The year 1955 (MCMLV) predates the launch of the Transformers brand by twenty-nine years.

For further information, see: Transformers timeline

Non-Fiction

Events

• Takara is founded by Yasuta Satō.

Births

January

• January 3 — Hal Rayle
• January 9 — J.K. Simmons
• January 13 — Takuya Hiramitsu
• January 14 — Nancy Linari
• January 15 — Mayumi Tanaka
• January 17 — Marly Ribeiro
• January 20 — Noboro Huruse, Vincent Violette
• January 23 — John Tobin
• January 29 — Hubert Burczek

February

• February 1 — David Wise
• February 17 — Louis-Georges Girard
• February 21 — Kelsey Grammer
• February 26 — Junki Takegami

March

• March 3 — Gérard Rouzier
• March 12 — Masumi Gotō
• March 30 — Humberto Vélez
• March 31 — Kwan-cheol Kim, Naiké Fauveau

April

• April 15 — Olivier Destrez
• April 16 — Kim DeMulder
• April 25 — Tony Fuochi
• April 29 — Richard Epcar

May

• May 7 — Gerald Schaale

June

• June 1 — Han Tongsheng
• June 15 — Tobias Lelle
• June 21 — Joan Massotkleiner
• June 26 — Steve Whitaker

July

• July 12 — Tadashi Miyazawa
• July 24 — Hideyuki Umezu
• July 29 — Lara Bergen

August

• August 3 — Corey Burton
• August 15 — Joy Grdnic
• August 18 — Kōzō Shioya
• August 28 — Michitaka Kobayashi

September

• September 4 — Sayuri Sadaoka
• September 18 — Bob Papenbrook
• September 21 — Pietro Ubaldi

October

• October 5 — Kōki Kataoka
• October 11 — Kyōko Tongū
• October 12 — Alessandro Rossi
• October 21 — Yukimasa Kishino
• October 27 — Michael Shamus Wiles

November

• November 3 — Flint Dille
• November 5 — Róbert Bolla
• November 10 — Pierre Tremblay
• November 16 — Masato Hirano
• November 17 — Mino Caprio
• November 30 — Brett Stimely

December

• December 1 — Cyrielle Clair
• December 3 — Massimo Rossi
• December 12 — Andrzej Chudy
• December 16 — Angelo Maggi
• December 21 — Crock Krumbiegel
• December 26 — Marco Pagani
• December 27 — Mark Bright
• December 28 — Janice Chiang, Vladimiro Conti
• December 31 — Gerhard Acktun