Celebrity Deaths in 1955

84 notable figures died in 1955. Listed below in order of date of death.

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  Claude Dampier

  1879 – 1955 · Actors, Comedian Jan 1
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  Ernest C. Moore

  1871 – 1955 Jan 1
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  Robert Peter Tristram Coffin

  1892 – 1955 · Authors and Writers Jan 1
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  Abigail “Tommye” Adams

  1922 – 1955 · Actresses Feb 2
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  Betty Scott

  1883 – 1955 · Actresses Feb 2
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  James H. Doyle

  1872 – 1955 · Actors Feb 2
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  Trixie Friganza

  1870 – 1955 · Actresses Feb 2
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  Vasili Blokhin

  1895 – 1955 · Criminals, Eccentrics and Oddities Feb 2
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  Ona Munson

  1903 – 1955 · Actresses Feb 11
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  Abigail Adams

  1922 – 1955 · Actresses Feb 13
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  Kickham Scanlan

  1864 – 1955 · Crime Fighters and Lawyers Mar 3
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  Miroslava Stern

  1926 – 1955 · Actresses Mar 3
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  Nicolas de Stael

  1914 – 1955 · Artists and Architects Mar 3
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  Oscar F. Mayer

  1859 – 1955 · Business Magnates Mar 3
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  Tom Dugan

  1884 – 1955 · Actors Mar 3
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  Alexander Fleming

  1881 – 1955 · Scientists and Inventors Mar 11
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  Charlie Parker

  1920 – 1955 · Musicians and Composers Mar 12
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  Michele Besso

  1873 – 1955 · Scientists and Inventors Mar 15
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  August Benziger

  1867 – 1955 · Artists and Architects Apr 4
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  Sybille Schmitz

  1909 – 1955 · Actresses Apr 4
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  Lillian Lorraine

  1892 – 1955 · Actresses Apr 17
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  Albert Einstein

  1879 – 1955 · Scientists and Inventors Apr 18
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  Constance Collier

  1878 – 1955 · Actresses Apr 25
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  William Sloper

  1883 – 1955 · Victims of crime and disaster May 1
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  Alberto Ascari

  1918 – 1955 · Sports Figures May 5
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  Andrés Eloy Blanco

  1897 – 1955 · Authors and Writers May 5
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  Barbara Ray

  1914 – 1955 · Actresses May 5
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  Douglas Blackley

  1908 – 1955 · Actors May 5
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  Dr Mary Jane McLeod Bethune

  1875 – 1955 May 5
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  James Agee

  1909 – 1955 · Authors and Writers May 5
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  Mary Bertrand

  1881 – 1955 · Actresses May 5
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  Richard “Skeets” Gallagher

  1891 – 1955 · Actors May 5
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  Bill Vukovich

  1918 – 1955 · Athletes, Race Car Driver May 30
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  Barbara Graham

  1923 – 1955 · Criminals, Eccentrics and Oddities Jun 3
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  Carlyle Blackwell

  1884 – 1955 · Actors Jun 6
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  George Edwin Bergstrom

  1876 – 1955 · Artists and Architects Jun 6
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  Pattillo Higgins

  1863 – 1955 Jun 6
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  Sears Gallagher

  1869 – 1955 · Artists and Architects Jun 6
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  Walter Hampden

  1880 – 1955 · Actors Jun 6
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  Harry August Jansen

  1883 – 1955 · Entertainers, Magicians Jun 16
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  Harry Agganis

  1929 – 1955 · Athletes, Sports Figures Jun 27
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  Beatrice Chase

  1874 – 1955 · Authors and Writers Jul 7
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  Frank Hamer

  1884 – 1955 · Crime Fighters and Lawyers Jul 7
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  Robert Francis

  1930 – 1955 · Actors Jul 7
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  Ruth Ellis

  1926 – 1955 · Criminals, Eccentrics and Oddities Jul 7
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  Joaquín Pardavé

  1900 – 1955 · Actors Jul 20
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  Lily Cahill

  1889 – 1955 · Actors Jul 20
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  Cordell Hull

  1871 – 1955 · Politicians Jul 23
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  Syrie Maugham

  1879 – 1955 · Designer Jul 25
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  Carmen Miranda

  1909 – 1955 · Actresses, Entertainers, Singer Aug 5
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  Franklin Augustus “Frank” Seiberling

  1859 – 1955 · Business Magnates Aug 8
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  Lynne Carver

  1916 – 1955 · Actresses Aug 8
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  Suzan Ball

  1934 – 1955 · Actresses Aug 8
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  Willi Baumeister

  1889 – 1955 · Artists and Architects Aug 8
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  Thomas Mann

  1875 – 1955 · Authors and Writers, Celebrities Aug 12
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  Philip Loeb

  1891 – 1955 · Actors Sep 1
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  Bernard Gorcey

  1884 – 1955 · Actors Sep 9
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  Edith Matthison

  1871 – 1955 · Actresses Sep 9
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  Helen Richardson Dreiser

  1894 – 1955 · Actresses Sep 9
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  Michael Chekhov

  1891 – 1955 · Actors Sep 9
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  Robert Y. Dudley

  1869 – 1955 · Actors Sep 9
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  James Dean

  1931 – 1955 · Actors, Celebrities Sep 30
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  Louis Thurstone

  1887 – 1955 · Scientists and Inventors Sep 30
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  Alice Joyce

  1890 – 1955 · Actresses Oct 9
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  Bernarr MacFadden

  1868 – 1955 · Business Magnates Oct 10
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  Harry Chester Bedwell

  1888 – 1955 · Authors and Writers Oct 10
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  Julius Ochs Adler

  1892 – 1955 · Authors and Writers Oct 10
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  Oliver Clarence

  1870 – 1955 · Actors Oct 10
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  Ora Carew

  1893 – 1955 · Actresses Oct 10
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  Rita Carewe

  1909 – 1955 · Actresses Oct 10
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  José Ortega y Gasset

  1883 – 1955 · Politicians Oct 18
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  John Hodiak

  1914 – 1955 · Actors Oct 19
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  Adelaide Johnson

  1859 – 1955 · Business Magnates Nov 11
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  Helen West Heller

  1872 – 1955 · Artists and Architects Nov 11
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  Lloyd Francis Bacon

  1889 – 1955 · Entertainers Nov 11
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  William Nigh

  1881 – 1955 · Actors Nov 27
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  Honus Wagner

  1874 – 1955 · Athletes, Baseball Dec 6
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  Elspeth Dudgeon

  1871 – 1955 · Actresses Dec 12
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  Gretchen Lederer

  1891 – 1955 · Actresses Dec 12
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  Marguerite Lindsey

  1882 – 1955 · Actresses Dec 12
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  Nora Dorothy Bernard

  1890 – 1955 · Actresses Dec 12
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  Horace McCoy

  1897 – 1955 · Authors and Writers Dec 15
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  Grace Gassette

  1871 – 1955 · Artists and Architects
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  Royal Cutter

  1874 – 1955 · Actors