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1955 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar .
Events
Births
January-February
January 2 - Tex Brashear , American voice actor
January 6 - Rowan Atkinson , English comedian and actor
January 12 - Rockne O'Bannon , writer and television producer
January 13 - Jay McInerney , American writer
January 17 - Steve Earle , American musician
January 18 - Kevin Costner , American actor
January 19 - Simon Rattle , English conductor
January 27 - John Roberts , Chief Justice of the United States
January 26 - Eddie Van Halen , Dutch-born musician
February 3 - Stephen Euin Cobb , American novelist
February 8 - John Grisham , American novelist
February 10 - Chris Adams , American professional wrestler (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 19 - Jeff Daniels , American actor
February 20 - Kelsey Grammer , American actor
February 23 - Howard Jones , English musician
February 24 - Alain Prost , French race car driver
February 24 - Steve Jobs , American computer pioneer
March-April
March 1 - Timothy Laurence , husband of Princess Anne of the United Kingdom
March 5 - Penn Jillette , American magician and comedian
March 7 - Tommy Kramer , American football player
March 15 - Dee Snider , American singer
March 16 - Jiro Watanabe , Japanese boxer
March 16 - Bruno Barreto , Brazilian film director
March 17 - Gary Sinise , American actor
March 19 - Bruce Willis , American actor
March 22 - Pete Sessions , American politician
March 23 - Moses Malone , American basketball player
March 28 - Reba McEntire , American singer and actress
March 29 - Earl Campbell , American football star
March 31 - Angus Young , Scottish musician
April 6 - Michael Rooker , American actor
April 7 - Werner Stocker , German actor (d. 1993
April 11 - Kevin Brady , American politician
April 15 - Dodi Al-Fayed , Egyptian businessman (d. 1997 )
April 16 - Grand Duke Henri of Luxembourg
April 23 - Tony Miles , English chess player (d. 2001 )
April 29 - Kate Mulgrew , American actress
May
May 1 - Ray Buttigieg , Maltese electronic music pioneer and poet
May 2 - Dave Winer , American software pioneer
May 3 - David Hookes , Australian cricketer (d. 2004 )
May 6 - Tom Bergeron , American television host
May 9 - Anne-Sofie von Otter , Swedish mezzo-soprano
May 10 - Chris Berman , American sports broadcaster
May 10 - Mark David Chapman , American assassin of John Lennon
May 16 - Olga Korbut , Russian gymnast
May 16 - Jack Morris , 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 20 - Zbigniew Preisner , Polish film composer
May 26 - Masaharu Morimoto , Japanese chef
May 26 - Doris Dörrie , German actress and screenplay writer
May 28 - John McGeoch , Scottish musician (Siouxsie and the Banshees and Public Image Ltd. ) (d. 2004 )
May 30 - Topper Headon , British drummer (The Clash )
June-September
June 2 - Dana Carvey , American actor and comedian
June 7 - Tim Richmond , American race car driver (d. 1989 )
June 8 - Tim Berners-Lee , English inventor of the World Wide Web
June 13 - Larry Mike Garmon , American author
June 20 - Tor Norretranders , Danish science author
June 21 - Tim Bray , Canadian computer programmer
June 25 - Terry Chimes , British drummer (The Clash )
June 26 - Mick Jones , British guitarist (The Clash and Big Audio Dynamite )
June 27 - Isabelle Adjani , French actress
July 1 - Sanma Akashiya , Japanese comedian and actor
July 9 - Fred Norris , American radio personality
August 4 - Billy Bob Thornton , American actor
August 7 - Vladimir Sorokin , Russian writer
August 19 - Peter Gallagher , American actor
September 1 - Bruce Foxton , English musician
September 10 - Pat Mastelotto , American musician
September 16 - Robin Yount , baseball player
October-December
October 7 - Yo-Yo Ma , French-born Chinese cellist
October 17 - Mae Jemison , astronaut
October 21 - Rich Mullins , American musician (d. 1997 )
October 28 - Bill Gates , American software entrepreneur
November 4 - Matti Vanhanen , Prime Minister of Finland
November 6 - Maria Shriver , American journalist and First Lady of California
November 7 - Detlef Ultsch , German judo champion
November 13 - Whoopi Goldberg , American actress, comedienne, and singer
November 21 - Kyle Gann , American composer and music critic
November 23 - Steven Brust , American author
November 24 - Ian Botham , British cricketer
November 24 - Elvis Ramone , American drummer The Ramones
November 24 - Takashi Yuasa , Japanese lawyer
December 3 - Steven Culp , American actor
December 12 - Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki , Greek politician and businesswoman
December 15 - Paul Simonon , British bassist (The Clash )
December 17 - Brad Davis , American basketball player
December 18 - Ray Liotta , American actor
December 21 - Jane Kaczmarek , American actress
December 27 - Barbara Olson , American television commentator (d. 2001 )
Deaths
January 2 - Jose Antonio Remon , President of Panama
January 15 - Yves Tanguy , French painter (b. 1900 )
January 21 - Archie Hahn , American athlete (b. 1880 )
January 31 - John Mott , American YMCA leader, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1865 )
March 11 - Sir Alexander Fleming , Scottish biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1881 )
March 12 - Charlie Parker , American jazz saxophonist (b. 1920 )
April 7 - Theda Bara , American film actress (b. 1885 )
April 18 - Albert Einstein , German physicist (b. 1879 )
May 4 - Georges Enescu , Romanian composer (b. 1881 )
May 10 - Tommy Burns , American boxer (b. 1881 )
May 11 - Gilbert Jessop , English cricketer (b. 1874 )
May 16 - James Agee , American writer (b. 1909 )
May 18 - Mary McLeod Bethune , African-American educator (b. 1875 )
May 26 - Alberto Ascari , Italian race car driver (b. 1918 )
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 )
September 30 - James Dean , American actor (automobile accident) (b. 1931 )
October 1 - Charles Christie , American film studio owner (b. 1880 )
October 9 - Theodor Cardinal Innitzer , Archbishop of Vienna (b. 1875 )
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 27 - Arthur Honegger , French-born Swiss composer (b. 1982 )
December 6 - Honus Wagner , baseball player (b. 1874 )
December 27 - Alfred Francis Blakeney Carpenter , English soldier (b. 1881 )
Nobel Prizes
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