1954 deaths

Mexican painter (1907–1954)

English computer scientist (1912–1954)

French artist (1869-1954)

Italian–American physicist (1901–1954)

Spanish writer (1866-1954)

Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette (; 28 January 1873 – 3 August 1954), known mononymously as Colette or as Colette Willy, was a French author and woman of letters. She was also a mime, actress, and journalist. Colette is best known in the English-speaking world for her 1944 novella Gigi, which was the basis for the 1958 film and the 1973 stage production of the same name. Her short story collection The Tendrils of the Vine is also famous in France.

President of Brazil (1930–1945; 1951–1954)

Italian politician and founder of the Christian Democratic Party (1881-1954)

German general

German chemist (1876–1954)

American photographer (1913–1954)

Russian-Soviet documentary/avantgarde filmmaker (1896-1954)

American actor, director, screenwriter (1878–1954)

French painter and engraver (1880–1954)

French trade unionist (1879–1954)

German field marshal (1881–1954)

German conductor and composer (1886–1954)

American modernist composer (1874–1954)

Crown Princess of Norway (1901–1954)

Soviet politician, jurist and diplomat (1883-1954)

American electrical engineer and inventor (1890–1954)

Swedish-American inventor (1880-1954)

Danish writer (1869–1954)

Russian political philosopher (1883–1954)

German field marshal (1881–1954)

Turkish writer of short stories and poetry (1906-1954)

French architect (1874–1954)

British novelist and screenwriter (1900–1954)

US Supreme Court justice from 1941 to 1954 (1892–1954)

Polish prose writer, journalist & dramatist (1884-1954)

Russian writer (1873–1954)

German-American physicist (1900-1954)

Italian composer and pianist (1875-1954)

Australian writer and feminist (1879–1954)

Tajik writer (1878-1954)

German screenwriter (1888–1954)

last Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha from 1900 to 1918, British prince and royal duke, Nazi politician (1884–1954)

French artist (1894–1954)

German anthropologist, linguist and historian of religion (1868–1954)

Indian political activist and intellectual

American actress (1904–1954)

Swedish 20th century prime minister (1883-1954)

Austrian conductor and opera impresario (1893 - 1954)

Swedish writer (1923–1954)

American pole vaulter (1875–1954)

mathematician, physicist and university teacher (1885-1954)

English footballer (1879-1954)

U.S. botanist (1858-1954)

Crown Princess of Prussia (1886-1954)

head of SMERSH, Russian Minister of State Security (1946–1951)

Portuguese diplomat (1885–1954)

German imperial princess, Prussian princess (1872–1954); youngest child of Frederick III, German Emperor, and Victoria, Princess Royal

Indian barrister, writer, and social reformer; first female graduate from Bombay University, first woman to study law at Oxford University; first Indian national to study at a British university (1866-1954)

Polish-born American logician (1897–1954)

Swedish writer (1894-1954)

Turkish painter (1886–1954)

Swiss architect and second director of the Bauhaus (1889-1954)

Viennese composer (1870-1954)

British-American actor (1879-1954)

American financial journalist, founder of Forbes Magazine (1880–1954)