* 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

Well known cinematic movies, which deal with Khufu or at least have the Great Pyramid as a theme, are Howard Hawks ' Land of the Pharaohs from 1955, a fictional account of the building of the Great Pyramid of Khufu, and Roland Emmerich ´ s Stargate from 1994, in which an extraterrestrial device is found near the pyramids.

* 1895 – Shemp Howard, American comedian ( d. 1955 )

** Shemp Howard, American actor and comedian ( The Three Stooges ) ( d. 1955 )

* Tales of Conan ( 1955 ) ( with Robert E. Howard )-collection containing the first of de Camp's " posthumous collaborations " with Howard, marking the beginning of his successful promotion of Howard's " Conan the Barbarian " character

She made her Hollywood debut in Howard Hawks's Land of the Pharaohs ( 1955 ) and appeared in Island in the Sun ( 1957 ).

* Howard Jones ( musician ) ( born 1955 ), English

There were two more children born to Howard and Helen, daughter Kirstine in 1952, and son Gunnar in 1955.

Bohemond also appears in the historical novel Silver Leopard by F. Van Wyck Mason ( 1955 ), the short story " The Track of Bohemond " in the collection The Road of Azrael by Robert E. Howard ( 1979 ), and in the fantastical novel Pilgermann by Russell Hoban ( 1983 ).

After a two-year absence when he was with the U. S. Army ( 1953 – 1954 ), he returned to Gateway in its 1955 summer season, playing: Eddie Davis in Ronald Alexander's Time Out For Ginger ( July 1955 ), Hal Carter in William Inge's Picnic ( July 1955 ), Charles Wilder in John Willard's The Cat And The Canary ( August 1955 ), Paris in Arthur Miller's The Crucible ( August 1955 ), and John the Witchboy in William Berney and Howard Richardson's Dark Of The Moon ( September 1955 ).

* March 17-Shemp Howard, American actor ( died 1955 )

Well known cinematic movies, which deal with Khufu or at least have the Great Pyramid as a theme, are Howard Hawks ' Land of the Pharaohs from 1955, a fictional account of the building of the Great Pyramid of Khufu, and Roland Emmerich's Stargate from 1994, in which an extraterrestrial device is found near the pyramids.

Howard Hawks directed his Land of the Pharaohs ( starring Joan Collins ) in Italy and Egypt in 1955.

General Tire's final move into entertainment was the acquisition of RKO Radio Pictures from Howard Hughes in 1955 for $ 25 million.

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In November 1955, William Howard Baker took over as editor of the Sexton Blake Library and, in 1956, introduced a successful update of the Blake formula.

In 1955 a fictionalised version of the story was told in the film The Cockleshell Heroes made by Warwick Films, and starring Anthony Newley, Trevor Howard, David Lodge and Jose Ferrer who was also the Director.

Robert Howard Marris ( born 8 April 1955 ) is a British Labour Party politician, who was the Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Wolverhampton South West from 2001 to 2010.

Clark Howard ( born June 20, 1955 ) is a popular U. S. talk radio host of the nationally syndicated consumer advocate program The Clark Howard Show.