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{{Use mdy dates|date=October 2024}} {{About year|1954}} {{Events by month|1954}} {{Year nav|1954}} {{C20 year in topic}} {{Year article header|1954}} {{TOC limit|2}} ==Events== ===January=== {{Main|January 1954}} * [[January 3]] – The Italian broadcaster [[RAI]] officially begins transmitting.<ref>{{cite web |title=Il 1954 IN ITALIA |url=http://www.ribolla2004.it/testi02/index.php |website=Ribolla 2004 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111007200202/http://www.ribolla2004.it/testi02/index.php |archive-date=October 7, 2011 |trans-title=1954 IN ITALY |language=it |year=2004 |access-date=November 6, 2022}}</ref> * [[January 7]] – [[Georgetown–IBM experiment]]: The first public demonstration of a [[machine translation]] system is held in New York, at the head office of [[IBM]].<ref>{{cite web |title=701 Translator |date=January 8, 1954 |url=https://www.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/701/701_translator.html |website=IBM Archives |department=701 Reference room |access-date=November 4, 2022}}</ref> * [[January 10]] – [[BOAC Flight 781]], a [[de Havilland Comet]] jet plane, disintegrates in mid-air due to [[metal fatigue]], and crashes in the Mediterranean near [[Elba]]; all 35 people on board are killed.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://accidents-ll.faa.gov/ll_main.cfm?TabID=1&LLID=28 |date=January 27, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130215210450/http://accidents-ll.faa.gov/ll_main.cfm?TabID=1&LLID=28 |archive-date=February 15, 2013 |title=de Havilland DH-106 Comet 1 |website=Lessons Learned From Transport Airplane Accidents |publisher=[[Federal Aviation Administration]] |access-date=November 4, 2022}}</ref> * [[January 12]] – [[1954 Blons avalanches|Avalanche]]s in Austria kill more than 200. * [[January 15]] – [[Mau Mau rebellion|Mau Mau]] leader [[Waruhiu Itote]] is captured in [[Kenya]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://nation.africa/lifestyle/lifestyle/The-Mau-Mau-general-who-stopped-Amin-in-his-tracks-/1214-887822-fu8jft/index.html |title=The Mau Mau general who stopped Amin in his tracks |website=Nation |date=March 27, 2010 |publisher=[[Nation Media Group]] |access-date=November 5, 2022}}</ref> * [[January 17]] – In [[Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia|Yugoslavia]], [[Milovan Đilas]], one of the leading members of the [[League of Communists of Yugoslavia]], is relieved of his duties. * [[January 20]] – The US-based [[National Negro Network]] is established, with 46 member [[radio station]]s. * [[January 21]] – The first nuclear-powered [[submarine]], the {{USS|Nautilus|SSN-571|6}}, is launched in [[Groton, Connecticut]], by [[First Lady of the United States]] [[Mamie Eisenhower]].<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |url=https://www.history.navy.mil/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/n/nautilus-ssn-571-iv.html |title=Nautilus IV (SSN-571) |dictionary=[[Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships]] |date=August 12, 2015 |publisher=Naval History and Heritage Command |access-date=November 4, 2022}}</ref> * [[January 25]] – The foreign ministers of the United States, Britain, France and the Soviet Union meet at the [[Berlin Conference (1954)|Berlin Conference]].<ref>{{cite book |last=van Dijk |first=Rund |title=Encyclopedia of the Cold War |publisher=[[Taylor & Francis]] |year=2008 |page=51 |isbn=978-0-415-97515-5}}</ref> [[File:Monroe DiMaggio Wedding.jpg|thumb|120px|[[January 14]]: [[Marilyn Monroe|Marilyn]] weds [[Joe DiMaggio|DiMaggio]].]] ===February=== {{Main|February 1954}} * [[February 10]] – After authorizing $385 million over the $400 million already budgeted for military aid to [[Vietnam]], [[President of the United States]] [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]] warns against his country's intervention in [[First Indochina War|Vietnam]]. * [[February 19]] – [[1954 transfer of Crimea]]: The [[Soviet Politburo]] of the [[Soviet Union]] orders the transfer of the [[Crimean Oblast]] from the [[Russian SFSR]] to the [[Ukrainian SSR]]. * [[February 23]] – The first mass [[vaccination]] of children against [[polio]] begins in [[Pittsburgh]], [[Pennsylvania]], United States. * [[February 25]] – Lt. Col. [[Gamal Abdel Nasser]] becomes premier of [[Egypt]]. === March === {{Main|March 1954}} * [[March 1]] ** U.S. officials announce that a [[Thermonuclear weapon|hydrogen bomb]] test ([[Castle Bravo]]) has been conducted, on [[Bikini Atoll]] in the Pacific Ocean. ** [[United States Capitol shooting incident (1954)|U.S. Capitol shooting incident]]: Four [[Puerto Rican independence movement|Puerto Rican nationalists]] open fire in the [[United States House of Representatives]] chamber and wound 5; they are apprehended by security guards. * [[March 9]] – American journalists [[Edward R. Murrow]] and [[Fred W. Friendly]] produce a 30-minute ''[[See It Now]]'' documentary, entitled ''[[Joseph McCarthy|A Report on Senator Joseph McCarthy]]''. * [[March 12]] – Finland and Germany officially end their state of war. * [[March 13]] – [[Việt Minh]] forces under General [[Võ Nguyên Giáp]] began a massive artillery bombardment on the French military, beginning the [[Battle of Dien Bien Phu]], the climactic battle of the [[First Indochina War]]. * [[March 19]] – [[Joey Giardello]] knocks out Willie Tory at [[Madison Square Garden (1925)|Madison Square Garden]] in the first [[television|televised]] [[boxing]] prize fight to be shown in colour. * [[March 23]] – In Vietnam, the [[Viet Minh]] capture the main airstrip of [[Battle of Dien Bien Phu|Dien Bien Phu]]. The remaining French Army units there are partially isolated. * [[March 25]] ** The [[26th Academy Awards]] Ceremony is held. ** The [[Soviet Union]] recognises the [[sovereignty]] of [[East Germany]]. Soviet troops remain in the country. * [[March 27]] – The [[Castle Romeo]] nuclear test explosion is executed at [[Bikini Atoll]], in the [[Marshall Islands]]. * [[March 28]] ** The trial of [[A. L. Zissu]] and 12 other Zionist leaders ends with harsh sentences in [[Communist Romania]]. ** Puerto Rico's first television station, ''[[WKAQ-TV]]'', commences [[broadcasting]]. * [[March 29]] – A [[Douglas C-47 Skytrain|C-47 transport]] with French nurse [[Geneviève de Galard]] on board is wrecked on the runway at [[Battle of Dien Bien Phu|Dien Bien Phu]]. * [[March 30]] – The first operational [[Line 1 Yonge–University|subway line]] in Canada opens in [[Toronto subway|Toronto]]. ===April=== {{Main|April 1954}} * [[April 1]] ** The [[U.S. Congress]] and President [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]] authorize the founding of the [[United States Air Force Academy]] in [[Colorado]]. ** [[South Point School]] in India is founded, and becomes the largest school in the world by [[1992]]. * [[April 3]] – [[Petrov Affair]]: Diplomat [[Vladimir Mikhaylovich Petrov (diplomat)|Vladimir Petrov]] defects from the [[Soviet Union]] and asks for [[political asylum]] in Australia. * [[April 4]] – Legendary symphony conductor [[Arturo Toscanini]] experiences a lapse of memory during a concert broadcast live from Carnegie Hall in New York City. At this concert's end, his retirement is announced, and he never conducts in public again. * [[April 7]] – [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]] gives his "[[domino theory]]" speech, during a news conference. * [[April 8]] – A Royal Canadian Air Force Canadair [[North American T-6 Texan|Harvard]] collides with a [[Trans-Canada Air Lines]] [[Canadair North Star]] over [[Moose Jaw]], [[Saskatchewan]], killing 37 people. * [[April 11]] ** This day is denoted as the most boring day in the 20th century by [[True Knowledge]], an [[Question answering|answer engine]] developed by [[William Tunstall-Pedoe]]. No significant newsworthy events, births, or deaths are known to have happened on this day.<ref name="boring">{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/8160622/Computer-identifies-the-most-boring-day-in-history.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101127183400/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/8160622/Computer-identifies-the-most-boring-day-in-history.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=November 27, 2010|title=The Most Boring Day in History – April 11, 1954|work=The Daily Telegraph|location=London|date=November 25, 2010|access-date=July 19, 2014}}</ref> ** In a [[1954 Belgian general election|general election]] in Belgium, the dominant [[Christian Social Party (Belgium, 1945)|Christian Social Party]] wins 95 of the 212 seats in the [[Chamber of Representatives (Belgium)|Chamber of Representatives]], and 49 of the 106 seats in the [[Senate (Belgium)|Senate]]. The government led by [[Jean Van Houtte]] loses their majority in parliament. The two other main parties, the [[Socialist Party (Belgium)|Socialist]] and [[Liberal Party (Belgium)|Liberal Party]], subsequently form a rare "[[Purple coalition|purple]]" government, with [[Achille Van Acker]] as Prime Minister.<ref>[[Dieter Nohlen]] & Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p289 {{ISBN|978-3-8329-5609-7}}</ref> * [[April 12]] – [[Bill Haley & His Comets]] record "[[Rock Around the Clock]]" in their first session for American Decca in New York City; it is released on May 20 as a B-side, but only in [[1955]] becomes a #1 hit, helping to initiate the [[rock and roll]] craze. * [[April 14]] ** [[Aneurin Bevan]] resigns from the [[Labour Party (UK)|British Labour Party]]'s [[Official Opposition Shadow Cabinet (United Kingdom)|Shadow Cabinet]] in protest over his party's failure to oppose the rearmament of West Germany. ** A Soviet spy ring in Australia is unveiled. ** The world's most [[Boredom|boring]] day according to [[Research|researchers]]. * [[April 16]] – Vice President [[Richard Nixon]] announces that the United States may be "putting our own boys in Indochina regardless of Allied support".<ref>{{Cite book|title=Vietnam War Almanac: an In-Depth Guide to the Most Controversial Conflict in American History|last=Willbanks, James H.|date=2013|publisher=Skyhorse Publishing, Inc|isbn=9781626365285|location=New York|oclc=855969323}}</ref> * [[April 22]] ** The [[1951]] [[United Nations]] [[Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees]] comes into force, defining the status of [[refugee]]s and setting out the basis for granting [[right of asylum]]. ** [[United States Senate|Senator]] [[Joseph McCarthy]] begins hearings investigating the [[United States Army]] for being "soft" on [[Communism]]. * [[April 26]] ** An [[Geneva Conference (1954)|international conference]] on Korea and Indo-China opens in Geneva. ** [[Akira Kurosawa]]'s ''[[Seven Samurai]]'' is released in Japan. * [[April 28]] – U.S. Secretary of State [[John Foster Dulles]] accuses Communist China of sending combat troops to Indo-China to train [[Viet Minh]] guerrillas.<ref>{{cite book|last=Logevall|first=Fredrik|title=Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam|publisher=Random House|year=2012|isbn=978-0-679-64519-1}}</ref> ===May=== {{Main|May 1954}} * [[May 1]] – The [[Unification Church]] is founded in South Korea. * [[May 4]] – General [[Alfredo Stroessner]] deposes [[Federico Chaves]] in a [[coup d'état]] in [[Paraguay]]; from August 15 he will hold the office of [[President of Paraguay|President]] until [[1989]]. * [[May 6]] – [[Roger Bannister]] runs the first [[sub-four minute mile]], in [[Oxford]], England. * [[May 7]] – [[Vietnam War]] (run-up): The [[Battle of Dien Bien Phu]] ends in a French defeat (the battle began on [[March 13]]). * [[May 8]] – The [[Asian Football Confederation]] (AFC) is formed in [[Manila]], [[Philippines]]. * [[May 11]] – U.S. Secretary of State [[John Foster Dulles]] declares that Indochina is important but not essential to the security of Southeast Asia, thus ending any prospect of American intervention on the side of France. * [[May 14]] ** The [[Boeing 707]] jetliner is rolled out in the United States, after about 2 years of development. ** The [[Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict]] is adopted in [[The Hague]], Netherlands. * [[May 15]] – The [[Latin Union]] (''Unión Latina'') is created by the Convention of [[Madrid]]. Its member countries use the five [[Romance languages]]: Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Romanian. It suspended operations in [[2012]]. *[[May 16]] – Beginning of the [[Kengir uprising]] in the [[Gulag]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Dunn |first1=Morgan |title=How The Prisoners Behind The Kengir Uprising Fought Back Against The Horrors of the Gulag |url=https://allthatsinteresting.com/kengir-uprising |website=allthatsinteresting.com |date=May 15, 2021 |access-date=April 1, 2024}}</ref> * [[May 17]] ** ''[[Brown v. Board of Education]]'' (347 US 483 1954): The [[Supreme Court of the United States]] rules unanimously that segregated schools are unconstitutional. ** The [[Royal Commission]] on the [[Petrov Affair]] in Australia begins its inquiry. ** [[Adnan Menderes]] of the [[Democrat Party (Turkey, 1946–1961)|Democrat Party]] forms the new (21st) government of [[Turkey]]. * [[May 20]] – [[Chiang Kai-shek]] is re-elected as the [[president of the Republic of China]], by the [[National Assembly of the Republic of China|National Assembly]]. * [[May 22]] – The common [[Nordic Passport Union|Nordic Labour Market]] act is signed. * [[May 26]] – A fire on board the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier [[USS Bennington (CV-20)|USS ''Bennington'']], off [[Narragansett Bay]], [[Massachusetts]], kills 103 sailors. * [[May 29]] ** [[1954 Australian federal election]]: [[Robert Menzies]]' [[Liberal Party of Australia|Liberal]]/[[National Party of Australia|Country]] [[Coalition (Australia)|Coalition]] [[Menzies Government (1949-66)|Government]] is re-elected with a decreased majority, defeating the [[Australian Labor Party|Labor Party]] led by [[H.V. Evatt]]. The election has come shortly after the [[Petrov Affair]], arguably helping the Government survive what was initially predicted to be a defeat. ** Creation and first meeting of the [[Bilderberg Group]]. ** [[Diane Leather]] becomes the first woman to run a sub-five minute mile, in [[Birmingham]], England.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sporting-heroes.net/athletics/great-britain/diane-leather-422/two-world-records-in-1957_a08872/|title=Diane Leather|work=Sporting Heroes|access-date=November 12, 2012}}</ref> ===June=== {{Main|June 1954}} * [[June 6]] – The grand opening of the [[Statue of Yuriy Dolgorukiy, Moscow|sculpture of Yuriy Dolgorukiy]] takes place in Moscow (this statue is one of the main monuments of Moscow). * [[June 7]] – English cryptanalyst, mathematician and computer scientist [[Alan Turing]], age 41, commits suicide by cyanide poisoning. * [[June 9]] – [[McCarthyism]]: [[Joseph N. Welch]], special counsel for the United States Army, lashes out at [[United States Senate|Senator]] [[Joseph McCarthy]], during hearings on whether [[Communism]] has infiltrated the Army, saying, "Have you, at long last, no decency?"<ref>Robert D. Marcus and Anthony Marcus, [http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6444/ ""Have You No Sense of Decency": The Army-McCarthy Hearings"], ''History Matters''</ref> The exchange results in the decline of McCarthy’s popularity. * [[June 14]] – The words "under God" are added to the United States [[Pledge of Allegiance (United States)|Pledge of Allegiance]]. * [[June 15]] – The [[UEFA]] (Union of European Football Associations) is formed in [[Basel]], Switzerland. * [[June 17]] – A [[1954 Guatemalan coup d'état|CIA-engineered military coup]] occurs in [[Guatemala]]. * [[June 18]] – [[Pierre Mendès France]] becomes prime minister of France. * [[June 22]] ** [[Sarah Mae Flemming]] is expelled from a bus in South Carolina, for sitting in a white-only section. ** [[Parker–Hulme murder case]]: [[Pauline Parker]], 16 and her friend [[Juliet Hulme]], 15, bludgeon Parker's mother to death using a brick, at [[Victoria Park, Christchurch|Victoria Park]] in New Zealand. * [[June 27]] ** [[Guatemala]]n President [[Jacobo Árbenz]] steps down in a [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]]-sponsored [[1954 Guatemalan coup d'état|military coup]], triggering a bloody civil war that continues for more than 35 years. ** The world's first [[nuclear power|atomic power station]] opens at [[Obninsk]], near Moscow. ===July=== {{Main|July 1954}} * [[July 1]] ** The [[Nordic Passport Union|Common Nordic Labor Market Act]] comes into effect. ** The United States officially begins using the international unit of the nautical mile, equal to 6,076.11549 ft. or 1,852 meters. * [[July 4]] **[[Rationing in the United Kingdom|Food rationing in Great Britain]] ends, with the lifting of restrictions on sale and purchase of meat, 14 years after it began early in [[World War II]], and nearly a decade after the war's end. **[[1954 FIFA World Cup Final|"Miracle of Bern"]]: [[Germany national football team|West Germany]] beats [[Hungary national football team|Hungary]] [[1954 FIFA World Cup Final|3–2]] to win the [[1954 FIFA World Cup]]. * [[July 10]] – [[Peter Thomson (golfer)|Peter Thomson]] becomes the first Australian to win the [[The Open Championship|British Open Golf Championship]]. * [[July 15]] ** The [[Boeing 367-80]] (or Dash 80), prototype of the [[Boeing 707]] series, makes its maiden flight. ** [[Juan Manuel Fangio|Juan Fangio]], [[Argentina|Argentine]] driver for German [[Grand Prix motor racing|Grand Prix]] team [[Mercedes-Benz]], makes a new fastest lap of the [[Silverstone Circuit]] in England, with an average speed of 100.35 mph, the previous record being 100.16 mph. * [[July 17]] – [[First Indochina War]]: [[Viet Minh]] troops successfully ambush the armoured French column 'G.M. 42' in the [[Battle of Chu Dreh Pass]] in the [[Central Highlands (Vietnam)|Central Highlands]]. It is the last battle of the war.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Fall| first1= Bernard| title=Street Without Joy: The French Debacle in Indochina| date=2005| publisher=Stackpole Military History |author-link=Bernard Fall|page=240|isbn=9780811732369}}</ref> * [[July 19]] – Release of [[Elvis Presley]]'s first single, a cover of "[[That's All Right]]", by [[Sun Records]] (recorded [[July 5]] in [[Memphis, Tennessee]]). * [[July 21]] – [[First Indochina War]]: The [[Geneva Conference (1954)|Geneva Conference]] sends French forces to the south, and Vietnamese forces to the north, of a ceasefire line, and calls for elections to decide the government for all of [[Vietnam]] by July 1956. Failure to abide by the terms of the agreement leads to the establishment of the de facto regimes of [[North Vietnam]] and [[South Vietnam]], and the [[Vietnam War]]. * [[July 29]] – The construction of Yad Vashem started in Jerusalem. It is an official memorial center to commemorate the victims of the persecution of the Jews by the Nazis and their accomplices in Europe. * [[July 29]] – ''[[The Fellowship of the Ring]]'', the first of three volumes in J.R.R. Tolkien's epic fantasy novel, ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'', is published in London. * [[July 31]] – [[1954 Italian expedition to K2]]: Italian mountaineers [[Lino Lacedelli]] and [[Achille Compagnoni]] become the first to reach the summit of the second highest mountain in the world, in the [[Karakoram]] range. ===August=== {{Main|August 1954}} * [[August 1]] – The [[First Indochina War]] ends with the [[Vietnam People's Army]] in [[North Vietnam]], the [[Vietnamese National Army]] in [[South Vietnam]], the [[Kingdom of Cambodia (1953–70)|Kingdom of Cambodia]] in [[Cambodia]], and the [[Kingdom of Laos]] in [[Laos]], emerging victorious against the French Army. * [[August 6]] – Emilie Dionne, one of the [[Dionne quintuplets]], dies of [[asphyxia]]tion following an [[epileptic seizure]]. She is the first of the Canadian five to perish; three live into the 21st century. * [[August 16]] – The first issue of ''[[Sports Illustrated]]'' magazine is published in the United States. * [[August 23]] – A [[United States Air Force]] [[Lockheed C-130 Hercules]] makes its first flight at [[Burbank, California]], manufactured by [[Lockheed Martin]]. * [[August 24]] – Brazilian president [[Getúlio Vargas]] commits suicide, after being accused of involvement in a conspiracy to murder his chief political opponent, [[Carlos Lacerda]]. ===September=== {{Main|September 1954}} * [[September 6]] – The [[Southeast Asia Treaty Organization]] (SEATO) treaty is signed in [[Manila]], [[Philippines]]. * [[September 8]] – SEATO is established in [[Bangkok]], [[Thailand]]. * [[September 9]] – The 6.7 {{M|w|link=y}} [[1954 Chlef earthquake|Chlef earthquake]] shakes northern [[Algeria]], with a maximum [[Mercalli intensity scale|Mercalli intensity]] of XI (''Extreme''). The shock destroys [[Orléansville]], leaving 1,243–1,409 dead, and 5,000 injured. * [[September 11]] – The [[Miss America]] Pageant is broadcast on television for the first time. * [[September 14]] ** The [[Soviet Union]] carries out the [[Totskoye nuclear exercise]]. ** English composer [[Benjamin Britten]]'s [[chamber opera]] version of ''[[The Turn of the Screw (opera)|The Turn of the Screw]]'' receives its world premiere, at the [[Teatro La Fenice]] in [[Venice]], Italy. * [[September 17]] – [[William Golding]]'s allegorical dystopian novel ''[[Lord of the Flies]]'' is published in London. * [[September 18]] – Finnish president [[J. K. Paasikivi]] is the first Western head of state to be awarded the highest honor of the [[Soviet Union]], the [[Order of Lenin]].<ref>{{cite journal | url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/3001358 | jstor=3001358 | last1=Hodgson | first1=John H. | title=The Paasikivi Line | journal=American Slavic and East European Review | date=1959 | volume=18 | issue=2 | pages=145–173 | doi=10.2307/3001358 | url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref>{{cite book | title=Paasikivi Tukholmassa: J. K. Paasikiven toiminta Suomen lähettiläänä Tukholmassa 1936–39 | pages=155–156 | publisher=Otava | year=1978 | first=Max |last=Jakobson | location=Helsinki | isbn=951-1-05126-1 | language = fi}}</ref> * [[September 20]] – The first ''[[Moomins]]'' [[Moomin comic strips|comic strip]] is published in the London newspaper ''[[The Evening News (London newspaper)|The Evening News]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://theslingsandarrows.com/moomin-the-deluxe-anniversary-edition/|title=Slings & Arrows}}</ref> * [[September 25]] – [[Western Bulldogs|Footscray Football Club]] wins their first [[Australian Football League]] [[AFL Grand Final|Grand Final]]. * [[September 26]] – Japanese ferry ''[[Tōya Maru]]'' sinks during a [[typhoon]] in the [[Tsugaru Strait]]. More than 1,100 people are killed, 7 other ships are [[List of shipwrecks in 1954#26 September|wrecked]], and at least nine others seriously damaged. * [[September 27]] – ''[[The Tonight Show]]'' first airs on live television on [[NBC]] in the United States being the first late night talk show. * [[September 30]] – The {{USS|Nautilus|SSN-571}}, the first nuclear-powered [[submarine]] in the world, is commissioned into the [[United States Navy]]. ===October=== {{Main|October 1954}} * [[October 11]] ** Pre-[[Vietnam War]]: The [[Viet Minh]] takes control of [[North Vietnam]]. ** [[Hurricane Hazel]] crosses over [[Haiti]], killing 1,000. * [[October 15]] – [[Hurricane Hazel]] makes U.S. landfall; it is the only recorded [[Saffir–Simpson hurricane scale#Category 4|Category 4 hurricane]] to strike as far north as [[North Carolina]] * [[October 18]] ** [[Texas Instruments]] announces the development of the first commercial [[transistor radio]]. The [[Regency TR-1]] goes on sale the following month. ** The [[comic strip]] ''[[Hi and Lois]]'', by [[Mort Walker]] and [[Dik Browne]], is launched in the United States. * [[October 23]] ** West Germany joins [[NATO]]. ** [[London and Paris Conferences#Paris|Paris Agreement]] sets up the [[Western European Union]] to implement the [[Treaty of Brussels]] (1948), providing for mutual self-defence and other collaboration between Belgium, France, West Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. * [[October 25]] – [[Landslide]]s caused by heavy rains hit [[Salerno]], Italy, killing about 300. * [[October 26]] – [[Muslim Brotherhood]] member Mahmoud Abdul Latif tries to kill [[Gamal Abdel Nasser]]. * [[October 31]] – [[Algerian War|Algerian War of Independence]]: The [[National Liberation Front (Algeria)|Algerian National Liberation Front]] begins a revolt against French rule. ===November=== {{Main|November 1954}} * [[November 1]] – The [[National Liberation Front (Algeria)|FLN]] attacks representative and public buildings of the French colonial power. * [[November 2]] ** The dock workers' strike in the UK comes to an end. ** The radio program ''[[Hancock's Half Hour]]'', a pioneer in [[situation comedy]], is first broadcast on [[BBC Radio]] (a television version will follow in [[1956]]). * [[November 3]] – The first [[Godzilla (1954 film)|''Godzilla'']] film premieres in Tokyo. * [[November 5]] – Japan and [[Burma]] sign a peace treaty in [[Rangoon]], to end their long-extinct state of war. * [[November 10]] – U.S. President [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]] dedicates the [[USMC War Memorial]] (Iwo Jima Memorial), at the Arlington National Cemetery. * [[November 12]] – The main immigration port-of-entry in [[New York Harbor]] at [[Ellis Island]] closes permanently. * [[November 13]] – [[Great Britain national rugby league team|Great Britain]] defeats [[France national rugby league team|France]], to capture the first ever [[Rugby League World Cup]] in Paris in front of around 30,000 spectators * [[November 14]] – [[Egypt]]ian president [[Muhammad Naguib]] is deposed, and [[Gamal Abdel Nasser]] replaces him. * [[November 21]] – [[People's Action Party]], an eventual dominative political party in [[Singapore]], was established.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Weiqi |first1=Yan |title=In Pictures – Celebrating 70 years of the PAP |url=https://petir.sg/2024/11/21/in-pictures-celebrating-70-years-of-the-pap/ |website=Petir SG |access-date=24 November 2024 |date=21 November 2024}}</ref> * [[November 22]] – ''[[Berman v. Parker]]'' (348 U.S. 26): The [[Supreme Court of the United States|U.S. Supreme Court]] upholds the federal [[slum clearance]] and urban renewal programs. * [[November 23]] – The [[Dow Jones Industrial Average]] rises 3.27 points, or 0.86 percent, closing at an all-time high of 382.74. More significantly, this is the first time the Dow has surpassed its peak level, reached just before the [[Wall Street Crash of 1929]]. * [[November 30]] – In [[Sylacauga, Alabama]], a four-kilogram piece of the [[Sylacauga (meteorite)|Hodges Meteorite]] crashes through the roof of a house and badly bruises a napping woman, in the first documented case of an object from [[outer space]] hitting a person. ===December=== {{Main|December 1954}} * [[December 1]] – The first [[Hyatt|Hyatt Hotel]], The Hyatt House Los Angeles, opens on the grounds of [[Los Angeles International Airport]]. It is the first hotel in the world built on an airport property. * [[December 2]] ** [[Second Red Scare|Red Scare]]: The [[United States Senate]] votes 67–22 to censure [[Wisconsin]] [[United States Senator|Senator]] [[Joseph McCarthy]], for "conduct that tends to bring the Senate into dishonor and disrepute." ** The Taiwan-United States Mutual Defense Treaty is signed.<ref>[[s:Mutual Defense Treaty between the United States of America and the Republic of China]]</ref> * [[December 3]] ** A German court dismisses charges against [[Werner Naumann]], head of the [[Neo-Nazi]] [[Naumann Circle]]. ** [[Väinö Linna]]'s war novel ''[[The Unknown Soldier (novel)|The Unknown Soldier]]'' (''Tuntematon sotilas'') is published.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.verkkouutiset.fi/a/eduskunnassa-juhlittiin-70-vuotiasta-tuntematonta-sotilasta/#b0cd81e5|title=Eduskunnassa juhlittiin 70-vuotiasta Tuntematonta sotilasta|trans-title=The 70-year-old 'The Unknown Soldier' was celebrated in the Finnish Parliament|first=Ville|last=Mäkilä|work=Verkkouutiset|date=4 December 2024|access-date=5 December 2024|language=fi}}</ref> * [[December 4]] – The first [[Burger King]] opens in [[Miami|Miami, Florida]]. * [[December 15]] – The [[Netherlands Antilles]] is created out of the Dutch Caribbean nations. It is dissolved between [[1986]] and [[2010]]. * [[December 23]] – [[J. Hartwell Harrison]] and [[Joseph Murray]] perform the world's first successful [[kidney transplantation]], in [[Boston]], Massachusetts. * [[December 24]] – [[Kingdom of Laos|Laos]] gains full independence from France. ===Date unknown=== * New Zealand engineer [[Bill Hamilton (engineer)|Sir William Hamilton]] develops the first [[pump-jet]] engine (the "Hamilton Jet") capable of propelling a [[jetboat]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Sir William Hamilton OBE|url=http://www.hamiltonjet.co.nz/about_hamiltonjet/sir_william_hamilton|publisher=HamiltonJet|year=2007|access-date=November 12, 2012}}</ref> * The first electric [[drip brew]] [[coffeemaker]] is patented in Germany and named the [[Wigomat]] after its inventor Gottlob Widmann.<ref>{{cite web|title=Sixty years of the Federal Republic of Germany – a retrospective of everyday life|url=http://www.goethe.de/ins/gb/lp/prj/mtg/typ/bun/en4922236.htminventors.about.com/od/cstartinventions/a/coffee.htm|access-date=December 28, 2002}}</ref> * The [[Boy Scouts of America]] desegregates on the basis of race. * Gerbils (''[[Meriones unguiculatus]]'') are brought to the United States by Dr. Victor Schwentker. * The case of [[Lothar Malskat]], who had admitted that he had painted the supposedly antique [[fresco]]es in [[Marienkirche, Lübeck|Marienkirche]] himself, goes to trial. * The [[TV dinner]] is introduced, by American entrepreneur [[Gerry Thomas]]. * In [[South Vietnam]], the [[Viet Minh]] is reorganised into the [[Viet Cong]]. * After the death of [[Joseph Stalin]], the [[Soviet Union]] starts releasing political prisoners and deportees from its [[Gulag]] prison camps. ==Births== {{BDToC|births}} ===January=== <!--[[File:MT high res vmag..jpeg|thumb|100px|[[Tina Knowles]]]]--> [[File:Kailash Satyarthi March 2015.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Kailash Satyarthi]]]] [[File:Howard Stern.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Howard Stern]]]] [[File:Katey Sagal by Gage Skidmore 2.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Katey Sagal]]]] [[File:Oprah in 2014.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Oprah Winfrey]]]] * [[January 1]] ** [[Thomas Aisu]], Ugandan physician, educator (d. [[2018]]) ** [[Djimrangar Dadnadji]], 16th prime minister of Chad (d. [[2019]]) * [[January 3]] – [[Ross the Boss]], American heavy metal/punk guitarist * [[January 4]] ** [[Tina Knowles]], African-American fashion designer; mother of R&B singers [[Beyoncé]] and [[Solange Knowles]]<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QJ2W-77LL |title=Person Details for Celestine Knowles, "United States Public Records, 1970-2009" |author=<!--Not stated--> |publisher=[[FamilySearch.org]] |access-date=August 27, 2017}}</ref> ** [[Dave Ulliott|Dave "The Devilfish" Ulliott]], English professional poker player * [[January 5]] – [[Alex English]], American basketball player * [[January 6]] – [[Anthony Minghella]], British film, theatre director (d. [[2008]]) * [[January 7]] ** [[Jodi Long]], American actress ** [[José María Vitier]], [[Cuba]]n music composer, pianist * [[January 8]] – [[Julieta Castellanos]], Honduran sociologist * [[January 11]] – [[Kailash Satyarthi]], Indian activist, [[Nobel Peace Prize]] laureate * [[January 11]] – [[Balachandra Menon]], Indian Malayalam film director and actor * [[January 12]] – [[Howard Stern]], American radio host * [[January 13]] – [[Trevor Rabin]], South African–American musician * [[January 14]] – [[Masanobu Fuchi]], Japanese professional wrestler * [[January 16]] – [[Morten P. Meldal]], Danish chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate<ref>{{cite press release|title=Press release: The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2022|date=October 5, 2022|publisher=The Nobel Prize|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/2022/press-release/|accessdate=October 6, 2022}}</ref> * [[January 17]] – [[Robert F. Kennedy Jr.]], environmental lawyer, [[2024 United States presidential election]] candidate * [[January 19]] ** [[Ted DiBiase]], American professional wrestler<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.onlineworldofwrestling.com/profiles/t/ted-dibiase.html|title=Ted DiBiase's OWW Profile|access-date=October 14, 2007 |publisher=Online World of Wrestling}}</ref> ** [[Katey Sagal]], American actress and singer<ref>{{cite news |last=Cathcart |first=Rebecca |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/09/arts/television/09cath.html |title=Out From Under All That Big kik |newspaper=The New York Times |date=November 7, 2008}}</ref> ** [[Katharina Thalbach]], German actress * [[January 21]] – [[Thomas de Maizière]], German politician * [[January 22]] – [[Peter Pilz]], Austrian politician * [[January 23]] ** [[Franco De Vita]], Venezuelan singer, songwriter ** [[Edward Ka-Spel]], British/Dutch singer and songwriter ([[The Legendary Pink Dots]]) * [[January 28]] ** [[Peter Lampe]], German theologian, historian ** [[Bruno Metsu]], French football coach (d. [[2013]])<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.lequipe.fr/Football/FootballFicheJoueur17403.html |title=Fiche de Bruno Metsu (???), l'actu le palmares et les stats de Bruno Metsu |website=[[L'Équipe]] |access-date=April 11, 2025}}</ref> ** [[Kaneto Shiozawa]], Japanese voice actor (d. [[2000]])<ref>{{cite web |url=https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2018139233.html |title=Shiozawa, Kaneto, 1954-2000 |website=[[Library of Congress]] |department=LC Name Authority File (LCNAF) |access-date=November 5, 2022}}</ref> ** [[Willy Telavi]], 11th prime minister of Tuvalu * [[January 29]] ** [[Yukinobu Hoshino]], Japanese cartoonist<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |first=Jonathan |last=Clements |author-link=Jonathan Clements |title=Hoshino Yukinobu |encyclopedia=[[The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction]] |editor1-first=John |editor1-last=Clute |editor1-link=John Clute |editor2-first=David |editor2-last=Langford |editor2-link=David Langford |publisher=SFE Ltd/[[Ansible Editions]] |date=September 12, 2022 |edition=Web |access-date=November 4, 2022 |url=https://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/hoshino_yukinobu}}</ref> ** [[Oprah Winfrey]], African-American actress, talk show hostess, producer and publisher<ref>{{cite book |url=http://ark.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb13529332g |title=Notice de personne "Winfrey, Oprah (1954-....)" |trans-title=Person notice "Winfrey, Oprah (1954-....)" |language=fr |date=December 2, 2010 |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=November 4, 2022}}</ref> * [[January 31]] – [[Mark Slavin]], Israeli wrestler (d. [[1972]]) ===February=== [[File:Bill Mumy by Gage Skidmore.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Bill Mumy]]]] [[File:Andrey Karlov 2016.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Andrei Karlov]]]] [[File:Matt Groening by Gage Skidmore 2.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Matt Groening]]]] [[File:Rene Russo 1996.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Rene Russo]]]] [[File:John Travolta Cannes 2018 (cropped).jpg|thumb|100px|[[John Travolta]]]] [[File:Head, Anthony Stewart (2007).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Anthony Head]]]] [[File:Viktor Yushchenko by Tasnimnews 01 (cropped).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Viktor Yushchenko]]]] [[File:Recep Tayyip Erdoğan 2019 (cropped).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Recep Tayyip Erdoğan]]]] * [[February 1]] – [[Bill Mumy]], American actor, musician (''[[Lost in Space]]'')<ref>{{cite book |title=Chase's Calendar of Events 2021: The Ultimate Go-to Guide for Special Days, Weeks and Months|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CPcCEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA112|date=October 27, 2020|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|isbn=978-1-64143-424-9|pages=112}}</ref> * [[February 2]] – [[Christie Brinkley]], American model<ref>{{cite book|author=Celebrity Services Internation|title=Celebrity Register|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=t96p_1d8m_IC|date=December 1989|publisher=Cengage Gale|isbn=978-0-8103-6875-0|page=53}}</ref> * [[February 4]] – [[Andrei Karlov]], Russian diplomat (d. [[2016]])<ref>{{cite news|title=Посол России в Турции Андрей Карлов. Досье|url=http://www.aif.ru/dontknows/file/posol_rossii_v_turcii_andrey_karlov_dose|access-date=December 19, 2016|work=aif.ru|date=December 19, 2016|trans-title=Russian Ambassador to Turkey Andrei Karlov. dossier}}</ref> * [[February 7]] – [[Dieter Bohlen]], German music producer and singer-songwriter (''[[Modern Talking]], [[Blue System]]'')<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.focus.de/kultur/musik/tid-22209/menschen-ich-weiss-ich-habe-einen-schlechten-ruf_aid_624518.html|title=Dieter Bohlen profile in ''Focus''|website=[[Focus (German magazine)|focus.de]]|access-date=January 5, 2017|date=May 6, 2011|page=2|language=de}}</ref> * [[February 9]] – [[Gina Rinehart]], Australian mining tycoon * [[February 11]] – [[Noriyuki Asakura]], Japanese composer * [[February 12]] ** [[Joseph Jordania]], Georgian-Australian musicologist, academic ** [[Evangelos Basiakos]], Greek politician, long term MP, and minister ** [[Tzimis Panousis]], Greek comedian, singer, and author * [[February 13]] – [[Donnie Moore]], American baseball player (d. [[1989]]) * [[February 15]] – [[Matt Groening]], American cartoonist (''[[The Simpsons]]'') * [[February 16]] ** [[Iain Banks]], Scottish author (d. [[2013]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/jun/09/iain-banks-dies-59-cancer|title=Iain Banks obituary|date=January 10, 2013|author=John Mullan|website=The Guardian|access-date=January 11, 2021}}</ref> ** [[Michael Holding]], Jamaican cricket player and commentator<ref>[https://www.espncricinfo.com/cricketers/michael-holding-52063 Michael Holding West Indies|Bowler]</ref> ** [[Margaux Hemingway]], American fashion model and actress (d. [[1996]]) * [[February 17]] ** [[Rene Russo]], American actress, fashion model ** [[Yuji Takada (wrestler)|Yuji Takada]], Japanese free-style wrestler ** [[Brian Houston (pastor)|Brian Houston]], Australian-New Zealand pastor, author and founder of [[Hillsong Church]] * [[February 18]] ** [[John Travolta]], American actor<ref>{{cite book|author=Kim Long|title=American Forecaster Almanac, 1994|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=U95PAQAAIAAJ|year=1994|publisher=American Demographics Books|isbn=978-0-936889-25-2|page=11}}</ref> ** [[Jalaluddin Hassan]], Malaysian actor * [[February 19]] ** [[Messaouda Boubaker]], Tunisian writer ** [[Sócrates]], Brazilian footballer (d. [[2011]]) * [[February 20]] ** [[Anthony Head]], English actor, musician ** [[Patty Hearst]], American heiress and kidnap victim<ref>{{cite book|author=Celebrity Services Internation|title=Celebrity Register|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=t96p_1d8m_IC|date=December 1989|publisher=Cengage Gale|isbn=978-0-8103-6875-0|page=195}}</ref> * [[February 23]] – [[Viktor Yushchenko]], [[President of Ukraine]] * [[February 24]] – [[Sid Meier]], Canadian programmer, game designer, notable for the ''[[Civilization series|Civilization]]'' series * [[February 25]] – [[Gerardo Pelusso]], Uruguayan football manager * [[February 26]] – [[Recep Tayyip Erdoğan]], [[List of Presidents of Turkey|12th]] [[President of Turkey]] ===March=== [[File:Ron Howard Cannes 2018.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Ron Howard]]]] [[File:François Fillon 2010.jpg|thumb|100px|[[François Fillon]]]] [[File:CATHERINE OHARA.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Catherine O'Hara]]]] [[File:RobertCarradine1SecondFilm.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Robert Carradine]]]] [[File:Clive Palmer Aug15 crop.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Clive Palmer]]]] * [[March 1]] ** [[Peter Spellos]], American actor, voice actor ** [[Catherine Bach]], American actress (''[[The Dukes of Hazzard]]'') ** [[Ron Howard]], American actor, director, producer (''[[The Andy Griffith Show]],'' ''[[Happy Days]]'') * [[March 2]] ** [[Ed Johnstone]], Canadian ice hockey player ** [[Gara Takashima]], Japanese voice actress * [[March 4]] ** [[François Fillon]], [[Prime Minister of France]] ** [[Catherine O'Hara]], Canadian actress (''[[Second City Television|SCTV]]'') ** [[Irina Ratushinskaya]], Russian writer ** [[Willie Thorne]], English snooker player (d. [[2020]]) * [[March 5]] – [[João Lourenço]], [[President of Angola]] * [[March 6]] – [[Harald Schumacher]], German football goalkeeper * [[March 8]] ** [[Marie-Theres Nadig]], Swiss alpine skier ** [[David Wilkie (swimmer)|David Wilkie]], Scottish former world record holder, Olympic gold medallist swimmer (1976) * [[March 9]] ** [[Bobby Sands]], Irish republican hunger striker (d. [[1981]]) ** [[Kevin Wade]], American screenwriter, television producer * [[March 13]] – [[Valerie Amos, Baroness Amos|The Baroness Amos]], British politician * [[March 15]] ** [[Massimo Bubola]], Italian singer, songwriter ** [[Craig Wasson]], American actor * [[March 16]] ** [[S.A. Griffin]], American actor, poet ** [[Nancy Wilson (rock musician)|Nancy Wilson]], American rock musician ** [[Jimmy Nail]], English singer, songwriter, actor, film producer, and television writer * [[March 17]] – [[Lesley-Anne Down]], British actress * [[March 18]] – [[James F. Reilly]], American astronaut * [[March 20]] – [[Louis Sachar]], American author * [[March 23]] ** [[Geno Auriemma]], American basketball coach ** [[Hideyuki Hori]], Japanese voice actor * [[March 24]] ** [[Robert Carradine]], American actor ** [[Donna Pescow]], American actress, director (''[[Angie (TV series)|Angie]]'') * [[March 26]] ** [[Wendy Fulton]], American actress ** [[Kazuhiko Inoue]], Japanese voice actor ** [[Clive Palmer]], Australian mining tycoon * [[March 29]] – [[Karen Ann Quinlan]], American right-to-die cause célèbre (d. [[1985]]) ===April=== [[File:Jackie Chan July 2016.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Jackie Chan]]]] [[File:Dennis Quaid 2020 by Glenn Francis.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Dennis Quaid]]]] [[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 183-N0620-0034, Angelika Hellmann.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Angelika Hellmann]]]] [[File:Jerry Seinfeld 2016 - 2.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Jerry Seinfeld]]]] * [[April 1]] – [[Dieter Müller]], German soccer player * [[April 2]] – [[Susumu Hirasawa]], Japanese musician * [[April 5]] – [[Guy Bertrand (broadcaster)|Guy Bertrand]], Canadian linguist, radio/television personality * [[April 7]] ** [[Jackie Chan]], Hong Kong-born actor, martial artist ** [[Tony Dorsett]], American football player * [[April 8]] – [[Gary Carter]], American baseball player (d. [[2012]]) * [[April 9]] ** [[Steve Holt (Canadian musician)|Steve Holt]], Canadian musician ** [[Dennis Quaid]], American actor * [[April 10]] ** [[Anacani]], Mexican-born American singer (''[[The Lawrence Welk Show]]'') ** [[Angelika Hellmann]], East German artistic gymnast * [[April 14]] ** [[Bruce Sterling]], American science fiction writer * [[April 16]] – [[Ellen Barkin]], American actress * [[April 17]] ** [[Norio Imamura]], Japanese voice actor ** [[Roddy Piper]], Canadian wrestler (d. [[2015]]) * [[April 22]] – [[Jōji Nakata]], Japanese voice actor * [[April 23]] ** [[Peter Nyombi]], Ugandan lawyer, politician (d. [[2018]]) ** [[Michael Moore]], American filmmaker, political activist (''[[Bowling for Columbine]]'') * [[April 25]] ** [[Randy Cross]], American football analyst and former player * [[April 27]] ** [[Herman Edwards]], American football head coach ** [[Frank Bainimarama]], Fijian politician * [[April 28]] – [[Michael Daugherty]], American composer * [[April 29]] ** [[Jake Burton Carpenter]], American founder of [[Burton Snowboards]] (d. [[2019]]) ** [[Kazuko Kurosawa]], Japanese costume designer ** [[Jerry Seinfeld]], American actor, comedian and producer (''[[Seinfeld]]'') * [[April 30]] – [[Jane Campion]], New Zealand screenwriter, producer, and director ===May=== [[File:Johnny Logan - NDR Hafengeburtstag 2017 20.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Johnny Logan (singer)|Johnny Logan]]]] [[File:David Paterson 2 by David Shankbone.jpg|thumb|100px|[[David Paterson]]]] [[File:Townsend Coleman by Gage Skidmore.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Townsend Coleman]]]] * [[May 1]] ** [[Ray Parker Jr.]], American singer and songwriter ** [[Maatia Toafa]], 2-time prime minister of Tuvalu * [[May 2]] – [[Elliot Goldenthal]], American composer * [[May 5]] – [[David Azulai]], Israeli politician (d. [[2018]]) * [[May 6]] – [[Angela Hernández Nuñez]], Dominican writer * [[May 7]] ** [[Philippe Geluck]], Belgian cartoonist ** [[Amy Heckerling]], American film director ** [[Diana Raab]], American author * [[May 8]] – [[Pam Arciero]], Hawaiian-born puppeteer (''[[Sesame Street]]'') * [[May 10]] – [[Amos Guttman]], Israeli film director (d. [[1993]]) * [[May 13]] – [[Johnny Logan (singer)|Johnny Logan]], Australian-born Irish singer, composer and [[Eurovision Song Contest]] winner (1980, 1987) * [[May 14]] ** [[María Dolores Katarain]] ("Yoyes"), Spanish Basque separatist leader (d. [[1986]]) ** [[Peter J. Ratcliffe]], English cellular biologist, [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Nobel Prize]] laureate * [[May 19]] ** [[Hōchū Ōtsuka]], Japanese voice actor ** [[Phil Rudd]], Australian rock drummer ([[AC/DC]]) * [[May 20]] – [[David Paterson]], American politician, 55th [[Governor of New York]] * [[May 22]] – [[Shuji Nakamura]], Japanese electronics engineer * [[May 25]] ** [[Tantely Andrianarivo]], 11th prime minister of Madagascar (d. [[2023]]) ** [[Sudirman (singer)|Sudirman]], Malaysian singer and songwriter (d. [[1992]]) * [[May 27]] ** [[Pauline Hanson]], Australian politician ** [[Lawrence M. Krauss]], American theoretical physicist, science writer ** [[Coney Reyes]], Philippine film and television actress * [[May 28]] – [[John Tory]], Canadian politician * [[May 29]] – [[Pankaj Kapur]], Indian actor ===June=== [[File:Dennis Haysbert 3 March 2015.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Dennis Haysbert]]]] [[File:Harvey Fierstein Shankbone Metropolitan Opera 2009.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Harvey Fierstein]]]] [[File:Jim Belushi Unveils Belushi Performance Hall at MAC Motown 2015.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Jim Belushi]]]] [[File:Kathleen Turner 1.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Kathleen Turner]]]] [[File:Michael Anthony.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Michael Anthony (musician)|Michael Anthony]]]] [[File:Huda Zoghbi.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Huda Zoghbi]]]] [[File:Jean-Serge Brisson - Avec son livre.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Jean-Serge Brisson]]]] <!--[[File:Freddie Prinze 1975.JPG|thumb|100px|[[Freddie Prinze]]]]--> * [[June 2]] ** [[Mattos Nascimento]], Brazilian musician, singer, composer and trombonist ** [[Dennis Haysbert]], African-American actor ** [[Chiyoko Kawashima]], Japanese voice actress * [[June 4]] – [[Kazuhiro Yamaji]], Japanese actor, voice actor * [[June 5]] ** [[Nancy Stafford]], American actress, Christian author * [[June 6]] – [[Harvey Fierstein]], American actor * [[June 9]] ** [[John Hagelin]], American physicist, U.S. presidential candidate ** [[Elizabeth May]], leader of the [[Green Party of Canada]] * [[June 10]] – [[Kurt Walker (ice hockey)|Kurt Walker]], American ice hockey player (d. [[2018]]) * [[June 13]] – [[Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala]], Nigerian-born Director-General of the World Trade Organization<ref>{{cite news|title=Women to watch in 2022|newspaper=The Guardian|location=London|date=January 1, 2022|page=38}}</ref> * [[June 14]] – [[Will Patton]], American actor * [[June 15]] ** [[Jim Belushi]], American actor, comedian, singer and musician ** [[Bob McDonnell]], American politician * [[June 16]] – [[Sergey Kuryokhin]], Russian pianist, composer, improvisor, performance artist and actor (d. [[1996]]) * [[June 19]] ** [[Ted Coombs]], American artist ** [[Kathleen Turner]], American actress (''[[Romancing the Stone]]'') * [[June 20]] ** [[Michael Anthony (musician)|Michael Anthony]], American rock bassist ([[Van Halen]]) ** [[Karlheinz Brandenburg]], German electrical engineer, mathematician ** [[Ilan Ramon]], [[Israeli Air Force]] fighter pilot, [[Israel]]'s first astronaut (d. [[2003]]) ** [[Huda Zoghbi]], American geneticist * [[June 21]] – [[Chip Ingram]], American Christian pastor, author and orator * [[June 22]] ** [[Chris Lemmon]], American actor, author ** [[Freddie Prinze]], American actor, comedian (''[[Chico and the Man]]'') (d. [[1977]]) * [[June 23]] – [[Carme Pinós]], Spanish architect<ref>{{cite book|title=The Architecture of Enric Miralles and Carme Pinós|editor=Dollens, Dennis L.|isbn=093082914X|location=New York|publisher=SITES/Lumen|year=1990}}</ref> ** [[James Plaskitt]], British politician * [[June 24]] – [[Chang San-cheng]], Taiwanese politician * [[June 25]] ** [[Luiz Carlos Vasconcelos]], Brazilian actor ** [[Sonia Sotomayor]], [[Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States]] ** [[Igor Lisovsky]], Soviet pair skater ** [[Abderrazak Kilani]], Tunisian politician, lawyer * [[June 26]] – [[Steve Barton]], American actor (d. [[2001]]) * [[June 27]] ** [[Ron Kirk]], Mayor of Dallas, Texas ** [[Anita Zagaria]], Italian actress * [[June 28]] ** [[Jean-Serge Brisson]], Canadian author and politician ** [[Daniel Dantas (actor)|Daniel Dantas]], Brazilian actor ** [[Ava Barber]], American country singer (''[[The Lawrence Welk Show]]'') ** [[Alice Krige]], South African actress and producer ** [[Valentina Quintero]], Venezuelan journalist, environmental activist, radio and television hostess.<ref>{{Cite web |last=osnellysancchez |date=April 1, 2022 |title=Valentina Quintero llegó a Ciudad Bolívar para visitar "rincones de mi ciudad" |url=https://soynuevaprensadigital.com/npd/valentina-quintero-llego-a-ciudad-bolivar-para-visitar-rincones-de-mi-ciudad/ |access-date=April 2, 2022 |website=Soy Nueva Prensa Digital |language=es}}</ref> * [[June 29]] ** [[Jai Jagadish]], Indian film actor, director and producer ** [[Rick Honeycutt]], American baseball player, coach * [[June 30]] ** [[Serzh Sargsyan]], [[President of Armenia]] ** [[Stephen Ouimette]], Canadian actor, director ** [[Mohammad A. Quayum]], Bangladeshi academic, writer, editor, critic and translator ** [[Wayne Swan]], Australian politician ** [[Pierre Charles (Dominican politician)|Pierre Charles]], [[Prime Minister of Dominica]] (d. [[2004]]) ===July=== [[File:Andre Dawson 2009 CROP.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Andre Dawson]]]] [[File:Kempes en Central.png|thumb|100px|[[Mario Kempes]]]] [[File:Angela Merkel. Tallinn Digital Summit.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Angela Merkel]]]] [[File:Edward Natapei 2009.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Edward Natapei]]]] [[File:Mr. Nguyen Xuan Phuc.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Nguyễn Xuân Phúc]]]] [[File:Jorge Jesus SLB.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Jorge Jesus]]]] [[File:Hugo Chávez salute.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Hugo Chávez]]]] * [[July 1]] ** [[Sharif Hassan Sheikh Aden]], Somali politician ** [[Pedro Guastavino]], Argentine politician ** [[Lawrence Gonzi]], Maltese politician and lawyer * [[July 2]] ** [[Ludmila Aslanian]], Armenian chess player ** [[Peter Randall-Page]], British artist ** [[Wendy Schaal]], American actress * [[July 3]] – [[Pennie Lane Trumbull]], American socialite, philanthropist, businesswoman, and entrepreneur * [[July 4]] – [[Anne Lambton]], British actress * [[July 5]] ** [[Don Stark]], American actor ** [[John Wright (cricketer, born 1954)|John Wright]], New Zealand cricket captain * [[July 6]] – [[Willie Randolph]], American baseball player, coach, manager * [[July 7]] ** [[Robert M. Price]], American theologian and writer, [[Cthulhu Mythos]] scholar and editor ** [[Simon Anderson]], Australian competitive surfer, surfboard shaper, and writer ** [[Ursula Stephens]], Australian politician * [[July 8]] ** [[David Aaronovitch]], English journalist, television presenter and author ** [[Matthew Marsh (actor)|Matthew Marsh]], English actor * [[July 9]] – [[Kevin O'Leary]], Canadian businessman, television personality, and political candidate * [[July 10]] ** [[Andre Dawson]], American baseball player ** [[Michele Serra]], Italian writer, journalist and satirist ** [[Neil Tennant]], British singer-songwriter, musician and journalist ([[Pet Shop Boys]]) ** [[Yō Yoshimura]], Japanese voice actor (d. [[1991]]) * [[July 11]] – [[Alejandro Camacho]], Mexican actor and producer * [[July 12]] ** [[Lisa Pelikan]], American actress ** [[Paulo Saldiva]], Brazilian professor, physician, pathologist and medical researcher * [[July 13]] – [[Sezen Aksu]], [[Turkey|Turkish]] singer * [[July 15]] ** [[Tarak Dhiab]], Tunisian footballer ** [[Mario Kempes]], Argentine footballer * [[July 17]] ** [[Angela Merkel]], 8th [[Chancellor of Germany (Federal Republic of Germany)|Chancellor of Germany]] ** [[Richard Bekins]], American actor ** [[Edward Natapei]], Vanuatu politician and [[Prime Minister of Vanuatu]] (d. [[2015]]) ** [[J. Michael Straczynski]], American author * [[July 18]] – [[Franziska Troegner]], German actress * [[July 19]] – [[Verica Kalanović]], Serbian politician * [[July 20]] ** [[Lo Ta-yu]], Taiwanese singer and songwriter ** [[Nguyễn Xuân Phúc]], Vietnamese politician; 10th [[President of Vietnam]], 7th [[Prime Minister of Vietnam]] * [[July 21]] – [[Otto Jespersen (comedian)|Otto Jespersen]], Norwegian comedian, actor and television personality * [[July 22]] – [[Pierre Lebeau]], Canadian actor * [[July 24]] – [[Jorge Jesus]], Portuguese football player and coach * [[July 26]] ** [[Vitas Gerulaitis]], American tennis player (d. [[1994]]) ** [[Leonardo Daniel]], Mexican actor and director * [[July 27]] ** [[Philippe Alliot]], French racing driver ** [[Lynne Frederick]], British actress (d. [[1994]]) * [[July 28]] – [[Hugo Chávez]], [[President of Venezuela]] (d. [[2013]]) ===August=== [[File:Francois Hollande 2015.jpeg|thumb|100px|[[François Hollande]]]] [[File:James Cameron October 2012.jpg|thumb|100px|[[James Cameron]]]] [[File:Andrés Pastrana, 2009.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Andrés Pastrana Arango]]]] [[File:Al Roker October 2014 (cropped).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Al Roker]]]] [[File:Republic of Singapore President Halimah Yacob witnesses the program proper during her visit to the Philippine Eagle Center in Davao City on September 11, 2019 (cropped).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Halimah Yacob]]]] [[File:Alexander Lukashenko crop.jpeg|thumb|100px|[[Alexander Lukashenko]]]] * [[August 1]] ** [[Michael Badnarik]], American software engineer and presidential candidate ** [[James Gleick]], American non fiction author of several award-winning books ** [[Junpei Morita]], Japanese actor and voice actor * [[August 2]] – [[David Tang]], Hong Kong-British entrepreneur and philanthropist (d. [[2017]]) * [[August 4]] ** [[Dorottya Udvaros]], Hungarian actress ** [[François Valéry]], French singer-songwriter and composer ** [[Uwe Wittwer]], Swiss artist * [[August 7]] – [[Susanna Javicoli]], Italian actress (d. [[2005]]) * [[August 9]] – [[Pete Thomas (drummer)|Pete Thomas]], British drummer for the Elvis Costello band * [[August 10]] – [[Kim Pyong Il]], North Korean diplomat and son of Kim Il Sung * [[August 11]] – [[Joe Jackson (musician)|Joe Jackson]], British singer-songwriter (''Steppin' Out'') * [[August 12]] ** [[François Hollande]], [[President of France]] 2012–17 ** [[Sam J. Jones]], American actor ** [[Pat Metheny]], American jazz guitarist * [[August 13]] ** [[Nico Assumpção]], [[Brazil]]ian [[bass guitar]] player (d. [[2001]]) ** [[Tõnu Kilgas]], Estonian singer and actor * [[August 14]] ** [[Mark Fidrych]], American baseball player (d. [[2009]]) ** [[Stanley A. McChrystal]], U.S. Army general * [[August 16]] – [[James Cameron]], Canadian-born film director * [[August 17]] ** [[Anatoly Kudryavitsky]], Russian-Irish writer ** [[Andrés Pastrana Arango]], [[President of Colombia]] * [[August 20]] ** [[Tawn Mastrey]], American disc jockey and music video producer (d. [[2007]]) ** [[Al Roker]], American television personality and host ** [[Richarda Schmeisser]], East German artistic gymnast * [[August 23]] ** [[Ian Bartholomew]], English actor ** [[Charles Busch]], American director, writer and actor ** [[Halimah Yacob]], 8th president of Singapore * [[August 24]] ** [[Joe Ochman]], American actor and voice actor ** [[Philippe Cataldo]], French singer * [[August 25]] ** [[Bruno Manser]], Swiss environmental activist (d. [[2005]]) ** [[Elvis Costello]], English singer-songwriter * [[August 29]] – [[István Cserháti]], Hungarian keyboardist (d. [[2005]]) * [[August 30]] – [[Alexander Lukashenko]], [[President of Belarus]] * [[August 31]] ** [[Robert Kocharyan]], [[President of Armenia]] ** [[Caroline Cossey]], British model ===September=== [[File:Carly Fiorina 2017 CPAC by Gage Skidmore.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Carly Fiorina]]]] <!--[[File:Shinzō Abe 20120501 (headshot).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Shinzō Abe]]]]--> [[File:Cherie Blair in Trento.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Cherie Blair]]]] [[File:Masoud Pezeshkian 2024 (cropped) (2).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Masoud Pezeshkian]]]] * [[September 1]] – [[Dave Lumley]], Canadian ice hockey player * [[September 2]] ** [[Andrej Babiš]], Czech entrepreneur and politician, 12th [[Prime Minister of the Czech Republic]] ** [[Vance DeGeneres]], American actor ** [[Zeta Emilianidou]], Cypriot lawyer and politician (d. [[2022]]) ** [[Gai Waterhouse]], Australian racehorse trainer ** [[Humberto Zurita]], Mexican actor, director and producer * [[September 5]] – [[Danny Masterton]], Scottish footballer (d. [[2020]]) * [[September 6]] – [[Carly Fiorina]], American businesswoman, CEO of [[Hewlett-Packard|HP]] (1999–2005) and Senator [[Ted Cruz]]'s running mate in the [[2016 United States presidential election|2016 presidential election]] * [[September 7]] ** [[Corbin Bernsen]], American actor ** [[Michael Emerson]], American actor ** [[Francisco Guterres]], 4th president of East Timor * [[September 9]] – [[Mohsen Rezaee]], Iranian politician * [[September 10]] – [[Mark W. Everson]], American businessman; 46th Commissioner of the [[Internal Revenue Service]] (2003–07) * [[September 13]] – [[Steve Kilbey]], English born Australian musician and artist * [[September 15]] – [[Nava Semel]], Israeli author and playwright (d. [[2017]]) * [[September 16]] – [[Ashrita Furman]], American record breaker * [[September 18]] ** [[Dennis Johnson]], American basketball player (d. [[2007]]) ** [[Tommy Tuberville]], US Senator * [[September 21]] ** [[Shinzō Abe]], [[Prime Minister of Japan]] (d. [[2022]]) ** [[Thomas S. Ray]], American ecologist ** [[Phil "Philthy Animal" Taylor]], English drummer ([[Motörhead]] and [[Waysted]]) (d. 2015) * [[September 23]] – [[Cherie Blair]], lawyer, wife of British Prime Minister [[Tony Blair]] * [[September 24]] – [[Lilian Mercedes Letona]], Salvadoran guerrilla (d. [[1983]]) * [[September 26]] – [[Kevin Kennedy (baseball)|Kevin Kennedy]], American baseball manager and television host * [[September 28]] ** [[Steve Largent]], American football player and congressman ** [[Margot Wallström]], Swedish politician<ref>{{cite web |title=Margot Wallström |url=https://awpc.cattcenter.iastate.edu/directory/margot-wallstrom/ |website=iastate.edu |publisher=Iowa state university}}</ref> * [[September 29]] – [[Masoud Pezeshkian]], President of Iran * [[September 30]] – [[Barry Williams (actor)|Barry Williams]], American actor ===October=== [[File:Scott Bakula by Gage Skidmore.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Scott Bakula]]]] [[File:David Lee Roth Smashbox 2008.jpg|thumb|100px|[[David Lee Roth]]]] [[File:2016 NAB Show's The Future of Cinema Conference, produced in partnership with SMPTE (26717112630) (cropped).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Ang Lee]]]] [[File:Malcolm Turnbull at the Pentagon 2016 cropped.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Malcolm Turnbull]]]] <!--[[File:Mario Testino.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Mario Testino]]]]--> * [[October 1]] – [[Martin Strel]], Slovenian swimmer * [[October 3]] ** [[Eddie DeGarmo]], American Christian keyboardist and producer ** [[Dennis Eckersley]], American baseball player ** [[Al Sharpton]], African-American civil rights activist, minister and radio talk show host ** [[Dawayne Bailey]], American musician ** [[Stevie Ray Vaughan]], American musician (d. [[1990]]) * [[October 5]] ** [[Gurudas Kamat]], Indian politician (d. [[2018]]) ** [[Wayne Watson]], American Christian musician * [[October 6]] – [[Howard Hoffman]], American voice actor * [[October 7]] – [[Robert A. Schuller]], American televangelist and the son of [[Robert Schuller]] * [[October 9]] ** [[Scott Bakula]], American actor (''[[Quantum Leap (1989 TV series)|Quantum Leap]]'', ''[[Star Trek: Enterprise]]'') ** [[John O'Hurley]], American actor and game show host * [[October 10]] ** [[Mohamed Mounir]], Egyptian singer and actor ** [[David Lee Roth]], American rock singer * [[October 13]] – [[Mordechai Vanunu]], a former Israeli nuclear technician who revealed secrets of its [[nuclear weapon]]s program * [[October 14]] – [[Mohamad Sabu]], Malaysian politician * [[October 15]] – [[Peter Bakowski]], Australian poet * [[October 18]] – [[Yūji Mitsuya]], Japanese voice actor * [[October 22]] – [[Ellen Gerstell]], American voice actress * [[October 23]] – [[Ang Lee]], Taiwanese film director * [[October 24]] ** [[Doug Davidson]], American actor ** [[Mike Rounds]], South Dakota politician ** [[Malcolm Turnbull]], [[Prime Minister of Australia|29th Prime Minister of Australia]] * [[October 26]] ** [[Carlos Agostinho do Rosário]], Mozambican politician ** [[Victor Ciorbea]], 56th prime minister of Romania * [[October 30]] ** [[Kathleen Cody (actor)|Kathleen Cody]], American actress ** [[Mario Testino]], Peruvian photographer ===November=== [[File:Kamal Haasan at Promotions of 'Vishwaroop' with Videocon (03).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Kamal Haasan]]]] [[File:Jon-Taffer (cropped).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Jon Taffer]]]] [[File:Condoleezza Rice cropped.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Condoleezza Rice]]]] [[File:Aleksander kwasniewski konferencja (cropped).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Aleksander Kwaśniewski]]]] [[File:Paolo Gentiloni EP Parliament (cropped).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Paolo Gentiloni]]]] * [[November 2]] – [[Angela Webber]], Australian author, television writer, producer and comedian (d. [[2007]]) * [[November 3]] ** [[Adam Ant]], British rock singer and musician ** [[Brigitte Lin]], Taiwanese actress ** [[Kathy Kinney]], American actress and comedian * [[November 5]] ** [[Mike Gabriel]], American animator and film producer ** [[Alejandro Sabella]], Argentine footballer and manager (d. [[2020]]) * [[November 6]] – [[Karin Fossum]], Norwegian crime fiction writer * [[November 7]] ** [[Robin Beck]], American singer ** [[Kamal Haasan]], Indian actor, dancer, film director, screenwriter, producer and politician ** [[Jon Taffer]], American bar consultant, television host and author * [[November 8]] ** [[Michael D. Brown]], first Undersecretary of Emergency Preparedness and Response, a division of the United States' Department of Homeland Security ** [[Kazuo Ishiguro]], Japanese-born British author, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate * [[November 11]] – [[Mary Gaitskill]], American novelist * [[November 12]] – [[Rhonda Shear]], American television hostess, actress and comedian * [[November 13]] – [[Chris Noth]], American actor * [[November 14]] ** [[Yanni]], Greek musician ** [[Robert Alberts]], Dutch footballer and manager of [[Persib Bandung]] ** [[Willie Hernández]], Puerto Rican [[Major League Baseball]] player ** [[Bernard Hinault]], French road bicycle racer ** [[Condoleezza Rice]], American politician, 66th [[United States Secretary of State]] * [[November 15]] ** [[Stephen W. Burns]], American actor (d. [[1990]]) ** [[Aleksander Kwaśniewski]], [[President of Poland]] * [[November 16]] – [[Bruce Edwards (caddy)|Bruce Edwards]], American golf caddy (d. [[2004]]) * [[November 19]] ** [[Abdel Fattah el-Sisi]], [[President of Egypt]] ** [[Kathleen Quinlan]], American actress * [[November 22]] – [[Paolo Gentiloni]], [[Prime Minister of Italy]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.camera.it/leg17/29?tipoAttivita=&tipoVisAtt=&tipoPersona=&shadow_deputato=300637&lettera=&idLegislatura=17|title=XVII Legislatura|language=it|website=Camera dei deputati|access-date=October 8, 2024}}</ref> * [[November 23]] ** [[Bruce Hornsby]], American rock singer ** [[Elizabeth Savalla]], Brazilian actress * [[November 26]] ** [[Roz Chast]], American cartoonist * [[November 27]] ** [[Patricia McPherson]], American actress ** [[Kimmy Robertson]], American actress * [[November 28]] – [[Marty Grabstein]], American actor and voice actor * [[November 29]] – [[Coen brothers|Joel Coen]], American film director, producer, screenwriter and editor * November – [[Pierre M'Pelé]], African public health personality and writer<ref>{{PubMedAuthorSearch|M'Pelé|P}}</ref> ===December=== [[File:Tony Todd July 2017.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Tony Todd]]]] [[File:JermaineJackson2007(cropped).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Jermaine Jackson]]]] [[File:Uli Jon Roth (PK) - Wacken Open Air 2017 06.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Uli Jon Roth]]]]<!--Please DO NOT change this image into Ray Liotta.--> [[File:Denzel Washington cropped 02.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Denzel Washington]]]] * [[December 2]] – [[Dan Butler]], American actor and voice actor * [[December 4]] – [[Tony Todd]], American actor and producer (d. [[2024]])<ref>{{Cite web |last=Pedersen |first=Erik |date=2024-11-09 |title=Tony Todd Dies: 'Candyman' Star Whose Hundreds of Credits Include 'Final Destination' Films & 'Platoon' Was 69 |url=https://deadline.com/2024/11/tony-todd-dead-candyman-1236171521/ |access-date=2024-11-09 |website=Deadline |language=en-US}}</ref> * [[December 6]] – [[Beat Furrer]], Swiss-born Austrian composer and conductor * [[December 8]] – [[Sumi Shimamoto]], Japanese voice actress * [[December 9]] – [[Jean-Claude Juncker]], Luxembourg politician * [[December 11]] ** [[Sylvester Clarke]], West Indian cricketer (d. [[1999]]) ** [[Jermaine Jackson]], African-American singer and actor ** [[Prachanda]], Nepalese Communist leader ** [[Elizângela]], Brazilian actress (d. [[2023]]) * [[December 13]] – [[John Anderson (musician)|John Anderson]], American country music singer-songwriter * [[December 14]] ** [[Ib Andersen]], Danish dancer ** [[Alan Kulwicki]], American race car driver (d. [[1993]]) * [[December 15]] – [[Mark Warner]], American politician * [[December 18]] – [[Ray Liotta]], American actor and producer ([[Goodfellas]]) (d. [[2022]]) * [[December 20]] ** [[Binali Yildirim]], [[Prime Minister of Turkey]] ** [[Sandra Cisneros]], American writer * [[December 21]] – [[Chris Evert]], American tennis player * [[December 23]] – [[Brian Teacher]], American tennis player<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.atptour.com/en/players/brian-teacher/t011/overview|title=Brian Teacher | Overview | ATP Tour | Tennis|website=ATP Tour}}</ref> * [[December 24]] – [[José María Figueres]], Costa Rican politician, President ([[1994]]–[[1998]]) * [[December 25]] ** [[Roman Baskin]], Estonian actor and director of stage and screen (d. [[2018]]) ** [[Annie Lennox]], British pop musician and lead singer of [[Eurythmics]] * [[December 26]] ** [[Susan Butcher]], American dog-sled racer (d. [[2006]]) ** [[Ozzie Smith]], HOF baseball shortstop ** [[Hajji Alejandro]], Filipino singer and actor (d. [[2025]]) * [[December 28]] ** [[Lanny Poffo]], American professional wrestler ** [[Denzel Washington]], African-American actor ** [[Tony Ables]], American serial killer and robber<ref>{{cite web | url=https://dani-hendrix.medium.com/serial-killer-in-tampa-bay-area-caught-after-dna-testing-c9d1d2bf631f | title=Serial Killer in Tampa Bay Area Caught After DNA Testing | date=September 10, 2022 }}</ref> * [[December 29]] ** [[Albrecht Böttcher]], German mathematician ** [[Roger Voudouris]], American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. [[2003]]) * [[December 31]] – [[Alex Salmond]], Scottish politician (d. [[2024]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Alex Salmond {{!}} Biography & Facts {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Alex-Salmond |website=Encyclopædia Britannica |access-date=January 9, 2023}}</ref> ===Date not known=== *[[Marek Smurzyński]], Polish translator, Persian language speaker and translator (d. [[2009]]) ==Deaths== ===January=== [[File:EdwinHowardArmstrong.jpg|thumb|100px|right|[[Edwin Howard Armstrong]]]] * [[January 1]] – [[José Millán-Astray]], Spanish general, founder of the [[Spanish Legion]] (b. [[1879]]) * [[January 5]] – [[Lillian Rich]], English actress (b. [[1900]])<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/161093%7C99136/Lillian-Rich/#overview |title=Lillian Rich |publisher=[[Turner Classic Movies, Inc.]] |access-date=November 5, 2022}}</ref> * [[January 8]] – [[Eduard Wiiralt]], Estonian artist (b. [[1898]])<ref>{{cite book |title=The Yale University Library Gazette |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3NMaAAAAMAAJ |year=1978 |publisher=[[Yale University Library]] |page=159 }}</ref> * [[January 11]] ** [[John Simon, 1st Viscount Simon]], British politician (b. [[1873]])<ref>{{cite web |url=https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/people/mr-john-simon-1/index.html |title=Mr John Simon (Hansard) |publisher=[[UK Parliament]] |access-date=November 5, 2022}}</ref> ** [[Oscar Straus (composer)|Oscar Straus]], Austrian composer (b. [[1870]])<ref>{{cite book |last=Randel |first=Don Michael |title=The Harvard Concise Dictionary of Music and Musicians |date=October 30, 2002 |publisher=[[Harvard University Press]] |isbn=978-0-674-25572-2 |page=866 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HXILEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT866}}</ref> * [[January 18]] – [[Sydney Greenstreet]], English actor (b. [[1879]])<ref>{{cite book |last=Donnelley |first=Paul |title=Fade to Black: A Book of Movie Obituaries |date=2003 |publisher=[[Music Sales Group]] |isbn=9780711995123 |page=295 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qAhtNiAl3YsC&q=%22Sydney+Hughes+Greenstreet%22&pg=PA295 |access-date=April 1, 2017 }}</ref> * [[January 31]] ** [[Edwin Howard Armstrong]], American electrical engineer (b. [[1890]])<ref>{{cite news |title=Armstrong, FM Inventor, Dies in Leap From East Side Suite |newspaper=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |date=February 2, 1954 |page=1 |quote=Maj. Edwin H. Armstrong, whose inventions provided much of the basis for modern broadcasting, was found dead yesterday morning on a third-floor balcony of River House, 435 East Fifty-second Street. The 63-year-old electrical engineer had plunged from a window of his luxurious thirteenth-floor apartment, apparently late Sunday evening or during the night.}}</ref> ** [[Florence Bates]], American actress (b. [[1888]])<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.allmovie.com/artist/p4525 |last=Erickson |first=Hal |author-link=Hal Erickson (author) |title=Florence Bates {{!}} Biography, Movie Highlights and Photos |publisher=[[AllMovie]], Netaktion LLC |access-date=November 4, 2022}}</ref> ===February=== [[File:Axel Pehrsson-Bramstorp.jpg|thumb|100px|right|[[Axel Pehrsson-Bramstorp]]]] * [[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 19]] – [[Axel Pehrsson-Bramstorp]], 24th [[Prime Minister of Sweden]] (b. [[1883]]) * [[February 21]] – [[William K. Howard]], American film director (b. [[1899]]) ===March=== [[File:Otto Paul Hermann Diels.jpg|thumb|100px|right|[[Otto Diels]]]] * [[March 7]] ** [[Otto Diels]], German chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1876]]) ** [[Will H. Hays]], Namesake for the [[Motion Picture Production Code|Hays Code]] (b. [[1879]]) * [[March 9]] – [[Vagn Walfrid Ekman]], Swedish oceanographer (b. [[1874]]) * [[March 12]] – [[Marianne Weber]], German sociologist and suffragist (b. [[1870]])<ref>{{cite book | first1=Patricia M. | last1=Lengermann | first2=Jill | last2=Niebrugge-Brantley | chapter=Marianne Weber (1870- 1954): A Woman-Centered Sociology | title=The Women Founders: Sociology and Social Theory, 1830-1930 : a Text/reader | location=Boston | publisher=McGraw-Hill | year=1998 | isbn=978-1-57766-509-0 | page=194}}</ref> * [[March 13]] – [[Cesar Klein]], German painter (b. [[1876]]) * [[March 24]] – [[Thành Thái]], [[Emperor of Vietnam]] (b. [[1879]]) * [[March 26]] – [[Louis Silvers]], American film composer (b. [[1889]]) * [[March 30]] – [[Fritz London]], German physicist (b. [[1900]]) ===April=== [[File:Léon Jouhaux nobel.jpg|thumb|100px|right|[[Léon Jouhaux]]]] * [[April 2]] ** [[Hoyt Vandenberg]], [[United States Air Force|U.S. Air Force general]] (b. [[1899]]) ** [[Maud Barger-Wallach]], American tennis player (b. [[1870]]) * [[April 3]] – [[Aristides de Sousa Mendes]], Portuguese diplomat and humanitarian (b. [[1885]])<ref>[https://www.centerofportugal.com/tour/aristides-de-sousa-mendes-the-insubordinate-consul Aristides de Sousa Mendes: the insubordinate consul]</ref> * [[April 7]] – [[Saburō Kurusu]], Japanese diplomat (b. [[1886]]) * [[April 10]] – [[Auguste and Louis Lumière|Auguste Lumière]], French film pioneer (b. [[1862]]) * [[April 17]] – [[Lucrețiu Pătrășcanu]], Romanian communist activist and sociologist (b. [[1900]]) * [[April 27]] ** [[Antoni Bolesław Dobrowolski]], Polish scientist and explorer who participated in the [[Belgian Antarctic Expedition|Belgian Antarctic expedition]] (b. [[1872]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Polish Polar Research|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_W0fAQAAIAAJ|year=1998|publisher=Państwowe Wydawn. Naukowe|page=10}}</ref> ** [[Thorvald Ellegaard]], Danish track cyclist (b. [[1877]])<ref>{{Cite web |date=April 27, 2017 |title=Today in Transportation History – 1954: The Passing of a Danish Cycling Legend |url=https://transportationhistory.org/2017/04/27/today-in-transportation-history-1954-the-passing-of-a-danish-cycling-legend/ |access-date=December 28, 2023 |website=Transportation History}}</ref> * [[April 28]] – [[Léon Jouhaux]], French labor leader, recipient of the [[Nobel Peace Prize]] (b. [[1879]]) * [[April 29]] – [[Joe May]], Austrian-born film director (b. [[1880]]) ===May=== [[File:Heinz Guderian portrait.jpg|thumb|100px|right|[[Heinz Guderian]]]] * [[May 1]] – [[Tom Tyler]], American actor (b. [[1903]]) * [[May 5]] – [[Henri Laurens]], French sculptor and illustrator (b. [[1885]]) * [[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 22]] – [[Chief Bender]], Native-American baseball player (b. [[1884]]) * [[May 25]] – [[Robert Capa]], Hungarian-born photojournalist (b. [[1913]]) * [[May 26]] – [[Omer Nishani]], Albanian medical doctor and political figure (b. [[1887]]) ===June=== [[File:Alan Turing (1912-1954) in 1936 at Princeton University.jpg|thumb|100px|right|[[Alan Turing]]]] * [[June 7]] – [[Alan Turing]], British mathematician, cryptanalyst, and pioneer computer scientist (b. [[1912]])<ref>{{Cite encyclopedia |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Alan-Turing#toc330986 |title=Alan Turing. Biography, Facts, & Education |encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Britannica |access-date=October 11, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171011184445/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Alan-Turing#toc330986 |archive-date=October 11, 2017 |url-status=live }}</ref> * [[June 9]] – [[Alain LeRoy Locke]], American writer, philosopher and educator (b. [[1885]]) * [[June 24]] – [[Thomas Denman, 3rd Baron Denman]], 5th [[Governor-General of Australia]] (b. [[1874]]) * [[June 30]] – [[Andrass Samuelsen]], 1st prime minister of Faroe Islands (b. [[1873]]) ===July=== [[File:Frida Kahlo, by Guillermo Kahlo.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Frida Kahlo]]]] [[File:Jacinto Benavente y Martinez.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Jacinto Benavente]]]] * [[July 1]] ** [[Thea von Harbou]], German actress (b. [[1888]]) ** [[Tomás Monje]], 41st [[President of Bolivia]] (b. [[1884]]) * [[July 6]] ** [[Gabriel Pascal]], Hungarian-born film producer and director (b. [[1894]]) ** [[Cornelia Sorabji]], Indian-born lawyer (b. [[1866]]) * [[July 13]] ** [[Frida Kahlo]], Mexican painter (b. [[1907]])<ref>{{cite book |last=Zamora |first=Martha |title=Frida Kahlo: The Brush of Anguish |url=https://archive.org/details/fridakahlobrusho0000zamo |url-access=registration |year=1990 |publisher=[[Chronicle Books]] |isbn=978-0-87701-746-2 |page=12}}</ref> ** [[Irving Pichel]], American actor and director (b. [[1891]]) * [[July 14]] – [[Jacinto Benavente]], Spanish dramatist, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1866]]) * [[July 16]] – [[Herms Niel]], German composer (b. [[1888]]) * [[July 17]] – [[Machine Gun Kelly (gangster)|Machine Gun Kelly]], American gangster (b. [[1895]]) * [[July 19]] – [[Hannes Meyer]], Swiss architect (b. [[1889]]) * [[July 28]] – [[Sōjin Kamiyama]] or "Sojin", Japanese film star during the silent film era (b. [[1884]]) ===August=== [[File:Alcide de Gasperi 2.jpg|thumbnail|right|100px|[[Alcide de Gasperi]]]] * [[August 3]] – [[Colette]], French novelist (b. [[1873]])<ref>{{cite book |last1 = Portuges |first1 = Catherine |last2 = Jouve |first2 = Nicole Ward |chapter = Colette |editor1-last = Sartori |editor1-first = Eva Martin |editor2-last = Zimmerman |editor2-first = Dorothy Wynne |title = French Women Writers |publisher = University of Nebraska Press |year = 1994 |isbn = 0803292244 |pages=80–81}}</ref> * [[August 11]] – [[Murray Kinnell]], English actor (b. [[1889]])<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20190103043517/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba32d14de Murray Kinnell]</ref> * [[August 14]] – [[Hugo Eckener]], German president of the Zeppelin Dirigible Company (b. [[1868]]) * [[August 19]] – [[Alcide De Gasperi]], Italian statesman and Christian Democracy politician, 30th [[Prime Minister of Italy]] (b. [[1881]]) * [[August 24]] – [[Getúlio Vargas]], 14th and 17th [[President of Brazil]] (b. [[1882]]) ===September=== * [[September 2]] – [[Franz Leopold Neumann]], German political activist and Marxist theorist (b. [[1900]]) * [[September 3]] – [[Eugene Pallette]], American actor (b. [[1889]]) * [[September 5]] – [[Eugen Schiffer]], German politician (b. [[1860]]) * [[September 7]] – [[Bud Fisher]], American cartoonist (b. [[1885]])<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1954/09/08/archives/harry-c-bud-fisher-creator-of-mutt-and-jeff-is-deadat-69-he-began.html|title= Harry C. (Bud) Fisher, Creator Of 'Mutt and Jeff,' Is Dead at 69; He Began Famous Comic Strip 'Early in Century--Owned 'String of Thoroughbreds| work=The New York Times|date=September 8, 1954}} (abstract) {{subscription required}}</ref> * [[September 8]] – [[André Derain]], French artist, painter and sculptor (b. [[1880]]) * [[September 21]] – [[Kokichi Mikimoto]], Japanese pearl farm pioneer (b. [[1858]])<ref>{{cite web |url=http://alist-magazine.com/home/unforgattable-dream/ |author=Svetlana Kim|title= Kokichi Mikimoto's Unforgettable Dream |work=alist-magazine.com |access-date=October 10, 2024}}</ref> * [[September 25]] – [[Eugenio d'Ors]], Spanish writer (b. [[1881]]) * [[September 26]] – [[Ellen Roosevelt]], American tennis player (b. [[1868]]) * [[September 27]] – [[Maximilian von Weichs]], German field marshal (b. [[1881]]) * [[September 28]] – [[Bert Lytell]], American actor (b. [[1885]]) * [[September 29]] – [[Martin Wetzer]], Finnish general (b. [[1868]]) ===October=== [[File:Roberthjackson.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Robert H. Jackson]]]] * [[October 9]] – [[Robert H. Jackson]], United States Supreme Court associate justice and chief prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials (b. [[1892]]) * [[October 12]] – [[George Welch (pilot)|George Welch]], American aviator (b. [[1918]]) * [[October 19]] – [[Hugh Duffy]], American baseball player ([[Boston Braves (baseball)|Boston Braves]]) and a member of the [[MLB Hall of Fame]] (b. [[1866]]) * [[October 22]] – [[Jibanananda Das]], Indian poet, writer, novelist and essayist in [[Bengali language|Bengali]] (b. [[1899]]) * [[October 28]] – [[Austin Hobart Clark]], American zoologist (b. [[1880]]) * [[October 30]] – [[Wilbur Shaw]], American racing driver (b. [[1902]]) ===November=== [[File:Henri Matisse, 1913, photograph by Alvin Langdon Coburn.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Henri Matisse]]]] [[File:Enrico Fermi 1943-49.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Enrico Fermi]]]] [[File:Wilhelm Furtwängler.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Wilhelm Furtwängler]]]] * [[November 3]] – [[Henri Matisse]], French painter (b. [[1869]])<ref>{{cite book | last =Schneider | first =Pierre | title =Matisse | publisher =George Braziller | date =1984 | location =New York | pages =740 | isbn =0500091668}}</ref> * [[November 10]] – [[Édouard Le Roy]], French philosopher and mathematician (b. [[1870]]) * [[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 20]] – [[Clyde Cessna]], American aviator and aircraft designer and manufacturer, founder of the [[Cessna|Cessna Aircraft Corporation]] (b. [[1879]]) * [[November 22]] ** [[Moroni Olsen]], American actor (b. [[1889]]) ** [[Andrey Vyshinsky]], Russian jurist and diplomat, former [[Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Soviet Union)|Soviet Foreign Minister]] (b. [[1883]]) * [[November 28]] – [[Enrico Fermi]], Italian physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1901]])<ref>{{cite news|date=November 29, 1954|title=Enrico Fermi Dead at 53; Architect of Atomic Bomb|newspaper=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0929.html|url-status=dead|access-date=January 21, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190314034514/https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0929.html|archive-date=March 14, 2019}}</ref> * [[November 30]] – [[Wilhelm Furtwängler]], German conductor (b. [[1886]]) ===December=== * [[December 1]] – [[Fred Rose (songwriter)|Fred Rose]], American songwriter (b. [[1898]]) * [[December 8]] ** [[Claude Cahun]], French photographer and writer (b. [[1894]]) ** [[Gladys George]], American actress (b. [[1904]]) * [[December 20]] – [[James Hilton (novelist)|James Hilton]], English novelist (b. [[1900]]) * [[December 30]] ** [[Archduke Eugen of Austria]], Austrian field marshal (b. [[1863]]) ** [[Günther Quandt]], German industrialist who founded an industrial empire that today includes BMW and Altana (b. [[1881]]) ==Nobel Prizes== [[File:Nobel medal.png|right|100px]] * [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Physics]] – [[Max Born]], [[Walther Bothe]] * [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Chemistry]] – [[Linus Pauling]] * [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Medicine]] – [[John Franklin Enders]], [[Thomas Huckle Weller]], [[Frederick Chapman Robbins]] * [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Literature]] – [[Ernest Hemingway]] * [[Nobel Peace Prize|Peace]] – The Office of the [[United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees]]. == References == {{Reflist}} {{Events by month links}} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:1954}} [[Category:1954| ]]
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