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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.
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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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)
- 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
- 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
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)
- 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)
- 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
- 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
- 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)
- 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)
- March 12 – Charlie Parker, American saxophonist (b. 1920)
- March 14 – Ruth Poll, American lyricist and music publisher (b. 1899)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
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)
- 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)
- 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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