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1954
1954 was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar).
Events
January events
February events
March events
April events
May events
June events
July events
August events
September events
October events
November events
December events
Undated
Births
January-February
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January 2 - Henry Bonilla, American politician
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January 6 - Anthony Minghella, director
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January 12 - Howard Stern, radio host
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January 22 - Peter Pilz, Austrian politician
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January 29 - Oprah Winfrey, American actress, talk show host, producer, and publisher
- January 29 - Yukinobu Hoshino, Japanese mangaka
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February 1 - Bill Mumy, actor, musician
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February 2 - Christie Brinkley, model
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February 6 - Argusto Emfazie, occultist, author
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February 12 - Philip Zimmermann, American cryptographer
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February 15 - Matt Groening, cartoonist
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February 18 - John Travolta, actor
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February 19 - Socrates, football player
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February 20 - Anthony Stewart Head, actor
- February 20 - Patty Hearst, socialite
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February 25 - John Doe, musician
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February 26 - Michael Bolton, singer
March-May
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March 1 - Ron Howard, actor, director, producer
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March 4 - Catherine O'Hara, actress
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March 13 - The Baroness Amos, British politician, first black woman in the UK Cabinet
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March 16 - Nancy Wilson (guitarist), band founder, singer, actress
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March 17 - Lesley-Anne Down, actress
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March 24 - Robert Carradine, actor
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April 7 - Jackie Chan, actor
- April 7 - Tony Dorsett, American football star
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April 9 - Dennis Quaid, actor
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April 10 - Peter MacNicol, actor
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April 15 - Seka, actress
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April 17 - Riccardo Patrese, Italian racing driver
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April 18 - Rick Moranis, actor, comedian
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April 29 - Jerry Seinfeld, comedian
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May 7 - Amy Heckerling, director
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May 8 - David Keith, actor
June-August
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June 9 - John Hagelin, physicist and U.S. Presidential candidates
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June 22 - Freddie Prinze, actor and comedian (d. 1977)
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June 26 - Steve Barton, actor
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June 27 - Ron Kirk, mayor of Dallas, Texas
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July 10 - Neil Tennant, British musician
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August 1 - Michael J. Badnarik, software engineer and U.S. Presidential candidates
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August 11 - Joe Jackson, British singer
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August 14 - Mark Fidrych, baseball player
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August 16 - James Cameron, film director
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August 20 - Al Roker, television broadcaster
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August 25 - Elvis Costello, singer
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August 26 - Pauline Hanson, politician
September-December
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September 13 - Steve Kilbey, Australian musician
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September 23 - Cherie Booth, wife of Tony Blair
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September 26 - Kevin Kennedy, baseball manager and television host
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September 30 - Barry Williams, actor
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October 1 - Martin Strel, Slovenian swimmer
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October 3 - Dennis Eckersley, baseball player
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October 9 - Scott Bakula, American television actor
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October 13 - Mordechai Vanunu, Israeli nuclear technician imprisoned for revealing Israeli secrets
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November 14 - Condoleezza Rice, U.S. Secretary of State
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November 15 - Aleksander Kwasniewski, President of Poland
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December 2 - Dan Butler, American actor
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December 14 - Ib Andersen, dancer
- December 14 - Alan Kulwicki, race car driver (d. 1993)
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December 20 - Michael Badalucco, actor
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December 26 - Susan Butcher, American dog-sled racing champion
Deaths
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January 18 - Sydney Greenstreet, English actor (b. 1879)
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February 12 - Dziga Vertov, Russian filmmaker (b. 1896)
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March 31 - Edwin Howard Armstrong, electrical engineer and inventor
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May 6 - B.C. Forbes, financial publisher
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May 19 - Charles Ives, American composer
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June 7 - Alan Turing, mathematician
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July 11 - Henry Valentine Knaggs, physician and author
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July 13 - Frida Kahlo, Mexican painter
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July 14 - Jacinto Benavente, Spanish writer (b. 1866)
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July 29 - Coen de Koning, Dutch speed skater
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August 24 - Getúlio Vargas, President of Brazil
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September 21 - Kokichi Mikimoto, pearl farm pioneer
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November 3 - Henri Matisse, painter
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November 29 - Enrico Fermi, Italian physicist
- November 29 - Dink Johnson, jazz musician (b. 1892)
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November 30 - Wilhelm Furtwängler, conductor
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December 8 - Claude Cahun, surrealist photographer and writer
Heads of state in 1954
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