• July 3 - Beatrice Chase, British writer (b. 1874)
• July 23 - Cordell Hull, United States Secretary of State, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1871)
• 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 24 - Ib Schønberg, Danish actor (b. 1902)
• September 30 - James Dean, American actor (automobile accident) (b. 1931)
  

  

  Sept.30: James Dean.
• October 1 - Charles Christie, American film studio owner (b. 1880)
• October 9 - Theodor Cardinal Innitzer, Catholic Archbishop of Vienna (b. 1875)
• October 18 - José Ortega y Gasset, Spanish philosopher (b. 1883)
• November 4 - Cy Young, 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 (b. 1895)
• November 27 - Arthur Honegger, French-born Swiss composer (b. 1892)
• December 6 - Honus Wagner, 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)

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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

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External links

• 1955 Coin Pictures

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Table of contents

Contents 1 Events of 1955 1.1 January 1.2 February 1.3 March 1.4 April 1.5 May 1.6 June 1.7 July 1.8 August 1.9 September 1.10 October 1.11 November 1.12 December 1.13 Undated 1.14 Ongoing 1.15 World population 2 Births 2.1 January-February 2.2 March-April 2.3 May-June 2.4 July-August 2.5 September-October 2.6 November-December 3 Deaths 3.1 January-June 3.2 July-December 4 Nobel prizes 5 Notes 6 External links 7 Table of contents

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