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List of events
Events from the year 1954 in the United States .
Incumbents Events January
January 21:
USS Nautilus , the first nuclear-powered submarine
February March April May June July August September October November December Undated Ongoing Births
January 3 - Alvin Stevenson
Hall - Christian Pastor
January 17 –
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. , socialite and environmental activist
January 19 –
Clifford Tabin , geneticist and academic
January 20 –
Ken Page , actor and singer
January 23
January 29
February 3 –
Tom Barrise , basketball coach (died
2022 )
[5]
February 7 –
Joe Maddon , baseball coach and manager
February 9 –
Chris Gardner , African-American businessman, investor, stockbroker, motivational speaker, author, and philanthropist
February 12 –
Philip Zimmermann , cryptographer
February 13 –
Gary Rendsburg , professor of biblical studies, Hebrew language, and ancient Judaism
February 15 –
Matt Groening , author, cartoonist, producer and screenwriter
February 16 –
Margaux Hemingway , fashion model and actress, sister of
Mariel Hemingway (d.
1996 )
February 17 –
Rene Russo , actress
February 18 –
John Travolta , actor and singer
[6]
February 20 –
Patty Hearst , heiress and kidnap victim
[7]
February 22 –
Nathan Phillips , Native American activist
March 1 –
Ron Howard , American director and film producer
March 24 –
Mike Braun , American businessman and politician
March 26 –
Curtis Sliwa , activist, radio talk show host and politician April–June
April 1 –
Jeff Porcaro , drummer and songwriter (
Toto ) (d.
1992 )
April 3 –
Chuck Deardorf , musician (d.
2022 )
April 10 –
Peter MacNicol , actor
April 23 –
Michael Moore , filmmaker, writer, social critic and activist
May 1 –
Alan Poul , screen producer and director
May 4 –
Doug Jones , U.S. Senator from Alabama from 2018 to 2021
May 8
May 10 –
Mike Hagerty , actor (d.
2022 )
May 11 –
John Clayton , sportswriter (d.
2022 )
May 12 –
Rafael Yglesias , novelist and screenwriter
May 20 –
Cindy McCain , diplomat and wife of
John McCain
May 21 –
Janice Karman , film producer, record producer, singer and voice artist, wife of
Ross Bagdasarian Jr.
May 23 –
Marvelous Marvin Hagler , middleweight boxer (d.
2021 )
May 26 –
Danny Rolling , murderer (d.
2006 )
May 28 –
Townsend Coleman , voice actor
May 29 –
Jerry Moran , U.S. Senator from Kansas from 2011
June 8 –
Greg Ginn , punk rock guitarist, singer, and songwriter (
Black Flag )
June 14 –
Cyrus Vance Jr. ,
New York County District Attorney from 2010
June 25 –
Sonia Sotomayor , Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the U.S. from 2009
June 27 –
Ron Griffin , artist July–September
July 1 –
Keith Whitley , country music singer (d.
1989 )
July 3 –
Pennie Lane Trumbull , socialite
[8]
July 15 –
Jeff Jarvis , journalist and blogger
July 16 –
Jeanette Mott Oxford , politician
July 23 –
Janet Cooke , disgraced journalist, forced to return a Pulitzer Prize for a fabricated story
July 25 –
Walter Payton , football running back playing for the
Chicago Bears (d.
1999 )
August 1 –
Philip Trenary , businessman (d.
2018 )
August 19 –
Lin Brehmer , disc jockey and radio personality (d.
2023 )
[9]
August 20 –
Al Roker , meteorologist and television personality
August 24 –
Ed Buck , Democrat political activist and fundraiser
[10]
September 6 –
Carly Fiorina , businesswoman, CEO of
Hewlett-Packard
September 8 –
Raymond T. Odierno , army general (d.
2021 )
[11]
September 21 –
Cass Sunstein , legal scholar
September 23 –
Melanie Skillman , archer
[12]
September 24 –
Ash Carter , 25th
United States Secretary of Defense
September 29 –
Cindy Morgan , actress (d.
2023 ) October–December
October 3
October 9 –
John O'Hurley , actor, comedian, author, game show host and television personality
October 26 –
Stephen L. Carter , African American author of legal thrillers
November 12 –
Rob Lytle , American football player (d.
2010 )
November 14
December 1 –
Bob Goen , television personality and game show host
December 2 –
Stone Phillips , journalist and educator
December 4 –
Tony Todd , American actor
December 9 –
Jack Sonni , guitarist (d.
2023 )
[13]
December 10 –
Gavin Smith , film studio executive (d.
2012 )
December 11 –
Jermaine Jackson , member of the
Jacksons
December 15 –
Mark Warner , U.S. Senator from Virginia from 2009
December 18 –
Ray Liotta , American actor and producer (d.
2022 )
December 24 –
Karla Burns , opera singer (d.
2021 )
[14]
December 28 –
Gayle King , television journalist
December 29 –
Alan Myers , new wave rock drummer (
Devo ) (d. 2013) Deaths January–March
January 1 –
Leonard Bacon , poet (b.
1887 )
January 6 –
Rabbit Maranville , baseball player (b.
1891 )
January 12
January 17 –
Leonard Eugene Dickson , mathematician (b.
1874 )
January 30 –
John Murray Anderson , Canadian-born American actor, dancer, theatre director (b.
1886 )
January 31
February 6 –
Maxwell Bodenheim , poet and novelist (murdered) (b.
1892 )
February 8 –
Laurence Trimble , silent film director and actor (b.
1885 )
February 9 –
Mabel Paige , actress (b.
1880 )
February 16 –
Senda Berenson Abbott , basketball pioneer (b.
1868 )
February 21 –
William K. Howard , film director (b.
1899 )
March 5 –
Zella de Milhau , artist, ambulance driver, community organizer and motorcycle policewoman (b.
1870 )
[15]
[16]
March 7 –
Will H. Hays , politician and first chairman of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America (b.
1879 )
March 26 –
Louis Silvers , film composer (b.
1889 )
March 30 –
Horatio Dresser , New Thought religious leader (b.
1866 ) April–June
April 2
April 8 –
Fritzi Scheff , singer and actress (b.
1879 in Austria)
April 19 –
Russell Davenport , journalist and publisher (b.
1899 )
April 21 –
Emil Post , mathematician and logician (b.
1897 )
April 29 –
Joe May , film director (b.
1880 in Austria)
May 1 –
Tom Tyler , film actor (b.
1903 )
May 3 –
Earnest Hooton , writer on anthropology (b.
1887 )
May 15 –
William March , fiction writer and marine (b.
1893 )
May 19 –
Charles Ives , composer (b.
1874 )
May 22 –
Chief Bender , Native American baseball player (
Philadelphia Athletics ) (b.
1884 )
May 25 –
Robert Capa , photojournalist (killed on location in Vietnam) (b.
1913 in Hungary)
June 9 –
Alain LeRoy Locke , African American cultural leader (b.
1885 )
June 21 –
Harvey A. Carr , psychologist (b.
1873 )
June 22 –
Don Hollenbeck , newscaster (b.
1905 ) July–September
July 3 –
Reginald Marsh , painter (b.
1898 )
July 13
July 14 –
Jackie Saunders , silent screen actress (b.
1892 )
July 17 –
Machine Gun Kelly , gangster (b.
1895 )
August 3 –
Bess Streeter Aldrich , novelist (b.
1881 )
August 17 –
Billy Murray , singer (b.
1877 )
[17]
August 31 –
Elsa Barker , writer (b.
1869 )
September 1 –
Bert Acosta , aviator (b.
1895 )
September 3 –
Eugene Pallette , film actor (b.
1889 )
September 6 –
Edward C. Kalbfus , admiral (b.
1877 )
September 7
September 20 –
Washington Phillips , gospel singer and instrumentalist (b.
1880 )
September 26 –
Ellen Roosevelt , tennis player (b.
1868 )
September 28
October–December
October 3 –
Herbert Prior , actor (b.
1867 )
October 9 –
Robert H. Jackson , U.S. Supreme Court associate justice, chief prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials (b.
1892 )
October 12 –
George Welch , aviator (b.
1918 )
October 19 –
Hugh Duffy , baseball player (
Boston Braves ) (b.
1866 )
October 30 –
Wilbur Shaw , racing driver (b.
1902 )
November 15 –
Lionel Barrymore , actor (b.
1878 )
November 16 –
Albert Francis Blakeslee , botanist (b.
1874 )
November 20 –
Clyde Cessna , aviator and aircraft designer and manufacturer (b.
1879 )
November 22
November 29
December 1 –
Fred Rose , songwriter (b.
1898 )
December 8 –
Gladys George , actress (b.
1904 )
December 15 –
Papa Celestin , jazz bandleader, singer, cornetist, and trumpeter (b.
1884 )
December 25
December 27 –
Adolph Otto Niedner , cartridge designer (b.
1863 ) See also References
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"On This Day" , New York Times , retrieved 25 August 2016
^ Strauss, Lewis (1954-09-16).
Remarks prepared by Lewis L. Strauss (PDF) (Technical report). United States Atomic Energy Commission.
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Mutual Defense Treaty between the United States of America and the Republic of China .
^ Dente, Christopher J. (March 2005).
"Joseph E. Murray (1919– )" . Archives of Surgery . 140 (3). American Medical Association: 270–272.
doi :
10.1001/archsurg.140.3.270 .
PMID
15781791 .
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Tom Barrise Death – Tom Barrise Has Died
^ Kim Long (1994).
American Forecaster Almanac, 1994 ISBN
978-0-936889-25-2
^ Celebrity Services Internation (December 1989).
Celebrity Register ISBN
978-0-8103-6875-0
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Will the real Penny Lane please stand up?
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Lin Brehmer, Radio Legend For Decades At WXRT, Dies At 68
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"Who Is Ed Buck?" . Wehoville . 2017-08-16. Retrieved 2020-01-31 .
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Raymond Odierno, Army general who led troops during Iraq war, dead at 67
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"Melanie Skillman - Olympic Archery | United States of America" . International Olympic Committee . 14 June 2016. Retrieved 23 April 2019 .
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Dire Straits guitarist Jack Sonni dies age 68
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Karla Burns, music theater trailblazer who won coveted Olivier award, dies at 66
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"Zella de Milhau | Smithsonian American Art Museum" . americanart.si.edu . Retrieved 15 March 2021 .
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"Zella obit" . The Brooklyn Daily Eagle . 5 March 1954. p. 9. Retrieved 15 March 2021 .
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The Official Website of Billy Murray (1877-1954) The Legendary Denver Nightingale
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