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.
Saadat Hasan Manto(Screenwriter, Journalist, Writer)
11 May 1912
Indian,Pakistani
Carmen Miranda(Actor, Singer, Dancer)
09 February 1909
Brazilian,Portuguese
Mary McLeod Bethune(Teacher, Journalist, Politician)
10 July 1875
American
Jim Corbett(Writer, Hunter, Naturalist)
25 July 1875
British
Ira Hayes(Paratrooper)
12 January 1923
American
Sadako Sasaki07 January 1943
Japanese
Theda Bara(Actress)
29 July 1885
American
Rupprecht, Crown Prince of Bavaria18 May 1869
German
José Ortega y Gasset(Philosopher, Educationist, Writer, University teacher, Sociologist, Mathematician, Literary critic)
09 May 1883
Spanish
Calouste Gulbenkian(businessperson, entrepreneur)
23 March 1869
British
Paddy Mayne(Solicitor, Rugby union player, Military personnel, Boxer)
11 January 1915
British
Alberto Ascari(Italian racing driver)
13 July 1918
Italian
George Enescu(Romanian composer)
19 August 1881
French,Romanian
Hermann Weyl(Mathematician, Physicist, Philosopher, University teacher, Psychologist)
09 November 1885
German,American
Oswald Avery(Biologist, Physician, Geneticist)
21 October 1877
Canadian
James Agee(Author, Screenwriter, Poet)
1909 AD
Yves Tanguy(Painter, Draughtsperson)
05 January 1900
French,American
Alfred Radcliffe-Brown(Anthropologist, Sociologist)
17 January 1881
British
Emma Jung(Psychologist)
30 March 1882
Swiss
Walter White(American civil rights activist)
01 July 1893
American
Arthur Honegger(Composer, Musicologist, Music educator, Film score composer)
10 March 1892
Swiss,French
S. Z. Sakall(actor, screenwriter, writer, stage actor)
02 February 1883
Hungarian
Paul Claudel(Playwright, Poet, Diplomat, Writer, Diarist, Poet lawyer, Translator)
06 August 1868
French
James P. Johnson(composer, pianist, jazz musician)
01 February 1894
American
Maurice Utrillo(Painter)
26 December 1883
French
Robert Riskin(Screenwriter, Film director, Film producer, Playwright, Writer)
30 March 1897
American
Robert R. McCormick30 July 1880
American
Leonid Govorov(Military commander)
22 February 1897
Russian
Hubert Cecil Booth(Engineer)
04 July 1871
British
John Mott(Protester, Activist)
25 May 1865
American
Teilhard de Chardin01 May 1881
French
Alexander Papagos(Politician, Military personnel)
09 December 1883
Greek
Egas Moniz29 November 1874
Portuguese
Georg Agricola(German mineralogist)
24 March 1494
German
Kim Seong-su(Former Vice President of South Korea)
11 October 1891
South Korean
Maud Wood Park(feminist)
25 January 1871
American
Bernarr MacFadden(Activist, Writer)
1868 AD
Sōtarō Yasui(Painter)
17 May 1888
Japanese