1955
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1955 (MCMLV) is the 955th year of the 2nd millennium, the 55th year of the 20th century, and the 6th year of the 1950s decade.
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Art and culture
Literature
Non-fiction
- Eros and Civilization by Herbert Marcuse
- Le moyen âge fantastique, a book on fantastic art in the Middle Ages, Jurgis Baltrušaitis
Visual culture
- Broadway and 103rd Street. New York by William Klein
- The Citroën DS (also known as Déesse) is introduced
- Kroger Babb buys the U.S. rights to Ingmar Bergman's Summer with Monika
- Jasper Johns - Flag
Film
- Summer with Monika is released in the United States
- Night and Fog by Alain Resnais
- The Night of the Hunter by Charles Laughton
- Kiss Me Deadly by Robert Aldrich
Music
- Tutti Frutti by Little Richard
- Rock Around the Clock by Bill Haley & His Comets
- Cry Me a River by Julie London
- Le marteau sans maître by Pierre Boulez
Births
- January 4 – Mark Hollis, English musician (d. 2019)
- January 18 – Frankie Knuckles, American DJ (d. 2014)
- January 21 – Jeff Koons, American artist
- February 12 – Bill Laswell, American bass player and producer
- April 16 – DJ Kool Herc, Jamaican American DJ.
- April 22 – Arthur Baker, American record producer and DJ
- March 4 – Dominique Pinon, French actor
- March 9 - Ornella Muti, Italian actress
- March 19 - Pino Daniele, Italian music artist (d. 2015)
- May 26 – Adam Curtis, British documentary filmmaker
- June 8 - Tim Berners-Lee, English computer scientist and world wide web inventor
- June 27 - Isabelle Adjani, French actress
- July 21 - Béla Tarr, Hungarian film director
- July 22 - Willem Dafoe, American actor
- August 6 - Earl Smith, Jamaican Reggae guitarist
- October 5 - Caroline Loeb, French singer and actress
- November 13 – Whoopi Goldberg, African-American actress and comedian
- November 30 - Billy Idol, born William Broad, British rock musician
Deaths
- José Ortega y Gasset, Spanish philosopher (b. 1883)
- Robert Warshow (1917 - 1955)
- Charlie Parker, American saxophonist (b. 1920)
- Fernand Léger, French painter and sculptor (b. 1881)
- Theda Bara, American film actress (b. 1885)
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