October 3, 1955

1955Moshe Kam, American engineering educator^[†]

Moshe Kam is an Israeli-American electrical engineer. He is an engineering educator serving as Distinguished Professor and Dean of the Newark College of Engineering at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. Until August 2014 he served as the Robert G. Quinn Professor and department head of electrical and computer engineering at Drexel University. In 2011, he served concurrently as the 49th president and CEO of IEEE. Earlier he was IEEE's vice president for educational activities (2005–2007) and IEEE's representative director to the accreditation body ABET. Kam is known for his studies of decision fusion and distributed detection, which focus on computationally feasible fusion rules for multi-sensor systems.

1955John S. Lesmeister, American educator and politician, 30th North Dakota State Treasurer (died 2006)^[†]

John Steven Lesmeister was a North Dakota politician who served as the 30th North Dakota State Treasurer from 1981 to 1984.

1955Allen Woody, American bass player and songwriter (died 2000)^[†]

Douglas Allen Woody was an American bass guitarist best known for his eight-year tenure in the Allman Brothers Band and as a co-founder of Gov't Mule.

1955Buket Uzuner, Turkish author^[†]

Buket Uzuner is a Turkish writer, author of novels, short stories, and travelogues. She studied biology and environmental science and has conducted research and presented lectures at universities in Turkey, Norway, the United States, and Finland. Her works have been translated into eight languages: Spanish, English, Italian, Greek, Romanian, Hebrew, Korean, and Bulgarian.