* 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

* A Mighty Man is He ( 1955 ), play, wrote song Rag Me That Mendelssohn March

* The Mighty Fortress, a 1955 newsreel film of Billy Graham's 1954 Crusade for Europe

After several years of similar supporting performances in a number of films, including as a co-pilot in William Wellman's The High and the Mighty ( 1954 ), he won his first starring role in Cell 2455 Death Row ( 1955 ), a low-budget prison film for Columbia Pictures.

The Mickey Mouse Club is an American variety television show that aired intermittently from 1955 to 1996.

* 1955 – The Mickey Mouse Club debuts on ABC.

Then in late 1955 Western initiated Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse Club Magazine with content produced by Disney Studio staff members.

" Mickey Mouse " creator, Walt Disney ( 1955 ), had several of his cartoonists duplicate his artistic signature on replies to children seeking his autograph.

* Lonnie Burr, American actor, dancer / choreographer, singer, director and author of Danish, French, Scots-Irish and German descent, best known for having been a star on the original Mickey Mouse Club television show from 1955 to 1959

In October 1955, Stage 2 began production on the first series of The Mickey Mouse Club.

* Mickey Mouse Club ( 1955 – 1959 ).

And other Freleng cartoons such as Sandy Claws ( 1955 ), Mexicali Shmoes ( 1959 ), Mouse and Garden ( 1960 ), and The Pied Piper of Guadalupe ( 1961 ) were Oscar nominees.

* Lighthouse Mouse ( 1955 )

* The Mickey Mouse Club ( All three versions, 1955 – 58, 1977 – 79, and 1989 – 96 )

The Duchy of Grand Fenwick is a tiny fictional country created by Leonard Wibberley in a series of comedic novels beginning with The Mouse That Roared ( 1955 ), which was later made into a film.

In The Mouse That Roared ( 1955 ), the Duchy seeks to stop American counterfeiting of Pinot Grand Fenwick.

The Fiat 500, commonly known as Topolino (" little mouse " in Italian, possibly also influenced by Mickey Mouse ), is an Italian automobile model manufactured by Fiat from 1936 to 1955.

He succeeded Jimmy MacDonald, who in 1947 had taken over from Walt Disney himself, who had performed the role since 1928 as well as supplying Mickey's voice for animated portions of the original The Mickey Mouse Club television show ( ABC-TV, 1955 – 59 ).

The Mouse That Roared is a 1955 Cold War satirical novel by Irish-American writer Leonard Wibberley, which launched a series of satirical books about an imaginary country in Europe called the Duchy of Grand Fenwick.

" This theme reoccurred in a Disney serial, " The Hardy Boys and the Applegate Treasure " ( part of The Mickey Mouse Club in 1955 ), in which " gold doubloons " are extensively featured.

A 1955 novel called The Mouse That Roared by Irish-American writer Leonard Wibberley features an imaginary European microstate called the Duchy of Grand Fenwick.

* Mickey Mouse Club Theater ( 1955 – 82, re-themed as Pinocchio's Daring Journey )

Between 1955 and 1957, Carey appeared as ranch counselor Bill Burnett in the serial Spin and Marty, seen on Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse Club.

Film credits included The Young Lovers ( 1954-for which he won a British Academy Film Award as Most Promising Newcomer to Film ), A Kid for Two Farthings ( 1955 ), his role as Morry in the Oscar-winning The Bespoke Overcoat ( 1956 ), Freud's father in Freud: The Secret Passion ( 1962 ) with Larry Parks, Professor Kokintz in The Mouse That Roared ( 1959 ) and its sequel The Mouse on the Moon ( 1963 ) with Bernard Cribbins.

* The Mickey Mouse Club ( 1955, second episode )

Allison Fonte ( born June 6, 1964 in Buena Park, California ) was a cast member of the television show The New Mickey Mouse Club, a 1977-78 revival of the Disney television show that had originally aired between 1955 and 1959.