1954
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| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| 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.
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[change] Events
- October 18 – Texas Instruments announces the worldwide first transistor radio.
[change] Births
- January 29 – Oprah Winfrey, talk show host
- March 1 – Ron Howard, actor, director
- April 23 – Michael Moore, documentary filmmaker
- April 23 – Tony Atlas, American professional wrestler
- August 25 – Elvis Costello, singer
- October 9 – Scott Bakula, actor
- December 29 – Albrecht Böttcher, German mathematician
[change] Deaths
- May 19 – Charles Ives, American composer
- June 7 – Alan Turing, mathematician
- 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
[change] Movies released
[change] Hit songs
- Sh-Boom – Crew Cuts
[change] 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 Milkwood (Poetry) – Dylan Thomas
- Under the Net – Iris Murdoch
- The View from Pompey's Head – Hamilton Basso
