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1955 .
1955 (
MCMLV ) was a
common year starting on Saturday of the
Gregorian calendar , the 1955th year of the
Common Era (CE) and
Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 955th year of the
2nd millennium , the 55th year of the
20th century , and the 6th year of the
1950s decade.
Calendar year
January 7 :
Marian Anderson at the
Met
January 22 :
ICBM
March 2 –
Claudette Colvin , a 15-year-old
African-American girl, refuses to give up her seat on a bus in
Montgomery, Alabama , to a white woman after the driver demands it. She is carried off the bus backwards, while being kicked, handcuffed and harassed on the way to the police station. She becomes a plaintiff in
Browder v. Gayle (1956), which rules bus segregation to be unconstitutional.
March 5
March 7 – The
Broadway musical version of
Peter Pan , which had opened in
1954 starring
Mary Martin , is presented on television for the first time by
NBC -TV, with its original cast, as an installment of
Producers' Showcase . It is also the first time that a stage musical is presented in its entirety on TV, almost exactly as it was performed on stage. This program gains the largest viewership of a TV special up to this time, and it becomes one of the first great TV family musical classics.
March 17 –
Richard Riot in
Montreal : 6,000 people protest the
suspension of
French Canadian
ice hockey star
Maurice Richard of the
Montreal Canadiens by the
National Hockey League , following a violent incident during a match.
March 19 –
KXTV signs on the air in
Sacramento, California , as the 100th commercial television station in the United States.
March 20 – The movie adaptation of
Evan Hunter 's novel
Blackboard Jungle premieres in the United States, featuring the famous single "
Rock Around the Clock " by
Bill Haley & His Comets . Teenagers jump from their seats to dance to the song.
April 15 :
McDonald's
April 1 –
EOKA starts a resistance campaign against British rule in the
Crown colony of
Cyprus .
April 5
April 6 –
Anthony Eden becomes
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom .
April 10 – In the American
National Basketball Association championship, the
Syracuse Nationals defeat the
Fort Wayne Pistons 92–91 in Game 7, to win the title.
April 11
April 12 – The
Salk polio vaccine , having passed large-scale trials earlier in the United States, receives full approval by the
Food and Drug Administration .
April 14
April 15 – The first franchised
McDonald's restaurant is opened by
Ray Kroc , in
Des Plaines, Illinois .
[6]
April 16 – The
Burma -Japan Peace Treaty, signed in
Rangoon on
November 5 ,
1954 , comes into effect, formally ending a state of war between the two countries.
April 17 –
Imre Nagy , the communist Premier of Hungary, is ousted for being too moderate.
April 18 –
24 – The
Asian-African Conference is held in
Bandung , Indonesia.
July 1 – Transformation from the
Imperial Bank of India to the
State Bank of India is given legal recognition through an Act of the
Parliament of India .
July 7 – The
New Zealand Special Air Service is formed.
July 13 –
Ruth Ellis is
hanged for murder in London, becoming the last woman ever to be executed in the United Kingdom.
July 17
July 18 – Illinois Governor
William Stratton signs the Loyalty Oath Act, that mandates all public employees take a loyalty oath to the State of Illinois and the United States or lose their jobs.
July 18 –
23 –
Geneva Summit between the United States, Soviet Union, United Kingdom and France.
July 22 – In
Long Beach ,
California (United States),
Hillevi Rombin of
Sweden is crowned
Miss Universe .
July 27 –
El Al Flight 402 from
Vienna (Austria) to
Tel Aviv , via
Istanbul , is shot down over
Bulgaria . All 58 passengers and crewmen aboard the
Lockheed Constellation are killed.
July 28 – The first
Interlingua Congress is held in
Tours , France, leading to the foundation of the
Union Mundial pro Interlingua .
August 19 :
Hurricane Diane
September 18 : Britain annexes
Rockall
September 2 – Under the guidance of Dr.
Humphry Osmond ,
Christopher Mayhew ingests 400 mg of
mescaline hydrochloride and allows himself to be filmed as part of a
Panorama special for BBC TV in the U.K. that is never broadcast.
September 3 –
Little Richard records "
Tutti Frutti " in New Orleans; it is released in October.
September 6 –
Istanbul pogrom :
Istanbul 's Greek minority is the target of a government-sponsored
pogrom .
September 10 – The long-running
Western television series
Gunsmoke debuts, on the
CBS network in the United States.
September 14 – Pope Pius XII elevates many of the
apostolic vicariates in Africa to
Metropolitan Archdioceses .
September 15 –
Vladimir Nabokov 's controversial novel
Lolita is published in Paris, by
Olympia Press .
September 16
The military coup to unseat President
Juan Perón of Argentina is launched at midnight.
A Soviet Navy Zulu-class submarine becomes the first to launch a
ballistic missile .
September 18 – The United Kingdom formally annexes the uninhabited Atlantic island of
Rockall .
September 19 –
21 –
President of Argentina
Juan Perón is ousted in a military coup.
September 19 –
Hurricane Hilda kills about 200 people in Mexico.
September 21 –
30 –
Hurricane Janet , one of the strongest North Atlantic
tropical cyclones on record, sweeps the
Lesser Antilles and Mexico, causing more than 1,020 deaths.
[11]
September 22 –
Commercial television starts in the United Kingdom with the
Independent Television Authority 's first
ITV franchises beginning broadcasting in London, ending the
BBC monopoly.
September 23 – A
6.8 earthquake shakes the Chinese county of
Huili , leaving 728 dead and 1,547 injured.
September 24
September 30 – Actor
James Dean is killed when his automobile collides with another car at a highway junction, near
Cholame, California .
October 2 –
Alfred Hitchcock Presents debuts on the
CBS TV network in the United States.
October 3 –
The Mickey Mouse Club debuts on the
ABC-TV network in the United States.
October 4 – The Reverend
Sun Myung Moon is released from prison in
Seoul , South Korea.
October 5 –
Disneyland Hotel opens to the public in
Anaheim, California .
October 11 – 70-mm film for projection is introduced, with the theatrical release of Rodgers and Hammerstein's musical film,
Oklahoma! .
October 14 – The
Organization of Central American States secretariat is inaugurated.
October 20 –
Disc jockey
Bill Randle of
WERE (
Cleveland ) is the key presenter of a concert at
Brooklyn High School (Ohio) , featuring
Pat Boone and
Bill Haley & His Comets , and opening with
Elvis Presley (Elvis's first filmed performance), for a documentary on Randle titled
The Pied Piper of Cleveland .
October 26
October 27 – The film
Rebel Without a Cause , starring
James Dean , is released in the United States.
October 29 –
Soviet battleship Novorossiysk explodes at moorings in
Sevastopol Bay, killing 608 (the
Soviet Union 's worst naval disaster to date).
October 26 : Austria free
December 14 :
Tappan Zee Bridge opens
December 1 – In
Montgomery, Alabama ,
Rosa Parks refuses to obey bus driver James F. Blake's order that she give up her seat to make room for a white passenger, and is arrested, leading to the
Montgomery bus boycott .
December 4 – The
International Federation of Blood Donor Organizations is founded in
Luxembourg .
December 5
December 9 –
Adnan Menderes of
DP forms the new government of
Turkey (22nd government).
December 10 –
1955 Australian federal election :
Robert Menzies '
Liberal /
Country
Coalition
Government is re-elected with a substantially increased majority, defeating the
Labor Party led by
H. V. Evatt . This election comes in the immediate aftermath of the devastating
split in the Labor Party, which leads to the formation of the
Democratic Labor Party . The DLP will preference against Labor, and keep the Coalition in office until
1972 .
December 14
The
Tappan Zee Bridge over the
Hudson River , in
New York State, opens to traffic.
Albania ,
Austria ,
Bulgaria ,
Cambodia ,
Finland ,
Hungary ,
Ireland ,
Italy ,
Jordan ,
Laos ,
Libya ,
Nepal ,
Portugal ,
Romania ,
Spain and
Sri Lanka join the
United Nations simultaneously, after several years of moratorium on admitting new members that began during the
Korean War .
December 19 – Australian comedian
Barry Humphries first introduces his character
Edna Everage on stage in
Melbourne .
[15]
December 20 –
Cardiff is declared by the British Government as the capital of
Wales .
December 22 – American cytogeneticist
Joe Hin Tjio discovers the correct number of human
chromosomes , forty-six.
December 31
World population : 2,755,823,000
Africa: 246,746,000
Asia: 1,541,947,000
Europe: 575,184,000
South America: 190,797,000
North America: 186,884,000
Oceania: 14,265,000
Rowan Atkinson
J. K. Simmons
Kevin Costner
Sir
Simon Rattle
Olivier Assayas
Eddie Van Halen
John Roberts
Vinod Khosla
Nicolas Sarkozy
Mychal Thompson
January 1
Mario Andreacchio , Australian film director
Bonnie Arnold , American film producer
Mary Beard , English classicist
Akissi Kouamé , Ivorian army general (d.
2022 )
Simon Schaffer , English academic and historian of science and philosophy
Ghulam Abbas , Pakistani radio, television, and film singer
Mulatu Teshome , Ethiopian politician and 8th
President of Ethiopia
Joseph Abiodun Balogun , Nigerian-American academic
January 3 –
Hill Carrow , American-born sports tourism executive
January 4 –
Mark Hollis , English musician (d.
2019 )
[16]
January 5 –
Mamata Banerjee , Indian politician,
Chief Minister of West Bengal
January 6
January 7 –
Belinda Meuldijk , Dutch actress
January 8
January 9
January 10
January 11
January 12 –
Kerry-Lynne Findlay , Canadian politician
January 13
January 15
January 16
January 17
January 18
January 19
January 20
January 21 –
Jeff Koons , American artist
[19]
January 22
January 24 –
Lalan Singh , Indian politician and
Member of Parliament
January 25
January 26
January 27
January 28
January 29
January 30
January 31
Mo Yan
Jeff Daniels
Kelsey Grammer
Steve Jobs
Alain Prost
Leann Hunley
Grady Booch
February 1
February 2 –
Leszek Engelking , Polish poet, writer and translator (d.
2022 )
February 3
February 4
February 5 –
Mary Chen , Taiwanese environmentalist and politician
February 6
February 7
February 8
February 9
February 10
February 12
February 13 –
Hank Risan , American scientist
February 14
February 15
February 16
February 17 –
Mo Yan , Chinese writer
February 18 –
Cheetah Chrome , American musician
February 19
February 20 –
Mack Wilberg , American composer
February 21 –
Kelsey Grammer , American actor and comedian
February 22
February 23 –
Flip Saunders , American basketball coach (d.
2015 )
February 24
February 25 –
Leann Hunley , American television actress
February 27
February 28 –
Gilbert Gottfried , American stand-up comedian and actor (d.
2022 )
Penn Jillette
Nina Hagen
Gary Sinise
Jair Bolsonaro
Bruce Willis
Mariano Rajoy
Reba McEntire
Brendan Gleeson
Marina Sirtis
Angus Young
March 1
March 2
March 3
March 4
March 5
March 6
March 7
March 8 –
Don Ashby , Canadian ice hockey player (d.
1981 )
March 9
March 10
March 11 –
Nina Hagen , German pop singer
March 12 –
Richard Martini , American film director
March 13
March 14
March 15
March 16
March 17
March 18
March 19
March 20
March 21
March 22
March 23
Moses Malone , American basketball player (d.
2015 )
Susan Schwab , American politician, who served under President George W. Bush as United States Trade Representative
March 24
March 25
Wendy Larry , American head coach of the Old Dominion University Lady Monarchs women's basketball team
Daniel Boulud , French chef and restaurateur
Patty Brard , Dutch entertainer and entrepreneur of
Indo descent
March 26
March 27 –
Mariano Rajoy ,
Prime Minister of Spain
March 28
March 29
March 30
March 31
Sirindhorn
Michael Rooker
Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg
Judy Davis
John Nunn
Eddie Jobson
Kate Mulgrew
April 1 –
Ockie Oosthuizen , South African rugby union player (d.
2019 )
April 2
April 3 –
Mick Mars , American rock guitarist (
Mötley Crüe )
April 4
April 5
April 6 –
Michael Rooker , American actor
April 7
April 8
April 9 –
Kate Heyhoe , American food writer
April 10 –
Philip J. Hanlon , American mathematician and computer science,
18th President of Dartmouth College
April 11
April 12
April 13
April 14
April 15
April 16
April 17
April 18 –
Bobby Castillo , American baseball player (d.
2014 )
April 19 –
Ahmoo Angeconeb , Canadian
Ojibwe artist (d.
2017 )
April 20
April 21
April 23
April 24 –
John de Mol , Dutch media tycoon
April 25
Karon O. Bowdre , United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama.
John Nunn , English chess player and mathematician
Parviz Parastui , Iranian actor
April 26
April 27
James Risen , American Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter and author
Eric Schmidt , American software engineer and businessman, CEO of
Google (2001-2011)
Jing Yidan , Chinese former television host
April 28
April 29
April 30 –
Zlatko Topčić , Bosnian writer and screenwriter
Tom Bergeron
Big Van Vader
Bill Paxton
James Gosling
Rosanne Cash
Richard Schiff
John Hinckley Jr.
Tommy Emmanuel
Susie Essman
May 1 –
Julie Pietri , French singer
May 2
May 4
May 5 –
Jon Butcher , American rock/blues songwriter, guitarist and freelance multimedia producer
May 6
Tom Bergeron , American television host
Kim Bullard , American keyboardist, songwriter, record producer, and film composer
May 7
May 8
May 9
May 10
May 12 –
Kix Brooks , American country artist, actor, and producer
May 13
María Cecilia Botero , Colombian actress, television presenter and journalist
Garry Bushell , English columnist, journalist, television presenter, author, musician and political activist
May 14
May 15
May 16
Olga Korbut , Soviet gymnast
Olli Kortekangas , Finnish composer
Dean Corren , American politician and scientist (d.
2023 )
Jack Morris , American baseball player
Richard Phillips , American merchant mariner and captain of the MV Maersk Alabama
Debra Winger , American actress
Edgar Bronfman Jr ., American businessman, filmmaker, theater producer, and media executive
May 17
May 18
May 19
May 20
May 21 –
Sergei Shoigu , Russian politician, (
Russian Defence Minister )[
citation needed ]
May 22
May 23
May 24 –
Rosanne Cash , American entertainer
May 25
May 26 –
Doris Dörrie , German actress and screenplay writer
May 27
May 28
May 29
May 30
May 31
Dana Carvey
Sam Simon
Tim Richmond
Griffin Dunne
Laurie Metcalf
Michel Platini
Isabelle Adjani
Sir
Tim Berners-Lee
June 1
June 2 –
Dana Carvey , American actor and comedian
June 3
June 4
June 5 –
Fernando Borrego Linares , Cuban singer and songwriter (aka Polo Montañez)
June 6
June 7
June 8
June 9 –
Carlos Manuel Urzúa Macías , Mexican politician and academic (d.
2024 )
June 10
June 11 –
Yuriy Sedykh , Ukrainian hammer thrower (d.
2021 )
June 12
June 13 –
John E. Jones III , American justice
June 14
Tito Rojas , Puerto Rican salsa singer and songwriter (d.
2020 )
Kim Lankford , American actress, businesswoman and horse wrangler
Paul O'Grady (also known as "Lily Savage"), English talk show host, comedian and drag queen (d.
2023 )
[28]
June 15
June 16
June 18
June 20 –
Tor Nørretranders , Danish author
June 21
June 22 –
Choi Kyoung-hwan , South Korean politician;
Prime Minister of South Korea
June 23
June 24 –
Nobuhiro Kiyotaki , Japanese economist and professor
June 25 –
Víctor Manuel Vucetich , Mexican footballer and manager
June 26
June 27 –
Isabelle Adjani , French actress
June 29 –
Christopher A. Bray , American politician and businessman
June 30
Li Keqiang
Lindsey Graham
Jimmy Smits
Adrienne King
Dannel Malloy
Béla Tarr
Willem Dafoe
Iman
Asif Ali Zardari
Billy Bob Thornton
Richard Hilton
Apisai Ielemia
Mike Huckabee
Sergey Khlebnikov
August 1
Paul Shrubb , English professional footballer, coach and scout (d.
2020 )
Tunde Adegbola , Nigerian scientist, musician, engineer, linguist and culture activist
August 2
August 3
August 4
August 6
August 7
August 8 –
Diddú , Icelandic soprano and songwriter
August 9
August 10
August 11
August 12
August 13 –
Daryl , American magician (d.
2017 )
August 17 –
Richard Hilton , American businessman
August 19
August 20
August 22
August 23 –
Reuven Amitai , Israeli-American historian and writer
August 24 –
Mike Huckabee , American politician, Governor and 2008 presidential candidate
August 25 –
John McGeoch , Scottish musician (d.
2004 )
August 27
August 30
Mayumi Muroyama , Japanese manga artist
Andy Pask , English bass player and composer (
Landscape )
Helge Schneider , comedian, jazz musician and multi-instrumentalist, author, film and theatre director
Jaime Aparicio Otero , Bolivian diplomat, lawyer, and journalist
Anthony Coleman , American avant-garde jazz pianist
August 31 –
Edwin Moses , American athlete
Billy Blanks
John Kricfalusi
Edward Hibbert
Charles Martinet
Zucchero Fornaciari
Tommy Wiseau
Yo-Yo Ma
Bill Gates
Indra Nooyi
October 1 –
P. B. Abdul Razak , Indian politician (d.
2018 )
October 2
October 3
Tommy Wiseau , American film director and actor (
The Room )
Salah Bachir , Canadian business executive, entrepreneur, publisher, art collector, fundraiser, and philanthropist
October 4 –
Dane Sorensen , New Zealand rugby league player
October 5
October 6 –
Wang Huning , Chinese politician
October 7
October 8
October 11 –
Hans-Peter Briegel , German former professional football player and
manager
October 12 –
Pat DiNizio , American singer-songwriter (
The Smithereens ) (d.
2017 )
October 13 –
Sergei Shepelev , Russian ice hockey player
October 14 –
Arleen Sorkin , American actress, screenwriter, television presenter and comedian (d.
2023 )
October 15
October 17 –
Tyrone Mitchell , American murderer (d.
1984 )
October 18
October 19
October 20
October 21
October 23 –
Andrew Cohen , American spiritual teacher
October 24
October 25
October 28
October 29
October 31
Kris Jenner
Maria Shriver
Roland Emmerich
Whoopi Goldberg
Guillermo Lasso
Bill Nye
Howie Mandel
November 1 –
Joe Arroyo , Colombian salsa and tropical music singer (d.
2011 )
November 2 –
Peter Bossman , Ghanaian-born Slovenian physician and politician
November 3
November 4
November 5
November 6
Maria Shriver , American television journalist, host; First Lady of California
William H. McRaven , U.S. Navy admiral and SEAL and led planning for
Operation Neptune Spear
Alton Coleman , American serial killer (d.
2002 )
Jana Bennett , American-born British media consultant (d.
2022 )
Paul Romer , American economist, professor, and
policy entrepreneur
Catherine Asaro , American
science fiction and
fantasy author, singer and teacher
Geoff Bullock , Australian singer-songwriter and pianist
November 7
November 8
November 9
November 10
November 11
November 13 –
Whoopi Goldberg , American actress and comedian
November 14
November 15 –
Idris Jusoh , Malaysian politician ; Former Chief Minister Of Terengganu
November 16 –
Guillermo Lasso ,
President of Ecuador
[33]
November 17
November 19 –
Dianne de Leeuw , Dutch figure skater
November 20 –
Ray Ozzie , American computer programmer
November 21
November 22
November 23
November 24
November 25
November 26
November 27 –
Bill Nye , American science presenter and public television host
November 28
November 29 –
Howie Mandel , Canadian actor and game show host
November 30
Xander Berkeley
Jane Kaczmarek
December 3
December 4 –
Maurizio Bianchi , Italian musician
December 5
December 6
December 9
December 10 –
Ana Gabriel , Mexican singer and songwriter
December 12 –
Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki , Greek politician and businesswoman
December 13 –
Manohar Parrikar , Indian politician (d.
2019 )
December 14
December 16
December 17
December 19 –
Alfredo Castro , Chilean actor
December 21 –
Jane Kaczmarek , American actress
December 23
December 24
December 25 –
Jim Beloff , American musician
December 26
December 27 –
Barbara Olson , American television commentator (d.
2001 )
December 28
December 29 –
Claudi Arimany , Catalan musician
December 31 –
Jim Tracy , American baseball player and manager
Kamal Abbas , Egyptian activist and trade unionist
Mostafa Abdollahi , Iranian stage and film actor, director,
voice artist , and theater instructor (d.
2015 )
Richard Abel , Canadian instrumental musician and pianist
Richard Bergeron , Canadian politician
Saeed Abu Ali , Palestinian politician and jurist
Byron Adams , American composer, conductor, and musicologist
Lisa Adams , American painter
Orit Adato ,
Israeli military commander and
Israel Prison Service Commissioner
Olusegun Olutoyin Aganga , Nigerian politician
Candida Alvarez , American artist and professor
Dušan Bogdanović , Serbian-born American composer and classical guitarist
Moeness Amin , Egyptian-American professor and engineer
David P. Anderson , American research scientist
Michal Aviad , Israeli director, script writer, producer and senior lecturer
Ron Bloom , American economic advisor and government official
Neal Baer , American pediatrician and television writer and producer
Malcolm Brabant , freelance British journalist
Louise Bédard , Canadian dancer, choreographer and teacher
Dona Bailey , American video game programmer and educator
Kanti Bajpai , Indian political scientist, international affairs expert, academic and former headmaster of
The Doon School
René Bazinet , German-Canadian clown, mime, and stage and film actor
Mohammad Ali Baniasadi , Iranian painter, illustrator, cartoonist and sculptor
Linwood Barclay , American-born Canadian author, noted as a novelist, humorist, and (former) columnist
Edwin Battistella , American linguist
David Chaum , American computer scientist, cryptographer, and inventor
Judith Baxter , British
sociolinguist and professor
Hans Hedtoft
Constantin Argetoianu
February 3 –
Vasily Blokhin , Soviet executioner (b.
1895 )
February 6 –
Constantin Argetoianu , 41st
Prime Minister of Romania (b.
1871 )
February 9 –
Ahmed Zaki Abu Shadi , Egyptian poet, publisher, doctor, bacteriologist and bee scientist (d.
1892 )
February 11 –
Ona Munson , American actress (b.
1903 )
February 12
February 20 –
Oswald Avery , American physician and medical researcher (b.
1877 )
February 23 –
Paul Claudel , French poet, dramatist, and diplomat (b.
1868 )
February 27 –
Trixie Friganza , American actress (b.
1870 )
Sir Alexander Fleming
March 3 –
Katharine Drexel , American
Roman Catholic foundress and saint (b.
1858 )
March 8 –
William C. deMille , American screenwriter and director (b.
1878 )
March 9
March 11 – Sir
Alexander Fleming , Scottish scientist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b.
1881 )
[35]
March 12 –
Charlie Parker , American saxophonist (b.
1920 )
March 14 –
Ruth Poll , American lyricist and music publisher (b.
1899 )
[36]
[37]
March 16 –
Nicolas de Staël , Russian painter (b.
1914 )
March 18 –
Warder Clyde Allee , American ecologist (b.
1885 )
March 19 –
Mihály Károlyi , 1st
President of Hungary and 20th
Prime Minister of Hungary (b.
1875 )
March 23 –
Arthur Bernardes , 12th
President of Brazil (b.
1875 )
March 24 –
John W. Davis , American politician, diplomat, and lawyer (b.
1873 )
Albert Einstein
April 5 –
Tibor Szele , Hungarian mathematician (b. 1918)
[38]
April 7
April 10 –
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin , French Jesuit priest, philosopher, paleontologist and geologist (b.
1881 )
April 11 –
Clifton Sprague , American admiral (b.
1896 )
[39]
April 13 –
Peyton C. March , United States Army general (b.
1864 )
April 18 –
Albert Einstein , German-born physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1879 )
April 19 –
Jim Corbett , Anglo-Indian hunter, conservationist and author (b.
1875 )
[40]
April 24
April 25 –
Constance Collier , English actress and acting coach (b.
1878 )
April 30 –
John Henry Towers , American admiral and naval aviation pioneer (b.
1885 )
[41]
Mary McLeod Bethune
May 2 –
Alexander Hore-Ruthven, 1st Earl of Gowrie , 10th
Governor-General of Australia (b.
1872 )
May 4
May 10 –
Tommy Burns , Canadian boxer (b.
1881 )
May 16 –
James Agee , American writer (b.
1909 )
May 17 –
Owen Roberts , American jurist (b.
1875 )
[42]
May 18 –
Mary McLeod Bethune , American educator (b.
1875 )
May 19 –
Concha Espina , Spanish writer (b.
1869 )
May 23 –
Roy E. Ayers , American politician and judge (b.
1882 )
May 26 –
Alberto Ascari , Italian race-car driver (accident) (b.
1918 )
May 29 –
Rudolf Klein-Rogge , German actor (b.
1885 )
May 30 –
Bill Vukovich , American race-car driver (accident) (b.
1918 )
Walter Hampden
Adolfo de la Huerta
Carmen Miranda
August 1 –
William Hamilton , American Olympic athlete (b.
1883 )
August 2
August 5
August 9 –
Marion Bauer , American composer, teacher, writer, and music critic (b.
1882 )
August 11 –
Frank Seiberling , American inventor, co-founder of
Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company (b.
1859 )
August 12
August 13 –
Florence Easton , English opera soprano (b.
1882 )
[45]
August 17 –
Fernand Léger , French painter and sculptor (b.
1881 )
August 22 –
Raymond Duval , French general (b.
1894 )
[46]
August 28 –
Emmett Till , American murder victim (b.
1941 )
August 31 –
Willi Baumeister , German painter, scenic designer, art professor, and typographer (b.
1889 )
James Dean
José Ortega y Gasset
October 3 –
Julius Ochs Adler , American publisher, journalist, and United States Army major general (d.
1892 )
October 4
October 6 –
Robert Munro , Scottish lawyer, judge and
Liberal politician (b.
1868 )
October 7 –
Rodolphe Seeldrayers , German journalist and administrator, 4th
President of FIFA (b.
1876 )
October 9
October 10 –
F. Matthias Alexander , Australian actor and author (b.
1869 )
October 13
October 17 –
Dimitrios Maximos , Prime Minister of Greece (b.
1873 )
October 18 –
José Ortega y Gasset , Spanish philosopher (b.
1883 )
October 19 –
John Hodiak , American actor (b.
1914 )
October 22 –
Cyril Alington , English educationalist, scholar, cleric, and author (b.
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October 25 –
Sadako Sasaki , Japanese
atomic bomb sickness victim (b.
1943 )
October 27 –
Juan de Dios Martínez , 23rd President of Ecuador (b.
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Shemp Howard
November 1 –
Dale Carnegie , American writer and lecturer (b.
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November 4 –
Cy Young , American baseball player (
Cleveland Spiders ) and member of the
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November 5 –
Maurice Utrillo , French artist (b.
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November 6 –
Edwin Barclay , 18th president of Liberia (b.
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November 12 –
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November 14
November 15 –
Lloyd Bacon , American actor and director (b.
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November 17
November 20 –
Tomasz Arciszewski , Polish socialist politician and 31st
Prime Minister of Poland (b.
1877 )
November 22 –
Shemp Howard , American actor and comedian (
The Three Stooges ) (b.
1895 )
November 27 –
Arthur Honegger , French-born Swiss composer (b.
1892 )
Hermann Weyl
December 1 –
Edward Grigg, 1st Baron Altrincham , British colonial administrator and politician (b.
1879 )
December 5 –
Jirō Minami , Japanese general and
Governor-General of Korea (1936-1942) (b.
1874 )
December 6 –
Honus Wagner , American baseball player (
Pittsburgh Pirates ) and a member of the
MLB Hall of Fame (b.
1874 )
December 8 –
Hermann Weyl , German mathematician, theoretical physicist and philosopher (b.
1885 )
December 13 –
António Egas Moniz , Portuguese neurologist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b.
1874 )
December 14 –
Paddy Mayne , Irish & British lions rugby international, Founding member of the
S.A.S
December 15
December 18 –
Anna Murray Vail , American botanist (b.
1863 )
December 21 –
Garegin Nzhdeh , Armenian statesman (b.
1886 )
December 22 –
Mary Josephine Bedford , Australian philanthropist (b.
1861 )
December 24 –
Nana Bryant , American actress (b.
1888 )
December 31 –
Charles Ulrick Bay , American businessman and diplomat (b.
1888 )
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