List of Famous people who died in 1955

Hermann Max Pechstein was a German expressionist painter and printmaker, and a member of the Die Brücke group.

John Stanislaus Joyce was an Irish teacher, scholar, diarist and writer who lived for many years in Trieste. He was the younger brother of James Joyce. He was generally known as Stanislaus Joyce to distinguish him from his father, who shared the same name.

Georges Jean Marie Valiron was a French mathematician, notable for his contributions to analysis, in particular, the asymptotic behaviour of entire functions of finite order and Tauberian theorems.

Frederick George Penny, 1st Viscount Marchwood, was a British Conservative Party politician.

Edwin Scharff was a German sculptor. He was born in Neu-Ulm and died in Hamburg.

Eva Sydney Hone RHA, usually known as Evie, was an Irish painter and stained glass artist. She is considered to be an early pioneer of cubism, although her best known works are stained glass. Her most notable pieces are the East Window in the Chapel at Eton College, which depicts the Crucifixion, and My Four Green Fields, which is now in the Government Buildings in Dublin.

Marion Eugénie Bauer was an American composer, teacher, writer, and music critic. She played an active role in shaping American musical identity in the early half of the twentieth century.