About the day » Thursday October 7, 1954Calender converter

• Karen Yvonne PARKER, Preston, Victoria, Australia († 2015)
• Dick Groenewoudt, Enschede († 2023)
• Ada Wilhelmina Maria van der Velden, 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2011)
• Willem CLEWITS, Oude Pekela Groningen Netherlands († 1954)
• Dennis E. Papa, Schuyler-Nebraska (USA) († 2015)
• Riet van Straten, Culemborg († 2002)
• Maurits Kock, Hamburg, Nedersaksen († 2009)
• Wicher Kuilder, Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland († 1974)
• Ronald Phillip West, Hillsboro, Washington, Oregon, Verenigde Staten († 2003)
• Fenna Nynke Warmenhoven, Den Haag († 2001)

• Amiram GERSHUNI (0)
• Bastiaantje Doornhein (81), Herkingen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Ada Maria Spanhake (70), Houhora, New Zealand
• Coenraad van Tijen (79), Amsterdam
• Adriana Johanna Everdina Wilhelmina Hol (65), Tiel (GL)
• Cornelis Korf (23), Gebleven op zee
• Anna Ysbrands (69), Sioux Falls, Minnehaha County, South Dakota
• Adriana Anthonia Pijl (90), Berkel en Rodenrijs
• Betto Bolt (70), Zoutkamp, gem. Ulrum, Groningen, Nederland
• Catharina Padding (77), Hilversum

• 1952 » Graham Yallop, Australian cricketer
• 1952 » Jacques Richard, Canadian ice hockey player († 2002)
• 1952 » Vladimir Putin, Russian colonel and politician, 4th President of Russia
• 1953 » Linda Griffiths, Canadian actress and playwright († 2014)
• 1953 » Margus Lepa, Estonian journalist and actor
• 1953 » Tico Torres, American drummer
• 1955 » Bill Henson, Australian photographer
• 1955 » Ralph Johnson, American computer scientist and author
• 1955 » Yo-Yo Ma, French-American cellist and educator
• 1956 » Steve Bainbridge, English rugby player

• 1939 » Harvey Williams Cushing, American neurosurgeon and academic (b. 1869)
• 1943 » Radclyffe Hall, English author and poet (b. 1880)
• 1944 » Helmut Lent, German colonel and pilot (b. 1918)
• 1950 » Willis Haviland Carrier, American engineer (b. 1876)
• 1951 » Anton Philips, Dutch businessman, co-founded Philips (b. 1874)
• 1956 » Clarence Birdseye, American businessman, founded Birds Eye (b. 1886)
• 1959 » Mario Lanza, American tenor and actor (b. 1921)
• 1966 » Grigoris Asikis, Greek singer-songwriter (b. 1890)
• 1966 » Johnny Kidd, English singer songwriter (b. 1935)
• 1967 » Norman Angell, English journalist and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1872)

• 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.
• February 13 » Frank Selvy becomes the only NCAA Division I basketball player ever to score 100 points in a single game.
• February 19 » Transfer of Crimea: The Soviet Politburo of the Soviet Union orders the transfer of the Crimean Oblast from the Russian SFSR to the Ukrainian SSR.
• March 1 » Nuclear weapons testing: The Castle Bravo, a 15-megaton hydrogen bomb, is detonated on Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean, resulting in the worst radioactive contamination ever caused by the United States.
• April 18 » Gamal Abdel Nasser seizes power in Egypt.
• May 13 » The anti-National Service Riots, by Chinese middle school students in Singapore, take place.
• August 16 » The first issue of Sports Illustrated is published.

The temperature on October 7, 1954 was between 9.0 °C and 11.9 °C and averaged 10.5 °C. There was 8.6 mm of rain during 5.0 hours. There was 1.0 hours of sunshine (9%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest.