About the day » Sunday December 11, 1955Calender converter

• Jan de Vos, Odoorn, Drenthe, Nederland († 2011)
• Diego Agustín Tezna Salgado († 2018)
• Nico Zonneveld, Castricum († 2018)
• Selwyn Everton Johnson, London, England († 2004)
• Glenn III Shoup († 2006)
• Elisabeth Maria Antonia Huijsman, De Rijp, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 2021)
• Michael Weyenberg († 2008)
• Michel Fransen, Horssen
• Augusto Philippus, Santa Catarina, Brasil († 1992)
• Marjon van Rijnsbergen, Driebergen († 2002)

• Clyde McGee Presley (74), Abilene, Taylor County, Texas, United States of America
• Cornelis Jan Van 't Hof (59), Heinenoord
• Bartje van HEUN (86), heerewaarden
• Catherine Francis (55), Ealing, Middlesex, England
• Raaymakers Jozef Karel (65), Merksplas, Antwerpen, België
• Arnaud Baudry (74)
• Antje Rientsma (74), Amsterdam
• Cornelis Hubertus Broekhuijsen (67), Utrecht
• Arie OUWEHAND (86), Scheveningen, gemeente 's-Gravenhage (Z-H)
• Alice Lucy PALMER (71), Launceston, Tasmania, Australia

• 1954 » Brad Bryant, American golfer
• 1954 » Guðlaugur Kristinn Óttarsson, Icelandic guitarist, mathematician, and engineer
• 1954 » Jermaine Jackson, American singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer
• 1954 » Santiago Creel, Mexican lawyer and politician, Mexican Secretary of the Interior
• 1954 » Sylvester Clarke, Barbadian cricketer († 1999)
• 1955 » Christian Sackewitz, German footballer and manager
• 1955 » Gene Grossman, American economist and academic
• 1955 » Ray Kelvin, British fashion designer
• 1955 » Stu Jackson, American basketball player, coach, and manager
• 1956 » Lani Brockman, American actress and director

• 1945 » Charles Fabry, French physicist and academic (b. 1867)
• 1950 » Leslie Comrie, New Zealand astronomer and author (b. 1893)
• 1951 » Hijri Dede, Iraqi Turkmen poet and writer (b. 1881)
• 1951 » Mustafa Muğlalı, Turkish general (b. 1882)
• 1953 » Sedat Simavi, Turkish journalist and director (b. 1896)
• 1957 » Musidora, French actress, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1889)
• 1959 » Jim Bottomley, American baseball player and manager (b. 1900)
• 1964 » Percy Kilbride, American actor (b. 1888)
• 1964 » Sam Cooke, American singer-songwriter (b. 1931)
• 1966 » Augusta Fox Bronner, American psychologist, specialist in juvenile psychology (b. 1881)

• 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.
• January 7 » Contralto Marian Anderson becomes the first person of color to perform at the Metropolitan Opera in Giuseppe Verdi's Un ballo in maschera.
• April 11 » The Air India Kashmir Princess is bombed and crashes in a failed assassination attempt on Zhou Enlai by the Kuomintang.
• April 18 » Twenty-nine nations meet at Bandung, Indonesia, for the first Asian-African Conference.
• 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 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.
• November 19 » National Review publishes its first issue.

The temperature on December 11, 1955 was between -1.2 °C and 7.1 °C and averaged 2.5 °C. There was 5.5 mm of rain during 3.8 hours. There was 0.6 hours of sunshine (8%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast.