1954 deaths

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

Austrian archduke and military officer (1863-1954)

German women's rights activist and legal historian (1870-1954)

Brazilian poet, writer (1890–1954)

Vietnamese emperor (1879–1954)

American mathematician (1874–1954)

American physicist (1874–1954)

Ottoman noble (1883–1954)

Last Crown Princess of Bavaria (1899–1954)

German historian and philosopher of history (1862-1954)

Swedish oceanographer

Albanian politician (1887-1954)

German-British chess player and chess book author

Sportsman (1898–1954)

Austrian publicist (1874–1954)

Indonesian politician (1884–1954)

Bashkir writer, poet (1905–1954)

sibling duo

French mathematician and philosopher (1870-1954)

Estonian-Finnish writer (1886–1954)

American philosopher and writer (1885–1954)

Metropolitan Archbishop of Milan and Cardinal of the Catholic Church, beatified in 1996.

American athlete (1880-1954)

Czechoslovak politician (1887-1954)

British politician (1873-1954)

French professional wrestler (1903–1954)

gymnast (1883-1954)

manager of the Luftschiffbau Zeppelin company (1868–1954)

Danish politician (1881–1954)

Lithuanian writer (1882-1954)

English author, Anglican dean and professor of divinity (1860–1954)

Russian spiritual philosopher, occult writer, theosophist (1879—1955)

French art historian (1862-1954)

racecar driver

Estonian artist (1898-1954)

American actor (1889–1954)

Italian writer (1907–1954)

Dutch near eastern archaeologist and egyptologist (1897-1954)

Argentine physician (1867–1954)

Hungarian water polo player (1890-1954)

Finnish painter (1869-1954)

1st president of the Maldives (1910–1954)

actor and director (1888-1954)

French fencer (1881–1954)

American shot putter (1878–1954)

French sculptor (1885–1954)

American physicist (1887–1954)

Orthodox Jewish Rabbi and Kabbalist

German astronomer (1912–1954)

Russian writer (1875-1954)

British women's rights activist, editor (1867-1954)

British scientist (1894-1954)

actor, film director (1891-1954)

French linguist (1893–1954)

Polish astronomer, mathematician and geodesist (1882–1954)

French anarchist (1879–1954)

Spanish writer (1881–1954)

Polish physician, immunologist and microbiologist (1884–1954)

general Spanish, fascist, hero of the war in the Philippines and founder of the Spanish legion (1879-1954)

French racing driver