* 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

* William White, " Housman's Latin Inscriptions ", CJ ( 1955 ) 159-166

* Guthrie, William Keith Chambers, The Greeks and their Gods, 1955.

He also published influential biographies of William Morris ( 1955 ) and ( posthumously ) William Blake ( 1993 ) and was a prolific journalist and essayist.

Greenpeace purchased the Rainbow Warrior ( originally launched as the Sir William Hardy in 1955 ) at a cost of £ 40, 000.

Universal Time ( UT ), a term introduced in 1928, initially represented mean time at Greenwich determined in the traditional way to accord with the originally-defined universal day ; then from 1 January 1956 ( as decided by the IAU at Dublin, 1955, at the initiative of William Markowitz ) this " raw " form of UT was re-labeled UT0 and effectively superseded by refined forms UT1 ( UT0 equalized for the effects of polar wandering ) and UT2 ( UT1 further equalized for annual seasonal variations in earth rotation rate ).

* 1955 – William Wall, Irish writer

* 1955 William Gaddis's The Recognitions

* 1881 – William Orthwein, American swimmer and water polo player ( d. 1955 )

The play was written as a rebuttal to the 1955 play and the 1960 film, which local Daytons claim did not accurately depict the trial or William Jennings Bryan.

* Beasley, William G. ( 1955 ).

On March 21, 1955, the studio was finally able engage in television through the successful Warner Bros. Television unit run by William T. Orr, Jack Warner's son-in-law.

Frank Bartholomew, the last UP president to ascend to the agency's top job directly from its news, rather than sales, ranks, took over in 1955, and according to his cited autobiography, was obsessed with merging UP with the International News Service, a news agency that had been founded by William Randolph Hearst in 1909 following Scripps ' lead.

In 1955 Tracy turned down William Wyler's The Desperate Hours because he refused to take second-billing to Humphrey Bogart.

William Jennings Bryan said this is roughly the view espoused by Matthew Harrison Brady, a character in the 1955 play Inherit the Wind loosely based upon William Jennings Bryan.

After an eight-year absence from films, he starred in the 1955 film version of Mister Roberts opposite James Cagney, William Powell and Jack Lemmon, continuing a pattern of bringing his acclaimed stage roles to life on the big screen.

* Flagstaff, the space vessel in the science fiction novelette Uncle Buno ( 1955 ) ( Science Fantasy, Issue 16 ) by William F. Temple.

* 1955: A Fable by William Faulkner

He made his Broadway theater debut in the original production of William Inge's Picnic with Kim Stanley in 1953 and appeared in the original Broadway production of The Desperate Hours in 1955.

* Guthrie, William Keith Chambers, The Greeks and their Gods, 1955.

Recent examples include Patricia Highsmith's The Talented Mr. Ripley ( originally published in 1955 ), Ira Levin's Sliver ( 1991 ), with the cover photograph depicting a steamy sex scene between Sharon Stone and William Baldwin straight from the 1993 movie, and, again, Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho ( 1991 ).

* 1955: The Taft Story by William S. White

* Brandon, William, The Men and the Mountain ( 1955 ) ISBN 0-8371-5873-7.