List of Famous people who died in 1954

Edward Felix Norton was a British army officer and mountaineer.

Chlodwig, Landgrave of Hesse was an officer in the Prussian Army and head of the Hesse-Philippsthal line of the House of Hesse.

Fritz Alberti was a German actor.

Theodor August Konrad Loos was a German actor.

Theodore Lyman IV was a U.S. physicist and spectroscopist, born in Boston. He graduated from Harvard in 1897, from which he also received his Ph.D. in 1900.

Sir John Edward Lennard-Jones was a British mathematician and professor of theoretical physics at the University of Bristol, and then of theoretical science at the University of Cambridge. He was an important pioneer in the development of modern computational chemistry and theoretical chemistry.

Stella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin, known as Miles Franklin, was an Australian writer and feminist who is best known for her novel My Brilliant Career, published by Blackwoods of Edinburgh in 1901. While she wrote throughout her life, her other major literary success, All That Swagger, was not published until 1936.

Alfred Theodor Leber was a German ophthalmologist born in Antwerp. He was a nephew of renowned ophthalmologist Theodor Leber (1840-1917). Alfred Leber is considered to be the founder of German tropical ophthalmology.

Siegfried Breuer was an Austrian stage and film actor and occasional film director and screenwriter.

Burnet Rhett Maybank was a US senator, the 99th governor of South Carolina, and mayor of Charleston, South Carolina. He was the first governor from Charleston since the Civil War and one of only twenty people in United States history to have been elected mayor, governor, and United States senator. During his tenure in the Senate, Maybank was a powerful ally of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. His unexpected death on September 1, 1954, from a heart attack, led to Strom Thurmond being elected senator.