Famous Deaths for Year 1955

Months in Year 1955: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Deaths 1 - 150 of 172

Jan 2nd - Jose Antonio Remon, president of Panama (1952-55), assassinated
Jan 4th - Dominicus Johner, composer, dies at 80
Jan 4th - Francois Rasse, composer, dies at 81
Jan 4th - Jan D Domela Nieuwenhuis Nyegaard, Dutch preacher, dies at 84
Jan 7th - Gerald Hartigan, cricketer (S Afr batsman in 5 Tests 1911-14), dies
Jan 11th - Rodolfo Graziani, Italian East-Africa Minister of Defense, dies at 72
Jan 15th - Yves Tanguy, French/American sailor/surrealistic painter, dies
Jan 16th - Jonkheer Reneke de Marees van Swinderen, Dutch min (1908-13), dies
Jan 16th - Reneke de Marees van Swinderen, Dutch minister (1908-13), dies at 94
Jan 17th - J A Veraart, economist, dies at 68
Jan 17th - Joannes A Veraart, Dut judge/MP, (Jews in Neth), dies at 68
Jan 21st - Maarten P Vrij, Dutch lawyer/criminologist/High Council, dies at 59
Jan 21st - Archie Hahn, American athlete (b. 1880)
Jan 24th - Ira Hayes, American World War II hero (b. 1923)
Jan 27th - Ernst Penzoldt, writer, dies
Jan 29th - Hans Hedtoft, premier of Denmark (1947.. 55), dies at 51
Jan 31st - John R Mott, US theologist/founder (YMCA, Nobel 1946), dies at 89
Feb 12th - Tom Moore, actor (Ladies be Seated, Majority Rules), dies at 71
Feb 14th - Charles Cuvillier, composer, dies at 77
Feb 15th - S Z Sakall, actor (Dolly Sisters, Casablanca), dies at 71
Feb 17th - Otto J Gombosi, Hungarian/US musicologist, dies at 52
Feb 18th - Sadako Sasaki, School student(b. 1944)
Feb 23rd - Paul Claudel, French poet/playwright (L'otage), dies at 86
Feb 25th - Marij Kogoj, composer, dies at 59
Feb 27th - Tom Howard, comedian (It Pays to be Ignorant), dies at 66
Mar 5th - Antanas Merkys, President of Lithuania (b. 1888)
Mar 7th - Tom Dugan, actor (Pick a Star), dies at 66
Mar 8th - Clementine, Princess of Belg, wife of V Napoleon Bonaparte, dies at 82
Mar 9th - Matthew A Henson, met Peary on 6/4/1909 at North Pole, dies at 88
Penicillin Discoverer Alexander Fleming (Mar 11th) Mar 11th - Alexander Fleming, English bacteriologist (penicillin), dies at 73
Mar 11th - Oscar Mayer, Bavarian-born American meat packer (b. 1859)
Mar 12th - Charlie "Bird" Parker, US jazz saxophonist, dies at 34 in NYC
Mar 12th - Theodor Plievier, writer, dies
Mar 13th - Maharajadhiraja Tribhuvana Bir Bikram Yung Bahadur Shum Shere, dies
Mar 13th - Yung Deva, king of Nepal (191.-55), dies at about 48
Mar 16th - Mayhew Lake, composer, dies at 75
Mar 16th - Nicolas de Staël, French-Russian painter (b. 1914)
Mar 21st - Muriel Aked, dies at 67
Mar 22nd - Ivan Šubašić, Kingdom of Yugoslavia prime minister and last ban of Croatia (b. 1892)
Mar 23rd - Artur da Silva Bernardes, President of Brazil (b. 1875)
Mar 29th - Everard Verachtert, Flemish linguist (I Can Speak Nicely), dies at 81
Apr 1st - Silvio d'Amico, Italian theater critic (Il Teatro Italian), dies at 68
Apr 7th - Theda Bara, actress (Camille, Cleopatra, 2 Orphans), dies at 62
Apr 10th - Oskar Frederik Lindberg, composer, dies at 68
Jazz Saxophonist and Composer Charlie "Bird" Parker (Mar 12th) Apr 10th - Teilhard de Chardin, French paleontologist and theologian (b. 1881)
Apr 16th - Abdullah Seif el-Islam, brother of Yemenite king Ahmed, beheaded
Apr 18th - Don Blackie, cricketer (3 Tests for Australia 1928-29), dies at 46
Apr 18th - Eugen Herrigel, Zen philosopher/scholar, dies in Germany at 70
Apr 18th - Albert Einstein, Nobel laureate (b. 1879)
Apr 23rd - Robert H Woltjer, classical/AR-First-Member of parliament, dies at 76
Apr 24th - Alfred Polgar, Austrian writer/theater critic, dies at 79
Apr 25th - Constance Collier, actress (Perils of Pauline), dies at 77
Apr 25th - Paulus B Barth, Swiss painter/lithographer, dies at 73
Apr 28th - Lode Cantens, Flemish playwrite (Gnomes of the City), dies at 43
May 2nd - Tadeusz Jarecki, composer, dies at 66
May 3rd - Philips C Visser, explorer/ambassador to Moscow, dies
May 4th - Georges Enescu, Romanian/French violist/composer (Oedipe), dies at 73
May 4th - Louis Breguet, French aviation pioneer, dies at 75
May 9th - Kate Booth, the oldest daughter of William and Catherine Booth (b. 1858)
Theoretical Physicist Albert Einstein (Apr 18th) May 10th - Tommy Burns, Canadian boxer (b. 1881)
May 10th - John Radecki, Australian stained glass artist (b. 1865)
May 11th - G L Jessop, cricketer (match-winning batsman, brilliant field), dies
May 14th - Betty Ann Davies, dies at 44
May 16th - James Agee, US critic/writer (Death in Family), dies in NY
May 17th - Alan Fairfax, cricketer (10 Tests for Australia 1928-31), dies
May 17th - Francesco Balilla Pratella, composer, dies at 75
May 17th - Leslie Hylton, cricketer (West Indies quickie 1939), hung for murder
May 18th - Mary McLeod Bethune, educator & civil rights leader, dies at 79
May 29th - Daniel G van Beuningen, art collector, dies at 78
May 31st - "Wild Bill" Vukovich, killed in Indy 500
May 31st - Raoul Gunsbourg, composer, dies at 95
Jun 1st - F Melius Christiansen, composer, dies at 84
Jun 1st - Theo Frenkel, actor (Footlights, Hague's Comedy), dies
Jun 3rd - Barbara Graham, American murderer (b. 1923)
Jun 6th - Max Meldrum, Scottish-born Australian painter (b. 1875)
Jun 11th - Jacques Lemaigre-Dubreuil, French industrialist, murdered
Jun 11th - Marcel Louis Auguste Samuel-Rousseau, composer, dies at 72
Jun 11th - Walter Hampden, actor (Sabrina, 5 Fingers, Vagabond King), dies at 75
Jun 16th - Ozias Leduc, Quebec painter (b. 1864)
Jun 18th - Walter Rein, composer, dies at 61
Jun 18th - Willy Burkhard, composer, dies at 55
Jun 22nd - Sadashiv Garpatrao Shinde, cricketer (7 Tests for India), dies at 31
Jun 22nd - Wyllis Cooper, TV narrator (Volume One), dies at 56
Jun 29th - Max Pechstein, German painter/graphic artist (Oceania), dies at 73
Jul 2nd - Edward Lawson, Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross (b. 1873)
Jul 6th - Paolo Gallico, composer, dies at 87
Jul 7th - Franco Casavola, composer, dies at 63
Jul 9th - Don Beauman, British racing driver (b. 1928)
Jul 10th - Henry W Methorst, Dutch director (Central Bureau of Statistic), dies
Jul 13th - Beulah Ecton Woodard, US sculptor, dies at 59
Jul 13th - Ruth Ellis, last English woman (murderess), executed by hanging
Jul 16th - Jean de Merode, [Marie-Louise Courtenay], Belgian princess, dies at 81
Jul 17th - Bronislaw Zygmunt Szulc, composer, dies at 73
Jul 19th - Koos [Jacobus J] Vorrink, Dutch soc-democrat (SDAP/AJC/PvdA), dies at 64
Jul 22nd - Joseph Foley, actor (Mr Peepers), dies at 45
Jul 23rd - Betsy van Es, Flemish actress (Un soir de joie), dies at 55
Jul 23rd - Cordell Hull, statesman, dies
Jul 23rd - Harry Haden, actor (Harry-Stu Erwin Show), dies at 73
Jul 25th - Ilmari Hannikainen, composer, dies at 62
Jul 25th - Isaak Iosifovich Dunayevsky, composer, dies at 55
Aug 2nd - Ruprecht, crown prince of Bayern/general-fieldmarshal, dies
Aug 2nd - Wallace Stevens, US poet/writer (Owl's Clover), dies at 75
Aug 2nd - Alfred Lépine, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1901)
Aug 5th - Carmen Miranda, singer/actress (Down Argentine Way), dies at 42
Aug 5th - Suzan (Susan) Ball, American actress, of cancer aged 21
Aug 9th - Marion Eugene Bauer, composer, dies at 57
Novelist Thomas Mann (Aug 12th) Aug 12th - Thomas Mann, German writer (Dr Faustus, Nobel 1929), dies at 80
Aug 12th - James B. Sumner, American chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1887)
Aug 14th - Fiske Kimball, US architect/art historian, dies at 66
Aug 14th - Herbert Putnam, Librarian of Congress (b. 1861)
Aug 23rd - Reginald Tate, British actor (b. 1896)
Aug 27th - Joachim Wach, philosopher/sociologist (Sociology of Religion), dies
Aug 28th - Emmett Till, kidnapped & lynched at 14, in Money Mississippi
Sep 1st - Philip Loeb, actor (Jake-Goldbergs), dies at 61
Sep 2nd - Rudolf Kattnigg, composer, dies at 60
Sep 7th - Earnest Rabel, Austrian/US civil rights activist, dies at 81
Sep 7th - Ham Fisher, American cartoonist (b. 1900)
Sep 8th - John de Young, cardinal/archbishop of Utrecht, dies at 69
Sep 10th - Robert Blackburn, British aviation pioneer, dies at 70
Sep 12th - Gustave Vanzype, Belgian literary (La Gazette), dies at 86
Sep 14th - F C Weiskopf, writer, dies
Sep 16th - Leopold C M S Amery, Brit minister of Colonies (India), dies at 81
Sep 19th - John D. Dingell, Sr., U.S. Congressman from Michigan (b. 1894)
Sep 27th - Henri Liebrecht, Belgian stagewriter/journalist, dies at 71
Sep 28th - Arthur Donaldson, dies
Actor James Dean (Sep 30th) Sep 30th - James Dean, actor (Rebel Without a Cause), dies in a car crash at age 24
Sep 30th - Michael Chekhov, actor (Rhapsody, Abie's Irish Rose), dies at 64
Oct 1st - Charles Christie, American film studio owner (b. 1880)
Oct 2nd - O B Clarence, actor (Penn of Pensnsylvania), dies
Oct 4th - Alexander Papagos, Greek fieldmarshal, dies
Oct 9th - Alice Joyce, actress (Song O' My Heart), dies at 65
Oct 13th - Manuel Ávila Camacho, President of Mexico (b. 1897)
Oct 15th - Fumio Hayasaka, composer, dies at 41
Oct 18th - Jose Ortega y Gasset, Spanish philosopher, dies at 72
Oct 19th - John Hodiak, actress (Lifeboat, Battleground), dies at 41
Oct 20th - Eino Roiha, composer, dies at 51
Oct 21st - Roy Minnett, cricketer (Australian all-rounder prior to WW I), dies
Oct 26th - Arne Eggen, composer, dies at 74
Oct 27th - Clark Griffith, baseball player/manager (NY Yankees), dies at 85
Oct 27th - Vladimir Mikhaylovich Deshevov, composer, dies at 66
Nov 1st - W H van Eemlandt, [Haasse], author (Treasure Hunter of Amstel), dies
Nov 1st - Dale Carnegie, American writer (b. 1888)
Nov 4th - Cy Young, American baseball player (b. 1867)
Nov 5th - Maurice Utrillo, French artist (b. 1883)
Nov 6th - Charley Toorop, [Annie CP Fernhout-Toorop], Dutch painter, dies at 64
Nov 6th - Cornelis GN de Vooys, translator, dies at 82
Nov 9th - Tom Powers, actor (Station West, Destination Moon), dies at 65
Nov 11th - John Loudon, Dutch minister of Foreign affairs (1913-18), dies at 87
Nov 12th - Alfréd Hajós, Hungarian swimmer (b. 1878)
Nov 14th - Robert E Sherwood, dramatist (Abe Lincoln in Illinois), dies at 59