* 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 – Jim Montgomery, American swimmer

In 1955, he began production of the Jungle Jim television adventure series for Screen Gems, a film subsidiary of Columbia.

It was made by Jim Ager who owned Air Dive Pty., Ltd. His regulator was the Sea Bee ( 1955 ).

In 1955, he took over as host of the summer replacement game show, Make the Connection, from original host, Jim McKay.

* Jim Folsom, governor of Alabama from 1947 to 1951 and 1955 to 1959, was born in Coffee County.

Jim Bunning as a Detroit Tigers rookie in 1955

* James E. " Big Jim " Folsom, Governor of Alabama 1947-51 and 1955 – 59

* Jim Lewis ( born 1955 ), writer for The Muppets.

From out of those early roots would eventually come the famous 1955 hit toy “ Wooly Willy .” This famous 20th century toy was created by Jim Herzog in Smethport in 1955, when he worked for the family-owned business Smethport Specialty Co. Wooly Willy is celebrated by the town in June during Summer Fest when any Willy-want-to-be can enter the Wooly Willy look-alike contest to stake their claim with Smethport ’ s most famous son.

* Mary Castle ( 1931 – 1998 ), actress who appeared with Jim Davis in the syndicated western television series Stories of the Century ( 1954 – 1955 )

* Who ( wrestler ), Jim Neidhart ( born 1955 ), American professional wrestler

In November 1955, just three weeks before Parks ' defiance of Jim Crow laws in Montgomery, the Interstate Commerce Commission, in response to a complaint filed by WAC Sarah Keys, closed the legal loophole left by the Morgan ruling in a landmark case known as Sarah Keys v. Carolina Coach Company.

Her most successful records were " Tweedlee Dee " ( 1955 ), " Jim Dandy " ( 1956 ), and " I Cried a Tear " ( 1958 ).

* Jungle Jim ( 1955 – 1956 ), starring Johnny Weissmuller

) Only Jungle Jim, launched by producer Sam Katzman in 1949, kept going through 1955.

1955 Brothers Ed and Jim Gaylord showed their first prototype at the 1955 Paris motor show, but the car failed to reach production.

He played through the 1955 season, and acted as a player-assistant coach the last two years, 1954 through 1955, under the guidance of new Giants head coach Jim Lee Howell.

After spending nine seasons with Cleveland, Doby was traded on October 25, 1955 to the Chicago White Sox for Chico Carrasquel and Jim Busby.

There, in the Ontario Rugby Football Union ( ORFU ), he received the Jim Shanks ( Team MVP ) Trophy for the Sarnia Imperials in 1954, and the Kitchener-Waterloo Dutchmen's Team MVP Award in 1955.

** Jim Chapin ( 1955 ) at WHBQ-TV

After the political and civil gains of the African-American Civil Rights Movement ( 1955 – 1968 ), in the 1960s, mobility began to increase again. A collection of personal narratives of former domestic servants who migrated to Iowa during the Jim Crow era.