Born in 1954
People born in 1954 turn 72 in 2026. A dollar in 1954 buys what $12.55 buys in September 2026, and about 2.69 billion people were alive. Every figure below links to the source it came from.
Your birthday in 1954
1954
What things cost in 1954
| U.S. average | 1954 | in today’s dollars | latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| One dollar | $1.00 | $12.55 | CPI-U |
1954 figures are annual averages of the published monthly (or quarterly) values. “Today’s dollars” uses the Consumer Price Index for September 2026; “latest” is the most recent published price. Sources: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Census Bureau, U.S. Department of Labor, via FRED. Average retail prices are only published from 1976 on; 1954 has the CPI alone.
Who was in charge in 1954
- United States
- Dwight D. Eisenhower (President)
- United Kingdom
- Elizabeth II (Queen); Winston Churchill (Prime minister)
- Soviet Union
- Nikita Khrushchev (General Secretary); Kliment Voroshilov (Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet); Georgy Malenkov (Chairman of the Council of Ministers)
- People's Republic of China
- Mao Zedong (Chairman; Paramount Leader); Mao Zedong (Chairman); Zhou Enlai (Premier)
- French Fourth Republic
- Vincent Auriol, then René Coty (President); Joseph Laniel, then Pierre Mendès France (Prime minister)
- Allied-occupied Germany
- André François-Poncet, then James B. Conant, then Frederick Millar (High Commissioner)
- East Germany
- Wilhelm Pieck (President); Otto Grotewohl (Chairman)
- West Germany
- Theodor Heuss (President); Konrad Adenauer (Chancellor)
- Japan
- Hirohito (Emperor); Ichirō Hatoyama (Prime minister)
- Republic of India
- Rajendra Prasad (President); Jawaharlal Nehru (Prime minister)
From Wikipedia’s List of state leaders in the 20th century (1951–2000) (revision 1371751893), each name checked against Wikidata. Every country in 1954 →
Famous people born in 1954
- 26 February – Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, president source
- 16 August – George Galloway, politician source
- September 21 – Shinzō Abe, Prime Minister of Japan (died 2022) source
- September 21 – Shinzo Abe, Prime Minister of Japan (died 2022) source
- July 17 – Angela Merkel, 8th Chancellor of Germany source
- 30 August – Alexander Lukashenko, President of Belarus source
- January 1 – Bob Menendez, former U.S. Senator from New Jersey source
- June 25 – Sonia Sotomayor, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States source
- November 19 – Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, President of Egypt source
- November 14 – Condoleezza Rice, American politician, 66th United States Secretary of State source
- August 25 – Elvis Costello, English singer-songwriter source
- January 29 – Oprah Winfrey, African-American actress, talk show hostess, producer and publisher source
- May 27 – Pauline Hanson, Australian politician source
- October 24 – Malcolm Turnbull, 29th Prime Minister of Australia source
- 12 March – Chris Needs, broadcaster (died 2020) source
What happened in 1954
- January 17 – In Yugoslavia, Milovan Đilas, one of the leading members of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia, is relieved of his duties. source
- 12 January – Vuelta a Colombia 1954:The 4th Vuelta a Colombia begins in Bogotá. source
- January 21 – The first nuclear-powered submarine, the USS Nautilus, is launched in Groton, Connecticut, by First Lady of the United States Mamie Eisenhower. source
- January 3 – The Italian broadcaster RAI officially begins transmitting. source
- April 10 – The modern form of value-added tax is first implemented by Maurice Lauré, joint director of the French tax authority, in France's Ivory Coast colony. source
- March 29 – A C-47 transport with French nurse Geneviève de Galard on board is wrecked on the runway at Dien Bien Phu. source
- 6 February – 300 Straits Times printing employees when on strike, resulting in The Sunday Times not being published the following day. source
- 27 January – Village Institutes were closed source