About the day » Saturday January 22, 1955Calender converter

• Richard Boel, Antwerpen († 2022)
• Adriana (Sjaan) Don, Vlaardingen († 2020)
• ADRIANA BERNARDINA JOHANNA MAAT, Poeldijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Albert Willem van Tellingen, Pijnacker († 2019)
• Emmi Voornhout, Groningen, Groningen, Nederland († 2010)
• Theo Jan Martha, Klundert, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1955)
• Loetje Hendricks († 2005)
• johannes p.m.(jan) pijls, roggel († 2022)
• Evangeline Gerretsen, Zutphen, Gelderland, Nederland († 1955)
• Marie Louise van den Oever, Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1998)

• Bertha CRAM (70), Visalia, Kenton, Kentucky, Verenigde Staten
• Arthur Calvin SMITH (80)
• Carl Adolph Elias (85), Apeldoorn, Gelderland, Netherlands
• Antonie Admiraal (53), Deventer
• Anna Colsher Spencer (75), Yeadon, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, United States of America
• Antje Durks de Graaf (83), Arum, Wunseradiel, Friesland, Netherlands
• Anna Cornelia Kenis (92), Borgerhout (B)
• Anna Margaretha Sophia de Vogel (76), Den Haag, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Catharina Quirina Ledeboer (96), Ubbergen
• Anna Colsher Neff (75), Yeadon, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, Verenigde Staten

• 1953 » Jim Jarmusch, American director and screenwriter
• 1953 » Myung-whun Chung, South Korean pianist and conductor
• 1953 » Winfried Berkemeier, German footballer and manager
• 1955 » Thomas David Jones, American captain, pilot, and astronaut
• 1955 » Timothy R. Ferguson, American politician
• 1956 » Steve Riley, American drummer
• 1957 » Brian Dayett, American baseball player and manager
• 1957 » Francis Wheen, English journalist and author
• 1957 » Godfrey Thoma, Nauruan politician
• 1957 » Mike Bossy, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster

• 1945 » Else Lasker-Schüler, German poet and playwright (b. 1869)
• 1949 » William Thomas Walsh, American author, poet, and playwright (b. 1891)
• 1950 » Alan Hale, Sr., American actor and director (b. 1892)
• 1951 » Lawson Robertson, Scottish-American sprinter and high jumper (b. 1883)
• 1955 » Jonni Myyrä, Finnish-American athlete (b. 1892)
• 1957 » Ralph Barton Perry, American philosopher and academic (b. 1876)
• 1959 » Mike Hawthorn, English race car driver (b. 1929)
• 1964 » Marc Blitzstein, American pianist and composer (b. 1905)
• 1966 » Herbert Marshall, English actor (b. 1890)
• 1968 » Duke Kahanamoku, American swimmer and water polo player (b. 1890)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Willem
6. Peter
7. Robert
8. Pieter
9. John
10. Petrus
11. Gerrit
12. Dirk
13. David
14. Adrianus
15. Johan
16. Gerardus

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Elisabeth
5. Cornelia
6. Wilhelmina
7. Catharina
8. Adriana
9. Hendrika
10. Yvonne
11. Petronella
12. Marianne
13. Margaretha
14. Marie
15. Helena
16. Gerda

• Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from September 2, 1952 to October 13, 1956 the cabinet Drees II, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 10.7 million citizens.
• February 13 » Israel obtains four of the seven Dead Sea Scrolls.
• April 18 » Twenty-nine nations meet at Bandung, Indonesia, for the first Asian-African Conference.
• April 24 » The Bandung Conference ends: Twenty-nine non-aligned nations of Asia and Africa finish a meeting that condemns colonialism, racism, and the Cold War.
• October 26 » Ngô Đình Diệm declares himself Premier of South Vietnam.
• October 29 » The Soviet battleshipNovorossiysk strikes a World War II mine in the harbor at Sevastopol.
• December 5 » E. D. Nixon and Rosa Parks lead the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

The temperature on January 22, 1955 was between 1.0 °C and 3.3 °C and averaged 1.9 °C. There was 4.9 mm of rain during 7.7 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east.