Historical figures in 1954
The atlas holds 78 people and 122 moments here, in 1954. The most recorded lives are Syngman Rhee, Marilyn Monroe and Miguel Ángel Asturias. Among them Writers, Political Leaders and Military Leaders.
Notable people
Manmohan Singh
in 1954
1 moment here
Indian economist, academic, civil servant, finance minister and prime minister of India from 2004 to 2014.…
Marilyn Monroe
in 1954
5 moments here
American actress and model born Norma Jeane Mortenson. This chronology maps verified places where Monroe lived, worked, traveled, performed, filmed,…
Martin Luther King Jr.
in 1954
1 moment here
American Baptist minister and civil-rights leader who advanced racial equality through nonviolent protest.…
Maya Angelou
in 1954
2 moments here
American memoirist, poet, performer, educator, and civil-rights activist. Her documented life moved from Missouri and Arkansas to California and New…
Miguel Ángel Asturias
in 1954
5 moments here
Guatemalan poet-diplomat, novelist, playwright, journalist, and 1967 Nobel laureate. Asturias’s documented life moved between Guatemala, Europe,…
Naguib Mahfouz
in 1954
1 moment here
Egyptian novelist, screenwriter, and playwright whose fiction made Cairo a central setting of modern Arabic literature.…
Ngô Đình Diệm
in 1954
3 moments here
Ngô Đình Diệm was a Vietnamese civil servant, nationalist politician, prime minister of the State of Vietnam, and first president of the Republic of…
Nguyễn Văn Thiệu
in 1954
1 moment here
South Vietnamese army officer and politician who led South Vietnam as chairman of the National Leadership Committee from 1965 and as president from…
Nikita Khrushchev
in 1954
1 moment here
Soviet Communist Party leader and chairman of the Council of Ministers. Khrushchev rose from industrial work in the Donbas through party posts in…
Octavio Paz
in 1954
1 moment here
Mexican poet, essayist, editor, and diplomat whose international postings and teaching appointments connected Mexico City, the United States, Europe,…
Oscar Niemeyer
in 1954
3 moments here
Brazilian modernist architect whose career ranged from early work in Rio de Janeiro and New York to Brasília, Paris exile, and later international…
Pablo Picasso
in 1954
1 moment here
Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and co-founder of Cubism. Born in Málaga, Picasso trained in A Coruña, Barcelona, and Madrid…
Pol Pot
in 1954
1 moment here
Cambodian communist revolutionary and dictator, born Saloth Sâr. As leader of the Communist Party of Kampuchea and Democratic Kampuchea, he oversaw a…
Rafael Orozco Maestre
in 1954
1 moment here
Colombian vallenato singer and songwriter, co-founder and lead singer of Binomio de Oro with accordionist Israel Romero.…
Rajiv Gandhi
in 1954
1 moment here
Rajiv Gandhi was an Indian aircraft pilot and politician who served as prime minister of India from 1984 to 1989.…
Ram Narayan
in 1954
2 moments here
Indian sarangi player who established the sarangi as a solo concert instrument in Hindustani classical music.…
Robert Mugabe
in 1954
1 moment here
Zimbabwean nationalist leader, Prime Minister of Zimbabwe from 1980 to 1987 and President from 1987 to 2017.…
Samora Machel
in 1954
1 moment here
Mozambican revolutionary and FRELIMO leader who became the first president of independent Mozambique in 1975.…
Satyendra Nath Bose
in 1954
1 moment here
Indian theoretical physicist and mathematician whose 1924 work founded Bose-Einstein statistics.…
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
in 1954
1 moment here
Bangladeshi political leader, founding president of Bangladesh, and prime minister. His documented life moved from childhood and schooling in Bengal…
Shinzo Abe
in 1954
1 moment here
Japanese politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan from 2006 to 2007 and from 2012 to 2020.…
Sydney Brenner
in 1954
2 moments here
South African-born molecular biologist whose career moved from Johannesburg and Oxford to Cambridge, California, Singapore and other scientific…
Syngman Rhee
in 1954
7 moments here
Syngman Rhee was a Korean independence activist and the first president of the Republic of Korea, serving from 1948 until his resignation in 1960.…
Tenzing Norgay
in 1954
1 moment here
Nepalese-Indian Sherpa mountaineer, born Namgyal Wangdi, who with Edmund Hillary made the first confirmed ascent of Mount Everest on 29 May 1953.…
Moments
- 1954 VGIK student in Moscow Vasily Shukshin
- 1954 International Writers' Conference visit William Faulkner
- 1954 Marriage to Mel Ferrer Audrey Hepburn
- 1954 Arrival and medical work in Mexico City Che Guevara
- 1954 Final visit to the Elqui Valley Gabriela Mistral
- 1954 Return to Chile Gabriela Mistral
- 1954 Chinese National Day visit Kim Il Sung
- 1954 Begins Dexter Avenue pastorate Martin Luther King Jr.
- 1954 Returns to Vallauris with Jacqueline Pablo Picasso
- 1954 Birth in Shinjuku Shinzo Abe
- 1954 Marriage to Benigno Aquino Jr. Corazon Aquino
- 1954 Exploratory operation Enrico Fermi
- 1954 Marriage at Central Church Fidel V. Ramos
- 1954 Assassination attempt during Alexandria speech Gamal Abdel Nasser
- 1954 Visit to Hanoi Jawaharlal Nehru
- 1954 Prime ministerial meeting in Saigon Ngô Đình Diệm
- 1954 Death at home Enrico Fermi
- 1954 Death in Nice Henri Matisse
- 1954 People's Action Party inauguration Lee Kuan Yew
- 1954 Arrival and first residence in Paris Dalida
- 1954 Departure from Egypt for Paris Dalida
- 1954 BBC Caribbean Voices employment V. S. Naipaul