1954 in Iceland

The following lists events that happened in 1954 in Iceland.

Incumbents

• President – Ásgeir Ásgeirsson
• Prime Minister – Ólafur Thors

Events

• Gígjökull glacier advances 328 m since the Mount Hekla eruption 7 years prior.
• Ásmundur Guðmundsson became the ninth Bishop of Iceland, following the death of Sigurgeir Sigurðsson the previous year.

Births

• 23 January – Guðný Halldórsdóttir, film director and screenwriter
• 12 May – Friðrik Þór Friðriksson, film director
• 29 May - Margrét Frímannsdóttir, politician
• 18 June – Tinna Gunnlaugsdóttir, actress
• 8 August – Finnur Ingólfsson, politician.
• 18 September – Einar Már Guðmundsson, poet and novelist
• 11 December – Guðlaugur Kristinn Óttarsson, musician
• 31 December – Ingibjörg Sólrún Gísladóttir, politician

Deaths

• 18 October – Einar Jónsson, sculptor (b. 1874)

References