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1955 – Egas Moniz, Portuguese psychiatrist and neurosurgeon, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1874) 1960 – Dora Marsden, English author and activist (b. 1882) 1961 – Grandma Moses, American painter (b. 1860) 1962 – Harry Barris, American singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1905)
7 March – Anupam Kher, actor. 3 April – Hariharan, playback singer. 11 April – Rohini Hattangadi, actress. 2 May – Maharaj Krishan Kaushik, field hockey player and coach. (died 2021) 11 May – Keshav Desiraju, civil servant (died 2021) 24 May – Rajesh Roshan, music director. 22 August – Chiranjeevi Konidela, actor.
Verónica Forqué Vázquez-Vigo ( Spanish pronunciation: [beˈɾonika foɾˈke]; 1 December 1955 – 13 December 2021) was a Spanish stage, film and television actress. She was a four-time Goya Award winner, the most award-winning actress alongside Carmen Maura. [1] She had a knack for characters "between ridiculous and tender, stunned and ...
On Eliminating Dogmatism and Formalism and Establishing Juche in Ideological Work, also known as the " Juche speech ", was a speech delivered on 28 December 1955 by Kim Il Sung. The address mentioned his Juche ideology by name for the first time. It is considered one of Kim's most important works and a "watershed moment" in North Korean history.
The Montgomery Improvement Association ( MIA) was formed on December 5, 1955 by black ministers and community leaders in Montgomery, Alabama. Under the leadership of Ralph Abernathy, Martin Luther King Jr. and Edgar Nixon, the MIA was instrumental in guiding the Montgomery bus boycott, a successful campaign that focused national attention on ...
1955 – Rex Ingamells, Australian poet and author (b. 1913) 1967 – Vincent Massey, Canadian lawyer and politician, 18th Governor General of Canada (b. 1887) 1968 – Trygve Lie, Norwegian journalist and politician, first Secretary-General of the United Nations (b. 1896) 1970 – Sonny Liston, American boxer (b. 1932)
The Prix Décembre, originally known as the Prix Novembre, is one of France 's premier literary awards. It was founded under the name Prix Novembre in 1989 by Philippe Dennery [1] [2] (Michel Dennery, according to other sources [3] ). In 1998, the founder resigned after he disapproved awarding of the prize to Michel Houellebecq 's novel Atomised.
