* 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

* 1955 – 29 nations meet at Bandung, Indonesia, for the first Asian-African Conference.

A highly influential figure well before independence, he participated in the 1955 Bandung Conference.

In 1955, Wright visited Indonesia for the Bandung Conference and recorded his observations in The Color Curtain: A Report on the Bandung Conference.

Prior to the arms deal, at the Bandung Conference in Indonesia in April 1955, Nasser was treated as the leading representative of the Arab countries and emerged as one of the key figures of the conference and the newly established Non-Aligned Movement.

“ Neo-colonialism ” became the standard term, describing a type of foreign intervention, because of its practical and historical application to the internal affairs ( economic, social, political ) of the countries of the Pan-Africanist movement and because of its like usage in the Bandung Conference ( Asian – African Conference, 1955 ), from which derived the Non-Aligned Movement ( 1961 ).

Honti attentively followed the birth of the Non-Aligned Movement, created out of the 1955 Bandung Conference, and the issues of the " Third World ".

On the international front, Sukarno organised the Bandung Conference in 1955, with the goal of uniting developing Asian and African countries into a non-aligned movement to counter against the competing superpowers at the time.

" The five principles were subsequently incorporated in modified form in a statement of ten principles issued in April 1955 at the historic Asian-African Conference in Bandung, Indonesia, which did more than any other meeting to form the idea that post-colonial states had something special to offer the world.

There, both countries undertake to follow principles of respect for territorial integrity and noninterference in internal affairs set forth by the 1955 Bandung Conference of Asian and African nations.

In 1955 the department of Water Resources Development and Management ( WRDM ) was established as an Asian African Centre to honour India's commitment at the Asian African Conference held in Bandung.

In 1955, at the Bandung Conference in Indonesia, dozens of Third World governments resolved to stay out of the Cold War.

He also took part in a number of international conferences and was the secretary of the first Asian – African summit in 1955 at Bandung, Indonesia, which gave birth to the Non-Aligned Movement.

Burma accepted foreign assistance in rebuilding the country in these early years, but continued American support for the Chinese Nationalist military presence in Burma finally resulted in the country rejecting most foreign aid, refusing to join the South-East Asia Treaty Organization ( SEATO ) and supporting the Bandung Conference of 1955.

At the Bandung Conference in April 1955, Sihanouk held private meetings with Premier Zhou Enlai of China and Foreign Minister Phạm Văn Đồng of North Vietnam.

In April 1955 he led the Philippines ' delegation to the Asian-African Conference at Bandung.

One of the first performances of angklung in an orchestra was in 1955 during the Bandung Conference.

In 1955 he represented Puerto Rico in a conference held in Bandung, Indonesia sponsored by the United Nations.

U Nu in Bandung, Indonesia for the 1955 Asian – African Conference.

Its foreign policy followed strict neutrality supporting the Bandung Conference of 1955, shunning the South-East Asia Treaty Organisation ( SEATO ) on account of the American support of the KMT on one hand, and facing the communist insurgencies on the other.

Ruslan's most prominent moment as a public servant came in 1955, when he served as secretary-general of the Bandung Conference, a major meeting of African and Asian countries working to form what became the Non-Aligned Movement as an alternative to alignment with one of the Cold War superpowers.

It was an outgrowth of the Bandung Conference, held in Indonesia during April, 1955, which led to the establishment of the Asian Legal Consultative Committee ( ALCC ).

It has its origin in the Asia-Africa Conference held in Bandung, Indonesia in 1955 ( briefly known as the Bandung Conference ).