* 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

More comedies followed, including Trouble in Store ( 1953 ) with Norman Wisdom, The Runaway Bus ( 1954 ) with Frankie Howerd and An Alligator Named Daisy ( 1955 ) with Donald Sinden and Diana Dors.

* Frankie Hayes ( 1914 – 1955 ), catcher in Major League Baseball from 1933-47 who batted and threw right-handed, and played for the Philadelphia Athletics for most of his career.

In 1955, thirteen-year-old Frankie Lymon joined the Coupe De Villes, who changed their name to first the Ermines and later The Premiers.

** Frankie Chan ( born 1955 ), nephew of Brian Leung

Frankie Knuckles ( born January 18, 1955, New York ) is an American DJ, record producer and remix artist.

In 1955, 12 year old Frankie Lymon, who sang with his brothers Lewis and Howie, was working in a grocery store as a bag boy.

" Got My Mojo Working " is edited down from an impromptu jam session ; Presley's version incorporates lyrics from " Hands Off ", a 1955 song by Frankie Castro released on the Wing record label ( RCA often mislabelled this song " Keep Your Hands Off of It " when the complete jam was issued on CD years later ).

In 1955 Bill was chosen for the Royal Variety Performance, and when American stars such as Frankie Laine, Lena Horne, Billy Daniels and Dorothy Lamour toured Britain, he was the opening comedian in their shows.

* Frankie Hayes ( 1914 – 1955 ), American baseball player

A 1955 version recorded by Tennessee Ernie Ford reached number one in the Billboard charts, while another version by Frankie Laine was released only in Western Europe, where it gave Ford's version competition.

In 1955 Jurado filmed Trial, directed by Mark Robson, with Glenn Ford and Arthur Kennedy.

Also in 1955, while Nixon was serving as vice-president to Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy and his research assistants wrote in his book Profiles in Courage, " Some of them may have been representing the actual sentiments of the silent majority of their constituents in opposition to the screams of a vocal minority ..." In January 1956, Kennedy gave Nixon an autographed copy of the book.

In 1955 screenwriter Burt Kennedy wrote a script entitled Seven Men from Now which was scheduled to be filmed by John Wayne's Batjac Productions with Wayne as the film's star and Budd Boetticher as its director.

Stephen Martin Walt ( born July 2, 1955 ) is a professor of international affairs at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government.

He opened a small frame building at Kennedy Road and Eglinton in Scarborough, selling used applicances, and then, at age 22, bought out Heather Hill Applicances and established Bad Boy Furniture in 1955.

They had five children: Robert Sargent Shriver III ( born April 28, 1954 ), Maria Owings Shriver ( born November 6, 1955 ), Timothy Perry Shriver ( born August 29, 1959 ), Mark Kennedy Shriver ( born February 17, 1964 ), and Anthony Paul Kennedy Shriver ( born July 20, 1965 ).

In 1955, then U. S. Senator John F. Kennedy announced, to the organization United Cerebral Palsy, that the institute was " planning to launch an all-out attack against the dread spectre of cerebral palsy ".

Orville Lothrop Freeman ( May 9, 1918February 20, 2003 ) was an American Democratic politician who served as the 29th Governor of Minnesota from January 5, 1955 to January 2, 1961, and as the U. S. Secretary of Agriculture from 1961 to 1969 under Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson.

David Anthony Kennedy ( June 15, 1955 – April 25, 1984 ) was the fourth of eleven children of Robert F. Kennedy.

They had four children: their son, actor and author Christopher Kennedy Lawford ( born 1955 ), their daughters Sydney Maleia Kennedy Lawford ( born 1956 ), Victoria Francis Lawford ( born 1958 ), and Robin Elizabeth Lawford ( born 1961 ).

The Freedom Rides, and the violent reactions they provoked, prompted Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy to confront the Interstate Commerce Commission with its failure to enforce a bus desegregation ruling it had handed down in 1955, Sarah Keys v. Carolina Coach Company, 64 MCC 769 ( 1955 ) as well as the companion train desegregation case, NAACP v. St. Louis-Santa Fe Railway Company, 297 ICC 335 ( 1955 ).

By presenting the Commission with its own rulings in a May 29, 1961 petition, Kennedy was able to prompt it to do what it had promised in 1955, five years before the Boynton ruling was handed down, and six years before the Freedom Riders set out to test Boynton across the Deep South.

Substitute hosts on the original version included Bill Hart ( 1951 ), John Reed King ( 1952 ), stunt creator Frank Wayne ( 1953 ), Bob Kennedy ( 1954 ), Win Elliot ( 1955 ), and Sonny Fox, who became Collyer's permanent substitute from 1957 to 1960.

With help from research assistants and the Library of Congress, Kennedy wrote the book while bedridden during 1954 and 1955, recovering from back surgery.

In autumn 1955 while on holiday in Ireland the then Senator John F. Kennedy addressed students of All Hallows at the invitation of Fr.

On May 23, Kennedy was the first candidate not from the NDP or its predecessor, the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation, to win the seat since 1955.

Her works include Song of the Songless ( 1928 ), Three Madrigals ( 1928 ), Two Dances ( 1934 ), In principio erat verbum ( 1939 ), Six Etudes ( 1954 ), The Alcestiad ( 1955 – 1958 ) an opera with a libretto by Thornton Wilder, Full Circle ( 1985 ), Spacings ( 1994 ), and A Time to Remember ( 1966 – 1967 ) based on speeches of John F. Kennedy.

David Kennedy ( 1955 – 1984 ) was an American writer and son of politician Robert Kennedy.