About the day » Saturday August 14, 1954Calender converter

• Willem Petrus de Graaf, Maarssen († 2020)
• Craig Lynn Ykema, Hawarden Sioux County IOWA († 1975)
• Edward Doyle Jones († 2019)
• Rolland Bresser, Waupun, Wisconsin 53963, Verenigde Staten († 2012)
• GORDON RICHARD MOSTERT, DELHI (NEW YORK) († 2015)
• Robert G. Dreiling, Quinter, Gove County, Kansas, Verenigde Staten († 2011)
• Marinus Johannes Hendrikus van Houtum, Veghel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1954)
• Roelof Veen, Steenwijk († 1954)
• Marinus Johan HOLTZ, Jakarta
• levenloos geboren kind († 1954)

• Cornelia Smit (84), Arnhem, Nederland
• Adriana Boschman (79), Bergen Op Zoom, North Brabant, Netherlands
• Abraham Calatz (80), Vianen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adrianus Carel Korst (79), 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Catherine Ella Poss (0)
• Cornelis Wilhelmus Lange (79), Rotterdam
• Antonia Wolkenfelt (87), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Bertha Lierhaus (76), Bottrop
• Catharina Reinhardt, Schaesberg, Limburg, Nederland
• Charlotte (Lottie) YOUNG (DONELLAN) (75), Napa, California

• 1952 » Debbie Meyer, American swimmer
• 1952 » John McCutcheon, American folksinger
• 1953 » James Horner, American composer and conductor († 2015)
• 1954 » Mark Fidrych, American baseball player and sportscaster († 2009)
• 1954 » Stanley A. McChrystal, American general
• 1956 » Andy King, English footballer and manager († 2015)
• 1956 » Erica Flapan, American mathematician
• 1956 » Jackée Harry, American actress and television personality
• 1956 » Rusty Wallace, American race car driver and sportscaster
• 1956 » Sharon Bryant, American R&B singer

• 1943 » Lore Berger, Swiss author and translator (b. 1921)
• 1951 » William Randolph Hearst, American publisher and politician, founded the Hearst Corporation (b. 1863)
• 1954 » Hugo Eckener, German pilot and designer (b. 1868)
• 1954 » Nikos Ploumpidis, Greek activist (b. 1901)
• 1955 » Herbert Putnam, American lawyer and publisher, Librarian of Congress (b. 1861)
• 1956 » Bertolt Brecht, German poet, playwright, and director (b. 1898)
• 1958 » Frédéric Joliot-Curie, French physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1900)
• 1958 » Konstantin von Neurath, German lawyer and politician, Reich Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1873)
• 1963 » Clifford Odets, American director, playwright, and screenwriter (b. 1906)
• 1964 » Johnny Burnette, American singer-songwriter (b. 1934)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Willem
6. Peter
7. Robert
8. Pieter
9. Gerrit
10. Petrus
11. John
12. Jacobus
13. Gerardus
14. Adrianus
15. Jacob
16. Dirk

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Elisabeth
5. Cornelia
6. Wilhelmina
7. Adriana
8. Catharina
9. Hendrika
10. Petronella
11. Marianne
12. Yvonne
13. Marie
14. Linda
15. Helena
16. Margaretha

• Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from September 2, 1952 to October 13, 1956 the cabinet Drees II, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 10.6 million citizens.
• April 26 » The Geneva Conference, an effort to restore peace in Indochina and Korea, begins.
• June 9 » Joseph Welch, special counsel for the United States Army, lashes out at Senator Joseph McCarthy during the Army–McCarthy hearings, giving McCarthy the famous rebuke, "You've done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?"
• June 27 » The Obninsk Nuclear Power Plant, the Soviet Union's first nuclear power station, opens in Obninsk, near Moscow.
• August 10 » At Massena, New York, the groundbreaking ceremony for the Saint Lawrence Seaway is held.
• November 1 » The Front de Libération Nationale fires the first shots of the Algerian War of Independence.
• November 30 » In Sylacauga, Alabama, United States, the Hodges meteorite crashes through a roof and hits a woman taking an afternoon nap; this is the only documented case in the Western Hemisphere of a human being hit by a rock from space.

The temperature on August 14, 1954 was between 10.0 °C and 19.9 °C and averaged 14.9 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.2 hours. There was 3.6 hours of sunshine (24%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest.