List of Famous people who died in 1954

Felix Eugen Fritsch FRS was a British biologist.

Vincenzo Bettoni was an Italian operatic bass who performed internationally from 1902-1950. He was a resident artist at La Scala in Milan from 1926-1940, and afterwards continued to appear periodically as a guest artist at that house through 1950. Other opera houses he sang with during his career included the Liceu, the Royal Opera House in London, the Teatro Colón, the Teatro di San Carlo, the Teatro Regio in Turin, the Vienna State Opera, and the Zurich Opera among others.

Robert Yuryevich Wipper was a Russian, Latvian and Soviet historian of classical antiquity, medieval and modern period.

Stig Halvard Dagerman was a Swedish journalist and writer. He was one of the most prominent Swedish authors writing in the aftermath of World War II, but his existential texts transcend time and place and continue to be widely published in Sweden and abroad.

Andrass Samuelsen was a Faroese politician and member of the Union Party. He was the first Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands after the autonomy of the Faroe Islands in 1948 (Heimastýrislógin).

Florence Bates was an American film and stage character actress who often played grande dame characters in supporting roles.

Henry Grantland "Granny" Rice was an early 20th-century American sportswriter known for his elegant prose. His writing was published in newspapers around the country and broadcast on the radio.

Clara Westhoff, also known as Clara Rilke or Clara Rilke-Westhoff was a German sculptor and the wife of poet Rainer Maria Rilke.

Samuel "Sam" Symington Jones was an American athlete who competed mainly in the high jump. He competed for the United States in the 1904 Summer Olympics held in St Louis, United States in the high jump where he won the gold medal.