1954 in the United States 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 17 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr. , environmental lawyerJanuary 19 – Clifford Tabin , geneticist and academicJanuary 20 – Ken Page , actor and singerJanuary 23
January 29
February 3 – Tom Barrise , basketball coach (died 2022 )[ 5] February 7 – Joe Maddon , baseball coach and managerFebruary 9 – Chris Gardner , African-American businessman, investor, stockbroker, motivational speaker, author, and philanthropistFebruary 12 – Philip Zimmermann , cryptographerFebruary 13 – Gary Rendsburg , professor of biblical studies, Hebrew language, and ancient JudaismFebruary 15 – Matt Groening , author, cartoonist, producer and screenwriterFebruary 16 – Margaux Hemingway , fashion model and actress, sister of Mariel Hemingway (d. 1996 )February 17 – Rene Russo , actressFebruary 18 – John Travolta , actor and singer[ 6] February 20 – Patty Hearst , heiress and kidnap victim[ 7] February 22 – Nathan Phillips , Native American activistMarch 1 – Ron Howard , American director and film producerMarch 24 – Mike Braun , American businessman and politicianMarch 26 – Curtis Sliwa , activist, radio talk show host and politician
April 1 – Jeff Porcaro , drummer and songwriter (Toto 1992 )April 3 – Chuck Deardorf , musician (d. 2022 )April 5 – David Edward Maust , serial killer (d. 2006 )April 9 – Dennis Quaid , actorApril 10 – Peter MacNicol , actorApril 23 – Michael Moore , filmmaker, writer, social critic and activistApril 29 – Joe D'Alessandris , American football coach (d. 2024 )May 1
May 4 – Doug Jones , U.S. Senator from Alabama from 2018 to 2021May 8
May 10 – Mike Hagerty , actor (d. 2022 )May 11 – John Clayton , sportswriter (d. 2022 )May 12 – Rafael Yglesias , novelist and screenwriterMay 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
May 29 – Jerry Moran , U.S. Senator from Kansas from 2011June 8 – Greg Ginn , punk rock guitarist, singer, and songwriter (Black Flag )June 14 – Cyrus Vance Jr. , New York County District Attorney from 2010June 19 – Kathleen Turner , actressJune 25 – Sonia Sotomayor , Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the U.S. from 2009June 27 – Ron Griffin , artist
July 1 – Keith Whitley , country music singer (d. 1989 )July 3 – Pennie Lane Trumbull , socialite[ 8] July 15 – Jeff Jarvis , journalist and bloggerJuly 16 – Jeanette Mott Oxford , politicianJuly 23 – Janet Cooke , disgraced journalist, forced to return a Pulitzer Prize for a fabricated storyJuly 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 personalityAugust 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 scholarSeptember 23 – Melanie Skillman , archer[ 12] September 24 – Ash Carter , 25th United States Secretary of Defense September 29 – Cindy Morgan , actress (d. 2023 )
October 3
October 9 – John O'Hurley , actor, comedian, author, game show host and television personalityOctober 26 – Stephen L. Carter , African American author of legal thrillersNovember 12 – Rob Lytle , American football player (d. 2010 )November 14
December 1 – Bob Goen , television personality and game show hostDecember 2 – Stone Phillips , journalist and educatorDecember 4 – Tony Todd , actorDecember 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 2009December 18 – Ray Liotta , actor and producer (d. 2022 )December 24 – Karla Burns , opera singer (d. 2021 )[ 14] December 28 – Gayle King , television journalistDecember 29 – Alan Myers , new wave rock drummer (Devo ) (d. 2013)
Deaths
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 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 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 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 (b. 1866 )October 22 – Earl Whitehill , baseball player (b. 1899 )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
^ a b c "On This Day" , The 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. ^ 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 . ^ 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 ^ Will the real Penny Lane please stand up? ^ Lin Brehmer, Radio Legend For Decades At WXRT, Dies At 68 ^ "Who Is Ed Buck?" . Wehoville . 2017-08-16. Retrieved 2020-01-31 .^ Raymond Odierno, Army general who led troops during Iraq war, dead at 67 ^ "Melanie Skillman – Olympic Archery | United States of America" . International Olympic Committee . 14 June 2016. Retrieved 23 April 2019 .^ Dire Straits guitarist Jack Sonni dies age 68 ^ Karla Burns, music theater trailblazer who won coveted Olivier award, dies at 66 ^ "Zella de Milhau | Smithsonian American Art Museum" . americanart.si.edu . Retrieved 15 March 2021 .^ "Zella obit" . The Brooklyn Daily Eagle . 5 March 1954. p. 9. Retrieved 15 March 2021 .^ The Official Website of Billy Murray (1877–1954) The Legendary Denver Nightingale
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