1955

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Year 1955 (MCMLV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays the 1955 Gregorian calendar).

Contents:
Events of 1955 - Jan. ^. Feb. ^. March ^. April - May ^. June ^. July ^. Aug. - Sept. ^. Oct. ^. Nov. ^. Dec. - Undated ^. Ongoing ^. - World population Births Deaths Nobel Prizes See also - Notes - External links

Jan. 7: Marian Anderson at the Met

Events of 1955

January

January 2 – José Antonio Remón Cantera, president of Panama, is assassinated at a race track in Panama City.
January 7 – Marian Anderson is the first African American singer to perform at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City.
January 18 – January 20 – Battle of Yijiangshan Islands: The Chinese Communist People's Liberation Army seizes the islands from the Republic of China (Taiwan).
January 22 – The Pentagon announces a plan to develop ICBMs (intercontinental ballistic missiles) armed with nuclear weapons.
January 23 – The Sutton Coldfield rail crash kills 17 near Birmingham, England.
January 25 – The Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union announces the end of the war between the USSR and Germany, which began during World War II in 1941.
January 28 – The United States Congress authorizes President Dwight D. Eisenhower to use force to protect Formosa from the People's Republic of China.

January 22: ICBM

February

February 1: McDonald's

February 1 – Ray Kroc opens a McDonald's fast food restaurant (the company's 9th since it was founded in 1940), but Kroc later takes over the company and oversees its worldwide expansion.
February 10 – The Seventh Fleet of the United States Navy helps the Republic of China evacuate Chinese Nationalist army and residents from the Tachen Islands to Taiwan.
February 12 – U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower sends the first U.S. advisors to South Vietnam.
February 16 – Nearly 100 die in a fire at a home for the elderly in Yokohama, Japan.
February 22 – In Chicago's Democratic primary, Mayor Martin H. Kennelly loses to the head of the Cook County Democratic Party, Richard J. Daley, 364,839 to 264,77.

March

March 20: Bill Haley.

March 5 – WBBJ signs on the air in the Jackson, Tennessee as WDXI.
March 7 – The 1954 Broadway musical version of Peter Pan, starring Mary Martin, is presented on television for the first time by NBC

(also the first time that a stage musical is presented in its entirety on TV exactly as performed on stage). The program gains the largest viewership of a TV special up to that time, and becomes one of the first great television classics.

March 12 – Charlie Parker dies.
March 17 – The Richard Riot occurs in Montreal.
March 19 – KXTV signs on the air in the United States.
March 20 – Blackboard Jungle opens in movie theaters featuring the song Rock Around the Clock by Bill Haley and his Comets, thus propelling rock and roll as a musical genre. Teenagers jump from their seats to dance to the song.

April

April 5 – Winston Churchill resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
April 5 – Richard J. Daley defeats Robert Merrian to become mayor of Chicago by a vote of 708,222 to 581,555.
April 6 – Anthony Eden becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
April 11 – The Taiwanese Kuomintang sabotages the "Kashmir Princess", killing 16 but failing to assassinate People's Republic of China leader Zhou Enlai.
April 11 – Two fairies on the Inland Sea sink killing 168 children, prompting the construction of the Akashi-Kaikyō Bridge.
April 12 – The Salk polio vaccine is introduced.
April 16 – The Burma-Japanese peace treaty signed in Rangoon on November 5, 1954 comes into force, formally ending the state of war.
April 17 – Imre Nagy, Premier of Hungary, is ousted for being too moderate.
April 18–24 – Asian-African Conference.

May

May 5 – West Germany becomes a sovereign state.
May 9 – West Germany joins the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
May 11 – The Japanese ferry Shiun Maru sinks off of Takamatsu, Shikoku; 168 are killed.
May 14 – Eight communist bloc countries, including the Soviet Union, sign a mutual defence treaty called the Warsaw Pact.
May 19 – The Austrian State Treaty, which restores Austria's sovereignty, is concluded between the four occupying powers of World War II and Austria.

June

June 7 – The $64,000 Question premieres on CBS television, with Hal March as the host.
June 11 – 1955 Le Mans disaster: Eighty-three are killed and at least 100 are injured after an Austin-Healey and a Mercedes-Benz collide.
June 13 – Mir Mine, the first diamond mine of the USSR, is discovered.
June 16 – Lady and the Tramp, Walt Disney's 15th animated feature film, debuts in U.S. movie theaters.

July

July 17: Disneyland opens.

July 7 – The New Zealand Special Air Service is formed.
July 13 – Ruth Ellis (b. 1926) is hanged for murder in London (the last woman ever to be executed in the United Kingdom).
July 17 – Disneyland opens in Anaheim, California.
July 18 – The first atomic-generated electrical power is sold commercially, powering Arco, Idaho.
July 18 – Illinois's Governor William Stratton signs the Loyalty Oath Act, that mandates all public employees take a loyalty oath or lose their jobs.
July 18 – The Geneva Summit between the US, USSR, UK, and France begins.
July 19 – Estonian Television (ETV) begins broadcasting.
July 23 – The Geneva Summit between the US, USSR, UK, and France ends.
July 27 – El Al Flight 402 from Vienna to Tel Aviv-Yafo via Istanbul is shot down over Bulgaria. All passengers and crew aboard the Lockheed Constellation are killed.
July 28 – The first Interlingua Congress in Tours, France, leads to the founding of the Union Mundial pro Interlingua.

August

Aug.19 Diane

August 19 – Hurricane Diane hits the northeast United States, killing 200 and causing over $1 billion in damage.
August 20 – Hundreds are killed in anti-French rioting in Morocco and Algeria.
August 22 – Eleven schoolchildren are killed when their school bus is hit by a freight train in Spring City, Tennessee.
August 25 – The last Soviet forces leave Austria.
August 27 – The first copy of a Guinness World Records book is published.
August 28 – Emmett Till is killed in Money, Mississippi.

September

Sept.30: James Dean.

September 6 – Istanbul Pogrom: Istanbul's Greek minority is the target of a government-sponsored pogrom.
September 10 – Gunsmoke debuts on the CBS television network.
September 12 – Gorseinon College is established.
September 15 – Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita is published in Paris by Olympia Press.
September 19 – President of Argentina Juan Peron is ousted in a military coup.
September 19 – Hurricane Hilda kills 200 in Mexico.
September 21 – Juan Perón loses power in a military coup.
September 22 – Independent Commercial Television (ITV) begins broadcasting in the UK.
September 24 – U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower suffers a coronary thrombosis while on vacation in Denver.
September 30 – Actor James Dean is killed when his Porsche 550 Spyder collides with another automobile at a highway junction near Cholame, California.

October

October 3 – The Mickey Mouse Club premieres on the ABC television network.
October 4 – The Reverend Sun Myung Moon is released from prison in Seoul, Korea.
October 4 – The Brooklyn Dodgers finally win the World Series, defeating the New York Yankees 2-0 in Game 7 of the 1955 Fall Classic.
October 11 – 70-mm film is introduced with the theatrical release of Oklahoma!
October 20 – The first film footage of Elvis Presley is shot as part of a film short about Cleveland disc jockey Bill Randle.
October 20 – Cardiff is proclaimed as the capital city of Wales, United Kingdom.
October 25 – the death of Sadako Sasaki, a victim of the atom bomb disease
October 26 – After the last Allied troops have left the country and following the provisions of the Austrian Independence Treaty, Austria declares its permanent neutrality.
October 26 – Ngo Dinh Diem proclaims Vietnam a republic with himself as president.
October 29 – STUART WOODING born

November

Oct.26: Austria free.

November 1 – A time bomb explodes in the cargo hold of United Airlines Flight 629, a Douglas DC-6B airliner flying above Longmont, Colorado, killing all 39 passengers and 5 crew members on board the aircraft.
November 3 – The five-and-a-half-mile Rimutaka Railway tunnel opens in New Zealand.
November 5 – Racial segregation is forbidden on trains and buses in U.S. interstate commerce.
November 12 – The Bugs Bunny cartoon Roman-Legion Hare debuts in the USA.
November 20 – Bo Diddley makes his television debut on Ed Sullivan's Toast Of The Town show for the CBS network.
November 23 – The Cocos Islands are transferred from the control of the United Kingdom to Australia.
November 27 – Fred Phelps establishes the Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kansas.

December

Dec. 14: Tappan Zee Bridge opens.

December 1 – Rosa Parks is arrested for refusing to give up her seat on the bus to a white person, and the national civil rights movement begins.
December 5 – The American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations merge to become the AFL-CIO.
December 5 – The Montgomery Improvement Association is formed in Montgomery, Alabama by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and other Black ministers to coordinate a Black boycott of city buses.
December 14 – Tappan Zee Bridge in New York opens to traffic.
December 14 – Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Finland, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Jordan, Laos, Libya, Nepal, Portugal, Romania, Spain and Sri Lanka join the United Nations.
December 22 – American cytogeneticist Joe Hin Tjio discovers the correct number of human chromosomes.
December 31
- General Motors becomes the first American corporation to make over USD $1 billion in a year.
- Michigan J. Frog, a cartoon character, debuts in One Froggy Evening

Undated

Düsseldorf-Mönchengladbach Airport (Flughafen Düsseldorf-Mönchengladbach) is founded.

Ongoing

World population

World population: 2,755,823,000

– Africa: 246,746,000

– Asia: 1,541,947,000

– Europe: 575,184,000

– South America: 190,797,000

– Northern America: 186,884,000

– Oceania: 14,265,000

Births

**1955 in other calendars**
Gregorian calendar	1955 MCMLV
Ab urbe condita	2708
Armenian calendar	1404 ԹՎ ՌՆԴ
Bahá'í calendar	111 – 112
Berber calendar	2905
Buddhist calendar	2499
Burmese calendar	1317
Byzantine calendar	7463 – 7464
Chinese calendar	甲午年十二月初八日 (4591/4651-12-8) — to — 乙未年十一月十八日 (4592/4652-11-18)
Coptic calendar	1671 – 1672
Ethiopian calendar	1947 – 1948
Hebrew calendar	5715 – 5716
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	2010 – 2011
- Shaka Samvat	1877 – 1878
- Kali Yuga	5056 – 5057
Holocene calendar	11955
Iranian calendar	1333 – 1334
Islamic calendar	1374 – 1375
Japanese calendar	Shōwa 30 (昭和30年)
Korean calendar	4288
Thai solar calendar	2498
v • d • e

January

January 1 – Mario Andreacchio, Australian film director
January 1 – Stephen Mallinder, English musician (Cabaret Voltaire)
January 2 – Tex Brashear, American voice actor
January 2 – Vivien Savage, French singer
January 6 – Rowan Atkinson, English comedian and actor
January 12 – Rockne O'Bannon, American writer and television producer
January 13 – Paul Kelly, Australian musician
January 13 – Jay McInerney, American writer
January 15 – Nigel Benson, British author and illustrator
January 17 – Steve Earle, American musician
January 18 – Kevin Costner, American actor
January 19 – Simon Rattle, English conductor
January 20 – Joe Doherty, Provisional Irish Republican Army member
January 25 – Terry Chimes, British rock drummer (The Clash)
January 26 – Eddie Van Halen, Dutch-born rock musician (Van Halen)
January 27 – John Roberts, Chief Justice of the United States
January 27 – Alexander Stuart, British author
January 28 – Nicolas Sarkozy, President of France
January 28 – Vinod Khosla, Venture Capitalist

February

February 3 – Stephen Euin Cobb, American novelist
February 3 – Kirsty Wark, Scottish television presenter
February 6 – Michael Pollan, American journalist
February 7 – Miguel Ferrer, American actor
February 8 – John Grisham, American novelist
February 10 – Chris Adams, British professional wrestler and judoka (d. 2001)
February 10 – Greg Norman, Australian golfer
February 12 – Arsenio Hall, American actor and talk show host
February 15 – Christopher McDonald, American actor
February 16 – Hunt Block, American actor
February 17 – Mo Yan, Chinese writer
February 19 – Jeff Daniels, American actor
February 20 – Kelsey Grammer, American actor
February 23 – Tom Bodett, American voice actor, radio personality, and writer
February 23 – Howard Jones, English musician
February 23 – Flip Saunders, American basketball coach
February 24 – Alain Prost, French race car driver
February 24 – Steve Jobs, American computer pioneer

March

March 2 – Jay Osmond, American pop singer
March 4 – Dominique Pinon, French actor
March 5 – Penn Jillette, American magician and comedian
March 5 – Julien Dray, French politician
March 6 – Alberta Watson, Canadian actress
March 7 – Tommy Kramer, American football player
March 8 – Don Ashby, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1981)
March 10 – Youssra, Egyptian actress and singer
March 11 – Nina Hagen, German pop star
March 13 – Geoff Ablett, Australian rules footballer
March 15 – Dee Snider, American rock singer (Twisted Sister)
March 16 – Jiro Watanabe, Japanese boxer
March 16 – Bruno Barreto, Brazilian film director
March 17 – Gary Sinise, American actor
March 18 – Guillermo Dávila, Venezuelan actor and singer
March 19 – Bruce Willis, American actor
March 22 – Pete Sessions, American politician
March 22 – Valdis Zatlers, president of Latvia
March 22 – Lena Olin, Swedish actress
March 23 – Moses Malone, American basketball player
March 26 – Danny Arndt, Canadian ice hockey player
March 28 – John Alderdice, Irish politician
March 28 – Reba McEntire, American singer and actress
March 29 – Earl Campbell, American football player
March 29 – Brendan Gleeson, Irish actor
March 30 – Paul Reiser, American actor
March 31 – Angus Young, Australian rock guitarist (AC/DC)

April

April 1 – Gregg Jarrett, American lawyer turned journalist
April 3 – Mick Mars, American musician with Motley Crue
April 5 – Akira Toriyama, Japanese manga artist
April 5 – Janice Long, British radio disc jockey
April 6 – Michael Rooker, American actor
April 6 – Janet Ellis, British children's TV presenter
April 7 – Werner Stocker, German actor (d. 1993)
April 7 – Akira Nishino, Japanese soccer player and manager
April 8 – Barbara Kingsolver, American fiction writer
April 8 – Kane Hodder, American actor
April 9 – Kate Heyhoe, American food writer
April 11 – Kevin Brady, American politician
April 13 – Steve Camp, American musician
April 15 – Dodi Al-Fayed, Egyptian businessman (d. 1997)
April 16 – Grand Duke Henri of Luxembourg
April 20 – Seema Mustafa, Indian politician and journalist
April 21 – Ebiet G Ade, Indonesian singer and songwriter
April 23 – Tony Miles, English chess player (d. 2001)
April 23 – Judy Davis, Australian actress
April 24 – John de Mol, Dutch media tycoon
April 25 – John Nunn, English chess player and mathematician
April 25 – Parviz Parastui, Iranian actor
April 29 – Kate Mulgrew, American actress
April 29 – Wendee Lee, American voice actress

May

May 1 – Ray Buttigieg, Maltese composer and poet
May 1 – Nick Feldman, English musician
May 2 – Willie Miller, Scottish footballer
May 2 – Dave Winer, American software pioneer
May 3 – David Hookes, Australian cricketer (d. 2004)
May 4 – Robert Ellis Orrall, American singer
May 6 – Tom Bergeron, American television host
May 7 – Kevin Reed, American Presbyterian author, theologian and publisher
May 9 – Anne-Sofie von Otter, Swedish mezzo-soprano
May 10 – Chris Berman, American sports broadcaster (ABC Sports)
May 10 – Mark David Chapman, American murderer of John Lennon
May 16 – Olga Korbut, Russian gymnast
May 16 – Jack Morris, American baseball player
May 16 – Hazel O'Connor, British singer
May 16 – Debra Winger, American actress
May 17 – Bill Paxton, American actor
May 18 – Chow Yun-Fat, Hong Kong actor
May 19 – James Gosling, Canadian software engineer
May 20 – Zbigniew Preisner, Polish film composer
May 21 – Paul Barber, British field hockey player
May 21 – Stan Lynch, American drummer, songwriter, and producer
May 22 – Chalmers "Spanky" Alford, American jazz guitarist (d. 2008)
May 22 – Jimmy Lyon, American guitarist
May 22 – Dale Winton, English radio DJ and television presenter
May 24 – Rosanne Cash, American entertainer
May 24 – Rumiko Ukai, Jpanese voice actress
May 26 – Doris Dörrie, German actress and screenplay writer
May 26 – Masaharu Morimoto, Japanese chef
May 28 – John McGeoch, Scottish rock musician (Siouxsie and the Banshees, Public Image Ltd.) (d. 2004)
May 29 – John Hinckley, Jr., American who attempted to assassinate U.S. President Ronald Reagan
May 30 – Topper Headon, British rock drummer (The Clash)
May 31 – Tommy Emmanuel, Australian guitarist (CGP)

June

June 1 – Ralph Morse (actor), British actor, singer, and writer of historical dramas
June 2 – Dana Carvey, American actor and comedian
June 2 – Michael Steele (musician), American rock bassist (The Bangles)
June 5 – Fernando Borrego Linares, Cuban singer and songwriter (aka Polo Montañez)
June 6 – Sandra Bernhard, American comedian, actress, author and singer
June 7 – Tim Richmond, American race car driver (d. 1989)
June 8 – Tim Berners-Lee, English inventor of the World Wide Web
June 10 – Andrew Stevens, American actor and film producer
June 13 – Larry Mike Garmon, American author
June 14 – Paul O'Grady, English talk show host and comedian
June 16 – Laurie Metcalf, American actress
June 18 – Sandy Allen, American, world's tallest woman (d. 2008)
June 20 – Tor Norretranders, Danish author
June 21 – Jean-Pierre Mader, French singer-songwriter
June 21 – Michel Platini, French football player
June 21 – Aloysius Amwano, Nauruan politician
June 22 – Glenn Danzig, American rock singer (The Misfits, Samhain, Danzig)
June 22 – Green Gartside, Welsh singer, songwriter
June 23 – Alan J. Gow, British motorsport executive
June 21 – Tim Bray, Canadian computer programmer
June 24 – Gurumayi Chidvilasananda, Indian head of Siddha Yoga
June 26 – Mick Jones, British rock guitarist (The Clash, Big Audio Dynamite)
June 27 – Isabelle Adjani, French actress
June 30 – David Alan Grier, American actor and comedian

July

July 1 – Sanma Akashiya, Japanese comedian and actor
July 1 – Lisa Scottoline, American novelist
July 8 – Mihaela Mitrache, Romanian actress
July 9 – Fred Norris, American radio personality
July 9 – Jimmy Smits, American actor
July 18 – Bernd Fasching, Austrian painter and sculptor
July 21 – Howie Epstein, American musician and producer (d. 2003)
July 22 – Willem Dafoe, American actor
July 22 – Asif Ali Zardari, Pakistani politician
July 27 – Allan Border, Australian cricketer
July 31 – Jakie Quartz, French singer

August

August 2 – Caleb Carr, American writer
August 4 – Billy Bob Thornton, American actor
August 7 – Vladimir Sorokin, Russian writer
August 8 – Diddú (Sigrún Hjálmtýsdóttir), Icelandic soprano and songwriter
August 9 – Doug Williams, American football quarterback
August 17 – Wesley Eure, American actor
August 19 – Peter Gallagher, American actor
August 22 – Chiranjeevi, Indian actor
August 24 – Mike Huckabee, American politician, former Governor and 2008 Presidential candidate
August 27 – Laura Fygi, Dutch singer
August 31 – Edwin Moses, American athlete

September

September 1 – Bruce Foxton, English musician
September 2 – Robert Duncan, American astrophysicist
September 3 – Steve Jones, English rock guitarist (Sex Pistols)
September 7 – Efim Zelmanov, Russian mathematician
September 9 – John Kricfalusi, Canadian cartoonist
September 10 – Pat Mastelotto, American musician
September 12 – Peter Scolari, American actor
September 15 – Željka Antunović, Croatian politician
September 15 – Renzo Rosso, Italian clothing designer
September 16 – Robin Yount, American baseball player
September 17 – Charles Martinet, American voice-actor
September 19 – Richard Burmer, American composer, sound designer, and musician (d. 2006)
September 21 – Richard Hieb, American astronaut
September 23 – Don Graham, American journalist
September 25 – Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, German football player
September 28 – Stéphane Dion, Canadian politician

October

October 2 – Philip Oakey, English rock musician (The Human League)
October 5 – Jean-Jacques Lafon, French singer-songwriter
October 5 – Caroline Loeb, French singer and actress
October 7 – Yo-Yo Ma, French-born Chinese cellist
October 13 – Sergei Shepelev, Russian ice hockey player
October 15 – Kulbir Bhaura, British field hockey player
October 15 – James B. Aguayo-Martel, physician, surgeon, scientist, inventor
October 18 – Timmy Mallett, British television presenter
October 21 – Rich Mullins, American Christian musician (d. 1997)
October 28 – Bill Gates, American software entrepreneur
October 28 – Indra Nooyi, Indian CEO
October 29 – Kevin DuBrow, American musician (d. 2007)

November

November 2 – Chris Burnett, American saxophone player, composer, veteran of US military jazz bands and band leader
November 3 – Phil Simms, American football player
November 4 – Matti Vanhanen, Prime Minister of Finland
November 5 – Karan Thapar, Indian journalist, political analyst & commentator
November 6 – Maria Shriver, American journalist, First Lady of California
November 7 – Detlef Ultsch, German judo athlete
November 9 – Karen Dotrice, English actress
November 11 – Jigme Singye Wangchuk, King of Bhutan
November 13 – Whoopi Goldberg, American actress and comedienne
November 14 – Koichi Nakano, Japanese bicycle racer
November 20 – Lee Wardlaw, American Novelist
November 20 – Ray Ozzie, American computer programmer
November 21 – Kyle Gann, American composer and music critic
November 23 – Steven Brust, American author
November 24 – Ian Botham, British cricketer
November 27 – Bill Nye, American science presenter and public television host
November 29 – Howie Mandel, Canadian actor and game show host
November 30 – Kevin Conroy, American voice actor
November 30 – Billy Idol, British rock singer
November 30 – Gordon Liu, Chinese actor

December

December 3 – Steven Culp, American actor
December 4 – Maurizio Bianchi, Italian musician
December 7 – Priscilla Barnes, American actress
December 8 – Ian Greig, English cricketer
December 12 – Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki, Greek politician and businesswoman
December 15 – Paul Simonon, British rock bassist (The Clash)
December 17 – Brad Davis, American basketball player
December 16 – Rob Levin, American founder of the freenode IRC network
December 18 – Ray Liotta, American actor
December 21 – Jane Kaczmarek, American actress
December 23 – Carol Ann Duffy, British poet
December 24 – Clarence Gilyard, American actor
December 27 – Barbara Olson, American television commentator (d. 2001)

Deaths

January

January 1 – Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar, Indian scientist (b. 1894)
January 2 – Jose Antonio Remon, President of Panama (assassinated) (b. 1908)
January 6 – Yevgeny Tarle, Soviet historian (b. 1874)
January 11 – Rodolfo Graziani, Italian General (b. 1882)
January 15 – Yves Tanguy, French painter (b. 1900)
January 18 – August Duesenberg, German-born American automobile manufacturer (b. 1879)
January 21 – Archie Hahn, American athlete (b. 1880)
January 24 – Ira Hayes, U.S. Marine (b. 1923)
January 29 – Hans Hedtoft, Prime Minister of Denmark (b. 1903)
January 31 – John Mott, American YMCA leader, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1865)

February

February 12 – Tom Moore, Irish-American film actor (b. 1883)

March

March 9 – Matthew Henson, American explorer (b. 1866)
March 11 – Sir Alexander Fleming, Scottish scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1881)
March 12 – Charlie Parker, American saxophonist (b. 1920)
March 23 – Artur da Silva Bernardes, President of Brazil (b. 1875)

April

April 7 – Theda Bara, American film actress (b. 1885)
April 18 – Albert Einstein, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1879)

May

May 4 – Georges Enescu, Romanian composer (b. 1881)
May 10 – Tommy Burns, American boxer (b. 1881)
May 10 – John Radecki, Australian stained glass artist (b. 1865)
May 11 – Gilbert Jessop, English cricketer (b. 1874)
May 16 – James Agee, American writer (b. 1909)
May 18 – Mary McLeod Bethune, American educator (b. 1875)
May 26 – Alberto Ascari, Italian race car driver (b. 1918)

June

June 5 – Pattillo Higgins, American oil pioneer and businessman (b. 1863)
June 19 – Adrienne Monnier, French poet (b. 1892)
June 24 – Carlos Gardel, Argentine singer (b. 1890)
June 25 – Vito Corleone, Italian-American mob moss (b. 1891) -- fictional character

July

July 3 – Beatrice Chase, British writer (b. 1874)
July 13 – Stanley Price, American film and television actor (b. 1892)
July 23 – Cordell Hull, United States Secretary of State, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1871)

August

August 2 – Wallace Stevens, American poet (b. 1879)
August 5 – Carmen Miranda, Portuguese singer and actress (b. 1909)
August 12 – Thomas Mann, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1875)
August 12 – James B. Sumner, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1887)
August 13 – Florence Easton, English opera soprano (b. 1882)
August 28 – Emmett Till, American murder victim (b. 1941)

September

September 24 – Ib Schønberg, Danish actor (b. 1902)
September 30 – James Dean, American actor (b. 1931)

Sept.30: James Dean.

October

October 1 – Charles Christie, American film studio owner (b. 1880)
October 9 – Theodor Cardinal Innitzer, Catholic Archbishop of Vienna (b. 1875)
October 8 – Iry LeJeune, Cajun musician (b. 1928)
October 18 – José Ortega y Gasset, Spanish philosopher (b. 1883)

November

November 4 – Cy Young, American baseball player (b. 1867)
November 5 – Maurice Utrillo, French artist (b. 1882)
November 12 – Alfréd Hajós, Hungarian swimmer (b. 1878)
November 22 – Shemp Howard, American actor and comedian (The Three Stooges) (b. 1895)
November 27 – Arthur Honegger, French-born Swiss composer (b. 1892)

December

December 6 – Honus Wagner, American baseball player (b. 1874)
December 13 – Egas Moniz, Portuguese neurologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1874)
December 21 – Garegin Njdeh, Armenian statesman (b. 1886)
December 25 – Elizabeth Harrison, daughter of President Benjamin Harrison and Mary Dimmick Harrison (b. 1897)
December 25 – Thomas J. Preston, Jr., professor of Archeology at Princeton University; he married Frances Cleveland, widow of President Grover Cleveland (b. 1862)
December 27 – Alfred Francis Blakeney Carpenter, English soldier (b. 1881)

Nobel Prizes

Physics – Willis Eugene Lamb, Polykarp Kusch
Chemistry – Vincent du Vigneaud
Physiology or Medicine- Axel Hugo Theodor Theorell
Literature – Halldór Kiljan Laxness
Peace – not awarded

Sports^[1]

Baseball

The Brooklyn Dodgers beat the New York Yankees 4 games to 3 to win the World Series.

American Football

The Cleveland Browns beat the Los Angeles Rams 38-14 for the NFL championship in Los Angeles.

Basketball

The Syracuse Nationals beat the Fort Wayne Pistons 4 games to 3 to win the NBA title.

Hockey

The Detroit Red Wings beat the Montreal Canadiens 4 games to 3 to win the Stanley Cup

Notes

^ Nite, Norm N. (1992). ROCK ON ALMANAC: The First Four Decades of Rock ‘n’ Roll: A Chronology; 2nd Edition. New York, New York: Harper Collins. pp. p26. ISBN 0-06-273157-2.

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