Famous people died in 1955

Arthur Keith

Arthur Keith

Arthur Keith was a distinguished Scottish anatomist and anthropologist

WelshFebruary 5, 1866137 views

James B. Sumner

James B

AmericanNovember 19, 1887109 views

Fernand Léger

Fernand Léger was a French painter, sculptor, and filmmaker in the first half of the 20th century

FrenchFebruary 4, 1881102 views

Emmett Till

Emmett Till was an African-American teenager who was brutally murdered for allegedly flirting with a white woman

AmericanJuly 25, 1941141 views

Matthew Henson

Matthew Henson was the first African-American to explore the North Pole

AmericanAugust 8, 1866100 views

Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar

Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar was an Indian scientist, famously dubbed as the ‘Father of research laboratories’

IndianFebruary 21, 189487 views

Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein is popularly known as the Father of Modern Physics

GermanMarch 14, 1879153 views

Hermann Klaus Hugo Weyl

Hermann K

GermanNovember 9, 1885174 views

Shemp Howard

Shemp Howard was an American actor and comedian

AmericanMarch 11, 1895222 views

Cy Young

Cy Young was a well known baseball player of America

AmericanMarch 29, 1867114 views