List of Famous people who died in 1955

Wastl Witt was a German actor.

Sumner Byron Myers was an American mathematician specializing in topology. He studied at Harvard University under H. C. Marston Morse, where he was graduated with a Ph.D. in 1932. Myers then pursued postdoctoral studies at Princeton University (1934–1936) before becoming a professor for mathematics at the University of Michigan, where an award for outstanding students of mathematics has been named in his honor. He died unexpectedly from a heart attack during the 1955 Michigan–Army football game at Michigan Stadium.

Karl Puth (1891–1955) was a German cinematographer.

Roderich Fick was a German architect most prominent during the Nazi regime.

Erwin Popper, was an Austrian physician, who, in 1909, along with Karl Landsteiner discovered the infectious character of poliomyelitis.

George Enescu, known in France as Georges Enesco, was a Romanian musician. Enescu is regarded as one of the greatest musicians in Romanian history; he was a composer, violinist, pianist, conductor, and teacher. He is featured on the Romanian five lei.