Famous people died in August 1955
Fernand Léger
Fernand Léger was a French painter, sculptor, and filmmaker in the first half of the 20th century
Emmett Till
Emmett Till was an African-American teenager who was brutally murdered for allegedly flirting with a white woman
Thomas Mann
Thomas Mann was a Nobel Prize winning German novelist, short story writer, and philanthropist
Wallace Stevens
Receiver of the Pulitzer Prize, Wallace Stevens was one of the most significant American poets