Louis de Bernières

English novelist.

Born December 8th, 1954 (age 71 years) in London.

Rainer Bock

German actor.

Born July 31st, 1954 (age 71 years) in Kiel.

Yuji Horii

Japanese video game designer.

Born January 6th, 1954 (age 72 years) in Sumoto.

Robert M. Price

American theologian.

Born July 7th, 1954 (age 71 years) in Jackson.

Jimmy Destri

American keyboardist.

Born April 13th, 1954 (age 72 years) in Brooklyn.

Joshua Bolten

American lawyer; former director of the office of management and budget.

Born August 16th, 1954 (age 71 years) in Washington, D.C..

Frank Gray

Scottish footballer (born 1954).

Born October 27th, 1954 (age 71 years) in Glasgow.

DeWayne McKnight

American guitarist.

Born April 17th, 1954 (age 72 years) in Los Angeles.

Townsend Coleman

American voice actor and dj.

Born May 28th, 1954 (age 71 years) in Cleveland Heights.

Viktor Zolotov

Head of the russian presidential security service.

Born January 27th, 1954 (age 72 years) in Sasovo.

Ross the Boss

American guitarist (1954-2026).

Born January 3rd, 1954 in The Bronx.

Died March 26th, 2026 at 72 years old (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis). ^[ref]

James Gleick

American author and historian of science (born 1954).

Born August 1st, 1954 (age 71 years) in New York City.

Alan Kennedy

English association football player.

Born August 31st, 1954 (age 71 years) in Sunderland.

George M. Church

Geneticist, molecular engineer, chemist.

Born August 28th, 1954 (age 71 years) in MacDill Air Force Base.

Jōji Nakata

Japanese voice actor.

Born April 22nd, 1954 (age 72 years) in Tokyo.

Chuck Dixon

American comic book writer.

Born April 13th, 1954 (age 72 years) in Scotland. ^[ref]

Derek Warwick

British racecar driver.

Born August 27th, 1954 (age 71 years) in Hampshire.

Raphael Ravenscroft

British musician, composer and author (1954–2014).

Born June 4th, 1954 in Stoke-on-Trent.

Died October 19th, 2014 at 60 years old in Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital (myocardial infarction).

Mike Kelley

American artist (1954–2012).

Born October 17th, 1954 in Detroit, Wayne.

Died January 31st, 2012 at 57 years old in Los Angeles, South Pasadena (carbon monoxide poisoning). ^[ref]

John Michael Talbot

American roman catholic singer-songwriter.

Born May 8th, 1954 (age 71 years) in Oklahoma City.

Branko Ivanković

Croatian association football player and manager.

Born February 28th, 1954 (age 72 years) in Čakovec.

Hrant Dink

Turkish-armenian newspaper editor, journalist, and columnist (1954-2007).

Born September 15th, 1954 in Malatya.

Died January 19th, 2007 at 52 years old in Istanbul (gunshot wound). ^[ref]

Francis Buchholz

German bass guitarist (1954–2026).

Born February 19th, 1954 in Hanover.

Died January 22nd, 2026 at 71 years old (cancer). ^[ref]

Jodi Long

American actress.

Born January 7th, 1954 (age 72 years) in New York City.

Quinn Buckner

American basketball player and coach (born 1954).

Born August 20th, 1954 (age 71 years) in Phoenix.