* 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 – 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

Jonas Salk in 1955 holds bottles of a culture used to grow polio vaccines.

This work aided Jonas Salk in deriving a polio vaccine from deactivated polio viruses ; this vaccine was shown to be effective in 1955.

In 1955 Jonas Salk invented a polio vaccine which was given to more than seven million American students.

* 1952 – Jonas Salk develops the first polio vaccine ( available in 1955 )

Interrupted Melody is a 1955 biographical film which tells the story of Australian opera singer Marjorie Lawrence's struggle with polio.

Newspaper headlines from around the world about polio vaccine tests ( 13 April 1955 ).

A paraplegic since 1955, because of polio, East was a professor of political science at East Carolina University in Greenville and a protégé of conservative Senator Jesse Helms.

In 1955, East contracted polio while serving at Camp Lejeune.

Soon after its discovery, SV40 was identified in the injected form of the polio vaccine produced between 1955 and 1961.

From 1938 through the approval of the Salk vaccine in 1955, the foundation spent $ 233 million on polio patient care, which led to more than 80 percent of U. S. polio patients ' receiving significant foundation aid.

He was a dominant halfback on Winchester's outstanding football team, although his senior season was shortened by the 1955 polio epidemic.

Bulgin ( born 1955 ), Craig, and Spence ( born 1952 ) first met as children at the Mona Rehabilitation Clinic, all sufferers of polio in the epidemic that spread through Jamaica in the 1950s, but it was several years later that they formed Israel Vibration.

* The first polio vaccine, developed by Dr. Jonas Salk, was introduced to the general public in 1955.

In a 1955 revival service in Miami, Florida Coe told the parents of a three year old boy that he healed their son who had polio.

On April 12, 1955, when the success of Jonas Salk's polio vaccine was announced at the University of Michigan the Daily was the first newspaper to report it.

The experiments gave encouraging results, but were still in preliminary clinical trials when the Salk polio vaccine was released in 1955.

The Canadian postage stamp of Polio Vaccination 1955 – 2005, issued September 2, 2005, was a domestic 50-cent stamp commemorating the fight against polio, which Canada Post rightfully described as " one of the most feared diseases of the first half of the 20th century ".

While campaigning for a seat on the City Council in 1955, he contracted polio, but continued with his campaign despite warnings from his doctors.

He missed part of the 1955 season when stricken with a nonparalytic form of polio but returned in 1956.