List of Famous people who died at 54

Bùi Đơn Dương, known in his films as Đơn Dương, was a Vietnamese film actor, who emigrated to the United States in 2003. He began acting in 1982 and has appeared in over 50 feature films. He won the Best Vietnamese Actor award for his role in the 1992 Vietnamese film Dấu Ấn của Quỷ. The 1996 film Cỏ Lau, in which he also acted, won Best Picture at the Vietnamese National Film Festival.

William Frankfather was an American film and television actor.

Gaby Bruyère was a French actress, dancer, dramatist, and playwright.

Željko Šturanović was a Montenegrin politician who was the Prime Minister of Montenegro from 2006 to 2008.

Stanley Joel Korsmeyer was an American oncologist. Through his studies of apoptosis, Korsmeyer helped develop the concepts of the role of programmed cell death in carcinogenesis. In 1989 Korsmeyer was among the first to confirm that a particular form of lymphoma arose in certain B cells because they had a genetic flaw that caused them to overexpress a gene, Bcl-2, that was involved in the body's normal process for getting rid of them. He then conducted a number of studies defining the activity of a number of related genes and their role in apoptosis.

Raquel Ilombé, pseudonym of Raquel del Pozo Epita (1938–1992), was an Equatoguinean poet and author, who wrote in Spanish.