List of Famous people who died in 1954
Augusto Introzzi
Augusto Introzzi was an Italian racing cyclist. He rode in the 1937 Tour de France.
Domenico Jorio
Domenico Jorio S.T.D. J.U.D. was a Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church who served as Prefect of the Congregation for Discipline of Sacraments from 1935 until his death.
Martin Wetzer
Martin Wetzer was a Finnish jurist and general. He fought in World War I and during the Finnish Civil War fought on the side of the White movement. He also commanded Finnish volunteers in the Estonian War of Independence. He retired with the rank of lieutenant general and was promoted to general of the infantry in retirement.
Emil Leon Post
Emil Leon Post was a Polish-born American mathematician and logician. He is best known for his work in the field that eventually became known as computability theory.
Curtis D. Wilbur
Curtis Dwight Wilbur was an American lawyer, California state judge, 43rd United States Secretary of the Navy and a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
Gilda Marchiò
Gilda Marchiò (1884–1954) was an Italian theatre actress. She also appeared in a number of films in the 1940s, her performances including a small role in the 1942 propaganda film Odessa in Flames.
Giovanni Marchese
Guido Cirilli
Kate Davenport
Auguste Perret
Auguste Perret was a French architect and a pioneer of the architectural use of reinforced concrete. His major works include the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, the first Art Deco building in Paris; the Church of Notre-Dame du Raincy (1922–23); the Mobilier Nationale in Paris (1937); and the French Economic, Social and Environmental Council building in Paris (1937–39). After World War II he designed a group of buildings in the centre of the port city of Le Havre, including St. Joseph's Church, Le Havre, to replace buildings destroyed by bombing during World War II. His reconstruction of the city is now a World Heritage Site.