List of Famous people who died in 1955

Irvin Sol Cohen was an American mathematician at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who worked on local rings. He was a student of Oscar Zariski at Johns Hopkins University.

Jakob Goldschmidt was a German-Jewish banker.

William John Vukovich Sr. was an American automobile racing driver. He won the 1953 and 1954 Indianapolis 500 plus two more American Automobile Association National Championship races. Several drivers of his generation have referred to Vukovich as the greatest ever in American motorsport.

Pierre Eugène Alfred Bouillin was a French sportsman and racing driver. He took the racing name Pierre Levegh [ləvɛk] in memory of his uncle, a pioneering driver who died in 1904. Levegh died in the 1955 Le Mans disaster which also killed 83 spectators during the 1955 24 Hours of Le Mans automobile race.

John James "Jack" McGrath was an American racecar driver.

Richard "Skeets" Gallagher was an American actor. He had blue eyes and his naturally blond hair was tinged with grey from the age of sixteen.

Aleksey Ivanovich Abrikosov was a Russian/Soviet pathologist and a member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences and the Soviet Academy of Medical Sciences.