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1955 (MCMLV) is the 955th year of the 2nd millennium, the 55th year of the 20th century, and the 6th year of the 1950s decade.
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Art and culture
Literature
Non-fiction
- Eros and Civilization by Herbert Marcuse
- Le moyen âge fantastique, a book on fantastic art in the Middle Ages, Jurgis Baltrušaitis
Visual culture
- Broadway and 103rd Street. New York by William Klein
- The Citroën DS (also known as Déesse) is introduced
- Kroger Babb buys the U.S. rights to Ingmar Bergman's Summer with Monika
Film
- Summer with Monika is released in the United States
- Night and Fog by Alain Resnais
- The Night of the Hunter by Charles Laughton
- Kiss Me Deadly by Robert Aldrich
Music
- Tutti Frutti by Little Richard
- Rock Around the Clock by Bill Haley & His Comets
- Cry Me a River by Julie London
- Le marteau sans maître by Pierre Boulez
Births
- Bill Laswell
- Arthur Baker
- DJ Spooky
- DJ Kool Herc, Jamaican American DJ.
- Adam Curtis, English documentary film-maker.
Deaths
- José Ortega y Gasset, Spanish philosopher (b. 1883)
- Robert Warshow (1917 - 1955)
- Charlie Parker, American saxophonist (b. 1920)
- Fernand Léger, French painter and sculptor (b. 1881)
- Theda Bara, American film actress (b. 1885)
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