| Millennium:
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| Centuries:
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[[Script error: No such module "Ordinal". century|Script error: No such module "Ordinal". century]] – [[Script error: No such module "Ordinal". century|Script error: No such module "Ordinal". century]] – [[Script error: No such module "Ordinal". century|Script error: No such module "Ordinal". century]]
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| Decades:
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1920s 1930s 1940s – 1950s – 1960s 1970s 1980s
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| Years:
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1951 1952 1953 – 1954 – 1955 1956 1957
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1954 (MCMLIV) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar.
Events
Births
- January 6 - Anthony Minghella, British movie director (d. 2008)
- January 29 – Oprah Winfrey, American talk show host
- February 7 - Dieter Bohlen, German music mogul
- February 15 - Matt Groening, American creator of The Simpsons and Futurama
- February 16 - Iain Banks, Scottish writer
- February 18 - John Travolta, American actor
- February 20 - Patty Hearst, American heiress
- February 21 - Ivo van Damme, Belgian athlete (d. 1976)
- March 1 – Ron Howard, American actor, director
- March 1 - Catherine Bach, American actress
- April 11 - Abdullah Atalar, Turkish academic
- April 19 - Trevor Francis, English footballer
- April 23 – Michael Moore, documentary movie maker
- April 23 – Tony Atlas, American professional wrestler
- May 13 - Johnny Logan, Irish singer
- May 20 - David Paterson, former Governor of New York
- June 30 - Serzh Sargsyan, President of Armenia
- July 17 - Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany
- July 28 - Hugo Chávez, President of Venezuela (d. 2013)
- July 28 - Gerd Faltings, German mathematician
- August 12 - Francois Hollande, President of France
- August 15 - Stieg Larsson, Swedish writer (d. 2004)
- August 16 - George Galloway, British politician
- August 25 – Elvis Costello, British singer
- September 21 - Shinzo Abe, Prime Minister of Japan
- October 9 – Scott Bakula, actor
- November 14 - Condoleezza Rice, former United States Secretary of State
- December 25 - Annie Lennox, Scottish singer
- December 28 - Denzel Washington, American actor
- December 29 – Albrecht Böttcher, German mathematician
- December 30 - Pnina Rosenblum, Israeli business woman and politician
- December 31 - Alex Salmond, First Minister of Scotland
- December 31 - Hermann Tilke, German racing circuit designer
Deaths
Movies released
Hit songs
New books
