* 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

* Mick Jones ( The Clash ) ( born 1955 ), British guitarist and a vocalist of The Clash

* Mick Murphy ( Limerick hurler ) ( 1897 – 1955 ), Irish hurler who played as a goalkeeper for the Limerick senior team

* Mick Wallace ( born 1955 ), Irish politician, football manager and property developer

Michael Geoffrey " Mick " Jones ( born 26 June 1955 ) is an English rock guitarist, vocalist and songwriter best known for his works with The Clash until his dismissal in 1983, then Big Audio Dynamite with Don Letts before line-up changes led to the formation of Big Audio Dynamite II and finally Big Audio.

* 1933 – 1955 Sir Harold Spencer Jones

Wine of Morning ( 1955 ), based on a novel by Bob Jones, Jr., represented the United States at the Cannes Film Festival.

* 1955 – Howard Jones, British pop singer

Jones graduated from Fairmount High School in 1955.

* 1955 – Gail Jones, Australian author

* 1955 – Thomas David Jones, American astronaut

He worked as a dialogue coach on four additional Siegel films: Private Hell 36 ( 1954 ), An Annapolis Story, ( 1955, and co-starring L. Q. Jones ), Invasion of the Body Snatchers ( 1956 ) and Crime in the Streets ( 1956 ).

* 1955 – Steve Jones, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor ( Sex Pistols, The Professionals, and Neurotic Outsiders )

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

During the 1960s he was a member of the group, known as The Participants, which also included John Button, Richard McGarvie Frank Costigan and Barry Jones, who opposed the left-wing group which controlled the Victorian Labor Party from 1955 onwards.

The cartoon's plot was essentially replicated in one of Jones ' later cartoons, Rabbit Rampage ( 1955 ), in which Bugs Bunny turns out to be the victim of the silly animator ( Elmer Fudd ).

( 1955 ), Zinnemann's version of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, is noted for the wide screen format Todd-AO making its debut, as did the film's young star, Shirley Jones.

* John E. Jones III, born in Pottsville in 1955, presided over the landmark intelligent design case, Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District, in 2005.

He won five fights in 1955, before losing a decision to Ralph ' Tiger ' Jones.

Between 1952 and 1955, he starred with Peter Jones in the BBC radio comedy In All Directions.

Lee Meriwether, 1955 Miss America, played Barnaby's widowed daughter-in-law, Betty Jones.

* Steve Jones ( musician ) ( born 1955 ), English rock and roll guitarist and singer, member of the Sex Pistols

* Steve Jones ( athlete ) ( born 1955 ), Welsh athlete

* Thomas David Jones ( born 1955 ), American astronaut

He was first married to Patricia Jones from 1955 to 1960, with whom he had a son, James.

* David Jones ( footballer born 1955 ), Australian association footballer

In quick succession, Morison wrote Christopher Columbus, Mariner ( 1955 ), Freedom in Contemporary Society ( 1956 ), The Story of the ' Old Colony ' of New Plymouth, 1620 – 1692 ( 1956 ), Nathaniel Homes Morison ( 1957 ), William Hickling Prescott ( 1958 ), Strategy and Compromise ( 1958 ), and John Paul Jones: A Sailor's Biography ( 1959 ), which earned Morison his second Pulitzer Prize.