1955 (MCMLV Roman numerals are a numeral system of ancient Rome based on letters of the alphabet, which are combined to signify the sum of their values. The first ten Roman numerals are common year starting on Saturday This is the calendar for any common year starting on Saturday . Examples: Gregorian 2011, 2005, & 1983 or Julian years 1911 & 1905 (see bottom tables) (link displays the 1955 Gregorian calendar The Gregorian calendar is the internationally accepted civil calendar. It was introduced by Pope Gregory XIII, after whom the calendar was named, by a decree signed on 24 February 1582, a papal bull known by its opening words Inter gravissimas. The reformed calendar was adopted later that year by a handful of countries, with other countries ).
Jan. 7 January 7 is the seventh day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 358 days remaining until the end of the year :
Marian Anderson at the
Met The Metropolitan Opera Association of New York City, founded in April 1880, is a major presenter of all types of opera including Grand Opera. Peter Gelb is the company's general manager. The music director is James Levine
Events of 1955
January
January 2 January 2 is the second day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 363 days remaining until the end of the year – José Antonio Remón Cantera , president of Panama Panama (pronounced /ˈpænəmɑː/ ), officially the Republic of Panama (Spanish: República de Panamá; pronounced [reˈpuβlika ðe panaˈma]), is the southernmost country of both Central America and, in turn, North America. Situated on the isthmus connecting North and South America, it is bordered by Costa Rica to the northwest, Colombia to the , is assassinated at a race track in Panama City Panama City is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Panama. It has a population of 813,097, with a total metro population of 1,206,792, and it is located at the Pacific entrance of the Panama Canal, at 8°58′N 79°32′W / 8.967°N 79.533°W. Panama City is the political and administrative center of the country .January 7 January 7 is the seventh day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 358 days remaining until the end of the year – Marian Anderson is the first African American Predominantly Protestant ; some Roman Catholics. Minorities practice Islam and other religions singer to perform at the Metropolitan Opera The Metropolitan Opera Association of New York City, founded in April 1880, is a major presenter of all types of opera including Grand Opera. Peter Gelb is the company's general manager. The music director is James Levine in New York City New York is the most populous city in the United States, and the center of the New York metropolitan area, which is one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. A leading global city, New York exerts a powerful influence over global commerce, finance, media, culture, art, fashion, research, education, and entertainment. As host of the .January 18 January 18 is the 18th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 347 days remaining until the end of the year – January 20 January 20 is the 20th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 345 days remaining until the end of the year – Battle of Yijiangshan Islands : The Chinese Communist People's Liberation Army The People's Liberation Army (simplified Chinese: 人民解放军; traditional Chinese: 人民解放軍; pinyin: Rénmín Jiěfàngjūn) is the unified military organization of all land, sea, strategic missile and air forces of the People's Republic of China. The PLA was established on August 1, 1927 — celebrated annually as "PLA Day" seizes the islands from the Republic of China The Republic of China , commonly known as Taiwan, is a state in East Asia comprising the islands of Taiwan, Penghu, Kinmen, Matsu and other minor islands located off the east coast of mainland China. Neighbouring states include the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the west, Japan to the northeast, and the Philippines to the south (Taiwan).January 22 January 22 is the 22nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 343 days remaining until the end of the year – The Pentagon The Pentagon is the headquarters of the United States Department of Defense, located in Arlington County, Virginia. As a symbol of the U.S. military, "the Pentagon" is often used metonymically to refer to the Department of Defense rather than the building itself announces a plan to develop ICBMs An intercontinental ballistic missile is a ballistic missile with a long range (greater than 5,500 km or 3,500 miles) typically designed for nuclear weapons delivery (delivering one or more nuclear warheads). Due to their great range and firepower, in an all-out nuclear war, land-based and submarine-based ballistic missiles would carry most of the (intercontinental ballistic missiles An intercontinental ballistic missile is a ballistic missile with a long range (greater than 5,500 km or 3,500 miles) typically designed for nuclear weapons delivery (delivering one or more nuclear warheads). Due to their great range and firepower, in an all-out nuclear war, land-based and submarine-based ballistic missiles would carry most of the ) armed with nuclear weapons A nuclear weapon is an explosive device that derives its destructive force from nuclear reactions, either fission or a combination of fission and fusion. Both reactions release vast quantities of energy from relatively small amounts of matter; a modern thermonuclear weapon weighing little more than a thousand kilograms can produce an explosion .January 23 January 23 is the 23rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 342 days remaining until the end of the year – Sutton Coldfield rail crash kills 17 near Birmingham, England The area now called England has been settled by people of various cultures for about 35,000 years, but it takes its name from the Angles, one of the Germanic tribes who settled during the 5th and 6th centuries. England became a unified state in AD 927, and since the Age of Discovery, which began during the 15th century, has had a significant .January 25 January 25 is the 25th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 340 days remaining until the end of the year – Presidium of the Supreme Soviet The Presidium of the Supreme Soviet was a Soviet governmental institution – a permanent body of the Supreme Soviets (parliaments). This body was of the all-Union level (Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union), as well as in all Soviet republics (e.g., Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Byelorussian SSR) and autonomous republics of the Soviet Union The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. The name is a translation of the Russian: Союз Советских Социалистических Республик (help·info), tr. Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik, IPA [sɐˈjʊs sɐˈvʲeʦkʲɪx səʦɪ announces the end of the war between the USSR and Germany A region named Germania, inhabited by several Germanic peoples, has been known and documented before AD 100. Beginning in the 10th century, German territories formed a central part of the Holy Roman Empire, which lasted until 1806. During the 16th century, northern Germany became the centre of the Protestant Reformation. As a modern nation-state, , which began during World War II Albania · Australia · Austria · Azerbaijan · Belarus · Belgium · Brazil · Bulgaria · Burma · Cambodia · Canada · Ceylon (Sri Lanka) · Channel Islands · China · Czechoslovakia · Denmark · Dutch East Indies · Egypt · Estonia · Finland · France · Germany · Gibraltar · Greece · Greenland · Hong Kong · Hungary · Iceland · in 1941 Year 1941 was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link will display 1941 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar .January 28 January 28 is the 28th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 337 days remaining until the end of the year – United States Congress The United States Congress is the bicameral legislature of the federal government of the United States of America, consisting of the Senate and the House of Representatives. The Congress meets in the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C authorizes President Dwight D. Eisenhower Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower was a five-star general in the United States Army and the 34th President of the United States, from 1953 until 1961. During World War II, he served as Supreme Commander of the Allied forces in Europe, with responsibility for planning and supervising the successful invasion of France and Germany in 1944–45, to use force to protect Formosa Taiwan, also known as Formosa , is an island situated in East Asia in the Western Pacific Ocean and located off the southeastern coast of mainland China, and comprises most of the territory of the Republic of China (ROC) since the 1950s. The term "Taiwan" has also become a commonly used alternative name both domestically and from the People's Republic of China b. ^ Simple characterizations of the political structure since the 1980s are no longer possible .
January 22 January 22 is the 22nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 343 days remaining until the end of the year :
ICBM An intercontinental ballistic missile is a ballistic missile with a long range (greater than 5,500 km or 3,500 miles) typically designed for nuclear weapons delivery (delivering one or more nuclear warheads). Due to their great range and firepower, in an all-out nuclear war, land-based and submarine-based ballistic missiles would carry most of the
February
February 1 February 1 is the 32nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 333 days remaining until the end of the year – Ray Kroc Raymond "Ray" Albert Kroc was a Czech American businessman who took over the (at the time) small-scale McDonald's Corporation franchise in 1954 and built it into the most successful fast food operation in the world. Kroc was included in Time 100: The Most Important People of the Century, and amassed a $500 million fortune during his opens a McDonald's McDonald's Corporation is one of the world's largest chain of hamburger fast food restaurants, serving nearly 47 million customers daily fast food restaurant A fast food restaurant, sometimes known as a quick service restaurant or QSR, is a specific type of restaurant characterized both by its fast food cuisine and by minimal table service. Food served in fast food restaurants typically caters to a "meat-sweet diet" and is offered from a limited menu; is cooked in bulk in advance and kept hot; (the company's 9th since it was founded in 1940), but Kroc later takes over the company and oversees its worldwide expansion.February 4 February 4 is the 35th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 330 days remaining until the end of the year Pact of Mutual Cooperation “Baghdad Pact The Central Treaty Organization was adopted in 1955 by Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, Turkey, and the United Kingdom. It was dissolved in 1979 ” signed.February 10 February 10 is the 41st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 324 days remaining until the end of the year – Seventh Fleet of the United States Navy The United States Navy is the sea branch of the U.S. Armed Forces. It is one of the seven uniformed services of the United States. As of 31 December 2008, the U.S. Navy had about 331,682 personnel on active duty and 124,000 in the Navy Reserve. It operates 284 ships in active service and more than 3,700 aircraft. The U.S. Navy is the largest in helps the Republic of China The Republic of China , commonly known as Taiwan, is a state in East Asia comprising the islands of Taiwan, Penghu, Kinmen, Matsu and other minor islands located off the east coast of mainland China. Neighbouring states include the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the west, Japan to the northeast, and the Philippines to the south evacuate Chinese Nationalist army and residents from the Tachen Islands to Taiwan Taiwan, also known as Formosa , is an island situated in East Asia in the Western Pacific Ocean and located off the southeastern coast of mainland China, and comprises most of the territory of the Republic of China (ROC) since the 1950s. The term "Taiwan" has also become a commonly used alternative name both domestically and .February 12 February 12 is the 43rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 322 days remaining until the end of the year – U.S. President The President of the United States is the head of state and head of government of the United States. The president leads the executive branch of the federal government and is one of only two nationally elected federal officers, the other being the Vice President of the United States Dwight D. Eisenhower Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower was a five-star general in the United States Army and the 34th President of the United States, from 1953 until 1961. During World War II, he served as Supreme Commander of the Allied forces in Europe, with responsibility for planning and supervising the successful invasion of France and Germany in 1944–45, sends the first U.S. advisors to South Vietnam South Vietnam refers to a state which governed southern Vietnam until 1975. It received international recognition in 1950 as the "State of Vietnam" and later as the "Republic of Vietnam" (1955–75). Its capital was Saigon. The terms "South Vietnam" and "North Vietnam" became common usage in 1954 at the time .February 16 – Nearly 100 die in a fire at a home for the elderly in Yokohama , Japan .February 19 – Southeast Asia Treaty Organization established.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.
February 1 :
McDonald's
March
March 2 – Claudette Colvin (a fifteen year old African American girl) refuses to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama , to a white woman after the driver demands it. She is carried off the bus backwards whilst being kicked and handcuffed and harassed on the way to the police station while the officers tried to guess her bra size.March 5 – WBBJ -TV signs on the air in the Jackson, Tennessee , with WDXI as its initial call-letters, to expanded American commercial television in mostly-rural areas.March 7 – The Broadway musical version of Peter Pan 1954 , starring Mary Martin , is presented on television for the first time by NBC -TV. It is also the first time that a stage musical is presented in its entirety on TV exactly as it was performed on stage. This program gains the largest viewership of a TV special up to this time, and it becomes one of the first great TV children's classics.March 17 – The Richard Riot occurs in Montreal .March 19 – KXTV of Stockton, California , signs on the air in the United States , being the 100th commercial television station in this country.March 20 – Evan Hunter's movie adaptation of the novel Blackboard Jungle Rock Around the Clock Bill Haley and His Comets . Teenagers jump from their seats to dance to the song.
April
April 1
EOKA A starts a revolution against British who violently occupied Cyprus
April 5
April 6 – Anthony Eden becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom .April 11 – The Taiwanese Kuomintang sabotage the ship Kashmir Princess Zhou Enlai .April 12 – The Salk polio vaccine , having passed large-scale trials earlier in the United States, receives full approval by the FDA .April 15 – Middle East Treaty Organization (MENTO).April 16 – Burma -Japanese peace treaty, signed in Rangoon on November 5 , 1954 , comes into effect, formally ending a state of war between the two countries that had not existed for a long time.April 17 – Imre Nagy , the communist Premier of Hungary , is ousted for being too moderate.April 18 – Albert Einstein dies in New Jersey.April 18 –24 – Asian-African Conference .
May
May 1 – Warsaw Treaty on Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance signed (Warsaw Treaty Organization ) (effective 6 Jun 1955).May 5 – West Germany becomes a sovereign country recognized by important Western foreign countries, such as France, the United Kingdom, Canada, and the United States.May 6 – WEU charter effective.May 9 – West Germany joins the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).May 11 – Japanese National Railways ' ferry Shiun Maru Uko Maru in thick fog off Takamatsu , Shikoku , in the Seto Inland Sea of Japan ; 166 passengers (many children) and two crew are killed. This event is influential in plans to construct the Akashi-Kaikyō Bridge (built 1986-98).May 14 – Eight Communist Bloc countries, including the Soviet Union , sign a mutual defence treaty in Warsaw, Poland , that is called the Warsaw Pact .May 15 – Austrian State Treaty , which restores Austria 's national sovereignty, is concluded between the four occupying powers following World War II (the United Kingdom, the United States, the Soviet Union, and France) and Austria, setting it up as a neutral country.
June
July
July 7 – The New Zealand Special Air Service is formed.July 13 – Ruth Ellis (born 1926 ) is hanged for murder in London , becoming the last woman ever to be executed in the United Kingdom .July 17 – The largest Live Television Broadcast at the time showed the preview of Disneyland Theme Park in Anaheim, California .July 18
The Disneyland Theme Park opens in Anaheim, California .
The first nuclear-generated electrical power is sold commercially, partially powering the town of Arco, Idaho .
The Illinois Governor, William Stratton , signs the "Loyalty Oath Act", passed by the State Legislature, which mandates all public employees take a loyalty oath to Illinois and the United States, or lose their jobs.
The first Geneva Summit meeting between the United States, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and France begins. It ends on July 23rd.
July 27 – El Al Flight 402 from Vienna, Austria to Tel Aviv-Yafo via Istanbul is shot down over Bulgaria . All 58 passengers and crewmen aboard the Lockheed Constellation airplane are killed.July 28 – The first Interlingua Congress in Tours, France , leading to foundation of the Union Mundial pro Interlingua .
August
Aug.19 Diane
September
Sept.30 :
James Dean .
October
November
Oct.26 :
Austria free.
December
Dec. 14 :
Tappan Zee Bridge opens.
December 1 – Rosa Parks is arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a bus to a white person, and the national civil rights movement begins.December 5
December 9 – Adnan Menderes of DP forms the new government of Turkey (22nd government)December 14
The Tappan Zee Bridge in New York opens to traffic.
Albania , Austria , Bulgaria , Cambodia , Finland , Hungary , Ireland , Italy , Jordan , Laos , Libya , Nepal , Portugal , Romania , Spain , and Sri Lanka join the United Nations simultaneously, after several years of morotorium on admitting new members that began during the Korean War .
December 22 – American cytogeneticist Joe Hin Tjio discovers the correct number of human chromosomes , forty-six.December 31 -- General Motors Corporation becomes the first American corporation to make a profit of over one billion dollars in one year.
Ongoing
World population
– Africa : 246,746,000
– Asia : 1,541,947,000
– Europe : 575,184,000
– South America : 190,797,000
– North America : 186,884,000
– Oceania : 14,265,000
Births
January
February
February 2 – Leszek Engelking , Polish poet, writer and translatorFebruary 3 – Kirsty Wark , Scottish television presenterFebruary 6 – Michael Pollan , American journalistFebruary 7 – Miguel Ferrer , American actorFebruary 8
Charles Shaughnessy , British ActorFebruary 10
February 12
February 13 – Akiko Yano , Japanese singer-songwriterFebruary 15 – Christopher McDonald , American actorFebruary 17 – Mo Yan , Chinese writerFebruary 19 – Jeff Daniels , American actorFebruary 20 – Kelsey Grammer , American actorFebruary 23
February 24
March
March 2
March 3 – Kent Derricott , Canadian TV personality in JapanMarch 4 – Dominique Pinon , French actorMarch 5
March 6 – Alberta Watson , Canadian actressMarch 7 – Tommy Kramer , American football playerMarch 8 – Don Ashby , Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1981 )March 9 – Franco Uncini , Italian motorcycle racerMarch 10 – Youssra , Egyptian actress and singerMarch 11 – Nina Hagen , German pop starMarch 13 – Bruno Conti , Italian football playerMarch 15
March 16
March 17 – Gary Sinise , American actorMarch 18
March 19
March 20 – Mariya Takeuchi , Japanese singer-songwriterMarch 21 – Philippe Troussier , French football coachMarch 22
March 23 – Moses Malone , American basketball playerMarch 26 – Danny Arndt , Canadian ice hockey playerMarch 28
March 29
March 31 – Angus Young , Australian rock guitarist (AC/DC )
April
May
May 1 – Ray Buttigieg , Maltese composer and poetMay 2
May 3 – David Hookes , Australian cricketer (d. 2004 )May 4
May 6 – Tom Bergeron , American television hostMay 8 – Meles Zenawi , Prime Minister of EthiopiaMay 9 – Anne-Sofie von Otter , Swedish mezzo-sopranoMay 10
May 16
May 17 – Bill Paxton , American actorMay 18 – Chow Yun-fat , Hong Kong actorMay 19 – James Gosling , Canadian software engineerMay 20
May 22
May 24
May 25
May 26
May 30 – Nakamura Kanzaburō XVIII , Japanese Kabuki actorMay 31 – Tommy Emmanuel , Australian guitarist (CGP )
June
June 1 – Chiyonofuji Mitsugu , Japanese sumo wrestler (58th Yokozuna grand champion)June 2 – Dana Carvey , American actor and comedianJune 5 – Fernando Borrego Linares , Cuban singer and songwriter (aka Polo Montañez)June 6
June 7 – Tim Richmond , American race car driver (d. 1989 )June 8 – Tim Berners-Lee , English inventor of the World Wide WebJune 10
June 14
June 16 – Laurie Metcalf , American actressJune 18 – Sandy Allen , American, world's tallest woman (d. 2008 )June 20 – Tor Norretranders , Danish authorJune 21
June 22 – Glenn Danzig , American rock singer (The Misfits , Samhain , Danzig )June 23 – Alan J. Gow , British motorsport executiveJune 21 – Tim Bray , Canadian computer programmerJune 24 – Gurumayi Chidvilasananda , Indian head of Siddha Yoga June 26 – Yoko Gushiken , Japanese boxerJune 27 – Isabelle Adjani , French actressJune 30 – David Alan Grier , American actor and comedian
July
August
August 2 – Caleb Carr , American writerAugust 4
August 6 – Ron Davis , American baseball player
August 7 – Vladimir Sorokin , Russian writerAugust 8 – Diddú (Sigrún Hjálmtýsdóttir), Icelandic soprano and songwriterAugust 9 – Doug Williams , American football quarterbackAugust 13 – Daryl , American magicianAugust 17 – Richard Hilton , American businessmanAugust 19
August 20 – Agnes Chan , Hong Kong born TV personality in JapanAugust 22 – Chiranjeevi , Indian actorAugust 24 – Mike Huckabee , American politician, former Governor and 2008 Presidential candidateAugust 27 – Laura Fygi , Dutch singerAugust 27 – Sergey Khlebnikov , Soviet (Russian) speed skater (d. 1999 )August 30 – Mayumi Muroyama , Japanese manga artistAugust 31 – Edwin Moses , American athlete
September
September 1
September 2 – Robert Duncan , American astrophysicistSeptember 2 – Natalya Petrusyova , Soviet (Russian) speed skaterSeptember 4 – Hiroshi Izawa , Japanese actorSeptember 6 – Raymond Benson , American authorSeptember 7 – Efim Zelmanov , Russian mathematicianSeptember 9 – John Kricfalusi , Canadian cartoonistSeptember 15
September 16 – Robin Yount , American baseball playerSeptember 17 – Charles Martinet , American voice-actorSeptember 19 – Richard Burmer , American composer, sound designer, and musician (d. 2006 )September 21 – Richard Hieb , American astronautSeptember 23 – Don Graham , American journalistSeptember 24 – Shinbo Nomura , Japanese manga artistSeptember 25 – Karl-Heinz Rummenigge , German football playerSeptember 28 – Stéphane Dion , Canadian politician
October
November
November 2 – Chris Burnett , American saxophone player, composer, veteran of US military jazz bands and band leaderNovember 3
November 4 – Matti Vanhanen , Prime Minister of Finland November 5
November 6 – Maria Shriver , American journalist, First Lady of CaliforniaNovember 7 – Detlef Ultsch , German judo athleteNovember 9 – Karen Dotrice , English actressNovember 10 – Roland Emmerich , German film directorNovember 11 – Jigme Singye Wangchuk , King of Bhutan November 13 – Whoopi Goldberg , American actress and comedienneNovember 14 – Koichi Nakano , Japanese bicycle racerNovember 19 – Dianne de Leeuw , Dutch figure skaterNovember 20 – Ray Ozzie , American computer programmerNovember 21 – Kyle Gann , American composer and music criticNovember 23 – Steven Brust , American authorNovember 24 – Ian Botham , British cricketerNovember 27 – Bill Nye , American science presenter and public television hostNovember 29 – Howie Mandel , Canadian actor and game show hostNovember 30
December
December 3 – Steven Culp , American actorDecember 4 – Maurizio Bianchi , Italian musicianDecember 7 – Priscilla Barnes , American actressDecember 8 – Ian Greig , English cricketerDecember 9 – Asashio Tarō IV , Japanese sumo wrestlerDecember 12 – Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki , Greek politician and businesswomanDecember 16 – Chiharu Matsuyama , Japanese singer-songwriterDecember 17 – Brad Davis , American basketball playerDecember 16 – Rob Levin , American founder of the freenode IRC network (d. 2006 )December 21 – Jane Kaczmarek , American actressDecember 23
December 24
December 27 – Barbara Olson , American television commentator (d. 2001 )December 31 – Jim Tracy , American baseball player
Deaths
January–February
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 11 – Ona Munson , American actress (b. 1903 )February 12
February 23 – Paul Claudel , French poet, dramatist, and diplomat (b. 1868 )February 27 – Trixie Friganza , American actress (b. 1870 )
March–April
March 8 – William C. deMille , American screenwriter and director (b. 1878 )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 16 – Nicolas de Staël , Russian painter (b. 1914 )March 23 – Artur da Silva Bernardes , President of Brazil (b. 1875 )March 30 – Ylla , Hungarian photographer (b. 1911 ) (jeep accident)April 13 – Theda Bara , American film actress (b. 1885 )April 18 – Albert Einstein , German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1879 )April 25 – Constance Collier , stage & screen actress (b. 1878 )
May–June
May 4 – Georges Enescu , Romanian composer (b. 1881 )May 10
May 11 – Gilbert Jessop , English cricketer (b. 1874 )May 14 – Anwar Wagdi , Egyptian actor and filmmaker (b. 1904 )May 16 – James Agee , American writer (b. 1909 )May 18 – Mary McLeod Bethune , American educator (b. 1875 )May 22 – Richard "Skeets" Gallagher , American actor (b. 1891 )May 26 – Alberto Ascari , Italian race car driver (b. 1918 )May 30 – Bill Vukovich , American race car driver (b. 1918 )June 5 – Pattillo Higgins , American oil pioneer and businessman (b. 1863 )June 11 – Walter Hampden , American actor (b. 1879 )June 17 – Carlyle Blackwell , American actor (b. 1884 )June 19 – Adrienne Monnier , French poet (b. 1892 )June 24 – Carlos Gardel , Argentine singer (b. 1890 )June 26 – Engelbert Zaschka , German helicopter pioneer (b. 1895)
July–August
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 )July 20 – Calouste Gulbenkian , Armenian businessman and philanthropist (b. 1869 )July 31 – Robert Francis , American actor (b. 1930 )August 2 – Wallace Stevens , American poet (b. 1879 )August 5 – Carmen Miranda , Portuguese singer and actress (b. 1909 )August 8 – Grace Hartman , American actress (b. 1907 )August 12
August 13 – Florence Easton , English opera soprano (b. 1882 )August 17 – Fernand Léger , French painter and sculptor (b. 1881 )August 28 – Emmett Till , American murder victim (b. 1941 )
September–October
September 1 – Philip Loeb , American actor (b. 1891 )September 20 – Robert Riskin , American screenwriter (b. 1897 )September 23 – Martha Norelius , American Olympic swimmer (b. 1908 )September 24 – Ib Schønberg , Danish actor (b. 1902 )September 30
October 1 – Charles Christie , American film studio owner (b. 1880 )October 8 – Iry LeJeune , Cajun musician (b. 1928 )October 9
October 18 – José Ortega y Gasset , Spanish philosopher (b. 1883 )October 19 – John Hodiak , American actor (b. 1914 )October 31 – William Woodward, Jr. , American banker and horse breeder, shot to death by his wife (b. 1920 )
November–December
November 1 – Dale Carnegie , American writer and lecturer (b. 1888 )November 4 – Cy Young , American baseball player (b. 1867 )November 5 – Maurice Utrillo , French artist (b. 1882 )November 7 – Tom Powers , American actor (b. 1890 )November 11 – Jerry Ross , American lyricist and composer (b. 1926 )November 12 – Alfréd Hajós , Hungarian swimmer (b. 1878 )November 14 – Robert E. Sherwood , American playwright (b. 1896 )November 15 – Lloyd Bacon , American actor and director (b. 1889 )November 22 – Shemp Howard , American actor and comedian (The Three Stooges ) (b. 1895 )November 27 – Arthur Honegger , French-born Swiss composer (b. 1892 )December 1 – Chief Thundercloud , American character actor (b. 1899 )December 6
December 13 – Egas Moniz , Portuguese neurologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1874 )
December 19 Sergio E Corominas Alacide, Fashion Stylist, Born In Santiago Chile, Actually lives In Miami Fl. USA
December 21 – Garegin Njdeh , Armenian statesman (b. 1886 )December 25
December 27 – Alfred Francis Blakeney Carpenter , English soldier (b. 1881 )
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