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Centuries:	19th century - 20th century - 21st century
Decades:	1920s  1930s  1940s  - 1950s -  1960s  1970s  1980s
Years:	1955 1956 1957 - 1958 - 1959 1960 1961

Contents 1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Films released 5 Hit Songs 6 New Books

[change] Events

• NASA founded
• CEE

[change] Births

• March 5 - Andy Gibb
• June 7 - Prince
• August 16 - Madonna, singer
• August 25 - Tim Burton
• August 29 - Michael Jackson

[change] Deaths

• January 1 - Edward Weston, American photographer (b. 1886)
• January 8 - Paul Pilgrim, American athlete (b. 1883)
• January 11 - Edna Purviance, American actress (b. 1895)
• January 30 - Jean Crotti, Swiss artist (b. 1878)
• February 1 - Clinton Davisson, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)
• February 4 - Henry Kuttner, American author (b. 1915)
• February 13 - Christabel Pankhurst, English suffragette (b. 1880)
• March 21 - Cyril M. Kornbluth, American writer (b. 1923)
• March 22 - Mike Todd, American film producer (b. 1909)
• March 25 - Tom Brown, American musician (b. 1888)
• March 26 - Phil Mead, English cricketer (b. 1887)
• March 28 - W.C. Handy, American composer (b. 1873)
• 16 April - Rosalind Franklin, British crystallographer (b. 1920)
• April 19 - Billy Meredith, Welsh footballer (b. 1874)
• May 3 - Frank Foster, English cricketer (b. 1889)
• May 19 - Ronald Colman, English actor (b. 1891)
• May 29 - Juan Ramón Jiménez, Spanish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1881)
• June 20 - Kurt Alder, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)
• June 26 - George Orton, Canadian athlete (b. 1876)
• July 14 - King Faisal II of Iraq (b. 1935)
• August 14 - Frédéric Joliot, French physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (b. 1900)
• August 22 - Roger Martin du Gard, French writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1881)
• August 27 - Ernest Lawrence, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1901)
• October 9 - Pope Pius XII (b. 1876)
• October 17 - Charlie Townsend, English cricketer (b. 1876)
• November 24 - Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, English politician and diplomat, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1864)
• November 27 - Artur Rodzinski, Croatian conductor (b. 1892)
• December 8 - Tris Speaker, baseball player (b. 1888)
• December 15 - Wolfgang Ernst Pauli, Austrian-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1900)
• September 29 - Aarre Merikanto, Finnish composer

[change] Films released

• Hidden Fortress

[change] Hit Songs

• "All I Have to Do is Dream" - Everly Brothers
• "Rebel Rouser" - Duane Eddy

[change] New Books

• The Affluent Society - John Kenneth Galbraith
• Anatomy of a Murder - Robert Traver
• Around the World with Auntie Mame - Patrick Dennis
• Balthazar - Lawrence Durrell
• Bird of Fire - Helen White
• Breakfast at Tiffany's - Truman Capote
• Candy - Maxwell Kenton
• Crazy in Berlin - Thomas Berger
• Culture and Society 1780-1950 - Raymond Williams
• The Dharma Bums - Jack Kerouac
• Dr. No - Ian Fleming
• The Enemy Camp - Jerome Weidman
• The Fly - James Clavell
• A Fly Went By - Mike McClintock
• From the Terrace - John O'Hara
• I Like It Here - Kingsley Amis
• Ice Palace - Edna Ferber
• The Leopard - Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
• Masters of Deceit - J. Edgar Hoover
• Our Man in Havana - Graham Greene
• Playback - Raymond Chandler
• The Red Sea Sharks - Hergé
• Red Alert - Peter George
• Venetia – Georgette Heyer
• Victorine - Frances Parkinson Keyes
• The Winthrop Woman - Anya Seton
• Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
• Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories - Dr. Seuss
• Young Caesar - Rex Warner