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.
Frank HamerAmerican
Police Officer
Albert EinsteinGerman, American
Physicist
Emmett TillAmerican
African-American teenager
James DeanAmerican
Actor
Alexander FlemingBritish, Scottish
Biologist, Pharmacologist, Discovered Penicillin
Charlie ParkerAmerican
Jazz saxophonist, composer
Dale CarnegieAmerican
Self-Help Writer, Motivational Guru, Public
Shemp HowardAmerican
Actor, Comedian
Thomas MannSwiss, German
Novelist, Short Story Writer
Cy YoungAmerican
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinFrench
Philosopher & Jesuit Priest
Wallace StevensAmerican
Poet
Cordell HullAmerican
Secretary of State, USA
Matthew HensonAmerican
First African-American to explore the North Pole
Fernand LégerFrench
Cubist Painter
Shanti Swaroop BhatnagarIndian
Father of research laboratories
James B. SumnerAmerican
Chemist
Arthur KeithWelsh
Father of Modern Nationalism
Hermann Klaus Hugo WeylGerman
Mathematician and Theoretical Physicist
Carmen MirandaBrazilian, Portuguese
Actor, Singer, Dancer
Jim CorbettBritish
Writer, Hunter, Naturalist
Saadat Hasan MantoIndian, Pakistani
Screenwriter, Journalist, Writer
Ira HayesAmerican
Paratrooper
Sadako SasakiJapanese
Theda BaraAmerican
Actress
Joe AllenAmerican
Actor
Paddy MayneBritish
Solicitor, Rugby union player, Military personnel,
Mary McLeod BethuneAmerican
Teacher, Journalist, Politician
Rupprecht, Crown Prince of BavariaGerman
Alberto AscariItalian
Italian racing driver
José Ortega y GassetSpanish
Philosopher, Educationist, Writer, University
Calouste GulbenkianBritish
businessperson, entrepreneur
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George EnescuFrench, Romanian
Romanian composer
Hermann WeylGerman, American
Mathematician, Physicist, Philosopher, University
James AgeeAuthor, Screenwriter, Poet
S. Z. SakallHungarian
actor, screenwriter, writer, stage actor
Alfred Radcliffe-BrownBritish
Anthropologist, Sociologist
Yves TanguyFrench, American
Painter, Draughtsperson
Walter WhiteAmerican
American civil rights activist
Emma JungSwiss
Psychologist
Maurice UtrilloFrench
Painter
Arthur HoneggerSwiss, French
Composer, Musicologist, Music educator, Film score
Oswald AveryCanadian
Biologist, Physician, Geneticist
Robert R. McCormickAmerican
Paul ClaudelFrench
Playwright, Poet, Diplomat, Writer, Diarist, Poet
James P. JohnsonAmerican
composer, pianist, jazz musician
Leonid GovorovRussian
Military commander
Robert RiskinAmerican
Screenwriter, Film director, Film producer,
John MottAmerican
Protester, Activist
Hubert Cecil BoothBritish
Engineer
Teilhard de ChardinFrench
Alexander PapagosGreek
Politician, Military personnel
Egas MonizPortuguese
Georg AgricolaGerman
German mineralogist
Kim Seong-suSouth Korean
Former Vice President of South Korea
Maud Wood ParkAmerican
feminist
Bernarr MacFaddenActivist, Writer
Sōtarō YasuiJapanese
Painter