Month January 1955 Calendar

About Month of January Calendar

• January is the first month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars and one of seven months with the length of 31 days. The first day of the month is known as the day of New Year. It is, on average, the coldest month of the year within most of the Northern Hemisphere (where it is the second month of winter) and the warmest month of the year within most of the Southern Hemisphere (where it is the second month of summer).
  
  January symbols: The birthstone of January is the garnet which represents constancy. Its birth flower is the cottage pink Dianthus caryophyllus or galanthus. In Finnish, the month of tammikuu means the heart of the winter and because the name literally means Oak moon. The zodiac signs for the month of January are Capricorn (until January 19) and Aquarius (January 20 onwards). The traditional English birth month flower is the Carnation.

Historical Events for January, 1955

• Day of Week 2nd » Panamanian president José Antonio Remón Cantera is assassinated.
• Day of Week 4th » The Greece named Greek National Radical Union is formed by Konstantinos Karamanlis.
• Day of Week 25th » The Soviet Union ends the state of war with Germany.

Famous Birthdays on January in 1955

• 1st » Mary Beard (classicist) or Mary Beard, British classicist
• 1st » LaMarr Hoyt, American baseball player
• 1st » Gennady Lyachin, Russian captain (d. 2000)
• 1st » Georgina von Etzdorf, Peruvian-British textile designer
• 2nd » Tex Brashear, American voice actor
• 2nd » Agathonas Iakovidis, Greek singer
• 2nd » Vivien Savage, French singer-songwriter
• 3rd » Palmolive (musician) or Palmolive, Spanish-English drummer (The Slits, The Raincoats, and The Flowers of Romance (band) known as The Flowers of Romance)
• 4th » Cecilia Conrad, Norwegian economist
• 4th » Mark Hollis (English musician) called Mark Hollis, English singer-songwriter (Talk Talk)
• 5th » Mamata Banerjee, Indian politician, Chief Minister of West Bengal
• 5th » Jimmy Mulville, English comedian, actor, producer, and screenwriter, co-founded Hat Trick Productions
• 5th » Mohsen Sazegara, Iranian journalist
• 6th » Rowan Atkinson, English comedian and actor
• 6th » Richard Corbett, English politician
• 8th » Karine Kazinian, Armenian diplomat (d. 2012)
• 8th » Spiros Livathinos, Greek footballer
• 8th » Mike Reno, Canadian singer and drummer (Loverboy and Moxy (band) named Moxy)
• 9th » Michiko Kakutani, American critic
• 9th » J. K. Simmons, American actor
• 10th » Michael Schenker, German guitarist (UFO (band) UFO, Scorpions (band) Scorpions, Contraband (band) Contraband, and McAuley Schenker Group)
• 10th » Franco Tancredi, Italian footballer
• 12th » Tom Ardolino, American drummer (NRBQ and The Minus 5) (d. 2012)
• 13th » Paul Kelly (musician) or Paul Kelly, Australian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Professor Ratbaggy and Stardust Five)
• 13th » Jay McInerney, American author
• 13th » Anne Pringle, English diplomat
• 15th » Nigel Benson, English author and illustrator
• 15th » Mayumi Tanaka, Japanese voice actress
• 16th » Jerry M. Linenger, American doctor and astronaut
• 17th » Steve Earle, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor
• 17th » Steve Javie, American basketball player and referee
• 19th » Tony Mansfield, English singer-songwriter and producer (New Musik)
• 19th » Simon Rattle, English conductor
• 19th » Paul Rodriguez, Mexican-American comedian and actor
• 20th » McKeeva Bush, Caymanian politician, Premier of the Cayman Islands
• 20th » Joe Doherty, Irish soldier and activist
• 20th » Wyatt Knight, American actor
• 20th » Hiromi Ōta, Japanese singer
• 21st » Jeff Koons, American sculptor
• 21st » Leslie Hoffman, American stunt performer, stunt coordinator and actress
• 22nd » Timothy R. Ferguson, American politician
• 22nd » Thomas David Jones, American captain, pilot, and astronaut
• 24th » Jim Montgomery (swimmer) called Jim Montgomery, American swimmer
• 26th » Eddie Van Halen, Dutch-American guitarist, songwriter, and producer (Van Halen)
• 27th » Brian Engblom, Canadian ice hockey player
• 27th » John Roberts, American jurist, 17th Chief Justice of the United States
• 27th » Alexander Stuart (writer) e.g Alexander Stuart, English-American author and screenwriter
• 27th » Koji Ushikubo, Japanese race car driver
• 28th » Vinod Khosla, Indian-American businessman, co-founded Sun Microsystems
• 28th » Nicolas Sarkozy, French politician, 23rd President of France
• 29th » Eddie Jordan (basketball) or Eddie Jordan, American basketball player and coach
• 29th » Femi Pedro, Nigerian politician
• 29th » Jonathan Smith (tennis) called Jonathan Smith, English tennis player
• 30th » John Baldacci, American politician, 73rd Governor of Maine
• 30th » Tom Izzo, American basketball player and coach
• 30th » Curtis Strange, American golfer
• 30th » Judith Tarr, American author
• 30th » Mychal Thompson, Bahamian basketball player
• 31st » Virginia Ruzici, Romanian tennis player

Famous Deaths for January 1955

• 1st » Arthur C. Parker, American archaeologist and historian (b. 1881)
• 1st » Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar, Indian chemist (b. 1894)
• 15th » Yves Tanguy, French painter (b. 1900)
• 18th » Saadat Hassan Manto, Pakistani author (b. 1912)
• 20th » Robert P. T. Coffin, American author and poet (b. 1892)
• 21st » Archie Hahn, German-American runner (b. 1880)
• 24th » Ira Hayes, American marine, member of the Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima (b. 1923)
• 24th » Henry Potter (golfer) called Henry Potter, American golfer (b. 1881)
• 31st » John Mott, American YMCA leader, Nobel Peace Prize e.g Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1865)

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