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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 (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.

Contents

Events
Births
Deaths
Movies released
Hit songs
New books
Images for kids
See also

Events

October 18 – Texas Instruments announces the worldwide first transistor radio.

Births

January 6 - Anthony Minghella, British movie director (d. 2008)
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 - Catherine Bach, American actress
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
May 13 - Johnny Logan, Irish singer
May 20 - David Paterson, former Governor of New York
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
October 9 – Scott Bakula, actor
November 14 - Condoleezza Rice, former United States Secretary of State
December 25 - Annie Lennox, Scottish singer
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

Movies released

Devil Girl from Mars
On the Waterfront
Rear Window
The Seven Samurai
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954 movie)

Hit songs

Sh-Boom – Crew Cuts

New books

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

Images for kids

See also

In Spanish: 1954 para niños

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