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1955 .
1955 (
MCMLV ) was a
common year starting on Saturday of the
Gregorian calendar , the 1955th year of the
Common Era (CE) and
Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 955th year of the
2nd millennium , the 55th year of the
20th century , and the 6th year of the
1950s decade.
Calendar year
Events
January
January 7 :
Marian Anderson at the
Met
January 22 :
ICBM
February
March
March 2 –
Claudette Colvin , a 15-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, while being kicked, handcuffed and harassed on the way to the police station. She becomes a plaintiff in
Browder v. Gayle (1956), which rules bus segregation to be unconstitutional.
March 5
March 7 – The
Broadway musical version of
Peter Pan , which had opened in
1954 starring
Mary Martin , is presented on television for the first time by
NBC -TV, with its original cast, as an installment of
Producers' Showcase . It is also the first time that a stage musical is presented in its entirety on TV, almost 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 family musical classics.
March 17 –
Richard Riot in
Montreal : 6,000 people protest the
suspension of
French Canadian
ice hockey star
Maurice Richard of the
Montreal Canadiens by the
National Hockey League , following a violent incident during a match.
March 19 –
KXTV signs on the air in
Sacramento, California , as the 100th commercial television station in the United States.
March 20 – The movie adaptation of
Evan Hunter 's novel
Blackboard Jungle premieres in the United States, featuring the famous single "
Rock Around the Clock " by
Bill Haley & His Comets . Teenagers jump from their seats to dance to the song.
April
April 15 :
McDonald's
April 1 –
EOKA starts a resistance campaign against British rule in the
Crown colony of
Cyprus .
April 5
April 6 –
Anthony Eden becomes
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom .
April 10 – In the American
National Basketball Association championship, the
Syracuse Nationals defeat the
Fort Wayne Pistons 92–91 in Game 7, to win the title.
April 11
April 12 – The
Salk polio vaccine , having passed large-scale trials earlier in the United States, receives full approval by the
Food and Drug Administration .
April 14
April 15 – The first franchised
McDonald's restaurant is opened by
Ray Kroc , in
Des Plaines, Illinois .
[6]
April 16 – The
Burma -Japan Peace Treaty, signed in
Rangoon on
November 5 ,
1954 , comes into effect, formally ending a state of war between the two countries.
April 17 –
Imre Nagy , the communist Premier of Hungary, is ousted for being too moderate.
April 18 –
24 – The
Asian-African Conference is held in
Bandung , Indonesia.
May
June
July
July 1 – Transformation from the
Imperial Bank of India to the
State Bank of India is given legal recognition through an Act of the
Parliament of India .
July 7 – The
New Zealand Special Air Service is formed.
July 13 –
Ruth Ellis is
hanged for murder in London, becoming the last woman ever to be executed in the United Kingdom.
July 17
July 18 – Illinois Governor
William Stratton signs the Loyalty Oath Act, that mandates all public employees take a loyalty oath to the State of Illinois and the United States or lose their jobs.
July 18 –
23 –
Geneva Summit between the United States, Soviet Union, United Kingdom and France.
July 22 – In
Long Beach ,
California (United States),
Hillevi Rombin of
Sweden is crowned
Miss Universe .
July 27 –
El Al Flight 402 from
Vienna (Austria) to
Tel Aviv , via
Istanbul , is shot down over
Bulgaria . All 58 passengers and crewmen aboard the
Lockheed Constellation are killed.
July 28 – The first
Interlingua Congress is held in
Tours , France, leading to the foundation of the
Union Mundial pro Interlingua .
August
August 19 :
Hurricane Diane
September
September 18 : Britain annexes
Rockall
September 2 – Under the guidance of Dr.
Humphry Osmond ,
Christopher Mayhew ingests 400 mg of
mescaline hydrochloride and allows himself to be filmed as part of a
Panorama special for BBC TV in the U.K. that is never broadcast.
September 3 –
Little Richard records "
Tutti Frutti " in New Orleans; it is released in October.
September 6 –
Istanbul pogrom :
Istanbul 's Greek minority is the target of a government-sponsored
pogrom .
September 10 – The long-running
Western television series
Gunsmoke debuts, on the
CBS network in the United States.
September 14 – Pope Pius XII elevates many of the
apostolic vicariates in Africa to
Metropolitan Archdioceses .
September 15 –
Vladimir Nabokov 's controversial novel
Lolita is published in Paris, by
Olympia Press .
September 16
The military coup to unseat President
Juan Perón of Argentina is launched at midnight.
A Soviet Navy Zulu-class submarine becomes the first to launch a
ballistic missile .
September 18 – The United Kingdom formally annexes the uninhabited Atlantic island of
Rockall .
September 19 –
21 –
President of Argentina
Juan Perón is ousted in a military coup.
September 19 –
Hurricane Hilda kills about 200 people in Mexico.
September 21 –
30 –
Hurricane Janet , one of the strongest North Atlantic
tropical cyclones on record, sweeps the
Lesser Antilles and Mexico, causing more than 1,020 deaths.
[11]
September 22 –
Commercial television starts in the United Kingdom with the
Independent Television Authority 's first
ITV franchises beginning broadcasting in London, ending the
BBC monopoly.
September 23 – A
6.8 earthquake shakes the Chinese county of
Huili , leaving 728 dead and 1,547 injured.
September 24
September 30 – Actor
James Dean is killed when his automobile collides with another car at a highway junction, near
Cholame, California .
October
October 2 –
Alfred Hitchcock Presents debuts on the
CBS TV network in the United States.
October 3 –
The Mickey Mouse Club debuts on the
ABC-TV network in the United States.
October 4 – The Reverend
Sun Myung Moon is released from prison in
Seoul , South Korea.
October 5 –
Disneyland Hotel opens to the public in
Anaheim, California .
October 11 – 70-mm film for projection is introduced, with the theatrical release of Rodgers and Hammerstein's musical film,
Oklahoma! .
October 14 – The
Organization of Central American States secretariat is inaugurated.
October 20 –
Disc jockey
Bill Randle of
WERE (
Cleveland ) is the key presenter of a concert at
Brooklyn High School (Ohio) , featuring
Pat Boone and
Bill Haley & His Comets , and opening with
Elvis Presley (Elvis's first filmed performance), for a documentary on Randle titled
The Pied Piper of Cleveland .
October 26
October 27 – The film
Rebel Without a Cause , starring
James Dean , is released in the United States.
October 29 –
Soviet battleship Novorossiysk explodes at moorings in
Sevastopol Bay, killing 608 (the
Soviet Union 's worst naval disaster to date).
November
October 26 : Austria free
December
December 14 :
Tappan Zee Bridge opens
December 1 – In
Montgomery, Alabama ,
Rosa Parks refuses to obey bus driver James F. Blake's order that she give up her seat to make room for a white passenger, and is arrested, leading to the
Montgomery bus boycott .
December 4 – The
International Federation of Blood Donor Organizations is founded in
Luxembourg .
December 5
December 9 –
Adnan Menderes of
DP forms the new government of
Turkey (22nd government).
December 10 –
1955 Australian federal election :
Robert Menzies '
Liberal /
Country
Coalition
Government is re-elected with a substantially increased majority, defeating the
Labor Party led by
H. V. Evatt . This election comes in the immediate aftermath of the devastating
split in the Labor Party, which leads to the formation of the
Democratic Labor Party . The DLP will preference against Labor, and keep the Coalition in office until
1972 .
December 14
The
Tappan Zee Bridge over the
Hudson River , in
New York State, 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 moratorium on admitting new members that began during the
Korean War .
December 19 – Australian comedian
Barry Humphries first introduces his character
Edna Everage on stage in
Melbourne .
[15]
December 20 –
Cardiff is declared by the British Government as the capital of
Wales .
December 22 – American cytogeneticist
Joe Hin Tjio discovers the correct number of human
chromosomes , forty-six.
December 31
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
North America: 186,884,000
Oceania: 14,265,000
Births
January
Rowan Atkinson
J. K. Simmons
Kevin Costner
Sir
Simon Rattle
Olivier Assayas
Eddie Van Halen
John Roberts
Vinod Khosla
Nicolas Sarkozy
Mychal Thompson
January 1
January 4 –
Mark Hollis , English musician (d.
2019 )
[16]
January 5 –
Mamata Banerjee , Indian politician,
Chief Minister of West Bengal
January 6 –
Rowan Atkinson , English comic actor
January 7 –
Belinda Meuldijk , Dutch actress
January 8 –
Mike Reno , Canadian musician
January 9
January 10
January 12 –
Kerry-Lynne Findlay , Canadian politician
January 13
January 15
January 16
January 17
January 18
January 19
January 20 –
Wyatt Knight , American actor (d.
2011 )
January 21 –
Jeff Koons , American artist
[19]
January 22 –
Sonja Morgenstern , German figure skater
January 25 –
Olivier Assayas , French film director
January 26
January 27
January 28
January 29
January 30 –
Mychal Thompson , Bahamian basketball player
January 31 –
Virginia Ruzici , Romanian tennis player
[21]
February
Mo Yan
Jeff Daniels
Kelsey Grammer
Steve Jobs
Alain Prost
Leann Hunley
Grady Booch
February 1 –
Hans Werner Olm , German television and film comedian
February 2 –
Leszek Engelking , Polish poet, writer and translator (d.
2022 )
February 3
February 4 –
Joseph D. Kernan , American military officer,
Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence
February 6
February 7 –
Miguel Ferrer , American actor (d.
2017 )
February 8
February 9 –
Charles Shaughnessy , English actor
February 10
February 12
February 13 –
Hank Risan , American scientist
February 14
February 15
February 16 –
Bradley Byrne , American business attorney and politician,
Alabama
February 17 –
Mo Yan , Chinese writer
February 18 –
Cheetah Chrome , American musician
February 19
February 20 –
Mack Wilberg , American composer
February 21 –
Kelsey Grammer , American actor and comedian
February 22 –
David Axelrod , American political analyst
February 23 –
Flip Saunders , American basketball coach (d.
2015 )
February 24
February 25 –
Leann Hunley , American television actress
February 27 –
Grady Booch , American software engineer
March
Penn Jillette
Nina Hagen
Gary Sinise
Jair Bolsonaro
Bruce Willis
Mariano Rajoy
Reba McEntire
Brendan Gleeson
Marina Sirtis
Angus Young
March 1
March 2 –
Shoko Asahara , Japanese cult leader (
Aum Shinrikyo ) (d.
2018 )
March 3 –
Kent Derricott , Canadian TV personality in Japan
March 4 –
Dominique Pinon , French actor
March 5
March 6
March 7
March 8 –
Don Ashby , Canadian ice hockey player (d.
1981 )
March 9
March 10
March 11 –
Nina Hagen , German pop singer
March 12 –
Richard Martini , American film director
March 13
March 14 –
Stephen R. Bissette , American comics artist
March 15
March 16
March 17
March 18
March 19
March 20
March 21
March 22
March 23
Moses Malone , American basketball player (d.
2015 )
Susan Schwab , American politician, who served under President George W. Bush as United States Trade Representative
March 24
March 25 –
Wendy Larry , American head coach of the Old Dominion University Lady Monarchs women's basketball team
March 26 –
Danny Arndt , Canadian ice hockey player
March 27 –
Mariano Rajoy ,
Prime Minister of Spain
March 28 –
Reba McEntire , American country singer and actress
March 29
March 30
March 31
April
Sirindhorn
Akira Toriyama
Michael Rooker
Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg
Judy Davis
John Nunn
Eddie Jobson
Kate Mulgrew
April 1 –
Ockie Oosthuizen , South African rugby union player (d.
2019 )
April 2
April 3 –
Mick Mars , American rock guitarist (
Mötley Crüe )
April 5 –
Akira Toriyama , Japanese manga artist (d.
2024 )
April 6 –
Michael Rooker , American actor
April 7
April 8
April 9 –
Kate Heyhoe , American food writer
April 10 –
Philip J. Hanlon , American mathematician and computer science,
18th President of Dartmouth College
April 11 –
Kevin Brady , American politician,
Texas's 8th congressional district
April 12 –
Fred Ryan , chief executive officer of
The Washington Post
April 13
April 14 –
Don Roos , American screenwriter
April 15
April 16
April 17
April 18 –
Bobby Castillo , American baseball player (d.
2014 )
April 20
April 21
April 23
April 24 –
John de Mol , Dutch media tycoon
April 25
Karon O. Bowdre , United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama.
John Nunn , English chess player and mathematician
Parviz Parastui , Iranian actor
April 26 –
Chen Daoming , Chinese actor
April 27
James Risen , American Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter and author
Eric Schmidt , American software engineer and businessman, CEO of
Google (2001-2011)
Jing Yidan , Chinese former television host
April 28
April 29
April 30 –
Zlatko Topčić , Bosnian writer and screenwriter
May
Tom Bergeron
Big Van Vader
Bill Paxton
James Gosling
Rosanne Cash
Richard Schiff
John Hinckley Jr.
Tommy Emmanuel
Susie Essman
May 1 :
Julie Pietri , French singer
May 2
May 4
May 6 –
Tom Bergeron , American television host
May 7 –
Peter Reckell , American actor
May 8
May 9
May 10
May 14
May 15
May 16
May 17 –
Bill Paxton , American actor (d.
2017 )
May 18 –
Chow Yun-fat , Hong Kong actor
May 19
May 20
May 21 –
Sergei Shoigu , Russian politician, (
Russian Defence Minister )[
citation needed ]
May 22
May 24 –
Rosanne Cash , American entertainer
May 25 –
Connie Sellecca , American actress
May 26 –
Doris Dörrie , German actress and screenplay writer
May 27 –
Richard Schiff , American actor and comedian
May 29
May 30
May 31
June
Dana Carvey
Sam Simon
Tim Richmond
Griffin Dunne
Laurie Metcalf
Michel Platini
Isabelle Adjani
Sir
Tim Berners-Lee
June 1
June 2 –
Dana Carvey , American actor and comedian
June 3 –
Daniel Filmus , Argentine politician, member of the Chamber of Deputies of Argentina
June 4
June 5 –
Fernando Borrego Linares , Cuban singer and songwriter (aka Polo Montañez)
June 6
June 7
June 8
June 10
June 11 –
Yuriy Sedykh , Ukrainian hammer thrower (d.
2021 )
June 12
June 13 –
John E. Jones III , American justice
June 14
Tito Rojas , Puerto Rican salsa singer and songwriter (d.
2020 )
Kim Lankford , American actress, businesswoman and horse wrangler
Paul O'Grady (also known as "Lily Savage"), English talk show host, comedian and drag queen (d.
2023 )
[27]
June 15
June 16 –
Laurie Metcalf , American actress
June 18 –
Sandy Allen , American, world's tallest woman (d.
2008 )
June 20 –
Tor Nørretranders , Danish author
June 21
June 22 –
Choi Kyoung-hwan , South Korean politician;
Prime Minister of South Korea
June 23
June 24 –
Nobuhiro Kiyotaki , Japanese economist and professor
June 25 –
Víctor Manuel Vucetich , Mexican footballer and manager
June 26
June 27 –
Isabelle Adjani , French actress
June 30 –
Egils Levits ,
President of Latvia
July
Li Keqiang
Lindsey Graham
Jimmy Smits
Adrienne King
Dannel Malloy
Béla Tarr
Willem Dafoe
Iman
Asif Ali Zardari
July 1
July 2
July 3
July 4
July 5
July 6 –
Sherif Ismail , Former Prime Minister of Egypt (d.
2023 )
July 7
July 8
July 9
July 10
July 11
July 12
July 13 –
Yoshitaka Tamba , Japanese actor
July 14 –
Ramon Jimenez Jr. , Filipino attorney (d.
2020 )
July 15
July 16
July 17
July 18
July 19 –
Karen Cheryl , French singer, actress, radio and television presenter
July 20 –
Edgar Zambrano , Venezuelan lawyer and politician
[29]
July 21
July 22
July 25 –
Iman , Somalian model
July 26
July 27 –
Allan Border , Australian cricketer
July 31 –
Jakie Quartz , French singer
August
Billy Bob Thornton
Richard Hilton
Apisai Ielemia
Mike Huckabee
Sergey Khlebnikov
August 1 –
Paul Shrubb , English professional footballer, coach and scout (d.
2020 )
August 2
August 3
August 4
August 6
August 7
August 8 –
Diddú , Icelandic soprano and songwriter
August 9 –
Doug Williams , American football quarterback
August 10 –
Mel Tiangco , Filipina television anchor, journalist and humanitarian
August 12
August 13 –
Daryl , American magician (d.
2017 )
August 17 –
Richard Hilton , American businessman
August 19
August 20 –
Agnes Chan , Hong Kong-born TV personality in Japan
August 22
August 24 –
Mike Huckabee , American politician, Governor and 2008 presidential candidate
August 25 –
John McGeoch , Scottish musician (d.
2004 )
August 27
August 30
August 31 –
Edwin Moses , American athlete
September
Billy Blanks
John Kricfalusi
Edward Hibbert
Charles Martinet
Zucchero Fornaciari
September 1
September 2
September 4
September 6 –
Raymond Benson , American author
September 7 –
Efim Zelmanov , Russian mathematician
September 9
September 12 –
Peter Scolari , American actor and comedian
September 13 –
Dan Ghica-Radu , Romanian general
September 14 –
Daniella Levine Cava , American lawyer and politician
September 15
September 16 –
Robin Yount , American baseball player
September 17
September 19 –
Richard Burmer , American composer, sound designer and musician (d.
2006 )
September 21
September 24 –
Shinbo Nomura , Japanese manga artist
September 25
September 28 –
Stéphane Dion , Canadian politician
September 29
September 30
October
Tommy Wiseau
Yo-Yo Ma
Bill Gates
Indra Nooyi
November
Kris Jenner
Maria Shriver
Roland Emmerich
Whoopi Goldberg
Guillermo Lasso
Bill Nye
Howie Mandel
November 1 –
Joe Arroyo , Colombian salsa and tropical music singer (d.
2011 )
November 3
November 4
November 5
November 6 –
Maria Shriver , American television journalist, host; First Lady of California
November 7
November 9 –
Karen Dotrice , Guernsey-born child actress
November 10 –
Roland Emmerich , German film director
November 11 –
Jigme Singye Wangchuck ,
King of Bhutan
November 13 –
Whoopi Goldberg , American actress and comedian
November 14
November 15 –
Idris Jusoh , Malaysian politician ; Former Chief Minister Of Terengganu
November 16 –
Guillermo Lasso ,
President of Ecuador
[32]
November 17
November 19 –
Dianne de Leeuw , Dutch figure skater
November 20 –
Ray Ozzie , American computer programmer
November 21
November 23
November 24
November 25 –
Bruno Tonioli , film, music video and theater choreographer
November 26
November 27 –
Bill Nye , American science presenter and public television host
November 28 –
Alessandro Altobelli , Italian football player
November 29 –
Howie Mandel , Canadian actor and game show host
November 30
December
Xander Berkeley
Jane Kaczmarek
December 3
December 4 –
Maurizio Bianchi , Italian musician
December 9 –
Janusz Kupcewicz , Polish footballer (d.
2022 )
December 10 –
Ana Gabriel , Mexican singer and songwriter
December 12 –
Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki , Greek politician and businesswoman
December 13 –
Manohar Parrikar , Indian politician (d.
2019 )
December 14 –
Hervé Guibert , French writer and photographer (d.
1991 )
December 16 –
Xander Berkeley , American actor
December 17
December 21 –
Jane Kaczmarek , American actress
December 23
December 24
December 27 –
Barbara Olson , American television commentator (d.
2001 )
December 28 –
Liu Xiaobo , Chinese literary critic and human rights activist,
Nobel Peace Prize laureate (d.
2017 )
December 31 –
Jim Tracy , American baseball player and manager
Deaths
January
Hans Hedtoft
January 1 –
Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar , Indian scientist (b.
1894 )
January 2 –
José Antonio Remón Cantera , 19th
President of Panama (assassinated) (b.
1908 )
January 5 –
Marcel Déat , French politician (b.
1894 )
[33]
January 6 –
Yevgeny Tarle , Soviet historian (b.
1874 )
January 11 –
Rodolfo Graziani , Italian general (b.
1882 )
January 15
January 21 –
Archie Hahn , American athlete (b.
1880 )
January 24 –
Ira Hayes , U.S. Marine flag raiser on
Iwo Jima (b.
1923 )
January 29 –
Hans Hedtoft , 14th
Prime Minister of Denmark (b.
1903 )
January 31 –
John Mott , American YMCA leader, recipient of the
Nobel Peace Prize (b.
1865 )
February
Constantin Argetoianu
March
Sir Alexander Fleming
March 3 –
Katharine Drexel , American
Roman Catholic foundress and saint (b.
1858 )
March 8 –
William C. deMille , American screenwriter and director (b.
1878 )
March 9
March 11 – Sir
Alexander Fleming , Scottish scientist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b.
1881 )
[34]
March 12 –
Charlie Parker , American saxophonist (b.
1920 )
March 14 –
Ruth Poll , American lyricist and music publisher (b.
1899 )
[35]
[36]
March 16 –
Nicolas de Staël , Russian painter (b.
1914 )
March 19 –
Mihály Károlyi , 1st
President of Hungary and 20th
Prime Minister of Hungary (b.
1875 )
March 23 –
Arthur Bernardes , 12th
President of Brazil (b.
1875 )
March 24 –
John W. Davis , American politician, diplomat, and lawyer (b.
1873 )
April
Albert Einstein
April 5 –
Tibor Szele , Hungarian mathematician (b. 1918)
[37]
April 7 –
Theda Bara , American film actress (b.
1885 )
April 10 –
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin , French Jesuit priest, philosopher, paleontologist and geologist (b.
1881 )
April 11 –
Clifton Sprague , American admiral (b.
1896 )
[38]
April 13 –
Peyton C. March , United States Army general (b.
1864 )
April 18 –
Albert Einstein , German-born physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1879 )
April 19 –
Jim Corbett , Anglo-Indian hunter, conservationist and author (b.
1875 )
[39]
April 24 –
Alfred Polgar , Austrian-born journalist (b.
1873 )
April 25 –
Constance Collier , English actress and acting coach (b.
1878 )
April 30 –
John Henry Towers , American admiral and naval aviation pioneer (b.
1885 )
[40]
May
Mary McLeod Bethune
May 2 –
Alexander Hore-Ruthven, 1st Earl of Gowrie , 10th
Governor-General of Australia (b.
1872 )
May 4
May 10 –
Tommy Burns , Canadian boxer (b.
1881 )
May 16 –
James Agee , American writer (b.
1909 )
May 17 –
Owen Roberts , American jurist (b.
1875 )
[41]
May 18 –
Mary McLeod Bethune , American educator (b.
1875 )
May 19 –
Concha Espina , Spanish writer (b.
1869 )
May 26 –
Alberto Ascari , Italian race-car driver (accident) (b.
1918 )
May 29 –
Rudolf Klein-Rogge , German actor (b.
1885 )
May 30 –
Bill Vukovich , American race-car driver (accident) (b.
1918 )
June
Walter Hampden
July
Adolfo de la Huerta
August
Carmen Miranda
September
James Dean
October
José Ortega y Gasset
November
Shemp Howard
November 1 –
Dale Carnegie , American writer and lecturer (b.
1888 )
November 4 –
Cy Young , American baseball player (
Cleveland Spiders ) and member of the
MLB Hall of Fame (b.
1867 )
November 5 –
Maurice Utrillo , French artist (b.
1883 )
November 6 –
Edwin Barclay , 18th president of Liberia (b.
1882 )
[47]
November 7 –
Tom Powers , American actor (b.
1890 )
November 12 –
Alfréd Hajós , Hungarian swimmer and architect (b.
1878 )
November 14 –
Robert E. Sherwood , American playwright (b.
1896 )
November 15 –
Lloyd Bacon , American actor and director (b.
1889 )
November 17
November 22 –
Shemp Howard , American actor and comedian (
The Three Stooges ) (b.
1895 )
November 27 –
Arthur Honegger , French-born Swiss composer (b.
1892 )
December
Hermann Weyl
December 5 –
Jirō Minami , Japanese general and
Governor-General of Korea (1936-1942) (b.
1874 )
December 6 –
Honus Wagner , American baseball player (
Pittsburgh Pirates ) and a member of the
MLB Hall of Fame (b.
1874 )
December 8 –
Hermann Weyl , German mathematician, theoretical physicist and philosopher (b.
1885 )
December 13 –
António Egas Moniz , Portuguese neurologist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b.
1874 )
December 14 –
Paddy Mayne , Irish & British lions rugby international, Founding member of the
S.A.S
December 15 –
Otto Braun , German politician, former Minister President of the
Free State of Prussia (b.
1872 )
December 18 –
Anna Murray Vail , American botanist (b.
1863 )
December 21 –
Garegin Nzhdeh , Armenian statesman (b.
1886 )
December 24 –
Nana Bryant , American actress (b.
1888 )
Nobel Prizes
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Digest of International Law . U.S. Department of State. p. 306.
^ United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations (1959).
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