Famous people died in August 1955

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

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

Thomas Mann was a Nobel Prize winning German novelist, short story writer, and philanthropist

Receiver of the Pulitzer Prize, Wallace Stevens was one of the most significant American poets