Famous People Who Died In 1955
Discover the most famous people died who died in the year 1955. This list includes people like Albert Einstein, Emmett Till, James Dean, Alexander Fleming, Shemp Howard and many more. This list of celebrities is loosely sorted by popularity. People featured on this list, include philosophers, artists, mathematicians and composers who died in 1955. This list includes people from United States, France, United Kingdom & Germany and many more countries.
Albert Einstein14 March 1879, German, American
Physicist
Frank Hamer17 March 1884, American
Police Officer
James Dean08 February 1931, American
Actor
Emmett Till25 July 1941, American
African-American teenager
Alexander Fleming06 August 1881, British, Scottish
Biologist, Pharmacologist, Discovered Penicillin
Charlie Parker29 August 1920, American
Jazz saxophonist, composer
Dale Carnegie24 November 1888, American
Self-Help Writer, Motivational Guru, Public
Shemp Howard11 March 1895, American
Actor, Comedian
Thomas Mann06 June 1875, Swiss, German
Novelist, Short Story Writer
Cy Young29 March 1867, American
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin01 May 1881, French
Philosopher & Jesuit Priest
Wallace Stevens02 October 1879, American
Poet
Matthew Henson08 August 1866, American
First African-American to explore the North Pole
Cordell Hull02 October 1871, American
Secretary of State, USA
Fernand Léger04 February 1881, French
Cubist Painter
Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar21 February 1894, Indian
Father of research laboratories
James B. Sumner19 November 1887, American
Chemist
Arthur Keith05 February 1866, Welsh
Father of Modern Nationalism
Hermann Klaus Hugo Weyl09 November 1885, German
Mathematician and Theoretical Physicist
Carmen Miranda09 February 1909, Brazilian, Portuguese
Actor, Singer, Dancer
Saadat Hasan Manto11 May 1912, Indian, Pakistani
Screenwriter, Journalist, Writer
Ira Hayes12 January 1923, American
Paratrooper
Jim Corbett25 July 1875, British
Writer, Hunter, Naturalist
Sadako Sasaki07 January 1943, Japanese
Theda Bara29 July 1885, American
Actress
Mary McLeod Bethune10 July 1875, American
Teacher, Journalist, Politician
Paddy Mayne11 January 1915, British
Solicitor, Rugby union player, Military personnel,
Rupprecht, Crown Prince of Bavaria18 May 1869, German
José Ortega y Gasset09 May 1883, Spanish
Philosopher, Educationist, Writer, University
Alberto Ascari13 July 1918, Italian
Italian racing driver
Calouste Gulbenkian23 March 1869, British
businessperson, entrepreneur
George Enescu19 August 1881, French, Romanian
Romanian composer
Hermann Weyl09 November 1885, German, American
Mathematician, Physicist, Philosopher, University
James Agee1909 AD
Author, Screenwriter, Poet
S. Z. Sakall02 February 1883, Hungarian
actor, screenwriter, writer, stage actor
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Alfred Radcliffe-Brown17 January 1881, British
Anthropologist, Sociologist
Yves Tanguy05 January 1900, French, American
Painter, Draughtsperson
Walter White01 July 1893, American
American civil rights activist
Emma Jung30 March 1882, Swiss
Psychologist
Oswald Avery21 October 1877, Canadian
Biologist, Physician, Geneticist
Arthur Honegger10 March 1892, Swiss, French
Composer, Musicologist, Music educator, Film score
Maurice Utrillo26 December 1883, French
Painter
Paul Claudel06 August 1868, French
Playwright, Poet, Diplomat, Writer, Diarist, Poet
Robert R. McCormick30 July 1880, American
James P. Johnson01 February 1894, American
composer, pianist, jazz musician
Robert Riskin30 March 1897, American
Screenwriter, Film director, Film producer,
Leonid Govorov22 February 1897, Russian
Military commander
John Mott25 May 1865, American
Protester, Activist
Hubert Cecil Booth04 July 1871, British
Engineer
Teilhard de Chardin01 May 1881, French
Alexander Papagos09 December 1883, Greek
Politician, Military personnel
Egas Moniz29 November 1874, Portuguese
Georg Agricola24 March 1494, German
German mineralogist
Kim Seong-su11 October 1891, South Korean
Former Vice President of South Korea
Maud Wood Park25 January 1871, American
feminist
Bernarr MacFadden1868 AD
Activist, Writer
Sōtarō Yasui17 May 1888, Japanese
Painter