* 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 – 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 – Nicolas de Staël, French-Russian painter ( b. 1914 )

* Nicolas de Staël ( 1914 – 1955 ).

* 1955 in art-Death of Fernand Léger, Nicolas de Staël, Bradley Walker Tomlin ; Birth of Jeff Koons, Jasper Johns completes Flag, ( American Flag Painting )

Nicolas Hulot ( born April 30, 1955 in Lille, France – Officier of the Légion d ' honneur, Chevalier des Arts et Lettres ) is the founder and president of the Fondation Nicolas-Hulot, an environmental group first created in 1990.

* Nicolas de Staël ( 1914 – 1955 )

* Nicolas Archer ( born 1955 ), English cricketer

Steven Nicolas Romero ( June 21, 1955 – September 2, 1985 ) was an American professional wrestler better known by his ring name Jay Youngblood.

Badel portrayed Richard Wagner in Magic Fire ( 1955 ), a biopic about the composer, and Baron Nicolas de Gunzburg in the Paramount film Nijinsky ( 1980 ).

In 1955 the barrios of San Nicolas, Gipit, Bangin, Pansipit, Calangay, Sinturisan, Talang, Abilo, Balete, Bancora, Saimsim, Maabud, Mulawin, Tambo, Calumala, Alasas, Calawit and Pulangbato, then part of the municipality of Taal, Batangas were separated and constituted into a new and separate municipality known as San Nicolas.

In 1955 the barrios of San Nicolas, Gipit, Bangin, Pansipit, Calangay, Sinturisan, Talang, Abilo, Balete, Bancora, Saimsim, Maabud, Mulawin, Tambo, Calumala, Alasas, Calawit and Pulangbato, then part of this municipality, were separated and constituted into a new and separate municipality known as San Nicolas, Batangas.

Reports already issued on the sampling census, 1955 - 57, in various areas run as follows ( using only the French and omitting corresponding Flemish titles ).

* 1883 – Maurice Utrillo, French artist ( d. 1955 )

In 1989, French composer Pascal Dusapin ( born 1955 ) wrote a solo piece called In et Out for double bass.

The French Southern and Antarctic Lands have formed a ( an overseas territory ) of France since 1955.

From 1955 onwards, the works of directors of the so-called Polish Film School had a great influence on the contemporary trends such as French New Wave, Italian neorealism or even late Classical Hollywood cinema.

" We'd be oversimplifying things in calling film noir oneiric, strange, erotic, ambivalent, and cruel ": this set of attributes constitutes the first of many attempts to define film noir made by French critics Raymond Borde and Etienne Chaumeton in their 1955 book Panorama du film noir américain 1941 – 1953 ( A Panorama of American Film Noir ), the original and seminal extended treatment of the subject.

* 1955 – Alain Prost, French race car driver

* 1955 – Bruno Stolorz, French rugby coach

The 1st Foreign Parachute Regiment ( 1 < sup > e </ sup > Régiment Étranger Parachutiste, 1 < sup > e </ sup > REP ) was established in 1955 during the Algerian War and disbanded in April 1961 as the entire regiment rose against the French government of Charles de Gaulle ( Algiers Putsch ), in protest against moves to negotiate an end to the Algerian War and providing Algeria's independence from France.

* 1955 – Vivien Savage, French singer

* 1882 – André Rischmann, French rugby player ( d. 1955 )

Until 1955, the Kerguelen Islands were part of the French colony of Madagascar.

* 1955 – Operation Passage to Freedom, the evacuation of 310, 000 Vietnamese civilians, soldiers and non-Vietnamese members of the French Army from communist North Vietnam to South Vietnam following the end of the First Indochina War, ends.

* 1955 – Daniel Boulud, French chef and restaurateur

* Daniel Mach ( born 1955 ), French politician

* 1869 – Émile Fabre, French playwright ( d. 1955 )

* Napoléon ( 1955 film ), a French historical epic by Sacha Guitry

* 1955 – Maurice Utrillo, French artist ( b. 1883 )

The best-known version in French is the free verse edition by Franz Toussaint ( 1879 – 1955 ) published in 1924.

The Saar Protectorate was headed by a military governor from 30 August 1945: Gilbert Yves Édmond Grandval ( b. 1904 – d. 1981 ), who remained on 1 January 1948 as High Commissioner, and January 1952 – June 1955 as the first of two French ambassadors, his successor being Eric de Carbonnel ( b. 1910 – d. 1965 ) until 1956.

Following the 1945 elections to the Constituent Assembly in France, which were held with a very limited franchise, the French authorities gradually extended the franchise until in November 1955 the principle of universal sufferage was passed into law and implemented the following year.

* 1955 – François Cluzet, French actor

The opening was performed by Khedive Ismail of Egypt and Sudan, and at Ismail's invitation French Empress Eugenie in the Imperial yacht Aigle, piloted by Napolean Coste who was bestowed by the Khedive the Order of the Medjidie ( Blue Flame of Service c 1955 ).