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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
James Agee
Poet
27-Nov-1909 16-May-1955 A Death in the Family
Oswald Avery
Biologist
21-Oct-1877 20-Feb-1955 Antibodies and DNA
Lloyd Bacon
Film Director
4-Dec-1889 15-Nov-1955 Knute Rockne All American
Theda Bara
Actor
29-Jul-1885 7-Apr-1955 A Fool There Was
Janet Beecher
Actor
21-Oct-1884 6-Aug-1955 The Mighty Barnum
Mary McLeod Bethune
Educator
10-Jul-1875 18-May-1955 Black activist and educator
Henry E. Bliss
Curator
29-Jan-1870 9-Aug-1955 Bliss Classification System
Manuel Ávila Camacho
Head of State
24-Apr-1897 13-Oct-1955 President of Mexico, 1940-46
Dale Carnegie
Author
24-Nov-1888 1-Nov-1955 How to Win Friends and Influence People
Lynne Carver
Actor
13-Sep-1909 12-Aug-1955 American character actress
Paul Claudel
Poet
6-Aug-1868 23-Feb-1955 French poet and diplomat
Robert P. Tristram Coffin
Poet
18-Mar-1892 20-Jan-1955 Strange Holiness
Constance Collier
Actor
22-Jan-1878 25-Apr-1955 Stage Door
Arthur G. Crane
Educator
1-Sep-1877 11-Aug-1955 President, University of Wyoming, 1922-41
John W. Davis
Attorney
13-Apr-1873 24-Mar-1955 US Solicitor General, 1913-18
James Dean
Actor
8-Feb-1931 30-Sep-1955 Lived fast, died young
Tom Dugan
Actor
1-Jan-1889 7-Mar-1955 To Be or Not to Be
Martin P. Durkin
Government
18-Mar-1894 19-Jan-1955 US Secretary of Labor, 1953
Albert Einstein
Physicist
14-Mar-1879 18-Apr-1955 Theory of relativity
Ruth Ellis
Criminal
9-Oct-1925 13-Jul-1955 Last woman hanged in England
Georges Enesco
Composer
19-Aug-1881 4-May-1955 Oedipe
Alexander Fleming
Scientist
6-Aug-1881 11-Mar-1955 Discovered penicillin
Robert Francis
Actor
26-Feb-1930 31-Jul-1955 The Caine Mutiny
J. Marion Futrell
Politician
14-Aug-1870 20-Jun-1955 Twice Governor of Arkansas
Wardell Gray
Jazz Musician
13-Feb-1921 25-May-1955 Tenor sax bop-jazzman
Walter Hampden
Actor
30-Jun-1879 11-Jun-1955 Prominent American theater actor
Paul Harvey
Actor
10-Sep-1882 5-Dec-1955 American character actor
Matthew Henson
Explorer
8-Aug-1866 9-Mar-1955 Possibly first to reach North Pole
John Hodiak
Actor
14-Apr-1914 19-Oct-1955 Lifeboat
Arthur Honegger
Composer
10-Mar-1892 27-Nov-1955 Pacific 231
Shemp Howard
Actor
4-Mar-1895 22-Nov-1955 Stooge who replaced Curly
Cordell Hull
Government
2-Oct-1871 23-Jul-1955 US Secretary of State, 1933-44
William M. Jardine
Educator
16-Jan-1879 17-Jan-1955 US Secretary of Agriculture, 1925-29
James P. Johnson
Jazz Musician
01-Feb-1894 17-Nov-1955 The father of stride piano
Alice Joyce
Actor
1-Oct-1890 9-Oct-1955 The Green Goddess
Robert Kent
Actor
3-Dec-1908 4-May-1955 The Phantom Creeps
Kenneth Mackenzie
Novelist
25-Sep-1913 19-Jan-1955 Dead Men Rising
Thomas Mann
Novelist
6-Jun-1875 12-Aug-1955 Buddenbrooks
Clarence D. Martin
Politician
29-Jun-1886 11-Aug-1955 Governor of Washington, 1933-41
Glenn L. Martin
Engineer
17-Jan-1886 5-Dec-1955 Martin Aircraft Co.
Oscar Mayer
Business
29-Mar-1859 11-Mar-1955 Oscar Mayer Meats, Inc.
Robert McCormick
Business
30-Jul-1880 1-Apr-1955 Xenophobe in the Tribune Tower
Paul V. McNutt
Politician
19-Jul-1891 24-Mar-1955 Governor of Indiana, 1933-37
Edward Mellanby
Doctor
8-Apr-1884 30-Jan-1955 Rickets
Frank Merriam
Politician
22-Dec-1865 25-Apr-1955 Governor of California, 1934-39
James Millican
Actor
17-Feb-1910 24-Nov-1955 American character actor
Carmen Miranda
Dancer
9-Feb-1909 5-Aug-1955 The lady in the tutti-frutti hat
William D. Mitchell
Government
9-Sep-1874 24-Aug-1955 US Attorney General, 1929-33
Egas Moniz
Scientist
29-Nov-1874 13-Dec-1955 Pre-frontal lobotomy and cerebral arteriography
Tom Moore
Actor
1-May-1883 12-Feb-1955 Irish-American character actor
John R. Mott
Activist
25-May-1865 31-Jan-1955 Peace activist, Nobel Prize recipient
Ona Munson
Actor
16-Jun-1903 11-Feb-1955 Belle Watling in Gone with the Wind
John M. Nelson
Politician
10-Oct-1870 29-Jan-1955 Congressman from Wisconsin, 1921-33
Charlie Parker
Jazz Musician
29-Aug-1920 12-Mar-1955 Be-bop jazz musician
Tom Powers
Actor
7-Jul-1890 9-Nov-1955 Double Indemnity
A. R. Radcliffe-Brown
Anthropologist
17-Jan-1881 24-Oct-1955 Father of modern social anthropology
Richard Samuel Reynolds
Business
15-Aug-1881 29-Jul-1955 Founder of Reynolds Metals
Owen J. Roberts
Judge
2-May-1875 17-May-1955 US Supreme Court Justice, 1930-45
S. Z. Sakall
Actor
2-Feb-1884 12-Feb-1955 Casablanca
Robert E. Sherwood
Playwright
4-Apr-1896 14-Nov-1955 Abe Lincoln in Illinois
Huntley N. Spaulding
Politician
29-Oct-1869 14-Nov-1955 Governor of New Hampshire, 1927-29
Wallace Stevens
Poet
2-Oct-1879 2-Aug-1955 Harmonium
James B. Sumner
Chemist
19-Nov-1887 12-Aug-1955 Crystallized enzymes
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Philosopher
1-May-1881 10-Apr-1955 The Phenomenon of Man
Charles A. Templeton
Politician
3-Mar-1871 15-Aug-1955 Governor of Connecticut, 1923-25
Emmett Till
Victim
25-Jul-1941 28-Aug-1955 Black boy, murdered brutally in Mississippi
Bessie Potter Vonnoh
Sculptor
17-Aug-1872 8-Mar-1955 American sculptor in bronze
Bill Vukovich
Auto Racing
13-Dec-1918 30-May-1955 Winner, 1953 and 1954 Indianapolis 500
Honus Wagner
Baseball
24-Feb-1874 6-Dec-1955 Pittsburgh shortstop on valuable baseball card
Walter White
Activist
1-Jul-1893 21-Mar-1955 Worked against lynchings
Robert Wilcox
Actor
19-May-1910 11-Jun-1955 The Man They Could Not Hang
Robert W. Wood
Physicist
2-May-1868 11-Aug-1955 Physical Optics
Cy Young
Baseball
29-Mar-1867 4-Nov-1955 Pitched 511 career wins


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