Famous people and celebrities who died in April 1955

This page is dedicated to commemorating the celebrities and famous people who passed away in April 1955. This month marked the loss of influential and beloved figures whose contributions spanned various fields and touched many lives. Explore our detailed list to remember and celebrate their enduring legacies and the remarkable impact they had on the world

• April 5 Tibor Szele

  Hungarian mathematician who made important contributions to algebraic and set theory research before his early death.

• April 7 Theda Bara

  American actress (b. 1885)

• April 10 Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  French priest, theologian, and philosopher (b. 1881)

• April 10 Oskar Frederik Lindberg

  Composer dies at 68

• April 16 David Kirkwood

  Scottish engineer and politician (b. 1872)

• April 16 Abdullah Seif el-Islam

  Brother of yemenite king ahmed, beheaded

• April 18 Albert Einstein

  German-swiss-american scientist, a physicist who developed the theory of relativity in 1905, and the general theory in 1916, laying the groundwork for 20th century physics and providing the essential structure of the cosmos. for his contributions to theoretical physics, particularly his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect, he was awarded the nobel prize in 1922. his name is …

• April 18 Eugen Herrigel

  Zen philosopher/scholar dies in germany at the age of 70.

• April 19 Jim Corbett

  Renowned for hunting man-eating tigers and leopards in India, later turned conservationist.

• April 23 Robert H Woltjer

  Classical/ar-first-member of parliament, dies at age 76.

• April 24 Alfred Polgar

  Austrian theater critic and writer, who dies at 79.

• April 25 Constance Collier

  Actress (perils of pauline), dead at 77

• April 25 Paulus B Barth

  Swiss painter/lithographer, dies at age 73.

• April 28 Lode Cantens

  Flemish playwriting (gnomes of the city), ends at 43