1954

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

1954 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1954 MCMLIV
Ab urbe condita	2707
Armenian calendar	1403 ԹՎ ՌՆԳ
Assyrian calendar	6704
Bahá'í calendar	110–111
Balinese saka calendar	1875–1876
Bengali calendar	1361
Berber calendar	2904
British Regnal year	2 Eliz. 2 – 3 Eliz. 2
Buddhist calendar	2498
Burmese calendar	1316
Byzantine calendar	7462–7463
Chinese calendar	癸巳年 (Water Snake) 4650 or 4590     — to — 甲午年 (Wood Horse) 4651 or 4591
Coptic calendar	1670–1671
Discordian calendar	3120
Ethiopian calendar	1946–1947
Hebrew calendar	5714–5715
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	2010–2011
- Shaka Samvat	1875–1876
- Kali Yuga	5054–5055
Holocene calendar	11954
Igbo calendar	954–955
Iranian calendar	1332–1333
Islamic calendar	1373–1374
Japanese calendar	Shōwa 29 (昭和２９年)
Javanese calendar	1885–1886
Juche calendar	43
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar	4287
Minguo calendar	ROC 43 民國43年
Nanakshahi calendar	486
Thai solar calendar	2497
Tibetan calendar	阴水蛇年 (female Water-Snake) 2080 or 1699 or 927     — to — 阳木马年 (male Wood-Horse) 2081 or 1700 or 928

1954 (MCMLIV) was a common year starting on Friday in the Gregorian calendar.

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 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

Related pages

• 1954 in association football