About the day » Monday December 5, 1955Calender converter

• Thomas Richard Ayraud, San Francisco, California († 1995)
• Tom M de Vries, Waterloo, Black Hawk County, Iowa († 2019)
• Hendrika Martina de Winter, Amsterdam († 2006)
• Johan Pieter van Duijn, Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2009)
• johanna gerarda elisabeth (ans) goutier, helden-panningen
• Johannes Bernardus Leonardus Lievens, Oosterhout
• Ben Klupper († 2011)
• Berendina Hermina (Dinie) Smit († 1959)
• Sjaak Smit, Texel († 2012)
• Janine Vreugdenhil, Maasland, Nederland († 1982)

• Antonius Theodorus HOGERS (68), Amsterdam (Noord-Holland)
• Christiaan Jonkheer van Lennep (68), Rochers-de-Naye, Vaud, Zwitserl
• Aaltje Vonk (91), Deventer
• Anna Gerardina de Bont (81), Brunssum
• Aaltje Snoek (49)
• Barbera Meijer (73), Enschede
• Alberta Elizabeth Johanna Ellens (78), Amsterdam
• Arend Bunt (74), Meppel
• Berendje ERK (84), Westerbroek (Hoogezand) Groningen Netherlands
• Antje Paauw (97), Hoorn, Noord-Holland, Nederland

• 1952 » Eva Dillner, Swedish author
• 1953 » Gwen Lister, South African-Namibian journalist, publisher, and activist
• 1954 » Gary Roenicke, American baseball player and scout
• 1954 » Hanif Kureishi, English author and playwright
• 1955 » Juha Tiainen, Finnish hammer thrower († 2003)
• 1955 » Miyuki Kawanaka, Japanese singer
• 1956 » Adam Thorpe, French-English author, poet, and playwright
• 1956 » Klaus Allofs, German footballer and manager
• 1956 » Krystian Zimerman, Polish virtuoso pianist
• 1957 » Raquel Argandoña, Chilean model, actress, and politician

• 1946 » Louis Dewis, Belgian-French painter and educator (b. 1872)
• 1951 » Abanindranath Tagore, Indian painter, author, and academic (b. 1871)
• 1951 » Shoeless Joe Jackson, American baseball player and manager (b. 1887)
• 1953 » William Sterling Parsons, American admiral (b. 1901)
• 1955 » Glenn L. Martin, American pilot and businessman, founded the Glenn L. Martin Company (b. 1886)
• 1961 » Emil Fuchs, German-American lawyer and businessman (b. 1878)
• 1963 » Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy, Indian-Pakistani lawyer and politician, 5th Prime Minister of Pakistan (b. 1892)
• 1963 » Karl Amadeus Hartmann, German composer and educator (b. 1905)
• 1964 » V. Veerasingam, Sri Lankan educator and politician (b. 1892)
• 1965 » Joseph Erlanger, American physiologist, neuroscientist, and academic Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1874)

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. Jacobus

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. Gerda
15. Marie
16. Helena

• 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.
• February 18 » Operation Teapot: Teapot test shot "Wasp" is successfully detonated at the Nevada Test Site with a yield of 1.2 kilotons. Wasp is the first of fourteen shots in the Teapot series.
• June 16 » In a futile effort to topple Argentine President Juan Perón, rogue aircraft pilots of the Argentine Navy drop several bombs upon an unarmed crowd demonstrating in favor of Perón in Buenos Aires, killing 364 and injuring at least 800. At the same time on the ground, some soldiers attempt to stage a coup but are suppressed by loyal forces.
• August 17 » Hurricane Diane made landfall near Wilmington, North Carolina, and it went on to cause major floods and kill more than 184 people.
• August 28 » Black teenager Emmett Till is brutally murdered in Mississippi, galvanizing the nascent civil rights movement.
• November 23 » The Cocos Islands are transferred from the control of the United Kingdom to that of Australia.

The temperature on December 5, 1955 was between 1.4 °C and 7.0 °C and averaged 4.5 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.