1954: The Year in People

Baby Boomers · Year of the Horse 🐎 · Born in 1954 turn 72 in 2026

The year in numbers

Gas, per gallon

$0.29

Median home

$8,925

Minimum wage

$0.75/hr

Movie ticket

$0.46

US population

2.73B

US president

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Top song

"Little Things Mean a Lot" — Kitty Kallen

Top film

White Christmas

Top TV show

I Love Lucy

Best Picture

On the Waterfront

In the news: Brown v. Board of Education desegregates US schools

What happened in 1954

1954 (MCMLIV) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1954th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 954th year of the 2nd millennium, the 54th year of the 20th century, and the 5th year of the 1950s decade.

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Born in 1954

298 people in our data · most viewed first

Catherine O'Hara

1954–2026 · March 4

Canadian and American actress

Dennis Quaid

b. 1954 · April 9

American actor

Ellen Barkin

b. 1954 · April 16

American actress

Annie Lennox

b. 1954 · December 25

Scottish musician

Dennis Haysbert

b. 1954 · June 2

American actor

Christie Brinkley

b. 1954 · February 2

American model, actress

Howard Stern

b. 1954 · January 12

American radio and television personality

Alexander Lukashenko

b. 1954 · August 30

President of Belarus since 1994

Angela Merkel

b. 1954 · July 17

Chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021

Chris Noth

b. 1954 · November 13

American actor

Abdel Fattah el-Sisi

b. 1954 · November 19

President of Egypt since 2014

Ang Lee

b. 1954 · October 23

Taiwanese filmmaker

Curtis Sliwa

b. 1954 · March 26

American politician and talk radio show host

Bobby Sands

1954–1981 · March 9

Irish Provisional IRA member

Al Sharpton

b. 1954 · October 3

American Baptist minister, activist and talk show host

Al Roker

b. 1954 · August 20

American weather presenter, television and radio personality

Jeff Porcaro

1954–1992 · April 1

American drummer

Adam Ant

b. 1954 · November 3

English singer and musician

Cliff Martinez

b. 1954 · February 5

American musician and composer

Wendy Schaal

b. 1954 · July 2

American actress

D. W. Moffett

b. 1954 · October 26

American actor

Chris Evert

b. 1954 · December 21

American former tennis player

Alice Krige

b. 1954 · June 28

South African actress

Anthony Minghella

1954–2008 · January 6

British playwright and filmmaker

Died in 1954

Alan Turing1912–1954 · English computer scientist
Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha1884–1954 · Duke and Nazi politician
Colette1873–1954 · French novelist
Alcide De Gasperi1881–1954 · Italian politician and statesman
Charles Ives1874–1954 · American modernist composer
Claude Cahun1894–1954 · French artist
Dziga Vertov1896–1954 · Soviet-Jewish filmmaker
André Derain1880–1954 · French artist and co-founder of Fauvism with Henri Matisse
Calogero Vizzini1877–1954 · Sicilian Mafia boss
Agnes Macphail1890–1954 · Canadian politician and activist
Grantland Rice1880–1954 · American sportswriter
Archduke Eugen of Austria1863–1954 · Archduke of Austria and a Prince of Hungary and Bohemia