* 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

The Bliss bibliographic classification ( BC ) is a library classification system that was created by Henry E. Bliss ( 1870 – 1955 ), published in four volumes between 1940 and 1953.

* No Boundaries ( with Henry Kuttner ; stories, 1955 )

* Henry ( 1955 )

* 1881 – Henry Potter, American golfer ( d. 1955 )

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* 1955 Old Vic Theatre, Richard Burton as Henry

In early December 1955, Muni returned to his starring role as Henry Drummond in the play Inherit the Wind.

* Henry V ( 1955 )

* Henry E. Bliss ( 1870 – 1955 ), devised the Bliss library classification system

" The Reality of Henry Miller " and " Henry Miller: The Iconoclast as Everyman ’ s Friend " ( 1955 – 1962 essays )

* Henry Bellingham ( politician ) ( born 1955 ), English politician

In 1952, Buechner began lecturing at New York University, and once again received critical acclaim for his short story " The Tiger ," published in The New Yorker, which won the O. Henry Award in 1955.

* 1955 short story " The Tiger " wins O. Henry Prize

Washington, D. C .: Henry Regnery Co., 1955.

Offutt was brought to popular attention during its SAC period when the command was depicted in the 1955 film Strategic Air Command starring Jimmy Stewart, the 1963 film A Gathering of Eagles starring Rock Hudson, and 1964's Fail-Safe starring Henry Fonda ( which not only claimed to show portions of the base but also a nearby Omaha neighborhood ) and Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb starring Peter Sellers ( which depicts a nuclear first strike from a mad general at the fictional Burpelson Air Force Base ).

Construction proceeded through the leadership of Henry Sherer, and in 1955, Edward Angerola, chairmen of the Memorial Field committee.

DeForest Lake, built in 1955 / 6, was named after Henry L. Deforest, President of the Spring Valley Works and Supply Company.

* 1955: Gray Beck, Richard Thompson, Albert Losvar, Fred Allen, Henry Brown

Since the publication of Henry K. Beecher's The Powerful Placebo in 1955, the phenomenon has been considered to have clinically important effects.

Henry K. Beecher, in a paper in 1955, suggested placebo effects occurred in about 35 % of people.

Worth's first appearance was a five-minute standup on " Henry Hall's Guest Night " in 1955.

Another daughter, Gwendolyn Maud Syrie ( 1879 – 1955 ), known as Syrie like her mother, was married to wealthy businessman Henry Wellcome, and later to the writer Somerset Maugham, and became a socially prominent London interior designer in the 1920s and 1930s.

James recorded the version, which she was allowed to co-author, in 1954, and the song was released in early 1955 as " Dance with Me, Henry ".