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In the year 1954
334 Notable deaths
Jacinto Benavente
Spanish writer (1866-1954).
Born August 12th, 1866 in Madrid. [ref]
Died July 14th, 1954 at 87 years old in Galapagar. [ref]
Mohamed Amin Didi
Maldivian politician, 1st president of the maldives (1910-1954).
Died January 19th, 1954 at 43 years old in Kaafu Atoll.
Gideon Sundback
Swedish-american inventor (1880-1954).
Born April 24th, 1880. [ref]
Died June 21st, 1954 at 74 years old in Meadville.
George Robey
English music hall singer, film & theatre actor (1869-1954).
Born September 20th, 1869 in Herne Hill.
Died November 29th, 1954 at 85 years old in Saltdean (cerebrovascular disease).
Theodor Kaluza
Mathematician, physicist and university teacher (1885-1954).
Born November 9th, 1885 in Opole.
Died January 19th, 1954 at 68 years old in Göttingen.
Fritz London
American physicist.
Born March 7th, 1900 in Wrocław. [ref]
Died March 30th, 1954 at 54 years old in Durham (leukemia). [ref]
Thành Thái
Vietnamese emperor.
Born March 14th, 1879 in Huế.
Died March 24th, 1954 at 75 years old in Ho Chi Minh City.
Yehuda Ashlag
Orthodox jewish rabbi and kabbalist.
Born October 4th, 1886 in Warsaw, Łódź. [ref]
Died October 7th, 1954 at 68 years old in Jerusalem.
Hossein Fatemi
Iranian politician (1917-1954).
Born February 10th, 1917 in Nain. [ref]
Died November 10th, 1954 at 37 years old in Tehran (ballistic trauma).
Clara Westhoff
German sculptor (1878-1954).
Born September 21st, 1878 in Bremen.
Died March 9th, 1954 at 75 years old in Fischerhude.
Deaths 81 to 90 of 334
Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them. George Eliot