician
- January 14
- January 15 Jose Dalisay, Jr., Filipino writer
- January 17 Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., son of Robert F Kennedy
- January 19
- Katey Sagal, American actress and singer (Married...with Children)
- Ted DiBiase, American professional wrestler
- January 22 Peter Pilz, Austrian politician
- January 23
- January 29
February - February 1 Bill Mumy, American child actor and musician
- February 2 Christie Brinkley, American model
- February 7 Dieter Bohlen, German singer
- February 9
- February 11 Noriyuki Asakura, Japanese composer
- February 12 Philip Zimmermann, American cryptographer
- February 13 Donnie Moore, American baseball player (d. 1989)
- February 15 Matt Groening, American cartoonist (The Simpsons)
- February 17
- February 18 John Travolta, American actor (Saturday Night Fever)
- February 19 Socrates, Brazilian footballer
- February 20
- February 23 Viktor Yushchenko, President of Ukraine
- February 25 Gerardo Pelusso, Uruguayan football manager
March - March 1
- March 2 Eddie Johnstone, Canadian ice hockey player
- March 4
- March 6 Harald Schumacher, German football goalkeeper
- March 8
- March 9 Bobby Sands, Irish Republican, Long Kesh hunger striker (d. 1981)
- March 13 The Baroness Amos, British politician
- March 15
- March 16
- March 17 Lesley-Anne Down, British actress
- March 18 James F. Reilly, American astronaut
- March 19 Indu Shahani, Indian educator and Sheriff of Mumbai
- March 20 Louis Sachar, American author
- March 23 Geno Auriemma, American basketball coach
- March 24
- March 26 Kazuhiko Inoue, Japanese seiyu (voice actor)
- March 29 Karen Ann Quinlan, American right-to-die cause c l bre (d. 1985)
April May June - June 5 Nancy Stafford, American actress and Christian author
- June 6 Judi Bowker, English television and cinema actress
- June 9
- June 14 Will Patton, American actor
- June 15 James Belushi, American actor (Saturday Night Live)
- June 16 Sergey Kuryokhin, Russian pianist, composer, improvisor, performance artist and actor (d. 1996)
- June 19
- June 20
- June 22 Freddie Prinze, American actor and comedian (d. 1977)
- June 25 Sonia Sotomayor, American Associate Justice of the Supreme Court
- June 26 Steve Barton, American actor (d. 2001)
- June 27 Ron Kirk, Mayor of Dallas, Texas
- June 28 Ava Barber, American country singer (The Lawrence Welk Show)
- June 29 Rick Honeycutt, American baseball player and coach
- June 30 Pierre Charles, Prime Minister of Dominica (d. 2004)
July - July 2 Peter Randall-Page, British artist
- July 5 John Wright, New Zealand cricket captain
- July 6 Willie Randolph, American baseball player, coach, manager
- July 10 Neil Tennant, British musician
- July 13 Sezen Aksu, Turkish singer
- July 15
- July 16 Jeanette Mott Oxford, American politician
- July 17
- July 20 Wilson Casey, American syndicated columnist and entertainer
- July 22 Pierre Lebeau, Canadian actor
- July 24 Jorge Jesus, Portuguese football player and coach
- July 25 Walter Payton, African-American football player (d. 1999)
- July 26 Vitas Gerulaitis, American tennis player (d. 1994)
- July 27
- July 28 Hugo Rafael Chavez Frias, President of Venezuela
- July 29 – Mark Gersmehl, American Christian musician
August - August 1 Michael J. Badnarik, American software engineer and presidential candidate
- August 2 Sammy McIlroy, Northern Irish footballer and football manager
- August 4
- August 9 Pete Thomas, American longtime drummer for Elvis Costello
- August 11 Joe Jackson, British rock singer (Steppin' Out)
- August 12
- August 13 Nico Assump o, Brazilian bass player
- August 14
- August 16 James Cameron, Canadian-born film director
- August 17 Anatoly Kudryavitsky, Russian-Irish writer
- August 20
- Tawn Mastrey, American disc jockey, music video producer (d. 2007)
- Al Roker, African-American television broadcaster (Today)
- August 21
- August 23 Charles Busch, American director, writer, and actor
- August 24 Philippe Cataldo, French singer
- August 25 Elvis Costello, British singer-songwriter
- August 29 Istv n Cserh ti, Hungarian keyboardist (d. 2005)
- August 30 Alexander Lukashenko, President of Belarus
- August 31
September - September 1 Dave Lumley, Canadian ice hockey player
- September 7 Michael Emerson, American actor
- September 10 Mark W. Everson, incoming President and Chief Executive Officer of the American Red Cross
- September 13 Steve Kilbey, Australian musician
- September 17 Jo l-Fran ois Durand, French composer
- September 18 Dennis Johnson, American basketball player (d. 2007)
- September 21 Shinzo Abe, Japanese politician
- September 24 - Lilian Mercedes Letona, Salvadoran guerrilla (d. 1983)
- September 26 Kevin Kennedy, American baseball manager and television host
- September 28 Steve Largent, American football player and congressman
- September 30 Barry Williams, American actor
October November - November 2 Angela Webber, Australian author, television writer, producer and comedienne (d. 2007)
- November 3
- November 7 Kamal Haasan, Indian actor
- November 8
- November 12 - Rhonda Shear, American television personality, actress and comedienne
- November 13 Chris Noth, American actor
- November 14
- November 15 Aleksander Kwa niewski, President of Poland
- November 16 Bruce Edwards, American golf caddy (d. 2004)
- November 23 Bruce Hornsby, American rock singer (That's Just The Way It Is)
- November 26
- Dan Kwong, American performance artist, playwright
- Roz Chast, American "New Yorker" cartoonist
- November 27 Patricia McPherson, American actress
- November 29 Joel Coen, American film director, producer, screenwriter, and editor
December - December 1 Bob Goen, American television personality and game show host
- December 2 Stone Phillips, American television journalist (NBC Dateline)
- December 3 Grace Andreacchi, American author
- December 7 Mark Hofmann, American forger and murderer
- December 10 Jack Hues, English musician
- December 11
- December 13 John Anderson, American country music singer-songwriter
- December 14
- December 18
- December 20 Sandra Cisneros, American writer
- December 21 Chris Evert, American tennis player
- December 24 Jos Mar a Figueres, Costa Rican politician, President 1994 1998
- December 25 Annie Lennox, British rock singer (Eurythmics)
- December 26 Susan Butcher, American dog-sled racer (d. 2006)
- December 28
- December 29 Albrecht B ttcher, German mathematician
- December 31 Alex Salmond, Scottish politician
Deaths January– March - January 5 Lillian Rich, English actress (b. 1900)
- January 8 Eduard Wiiralt, Estonian artist (b. 1898)
- January 11 Oscar Straus, Austrian composer (b. 1870)
- January 12 – William H. P. Blandy, American admiral (b. 1890)
- January 18 Sydney Greenstreet, English actor (b. 1879)
- January 20 Fred Root, English cricketer (b. 1890)
- January 30 John Murray Anderson, Canadian theater director and producer (b. 1886)
- January 31
- February 6 Maxwell Bodenheim, American poet and novelist (murdered) (b. 1892)
- February 8 Laurence Trimble, American actor (b. 1885)
- February 9 Mabel Paige, American actress (b. 1880)
- February 12 Dziga Vertov, Russian filmmaker (b. 1896)
- February 21 William K. Howard, American film director (b. 1899)
- March 7
- March 9 Vagn Walfrid Ekman, Swedish oceanographer (b. 1874)
- March 26 Louis Silvers, American film composer (b. 1889)
April–June - April 8 Fritzi Scheff, actress & singer (b. 1879)
- April 10 Auguste Lumi re, French film pioneer (b. 1862)
- April 12 Luis Cabrera Lobato, Mexican lawyer, politician and writer (b. 1876)
- April 13 Angus L. Macdonald, Nova Scotia Premier (b. 1890)
- April 15 lo Altermann, Estonian soldier and forest brother (b. 1923)
- April 17 Lucre iu P tr canu, Romanian communist activist and sociologist (b. 1900)
- April 28 L on Jouhaux, French labor leader, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1879)
- April 29 Joe May, Austrian-born director (b. 1880)
- May 1 Tom Tyler, American actor (b. 1903)
- May 3 J zef Garbie , Polish footballer and physician (b. 1896)
- May 6 B.C. Forbes, Scottish-born publisher (b. 1880)
- May 14 Heinz Guderian, German World War II general (b. 1888)
- May 15 William March, American writer and soldier (b. 1893)
- May 19 Charles Ives, American composer (b. 1874)
- May 25 Robert Capa, Hungarian-born photojournalist (b. 1913)
- June 7 Alan Turing, British mathematician (b. 1912)
- June 22 Don Hollenbeck, American newscaster (b. 1905)
July–September - July 1 Thea von Harbou, German actress (b. 1888)
- July 3 Reginald Marsh, American artist (b. 1898)
- July 6 Gabriel Pascal, Hungarian producer and director (b. 1894)
- July 11 Henry Valentine Knaggs, English physician and author (b. 1859)
- July 13
- July 14
- July 17 Machine Gun Kelly, American gangster (b. 1895)
- July 28 Kamiyama Sojin or "Sojin", Japanese film star during the American silent film era, (b. 1884)
- July 29 Coen de Koning, Dutch speed skater (b. 1879)
- August 3
- August 24 Get lio Vargas, President of Brazil (b. 1882)
- August 31 Elsa Barker, American writer (b. 1869)
- September 1 – Bert Acosta, American aviator (b. 1895)
- September 3 Eugene Pallette, American actor (b. 1889)
- September 5 Eugen Schiffer, German politician (b. 1860)
- September 6 – Edward C. Kalbfus, American admiral (b. 1877)
- September 7
- September 21 Kokichi Mikimoto, Japanese pearl farm pioneer (b. 1858)
- September 24 Edward Pilgrim, British homeowner (suicide) (b. 1904)
- September 28 Bert Lytell, American actor (b. 1885)
October–December - October 9 – Robert H. Jackson, United States Supreme Court associate justice and chief prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials (b. 1892)
- October 12 - George Welch, American aviator (b. 1918)
- October 30 Wilbur Shaw, American racing driver (b. 1902)
- November 3 Henri Matisse, French painter (b. 1869)
- November 13 – Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist, German field marshal (b. 1881)
- November 15 Lionel Barrymore, American actor (b. 1878)
- November 16 Albert Francis Blakeslee, American botanist (b. 1874)
- November 17 Yitzhak Lamdan, Russian-born Israeli poet and columnist (b. 1899)
- November 22
- November 28 Enrico Fermi, Italian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1901)
- November 29 Dink Johnson, American musician (b. 1892)
- November 30 Wilhelm Furtw ngler, German conductor (b. 1886)
- December 1 Fred Rose, American songwriter (b. 1898)
- December 8
- December 20 James Hilton, English novelist (b. 1900)
- December 23 Ren Ich , French sculptor (b. 1897)
- December 30 Archduke Eugen of Austria, Austrian field marshal (b. 1863)
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