* 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

In the spring of 1955, shortly before he left Union for the year, Buechner met his wife Judith at a dance given by some family friends.

He appeared as Jason opposite Dame Judith Anderson in Robinson Jeffers ' adaptation of Medea at the Theatre Sara Bernhardt in Paris in 1955.

In China Eggs, an unpublished autobiography that she wrote in 1955, Sage stated that “ these were the happiest days of my life ,”, and she told friend and gallery owner Julien Levy in 1961 that her campagna experience shaped her “ perspective idea of distance and going away .” Nonetheless, in later years Sage usually claimed that she was self-taught, perhaps because, as one of her biographers, Judith Suther, states, most of what she had learned in Rome bore so little relationship to the kind of painting she eventually did that “ she felt as if she had studied with no one .”

His next plays were translations from French dramatists: The Lark, an adaptation of Jean Anouilh ’ s L ' Alouette ( The Lark ), in 1955 ; Tiger At The Gates, based on Jean Giraudoux ’ s La guerre de Troie n ' aura pas lieu, also in 1955 ; Duel of Angels, adapted from Giraudoux's Pour Lucrèce, in 1960 ; and Judith, also by Giraudoux, in 1962.

Born in 1955, he is the son of Helen and Louis Lowenstein of Larchmont, N. Y. Lowenstein is married to Judith Slovin.

They had three daughters: Catherine ( born 1949 ), Judith ( born 1953 ) and Mary Anne ( born 1955 ).

Judith Tarr ( born 1955 ) is an American author, best known for her fantasy books.

His marriage in 1955 in Birkenhead to singer and actress Judith Shergold was a long and happy one ; the couple were married for 40 years.

* 1955 – Béla Tarr, Hungarian director

His novels include his pre-World War I-era novel Tarr ( set in Paris ), and The Human Age, a trilogy comprising The Childermass ( 1928 ), Monstre Gai and Malign Fiesta ( both 1955 ), set in the afterworld.

Béla Tarr ( born July 21, 1955 ) is a Hungarian film director.

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Mr. Reama, who retired as vice president of the American Screw Co. in 1955 said, `` Both parties in the last election told us that we need a five per cent growth in the gross national product -- but neither told us how to achieve it ''.

* Mark Mendoza ( born 1955 ), American bass player nicknamed " The Animal "

* 1955 – Corey Burton, American voice actor

* 1866 – Matthew Henson, American explorer ( d. 1955 )

* 1955 – Bruce Bochy, American baseball player and manager

* 1882 – Marion Bauer, American composer, writer, and critic ( d. 1955 )

* 1868 – Bernarr Macfadden, American bodybuilder, author, and publisher, founded Macfadden Publications ( d. 1955 )

* 1955 – Ann M. Martin, American author

* 1955 – Terry Taylor, American wrestler

* 1955 – Peter Gallagher, American actor, singer, and writer

* 1955 – Ned Yost, American baseball player and manager

* 1955 – Black teenager Emmett Till is murdered in Mississippi, galvanizing the nascent American Civil Rights Movement.

* 1920 – Charlie Parker, American saxophonist and composer ( d. 1955 )