* Austin Osman Spare ( 1886 – 1956 ), English artist and magician

* 1956 – Sebastian Spreng, Argentinean artist and journalist

* 1956 – Dilip Vengsarkar, Indian cricketer and administrator

* 1956 – Andy García, Cuban actor

* 1956 – Herbert Grönemeyer, German singer

* 1956 – Former Vice President and Senator Alben Barkley dies during a speech in Virginia.

* 1956 – Lars von Trier, Danish director

* 1956 – After going bankrupt in 1955, the American broadcaster DuMont Television Network makes its final broadcast, a boxing match from St. Nicholas Arena in New York in the Boxing from St. Nicholas Arena series.

* 1956 – Stepfanie Kramer, American actress

* 1878 – Aino Kallas, Finnish-Estonian author ( d. 1956 )

* 1956 – Fulvio Melia, Italian-American physicist, astrophysicist, and author

* 1956 – Jim Neidhart, American wrestler

* 1956 – Isabel Pantoja, Spanish singer

* 2003 – Leslie Cheung, Hong Kong actor and singer ( b. 1956 )

* 1956 – Tom Leykis, American radio host

* 1956 – Kirk Brandon, English singer-songwriter and guitarist ( Theatre of Hate, Spear of Destiny and Dead Men Walking )

* 1956 – Balwinder Sandhu, Indian cricketer

* 1956 –, the world's first successful container ship, leaves Port Newark, New Jersey for Houston, Texas.

Prominent leaders include co-founders Lucien Febvre ( 1878 – 1956 ) and Marc Bloch ( 1886 – 1944 ).

* 1867 – Emil Nolde, German painter ( d. 1956 )

* 1956 – Chris Foreman, English guitarist and songwriter ( Madness )

* 1956 – David Grant, English singer ( Linx )

* 1956 – Branscombe Richmond, American actor

* 1956 – Cecilia Roth, Argentine actress

:: 1917 – 18, 1918 – 19, 1930 – 31, 1931 – 32, 1933 – 34, 1936 – 37, 1938 – 39, 1946 – 47, 1956 – 57, 1959 – 60, 1965 – 66, 1966 – 67, 1967 – 68, 1969 – 70, 1971 – 72, 1972 – 73, 1976 – 77, 1978 – 79, 1979 – 80, 1981 – 82, 1982 – 83, 1984 – 85, 1989 – 90, 1993 – 94, 1994 – 95, 1995 – 96, 1997 – 98, 2001 – 02, 2003 – 04, 2010 – 11, 2011 – 12

By 1969 West German cinema attendance at 172. 2 million visits per year was less than a quarter of its 1956 post-war peak.

The party organs within the military were strengthened after two incidents in 1956 and 1969 that resulted in a wide-scale purge of factions opposed to Kim Il Sung.

By the early 1960s films based on commando missions like The Gift Horse ( 1952 ) based on the St. Nazaire Raid, and Ill Met by Moonlight ( 1956 ) had begun to inspire fictional adventure films such as The Guns of Navarone ( 1961 ), The Train ( 1964 ), The Dirty Dozen ( 1967 ), Where Eagles Dare ( 1968 ) and Hannibal Brooks ( 1969 ), which used the war as the backdrop for spectacular action films.

Over the years, LLNL designed the following warheads: W27 ( Regulus cruise missile ; 1955 ; joint with Los Alamos ), W38 ( Atlas / Titan ICBM ; 1959 ), B41 ( B52 bomb ; 1957 ), W45 ( Little John / Terrier missiles ; 1956 ), W47 ( Polaris SLBM ; 1957 ), W48 ( 155-mm howitzer ; 1957 ), W55 ( submarine rocket ; 1959 ), W56 ( Minuteman ICBM ; 1960 ), W58 ( Polaris SLBM ; 1960 ), W62 ( Minuteman ICBM ; 1964 ), W68 ( Poseidon SLBM ; 1966 ), W70 ( Lance missile ; 1969 ), W71 ( Spartan missile ; 1968 ), W79 ( 8-in.

After Tönnies ' and Weber works, reflection on social links in modern society continued with interesting contributions in the 1950s and in the 1960s, in particular ' The Mass Society Theory ' ( Bell, 1962 ; Nisbet, 1969 ; Stein, 1960 ; Whyte, 1956 ).

Two additional groups claim the name Bill Haley's Comets and have extensively toured in the United States since forming in the 1980s: one originally Haley's 1965 – 68 drummer John " Bam-Bam " Lane, the other run by Al Rappa who played bass for Haley off-and-on between late 1959 and early 1969 ( the 1956 album " Strictly Instrumental " on Decca was Al Rappa's first recording session with Bill Haley & His Comets.

* 3-Bill Hartack ( 1956, 1964, 1969 )

During his career, he pitched for the New York Giants ( 1952 – 1956 ), St. Louis Cardinals ( 1957 ), Cleveland Indians ( 1957 – 1958 ), Baltimore Orioles ( 1958 – 1962 ), Chicago White Sox ( 1963 – 1968 ), California Angels ( 1969 ), Atlanta Braves ( 1969 – 1970 ; 1971 ), Chicago Cubs ( 1970 ), and Los Angeles Dodgers ( 1971 – 1972 ).

Member of the National Assembly of France for Puy-de-Dôme: 1956 – 1959 ( Became minister in 1959 ) / Reelected in 1962, but he stays minister / 1967 – 1969 ( Became minister in 1969 ) / Reelected in 1973, but he stays minister / 1984 – 1989 ( Became member of European Parliament in 1989 ) / 1993 – 2002.

They had three children: Gail ( born 14 September 1953 ); Gary ( born 21 April 1956 ) and Steven ( born 1969 and adopted in 1973 ).

* The Singing Sands: broadcast in 1956 ( Bertram Parnaby ); televised in 1969 ( James MacTaggart )

The collectivization was implemented in three stages ( 1949 – 1952, 1953 – 1956, 1956 – 1969 ) and officially ended with implementation of the constitution establishing the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic, which made private ownership illegal.

In 1950, 1956, 1961, 1965, 1969 and 1975, the National Order of the Arrow Conference was held at Indiana University, the most frequent venue for the event.

Stage productions of Witkacy's plays The Cuttlefish ( 1956 ) and The Water Hen ( 1969 ) were regarded as his best achievements during this time.

Rocky Marciano ( born Rocco Francis Marchegiano ; September 1, 1923 – August 31, 1969 ) was an American professional boxer and the World Heavyweight Champion from September 23, 1952, to April 27, 1956.

He was a music professor at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de la Musique, Paris ( 1956 – 69 ); Folkwang Hochschule in Essen ( 1969 – 1975 ); and the Conservatoire National de Region, Nice ( 1978 – 80 ).

** Winners ( 5 ): 1904, 1934, 1956, 1969, 2011

*** Runners-up ( 5 ): 1934, 1956, 1969, 1973, 2011

* Robert Strachan ( 1956 – April 12, 1969 )

* To Tell the Truth ( 1956 – 1968 ; 1969 – 1978 )

Auerbach's first solo exhibition was at the Beaux Arts Gallery in London in 1956, followed by further solo shows at the Beaux Arts Gallery in 1959, 1961, 1962 and 1963, and then at Marlborough Fine Art in London at regular intervals after 1965 ; at Marlborough Gallery, New York, in 1969, 1982, 1994, 1998 and 2006 ; and at Marlborough Graphics in 1990.