About the day » Wednesday July 13, 1955Calender converter

• Maria Elisabeth van Rooij, Breda, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Marilee Rose Schuttinga
• Wilhelmus Theodorus Gerardus LIEBRAND, Doetinchem (NL) († 1956)
• Franciscus Ludovicus Goos, Oud-Turnhout, Antwerpen, België († 2000)
• Peter Hayo Jansen, Buurse, Haaksbergen, Overijssel, Nederland († 2008)
• Harmke van Weperen, Haule
• Elisabeth Johanna Maria Frankenmolen, Voorburg
• Josien Dijkhuis († 1999)
• dorothea mathea (thea) versteegen, helden-beringe
• Hugo Eugene Blokland, Paramaribo, Suriname († 2016)

• Cornelis Johannes Godeschalk (73), Kloetinge, Niederlande
• Cornelia Bijleveld (65), Hoogeveen
• Arrie Dona MCCLAMMY (66), Escambia, Florida, United States
• Antonie Rovers (77), Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Camille DECLERCQ (72), Durand Michigan (USA)
• Beatrix Angenis Maria Huigen (75), Maurik (GL)
• Aaltje van Drie (73), Hoevelaken, Gelderland, Nederland
• Christina den Ouden (66), Leusden, Utrecht, Nederland
• Catharina Constantia Wilhelmina van Leeuwen (92), Leiden
• Cornelia Bijleveld (65), De Wijk, Drenthe, Netherlands (Rogat)

• 1951 » Didi Conn, American actress and singer
• 1951 » Rob Bishop, American educator and politician
• 1953 » David Thompson, American basketball player
• 1954 » Louise Mandrell, American singer-songwriter and actress
• 1954 » Ray Bright, Australian cricketer
• 1956 » Mark Mendoza, American bass player and songwriter
• 1956 » Michael Spinks, American boxer
• 1957 » Cameron Crowe, American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1957 » Thierry Boutsen, Belgian race car driver and businessman
• 1959 » Richard Leman, English field hockey player

• 1941 » Ilmar Raud, Estonian chess player (b. 1913)
• 1945 » Alla Nazimova, Russian-American actress, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1879)
• 1946 » Alfred Stieglitz, American photographer and curator (b. 1864)
• 1949 » Walt Kuhn, American painter and academic (b. 1877)
• 1951 » Arnold Schoenberg, Austrian-American composer and painter (b. 1874)
• 1954 » Frida Kahlo, Mexican painter and educator (b. 1907)
• 1960 » Joy Davidman, American-English poet and author (b. 1915)
• 1965 » Photis Kontoglou, Greek painter and illustrator (b. 1895)
• 1967 » Tom Simpson, English cyclist (b. 1937)
• 1970 » Leslie Groves, American general and engineer (b. 1896)

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. Marie
15. Gerda
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.
• May 18 » Operation Passage to Freedom, the evacuation of 310,000 Vietnamese civilians, soldiers and non-Vietnamese members of the French Army from communist North Vietnam to South Vietnam following the end of the First Indochina War, ends.
• May 25 » In the United States, a night-time F5 tornado strikes the small city of Udall, Kansas, killing 80 and injuring 273. It is the deadliest tornado to ever occur in the state and the 23rd deadliest in the U.S.
• June 14 » Chile becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
• July 27 » The Austrian State Treaty restores Austrian sovereignty.
• August 28 » Black teenager Emmett Till is brutally murdered in Mississippi, galvanizing the nascent civil rights movement.
• December 1 » American Civil Rights Movement: In Montgomery, Alabama, seamstress Rosa Parks refuses to give up her bus seat to a white man and is arrested for violating the city's racial segregation laws, an incident which leads to that city's bus boycott.

The temperature on July 13, 1955 was between 16.0 °C and 24.3 °C and averaged 20.1 °C. There was 0.9 mm of rain during 0.5 hours. There was 4.6 hours of sunshine (28%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west.