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April 10, 1955

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Notable Births

Marit Breivik

1955Marit Breivik, Norwegian handball player and coach[†]

Marit Breivik is a Norwegian former handball player and coach. She is one of the most decorated national team coaches in handball history and won thirteen championship medals with the Norwegian women's national handball team during a fifteen-year reign, including the gold medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics, the World Championship in 1999, and the European Championship in 1998, 2004, 2006 and 2008. Breivik won three Norwegian national championships and two league titles during her career as a player. She was capped 140 times and scored 286 goals for the Norwegian national team from 1975 to 1983.

1955Lesley Garrett, English soprano and actress[†]

Lesley Garrett, CBE is an English soprano singer, musician, broadcaster and media personality who is noted for being at home in opera and "crossover music".

Mike Rinder

1955Mike Rinder, Australian-American former Scientologist, critic (died 2025)[†]

Michael John Rinder was an Australian-American former senior executive of the Church of Scientology International (CSI) and the Sea Organization based in the United States. From 1982 to 2007, Rinder served on the board of directors of CSI and also held the post of executive director of its Office of Special Affairs, overseeing the corporate, legal and public relations matters of Scientology at the international level.

Notable Deaths

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

1955Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, French priest, theologian, and philosopher (born 1881)[†]

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin was a French Jesuit, Catholic priest, scientist, paleontologist, philosopher, mystic, and teacher. Teilhard de Chardin investigated the theory of evolution from a perspective influenced by Henri Bergson and Christian mysticism, writing multiple scientific and religious works on the subject. His mainstream scientific achievements include his palaeontological research in China, taking part in the discovery of the significant Peking Man fossils from the Zhoukoudian cave complex near Beijing. His more speculative ideas, sometimes criticized as pseudoscientific, have included a vitalist conception of the Omega Point. Along with Vladimir Vernadsky, he contributed to the development of the concept of the noosphere.

Historical Context for April 10, 1955

In 1955, the world population was approximately 2,740,213,792 people[†]