* 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

On November 20, 1955, Bo Diddley was asked by Sullivan to sing Tennessee Ernie Ford's hit " Sixteen Tons ".

* TIB = The Interpreter ’ s Bible, The Holy Scriptures in the King James and Revised Standard versions with general articles and introduction, exegesis, exposition for each book of the Bible in twelve volumes, George Arthur Buttrick, Commentary Editor, Walter Russell Bowie, Associate Editor of Exposition, Paul Scherer, Associate Editor of Exposition, John Knox Associate Editor of New Testament Introduction and Exegesis, Samuel Terrien, Associate Editor of Old Testament Introduction and Exegesis, Nolan B. Harmon Editor, Abingdon Press, copyright 1955 by Pierce and Washabaugh, set up printed, and bound by the Parthenon Press, at Nashville, Tennessee, Volume XI, Philippians, Colossians and Exegesis by Francis W. Beare, Exposition by G. Preston MacLeod, Thessalonians, Pastoral Epistles First and Second Epistles to Timothy, and the Epistle to Titus, Philemon, Hebrews

They encouraged — and eventually helped sponsor — Parks in the summer of 1955 to attend the Highlander Folk School, an education center for activism in workers ' rights and racial equality in Monteagle, Tennessee.

Tennessee Williams, Plays 1937 – 1955 ( Library of America, 2000 ) ISBN 978-1-883011-86-4.

* 1955: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof – Tennessee Williams

* Tennessee Williams won the award in 1948 and 1955.

With a publishing deal in place, Axton arranged through Presley's manager Colonel Tom Parker to present the song to Presley at the annual Country Music Disc Jockey Convention in Nashville, Tennessee, where he was to be named the most promising male country star of 1955.

In 1955, the Tennessee Valley Authority completed work on the Kingston Fossil Plant, which at the time was the world's largest coal-burning power plant.

George Went Hensley ( 1880 – 1955 ) introduced snake handling practices into the Church of God ( Cleveland, Tennessee ), circa 1910.

In 1955, Parks completed a course in " Race Relations " at the Highlander Folk School in Tennessee where non-violent civil disobedience had been discussed as a tactic.

Playwright Tennessee Williams became an admirer of her acting and wrote The Rose Tattoo specifically for her to star in, a role for which she received her first Oscar in 1955.

She played the widowed mother of a teenage daughter in Daniel Mann's 1955 film, The Rose Tattoo, based on the play by Tennessee Williams.

Cordell Hull ( October 2, 1871July 23, 1955 ) was an American politician from the U. S. state of Tennessee.

In 1955, a group of ministers led by Bishops C. B. Gillespie ( Fairmont, WV ), Ray Cornell ( Cleveland, Ohio ), and Carl Angle ( Nashville, Tennessee ) rechartered the Pentecostal Assemblies of Jesus Christ ( PAJC ) using the original charter.

In 1955 the Tennessee State Capitol exterior was renovated using Indiana Limestone to replace the poorer quality Tennessee Limestone that had started to deteriorate.

His best known opera, Susannah ( 1955 ), is based on a story from the Apocrypha, transferred to contemporary, rural Tennessee, and is set in a Southern dialect.

Failure of the Mississippi Highway 25 N / U. S. Route 45 S bridge over the Tombigbee River relief ( Big Nichols Creek )/ Tennessee – Tombigbee Waterway in Aberdeen, Mississippi during the March 1955 floods.

Rich left the military in 1955 and tried to farm five acres in Tennessee.

Sasser attended the University of Tennessee from 1954 to 1955, where he joined the Lambda Chapter of the Kappa Sigma Fraternity.

He graduated from the University of Mississippi in 1950 with a B. B. A., and from the University of Tennessee Medical Units in Memphis in 1955 with a D. D. S.

After graduation in 1952 from Baylor School, a private high school in Chattanooga, Tennessee, James was a four-year letterman ( 1952 – 1955 ) and All-American halfback for the Auburn University football team playing for head coach Ralph " Shug " Jordan.

He was survived by his wife, the former Margaret James, whom he married about 1955 ; two sons, Rubel Phillips, Jr., and wife Melinda of Round Hill, Virginia, and Dr. William James Phillips and wife Alison of Jackson, Mississippi ; two granddaughters, and two brothers, William Maurice Phillips and wife Joan of Corinth, Mississippi and Frank Price Phillips of Memphis, Tennessee.

Employment with Procter & Gamble brought him to Memphis, Tennessee in 1955.