Famous people and celebrities who died in December 1955

This page is dedicated to commemorating the celebrities and famous people who passed away in December 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

• Dec. 3 Cow Cow Davenport

  American pianist (born in 1894)

• Dec. 4 József Galamb

  Hungarian-american engineer (b. 1881)

• Dec. 5 Glenn L. Martin

  American pilot and businessman, founded the glenn l. martin company (b. 1886)

• Dec. 6 Honus Wagner

  American baseball player and manager (b. 1874)

• Dec. 8 Jacques Handschin

  Swiss musicologist, who dies at the age of 69.

• Dec. 9 Hermann Weyl

  German theoretical physicist and mathematician.

• Dec. 11 Johan C Altorf

  At 79, sculptor (october 3, monument), dies.

• Dec. 11 Franz Adolf Syberg

  Composer dies at 51

• Dec. 13 António Caetano de Abreu Freire Egas Moniz

  Nobel Prize laureate for his discovery of the therapeutic value of leucotomy in certain psychoses

• Dec. 13 Egas Moniz

  Portuguese psychiatrist and neurosurgeon, nobel prize laureate (b. 1874)

• Dec. 21 Dorothy Bernard

  Actress (margaret life with father), dies aged 65

• Dec. 24 Nana Bryant

  Actress (mrs nestor - our miss brooks), passes away at 67

• Dec. 27 Ely Culbertson

  Expert in the romanian-american bridge, writer and editor. after the russian revolution of 1917, his family's fortune was destroyed, he moved to the u.s. he was a skilled bridge player who began playing contract as a professional. in 1931, he won national recognition in a contest. culbertson is the author of two bridge text-books, the "contract bridge blue book" 1930 …

• Dec. 27 Alfred Carpenter

  Recipient of the victoria cross for english admiral (d. 1955).

• Dec. 27 Alfred Francis Blakeney Carpenter

  An english naval officer (born in 1881)