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# 1954

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Years : | 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957
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.

## [edit] Events

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

## [edit] Births

- January 29 - Oprah Winfrey, talk show host
- March 1 - Ron Howard, actor, director
- April 23 - Michael Moore, documentary filmmaker
- August 25 - Elvis Costello, singer
- October 9 - Scott Bakula, actor

## [edit] 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

## [edit] Films released

- Devil Girl from Mars
- The Seven Samurai

## [edit] Hit songs

- Sh-Boom - Crew Cuts

## [edit] 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

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