In the year 1955, an incident in an Alabama bus leads later to bus segregation being ruled unconstitutional (Mar 2), Winston Churchill resigns as Prime Minister at age 80 (Apr 5), West Germany becomes a sovereign country recognized by leading Western countries (May 5), Disneyland opens in Anaheim, California (Jul 17), first edition of the _Guinness Book of Records _is published (Aug 27), ITV begins broadcasting in the U.K. (Sep 22), Alfred Hitchcock Presents debuts on CBS (Oct 2), Rebel Without a Cause is released in the United States (Oct 27), the correct number of human chromosomes - 46 - is discovered (Dec 22) - and all these fine people were born:
1955-0102 Michael Lomonaco* chef&director for Windows on the World atop the North Tower/911 WTC survivor/television personality - Brooklyn, NY USA
1955-0104 Mark Hollis* singer-songwriter/musician (Talk Talk) - Tottenham, London, England (2019/64)
1955-0106 Rowan Atkinson* actor/comedian - Consett, County Durham, England
1955-0106 Debbie Mathers* (b Nelson) mother of Eminem - Salina, KS USA (2024/69)
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1955-0109 Bruce Boudreau* hockey player/coach - Toronto, ON Canada
1955-0109 J. K. Simmons* actor - Grosse Point, MI USA
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1955-0112 Rockne S. O’Bannon* screenwriter /director/producer - Los Angeles, CA USA
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1955-0116 Duncan Bell* actor (Heartbeat) - Glasgow, Scotland
1955-0118 Kevin Costner* actor/director/producer - Lynwood, CA USA
1955-0121 Jeff Koons* artist - York, PA USA
1955-0125 Rick Bowness* hockey player/coach - Moncton, NB Canada
1955-0126 Eddie Van Halen* American musician/songwriter/ producer - Nijmegen, Netherlands (2020/65)
1955-0128 Nicolas Sarkozy* politician/P - Paris, France
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1955-0204 Carme Junyent* Catalan linguist - Masqueta, Catalonia, Spain (2023/68)
1955-0207 Miguel Ferrer* actor/son of José Ferrer - Santa Monica, CA USA
1955-0208 John Grisham* author - Jonesboro, AR USA
1955-0208 Ethan Phillips* actor/playwright - Garden City, NY USA
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1955-0210 Lusia Harris* basketball player/coach/high school teacher - Minter City, MS USA (2022/66)
1955-0210 Oksana Shvets* actress - Kyiv, Ukraine, Soviet Union (2022/67)
1955-0210 Petri “Pelle Miljoona” Tiili* musician/ punk rock legend/author - Hamina, Finland
1955-0211 Anneli Jäätteenmäki* lawyer/politician - Lapua, Finland
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1955-0215 Christopher McDonald* actor/ voice actor - New York City, NY USA
1955-0217 Mo Yan* novelist/N - Gaomi, Shandong, China
1955-0218 Gwen Shamblin Lara* dietitian/founder of the Christian diet program The Weigh Down Workshop/author - Memphis, TN USA (2021/66)
1955-0219 Jeff Daniels* actor - Athens, GA USA
1955-0220 Klas Östergren* novelist/ screenwriter/translator - Stockholm, Sweden
1955-0221 Kelsey Grammer* actor/producer/ activist - St.Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands USA
1955-0224 Steve Jobs* co-founder of Apple - San Francisco, CA USA (2011/56)
1955-0224 Alain Prost* racing driver/WG - Lorette, France
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1955-0301 Denis Mukwege* cynegologist/N - Costermansville, Belgian Congo
1955-0302 Shoko Asahara* 麻原 彰晃 doomsday-cult leader - Yatsushiro, Kumamoto, Japan (2018/63)
1955-0302 Jay Osmond* drummer (The Osmonds) - Ogden, UT USA
1955-0305 Penn Fraser Jillette* magician (Penn&Teller) - USA
1955-0305 Whitney Otto* novelist - CA USA
1955-0308 Morten Suurballe* actor - Copenhagen, Denmark
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1955-0316 Kari Heiskanen* actor - Hämeenlinna, Finland
1955-0317 Gary Sinise* actor - Blue Island, IL USA
1955-0318 Mary Yoder* chiropractor/ victim of homicide - Buffalo, NY USA (2015/60) Chilling Crimes
1955-0319 Bruce Willis* American actor - Idar-Oberstein, West Germany
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1955-0321 Jair Bolsonaro* military officer/politician/ P/Amazon destroyer - Glicério, Sao Paulo, Brazil
1955-0322 Lena Olin* actress - Stockholm, Sweden
1955-0322 Pete Sessions* politician - Waco, TX USA
1955-0323 Moses Malone* basketball player - Petersburg, VA USA (2015/60)
1955-0329 Brendan Gleeson* actor/ film director - Dublin, Ireland
1955-0329 Rolf Lassgård* actor - Östersund, Jämtland, Sweden
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1955-0403 Tomas Arana* actor - Auburn, CA USA
1955-0405 Janice Long* radio broadcaster - Liverpool, England (2021/66)
1955-0406 Michael Rooker* actor - Jasper, AL USA
1955-0407 Grace Hightower* actress/ singer/ philanthropist - Kilmichael, MS USA
1955-0410 Mike Rinder* Scientology leader/defector/spokesman - Adelaide, SA Australia (2025/69)
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1955-0415 Dodi Fayed* film producer/partner of Lady Diana - Alexandria, Egypt (1997/42)
1955-0418 Bobby Castillo* baseball player - Los Angeles, CA USA (2014/59)
1955-0420 Svante Pääbo* paleogeneticist/N/ of Estonian descent - Stockholm, Sweden
1955-0427 James Risen* Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter/ author - Cincinnati, OH USA
1955-0428 Saeb Erekat* Palestinian politician/PLO leader - Abu Dis, Jordanian-ruled West Bank (2020/65)
1955-0428 Eddie Jobson* musician - Billingham, County Durham, England
1955-0429 Richard Epcar* voice actor/film director/writer - Denver, CO USA
1955-0429 Leslie Jordan* actor/ writer/singer - Chattanooga, TN USA
1955-0430 Viktor Kaspruk* political scientist&analyst/journalist publicist - Kiev, Ukraine, Soviet Union
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1955-0502 Donatella Versace* fashion designer/ businesswoman/sister of Gianni Versace - Reggio Calabria, Italy
1955-0510 Mark David Chapman* murderer of John Lennon - Fort Worth, TX USA
1955-0511 Keshav Desiraju* public servant/union health secretary of India - India (2021/666)
1955-0513 Ada Pometti* actress - Catania, Sicily, Italy
1955-0514 Kenth Eldebrink* athlete (javelin) - Morjäv, Sweden
1955-0515 Brenda Sue Brown* school girl/homicide victim - Sanford, NC USA (1966/11)
1955-0516 Debra Winger* actress - Cleveland Heights, OH USA
1955-0517 Bill Paxton* actor - Fort Worth, TX USA (2017/61)
1955-0518 Vincent Chin* Chinese American draftsman/victim of a hate crime - Guangdong, China (1982/27)
1955-0518 Chow Yun-fat* actor/philanthropist - Lamma Island, Hongkong
1955-0519 James Gosling* computer scientist/founder and lead designer behind the Java programming language - Calgary, AB Canada
1955-0522 Dale Winton* radio DJ/television presenter - Marylebone, London, England (2018/62)
1955-0524 Rosanne Cash* singer-songwriter/author/ daughter of Johnny Cash - Memphis, TN USA
1955-0527 Richard Schiff* actor/comedian - Bethesda, MD USA
1955-0529 Mike Porcaro* bass player (Toto) - South Windsor, CT USA (2015/59)
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1955-0606 Sandra Bernhard* actress/comedian/author - Flint, MI USA
1955-0606 Sam Simon* film maker (The Simpsons)/writer/ philanthropist - Los Angeles, CA USA (2015/59)
1955-0607 William Forsythe* actor - New York City, NY USA
1955-0608 Tim Berners-Lee* engineer/ computer scientist/ inventor of the World Wide Web - London, England
1955-06xx Leif Lampenius* sports commentator - Finland
1955-0610
1955-0615 Mauril Bélanger* politician - Mattawa, ON Canada (2016/61)
1955-0617 Martti Anhava* writer/ translator - Helsinki, Finland
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1955-0621 Mike MacDonald* Canadian stand-up comedian/ actor - Metz, France (2018/62)
1955-0623 Markus Fuchs* equestrian/show jumper - Abtwil, Switzerland
1955-0628 Stephen Greer* ER doctor/ufologist - Charlotte, NC USA
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1955-0701
1955-0703 Bruce Altman* actor - The Bronx, NY USA
1955-0704 Eero Heinäluoma* politician - Kokkola, Finland
1955-0708 Lena Endre* actress - Härnösand, Sweden
1955-0709 Jimmy Smits* actor - Brooklyn, NY USA
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1955-0713 Lance E. Nichols* actor - New Orleans, LA USA
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1955-0722 Willem Dafoe* actor - Appleton, WI USA
1955-0728 Anneline Kriel* Miss World 1974 (assumed)/model/actress - Pretoria, South Africa
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1955-0804 Billy Bob Thornton* actor - Hot Springs, AR USA
1955-0805 David Ottley* athlete (javelin/OS) - West Thurrock, Essex, England
1955-0807 Diane Downs* (b Frederickson) convicted child killer - Phoenix, AZ USA
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1955-0810 Clint McElroy Jr.* comic book writer/radio personality/podcaster - Ironton, OH USA
1955-0813 Paul Greengrass* film director - Cheam, Surrey England
1955-0819 Peter Gallagher* actor - Manhattan, NY USA
1955-0820 Georgann Hawkins* college student/homicide victim - Tacoma, WA USA (1974/18)
1955-0820 Erik Pöysti* actor/ director/son of Lasse Pöysti - Helsinki, Finland
1955-0830 Mayumi Muroyama* 室山 真弓 manga artist/co-op with her sister - Japan
1955-0901
1955-0908 Valery Gerasimov* military general - Kazan, Tatar SSR, Soviet Union
1955-0908 Michael Armand Hammer* businessman/ grandson of Armand Hammer - Los Angeles, CA USA (2022/67)
1955-0908 Angela E. Oh* teacher/ attorney/public lecturer - Los Angeles, CA USA
1955-0909 Jukka Puotila* actor - Helsinki, Finland
1955-0910 Marja-Liisa Kirvesniemi* cross-country skier - Simpele, Karjala, Finland
1955-0914 Zaenal Ma’arif* lecturer/politician - Surakarta, Central Java, Indonesia (2023/67)
1955-0914 Pope Leo XIV* (b Robert Francis Prevost) cardinal deacon/bishop/Pope - Chicago, IL USA
1955-0917 Charles Martinet* actor/voice actor (Super Mario) - San Jose, CA USA
1955-0919 Rebecca Blank* economist/academic administrator - Columbia, MO USA (2023/67)
1955-0920 David Haig* actor/playwright - Aldershot, Hampshire, England
1955-0921 Matti Hagman* hockey player - Helsinki, Finland (2016/61)
1955-0921 Mika Kaurismäki* film director - Orimattila, Finland
1955-0925 Karl-Heinz Rummenigge* football player/football executive - Lippstadt, West Germany
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1955-1001 Tiina Lokk* filmmaker/ film teacher/politician - Tallinn, Estonia, Soviet Union
1955-1009 Linwood Boomer* actor/writer/television producer - Vancouver, BC Canada
1955-1010 Denise Marie Naslund* homicide victim - WA USA (1974/18)
1955-1013 Donald Kayum* cricketer - Georgetown, British Guiana
1955-1017 Sam Bottoms* actor/producer - Santa Barbara, CA USA (2008/53)
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1955-1024 Robert Clotworthy* actor/ narrator/voice actor (Jim Raynor) - Los Angeles, CA USA
1955-1028 Bill Gates* co-founder of Microsoft/ business magnate/ philanthropist - Seattle, WA USA
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1955-1104 Matti Vanhanen* politician - Jyväskylä, Finland
1955-1105 Kris Jenner* (b Houghton) television personality/ ex-wife of Robert Kardashian - San Diego, CA USA
1955-1106 Maria Shriver* journalist/activist - Chicago, IL USA
1955-1110 Roland Emmerich* film director/ screenwriter/producer - Stuttgart, West Germany
1955-1110 Ken Holland* hockey goalie/hockey executive - Vernon, BC Canada
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1955-1113 Roy Cooper* rodeo cowboy - Hobbs, NM USA (2025/69)
1955-1113 Whoopi Goldberg* actress/ comedian/television personality - New York, NY USA
1955-1114 Heidi Hautala* politician - Oulu, Finland
1955-1116 Guillermo Lasso* businessman/politician/P - Guayaquil, Ecuador
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1955-1122 George Alagiah* British newsreader/journalist/TV presenter - Colombo, Ceylon (2023/67)
1955-1122 Milan Bandić* Croatian politician - Grude, Yugoslavia (2021/65)
1955-1123 Peter Douglas* TV and film producer/son of Kirk Douglas - Los Angeles, CA USA
1955-1127 Bill Nye* “The Science Guy” science communicator/ television presenter/mechanical engineer - Washington, D.C. USA
1955-1129 Howie Mandel* comedian/actor/television host - Toronto, ON Canada
1955-1129 Hassan Sheikh Mohamud* Somali politician/P - Jalalaqsi, Trust Territory of Somaliland
1955-1130 Kevin Conroy* actor/ voice actor (Batman) - Westbury, NY USA (2022/66)
1955-1201 Verónica Forqué* actress - Madrid, Spain (2021/66)
1955-1205 Joseph Dunford* Marine Corps General - Boston, MA USA
1955-1216 Xander Berkeley* actor - Brooklyn, NY USA
1955-1221 Jane Kaczmarek* actress - Milwaukee, WI USA
1955-1223 David Sheff* journalist/writer - Boston, MA USA
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