1954 in Iceland
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The following lists events that happened in 1954 in Iceland.
Incumbents
Events
- Gígjökull glacier advances 328 m since the Mount Hekla eruption 7 years prior.[1]
- Ásmundur Guðmundsson became the ninth Bishop of Iceland, following the death of Sigurgeir Sigurðsson the previous year.[2]
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.[3]
- 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
- ↑ Kirkbride, Martin P.; Dugmore, Andrew J. (January 2003). "Glaciological response to distal tephra fallout from the 1947 eruption of Hekla, south Iceland". Journal of Glaciology. 49 (166): 420–428. doi:10.3189/172756503781830575. ISSN 0022-1430.
- ↑ "Ísmús - íslenskur músík- og menningararfur". www.ismus.is. Retrieved 2025-11-06.
- ↑ "Finnur Ingólfsson". Alþingi (in Icelandic). Retrieved 19 July 2016.