Lista de Personas Famosas que murieron en 1955

Emerich Juettner, also known as Edward Mueller or Mister 880, was an Austrian-American immigrant known for counterfeiting United States $1 bills and eluding the United States Secret Service for a decade, from 1938 to 1948. When caught, he openly admitted his actions, adding that he had never given more than one bill to anyone, so no person had lost more than one dollar. He was sentenced to one year and one day in prison and a one-dollar fine, and he later sold the rights to his story, which was made into the 1950 film Mister 880.

Edward James Corbett fue un naturalista, escritor y cazador conservacionista indio de origen irlandés, conocido por dar nombre al primer parque nacional de la India. Se hizo célebre por cazar de modo selectivo a tigres y leopardos antropófagos, y por sus narraciones, entre las que destaca su libro Las fieras cebadas de Kumaon.

Rodolfo Graziani fue un militar italiano, que destacó durante las guerras coloniales en África y en la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Llegó a ostentar el rango de mariscal de Italia.

Opha May Johnson was the first woman known to have enlisted in the United States Marine Corps. She joined the Marine Corps Reserve on 13 August 1918, officially becoming the first female Marine.

Artur Virgílio Alves dos Reis fue con certeza el mayor burlador de la historia portuguesa y posiblemente uno de los mayores estafadores del mundo. Fue cabecilla de la mayor falsificación de billetes de la historia: los billetes de 500 escudos, efigie Vasco da Gama, en 1925.

Theodosia Burr Goodman, conocida como Theda Bara; fue una actriz estadounidense famosa en la época del cine mudo.

Eduard Pernkopf was an Austrian professor of anatomy who later served as rector of the University of Vienna, his alma mater. He is best known for his seven-volume anatomical atlas, Topographische Anatomie des Menschen, prepared by Pernkopf and four artists over a 20-year period. While it is considered a scientific and artistic masterpiece, with many of its color plates reprinted in other publications and textbooks, it has been in recent years found that Pernkopf and the artists working for him, all of them ardent Nazis, used executed political prisoners as their subjects.

Dewey Beard or Wasú Máza was a Minneconjou Lakota who fought in the Battle of Little Bighorn as a teenager. After George Armstrong Custer's defeat, Wasu Maza followed Sitting Bull into exile in Canada and then back to South Dakota where he lived on the Cheyenne River Indian Reservation.

Dale Carnegie fue un empresario y escritor estadounidense de libros que tratan sobre relaciones humanas y comunicación eficaz.

Ira Hamilton Hayes fue uno de los cinco marines -el sexto hombre era un médico de la Armada estadounidense- que se hicieron famosos al ser captados en la fotografía Alzando la bandera en Iwo Jima, durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial.