* 1955 – Rob Epstein, American filmmaker and journalist

* 1955 – Keith Hunter Jesperson, Canadian serial killer

* 1955 – Cathy Jones, Canadian comedian

* 1955 – Blind Mississippi Morris, American blues musician

* 1955 – Michael Rooker, American actor

* 1955 – The polio vaccine, developed by Dr. Jonas Salk, is declared safe and effective.

* 1955 – Nicolas Hulot, French journalist

* 1955 – Dimitra Liani, Greek air hostess, widow of Greek Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou

* 1955 – Laura Fygi, Dutch singer

* 1955 – Robert Richardson, American cinematographer

* 1955 – Diana Scarwid, American actress

* 1956 – After going bankrupt in 1955, the American broadcaster DuMont Television Network makes its final broadcast, a boxing match from St. Nicholas Arena in New York in the Boxing from St. Nicholas Arena series.

* 1868 – Paul Claudel, French poet ( d. 1955 )

* 1881 – Alexander Fleming, Scottish scientist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1955 )

* 1955 – Gregory Bryant-Bey, American convicted murderer ( d. 2008 )

* 1955 – Rusty Magee, American composer ( d. 2003 )

* 1955 – Peter Schmuck, American columnist

* 1955 – John E. Sweeney, American politician

* 1955 – Keith Ahlers, English race car driver

* 1955 – Hideo Fukuyama, Japanese race car driver

* 1955 – Paul Greengrass, English director

* 1865 – John Radecki, Australian artist ( d. 1955 )

* 1955 – Caleb Carr, American author and historian

* 1955 – Tim Dunigan, American actor

* 1955 – Tony Godden, English footballer

Outstanding Greek public figures in the 20th century include Cretan-born Eleutherios Venizelos, prominent statesman of the interwar period ; Ioannis Metaxas, dictator from 1936 until his death ; Constantine Karamanlis, prime minister ( 1955 – 63, 1974 – 80 ) and president ( 1980 – 85 ) of Greece ; George Papandreou, head of the Center Union Party and prime minister ( 1963 – 65 ); and his son Andreas Papandreou, the PASOK leader who became prime minister in 1981.

Andreas " Andy " von Bechtolsheim ( born September 30, 1955 ) is an electrical engineer who co-founded Sun Microsystems in 1982 and was its chief hardware designer.

William Andrew (" Willy ") Pogany ( born Vilmos Andreas Pogány ) ( August 1882 – 30 July 1955 ) was a prolific Hungarian illustrator of children's and other books.

When AKEL was declared illegal by the British colonial government of Cyprus in 1955, PEO and especially its leader Andreas Ziartides was the only legal leftwing political entity and it was expressing the politics of underground AKEL.

Andreas Gursky ( born January 15, 1955 ) is a German visual artist known for his large format architecture and landscape color photographs, often employing a high point of view.

Dimitra Liani ( born 30 April 1955 ) is the widow of the former Greek Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou.

Andreas Maislinger ( born 26 February 1955 in St. Georgen near Salzburg, Austria ) is an Austrian historian and founder of the Austrian Holocaust Memorial Service and Braunau Contemporary History Days.

* Andreas Maislinger ( born 1955 ), founder of the Austrian Holocaust Memorial Service

* 1955 – Herbert Prohaska, Austrian footballer

* 1955 – Bernd Fasching, Austrian painter and sculptor

* 1955 – After the last Allied troops have left the country and following the provisions of the Austrian Independence Treaty, Austria declares permanent neutrality.

* 1955 – Theodor Innitzer, Austrian cardinal ( b. 1875 )

* December 25 – Theodor Innitzer, Austrian Catholic cardinal ( d. 1955 )

The Austrian State Treaty was signed on 15 May 1955.

* Austrian — Herf, Franz Richter: " Pierrot " ( 1955 ; piano ).

The four-power control of Vienna lasted until the Austrian State Treaty was signed in 1955.

In 1955, Remarque wrote the screenplay for an Austrian film, The Last Act ( Der letzte Akt ), about Hitler's final days in the bunker of the Reich Chancellery in Berlin, which was based on the book Ten Days to Die ( 1950 ) by Michael Musmanno.

* Heribert Weber ( born 1955 ), Austrian football player

The war in the neighbouring Balkans resulted in the lifting of the restrictions on the range of weaponry of the Austrian military that had been imposed by a 1955 international treaty.

From 1945 to 1955 under Project Paperclip and its successors, the U. S. government recruited over 1, 600 German and Austrian scientists and engineers in a variety of fields such as aircraft design, missile technology and biological warfare.

In 1955 he negotiated and signed the Austrian State Treaty.

In February 1955 Vyacheslav Molotov proposed resuming the talks on Austrian independence.

On April 12, 1955 Raab arrived in Moscow for the negotiations that paved the way to the Austrian State Treaty concluded in Vienna on May 15.

* in Austria, until 27 July 1955 when Allied occupation ends, restoring Austrian sovereignty, it was administered as a British Zone ( 6 consecutive High Commissioners, July 1945 ), a US Zone ( 4 incumbents from 5 July 1945 ), a Soviet Zone ( 4 from July 1945 ; only this had first been under a Military Governor from 8 April 1945 ) and a French Zone ( 2, from 8 July 1945 );

In 1955, in the Austrian State Treaty it became part of Simmering.

After its founding in 1955, the Austrian army was equipped with old guns temporarily out of U. S. stocks.

The Republic of Austria confers the Austrian Decoration of Honor for Science and the Arts, founded in 1955.

In this position he took part in negotiating the 1955 Austrian State Treaty, which ended the four-power occupation of Austria and restored Austria's independence and neutrality.

In 1955 the various regional stations were brought together as the Österreichisches Rundspruchwesen (" Austrian Broadcasting Entity ") which later, in 1958, became the Österreichischer Rundfunk GmbH, forerunner of today's ORF.

The commission for Austria was dismantled following the conclusion of the Austrian State Treaty on May 15, 1955.

His successor, Julius Raab, was less flexible towards the SPÖ, but was Chancellor when the Austrian State Treaty, which granted full independence to the country, was signed on May 15, 1955.

It was signed on May 15, 1955, in Vienna at the Schloss Belvedere among the Allied occupying powers ( France, the United Kingdom, the United States, and the Soviet Union ) and the Austrian government.