Famous people who died in 1955
German-born physicist
African-American racism victim
American actor
Scottish scientist
American saxophonist and composer
American author
American educator and life rights leader
German writer
American baseball player
American actor
Portuguese-Brazilian actress, singer, and dancer
Japanese victim of the Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
American marine, member of the Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima
French palaeontologist and philosopher
American explorer
American baseball player
American poet
American actress
French painter
American politician
Spanish philosopher
French painter
Romanian composer
American murderer
Novelist, journalist, poet, screenwriter, film critic
French-born Swiss composer
Italian race car driver
Actor
French poet
Mexican politician, 45th President of Mexico
American innovator and founder
American Supreme Court associate justice
United States librarian and lawyer
American lyricist and composer