Famous People Who Died in 1955

• Agee, James

  The author of 'A Death in the Family'

• Bethune, Mary McLeod

  The founder of the National Council for Negro Women

• Byrne, Ethel Higgins

  Margaret Sanger’s sister and co-founder of the first birth control clinic

• Dean, James

  Movie icon and star of Rebel Without a Cause

• Einstein, Albert

  Creator of the theory of relativity

• Fleming, Alexander

  The bacteriologist who discovered penicillin

• Henson, Matthew

  The first man to reach the North Pole

• Parker, Charlie

  Influential alto saxophone player

• Sakall, S.Z. "Cuddles"

  Carl the headwaiter in the film Casablanca

• Sherwood, Robert E.

   The playwright who wrote the movie The Best Years of Our Lives

• Stevens, Wallace

  The poet and insurance man who wrote "The Emperor of Ice Cream"

• Till, Emmett

  The Black teenager murdered in Mississippi in 1955

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