* 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

* 1955 – Bruno Barreto, Brazilian film director

* 1955 – Bruno Tonioli, Italian-born British dancer

After returning to the Federal Republic of Germany, he made The Rats ( Die Ratten ) which went on to win the Golden Berlin Bear at the 1955 Berlin Film Festival, and The Devil Came at Night ( Nachts, wenn der Teufel kam, 1957 ) which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and is based on the true story of Bruno Lüdke.

He reached the zenith of his career with a succession of classic films such as, Strangers on a Train ( 1951 ) which is about two train passengers: tennis pro Guy ( Farley Granger ) and Bruno ( Robert Walker ) who staged a battle of wits and traded murders with each other, Dial M For Murder ( 1954 ) with Ray Milland as a villainous husband who attempts to murder his wealthy wife ( Grace Kelly ), Rear Window ( 1954 ) which is about man ( James Stewart ) being convinced that his neighbour is a killer, To Catch a Thief ( 1955 ), a lightweight thriller set in South of France, Vertigo ( 1958 ), with James Stewart as a retired police detective who becomes obsessed with the disturbed enigmatic ' wife ' ( Kim Novak ) of an old friend, and North by Northwest in which an advertising executive ( Cary Grant ) is mistaken for a non-existent spy and chased across the country while aided by a mysterious woman ( Eva Marie Saint ).

A Fulbright Scholarship allowed Maxfield to live in Europe between 1955 and 1957, where he studied with Luigi Dallapiccola and Bruno Maderna and met John Cage and David Tudor.

In 1955, however, Bruno Migliorini and others began discussion of the return of the work of preparing the Vocabolario to the Crusca.

The biggest triumph of her early concert career was in January 1955 when she was chosen by Bruno Walter as the contralto soloist for Mahler's Symphony No. 2 with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

Bruno Barreto ( born March 16, 1955 ) is a Brazilian film director born in Rio de Janeiro.

Bruno Conti ( born 13 March 1955 in Nettuno, province of Rome ) is an Italian ex-football player and former coach of the Serie A club Roma from 14 March 2005 to 30 June 2005.

Bruno Tristan Peyron ( born 10 November 1955 ) is a French yachtsman who, along with his crew on the catamaran Orange II, broke the outright round-the-world sailing record in March 2005.

* Bruno Tonioli ( born 1955 ), Italian dancer & choreographer

Bruno Edmund Pezzey ( 3 February 1955 – 31 December 1994 ) was an Austrian footballer.

Reports already issued on the sampling census, 1955 - 57, in various areas run as follows ( using only the French and omitting corresponding Flemish titles ).

* 1883 – Maurice Utrillo, French artist ( d. 1955 )

In 1989, French composer Pascal Dusapin ( born 1955 ) wrote a solo piece called In et Out for double bass.

The French Southern and Antarctic Lands have formed a ( an overseas territory ) of France since 1955.

From 1955 onwards, the works of directors of the so-called Polish Film School had a great influence on the contemporary trends such as French New Wave, Italian neorealism or even late Classical Hollywood cinema.

" We'd be oversimplifying things in calling film noir oneiric, strange, erotic, ambivalent, and cruel ": this set of attributes constitutes the first of many attempts to define film noir made by French critics Raymond Borde and Etienne Chaumeton in their 1955 book Panorama du film noir américain 1941 – 1953 ( A Panorama of American Film Noir ), the original and seminal extended treatment of the subject.

* 1955 – Alain Prost, French race car driver

The 1st Foreign Parachute Regiment ( 1 < sup > e </ sup > Régiment Étranger Parachutiste, 1 < sup > e </ sup > REP ) was established in 1955 during the Algerian War and disbanded in April 1961 as the entire regiment rose against the French government of Charles de Gaulle ( Algiers Putsch ), in protest against moves to negotiate an end to the Algerian War and providing Algeria's independence from France.

* 1955 – Vivien Savage, French singer

* 1882 – André Rischmann, French rugby player ( d. 1955 )

Until 1955, the Kerguelen Islands were part of the French colony of Madagascar.

* 1955 – Operation Passage to Freedom, the evacuation of 310, 000 Vietnamese civilians, soldiers and non-Vietnamese members of the French Army from communist North Vietnam to South Vietnam following the end of the First Indochina War, ends.

* 1955 – Daniel Boulud, French chef and restaurateur

* Daniel Mach ( born 1955 ), French politician

* 1869 – Émile Fabre, French playwright ( d. 1955 )

* Napoléon ( 1955 film ), a French historical epic by Sacha Guitry

* 1955 – Maurice Utrillo, French artist ( b. 1883 )

The best-known version in French is the free verse edition by Franz Toussaint ( 1879 – 1955 ) published in 1924.

The Saar Protectorate was headed by a military governor from 30 August 1945: Gilbert Yves Édmond Grandval ( b. 1904 – d. 1981 ), who remained on 1 January 1948 as High Commissioner, and January 1952 – June 1955 as the first of two French ambassadors, his successor being Eric de Carbonnel ( b. 1910 – d. 1965 ) until 1956.

Following the 1945 elections to the Constituent Assembly in France, which were held with a very limited franchise, the French authorities gradually extended the franchise until in November 1955 the principle of universal sufferage was passed into law and implemented the following year.

* 1955 – François Cluzet, French actor

The opening was performed by Khedive Ismail of Egypt and Sudan, and at Ismail's invitation French Empress Eugenie in the Imperial yacht Aigle, piloted by Napolean Coste who was bestowed by the Khedive the Order of the Medjidie ( Blue Flame of Service c 1955 ).