Death year 1955 celebrities
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Joseph Fernand Henri Léger (February 4, 1881 – August 17, 1955) was a French painter, sculptor, and filmmaker. In his early works he created a personal form of cubism which he gradually modified into a more figurative, populist style. His boldly s
Margo Jones (December 12, 1911 – July 24, 1955) was an influential American stage director and producer best known for launching the American regional theater movement and for introducing the theater-in-the-round concept in Dallas, Texas. In 1947,
Grace Hartman (January 7, 1907 – August 8, 1955) was an American stage and musical theatre actress.
Sōtarō Yasui (安井 曾太郎, Yasui Sōtarō, May 17, 1888 – December 14, 1955) was a Japanese painter, noted for development of yōga (Western-style) portraiture in early twentieth-century Japanese painting.
Carlyle Blackwell (January 20, 1884 – June 17, 1955) was an American silent film actor and a minor director and producer.
Muriel Aked (9 November 1887 – 21 March 1955) was a British film actress. She was born to George Henry Aked and his wife Emma (née Bairstow). She was a student at Liverpool Repertory Theatre for six months but left to do war work. She made her scr
Robert Francis McGowan (July 11, 1882 – January 27, 1955) was an American film director and producer, best known as the senior director of the Our Gang short subjects film series from 1922 until 1933.
Alexandra Tegleva was a hereditary aristocrat and served as senior nurse to the Tsar’s children in 1902–1918. She occupied an upper floor room in the Alexander Palace next to the grand duchesses’. She volunteered to accompany the Tsar’s famil
Heinrich-Anton Deboi (6 April 1893 – 5 July 1955) was a highly decorated Generalleutnant in the Wehrmacht during World War II who held several commands at the divisional levels. He was also a recipient of the Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross. The K
Major General Merritt Austin Edson (April 25, 1897–August 14, 1955), known as “Red Mike”, was a general in the United States Marine Corps. Among the decorations he received were the Medal of Honor, two Navy Crosses, the Silver Star, and two Legions
Bernarr Macfadden (August 16, 1868 – October 12, 1955) was an influential American proponent of physical culture, a combination of bodybuilding with nutritional and health theories. He also founded the long-running magazine publishing company Macfa