* 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 – 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

* Graves, Robert, ( 1955 ) 1960.

Robert Graves in The Greek Myths ( 1955 ; 1960 ) asserts that the ægis in its Libyan sense had been a shamanic pouch containing various ritual objects, bearing the device of a monstrous serpent-haired visage with tusk-like teeth and a protruding tongue which was meant to frighten away the uninitiated.

* Robert Graves ( 1955 ) 1960.

* Graves, Robert, ( 1955 ) 1960.

In 1955, Cesbron's book Chiens perdus sans collier, the story of an orphan boy and a benevolent judge, was made into a movie starring Jean Gabin and Robert Dalban.

* Graves, Robert, The Greek Myths 1955.

* 1915 – Robert Blair Mayne, British soldier ( d. 1955 )

Clemence Dane's series of radio plays, The Saviours ( 1942 ), used a historical Arthur to embody the spirit of heroic resistance against desperate odds, and Robert Sherriff's play The Long Sunset ( 1955 ) saw Arthur rallying Romano-British resistance against the Germanic invaders.

* 1955 – Robert Vance, New Zealand cricketer

The play Inherit the Wind ( 1955 ), by Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee, is loosely based on this trial.

Tunnel in the Sky is a science fiction book written by Robert A. Heinlein and published in 1955 by Scribner's as one of the Heinlein juveniles.

* January 11 – Robert Blair Mayne, British soldier and co-founder of the Special Air Service ( d. 1955 )

* Murray, Robert K., Red Scare: A Study in National Hysteria, 1919-1920 ( Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 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

It was followed by works on D. H. Lawrence ( Portrait of a Genius, But ..., 1950 ), Robert Louis Stevenson ( Portrait of a Rebel, 1957 ), and T. E. Lawrence ( Lawrence of Arabia: A Biographical Inquiry, 1955 ).

Today, the bearer of this tradition is the eldest son of Archduke Robert of Austria-Este ( 1915-1996 ), Lorenz Otto Charles of Austria-Este ( b. 1955 ), who is married to Princess Astrid of Belgium, the only daughter of King Albert II.

In 1955, Laughton directed The Night of the Hunter, starring Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters and Lillian Gish.

* Robert Baldick, The Life of J .- K. Huysmans ( Oxford, 1955 ; new edition revised by Brendan King, Dedalus Books, 2006 )

* The Caine Mutiny was only the second film of Robert Francis, who was being groomed for stardom – but on 31 July 1955, he was killed when the private plane he was piloting crashed shortly after take off from Burbank airport.

Kiss Me Deadly is a 1955 film noir drama produced and directed by Robert Aldrich starring Ralph Meeker.

* Robert Hood Saunders ( 1903 – 1955 ), lawyer

McCay's son Robert, along with Disney animator Richard Huemer, recreated the original vaudeville performance for the Disneyland television program in 1955.

* Graves, Robert, The Greek Myths, 1955, 142. ff, 142. 2, 3, 5

* Graves, Robert ( 1955 ) 1960.