page_title: 1955
section_title: March
hierarchical_section_title: 1955 / Deaths / March
caption_attribution_description: English: Synthetic Production of Penicillin Professor Alexander Fleming, holder of the Chair of Bacteriology at London University, who first discovered the mould Penicillin Notatum. Here in his laboratory at St Mary's, Paddington, London (1943).
context_page_description: 1955 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1955th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 955th year of the 2nd millennium, the 55th year of the 20th century, and the 6th year of the 1950s decade.
context_section_description: March 3 – Katharine Drexel, American Roman Catholic foundress and saint (b. 1858)
  March 8 – William C. deMille, American screenwriter and director (b. 1878)
  March 9 – Matthew Henson, American explorer (b. 1866)
  March 11 – Sir Alexander Fleming, Scottish scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1881)
  March 12 – Charlie Parker, American saxophonist (b. 1920)
  March 16 – Nicolas de Staël, Russian painter (b. 1914)
  March 19 – Mihály Károlyi, 1st President of Hungary and 20th Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1875)
  March 23 – Arthur Bernardes, 12th President of Brazil (b. 1875)
  March 24 – John W. Davis, American politician, diplomat, and lawyer (b. 1873)
caption: Sir Alexander Fleming
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