* 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

* Party Leader in the Chamber of Deputies: Giovanni Gronchi ( 1946 – 1948 ), Giuseppe Cappi ( 1948 – 1949 ), Giuseppe Spataro ( 1949 ), Giuseppe Cappi ( 1950 ), Giuseppe Bettiol ( 1950 – 1953 ), Aldo Moro ( 1953 – 1956 ), Attilio Piccioni ( 1956 – 1958 ), Luigi Gui ( 1958 – 1962 ), Benigno Zaccagnini ( 1962 – 1968 ), Fiorentino Sullo ( 1968 ), Giulio Andreotti ( 1968 – 1972 ), Flaminio Piccoli ( 1972 – 1978 ), Giovanni Galloni ( 1978 – 1979 ), Gerardo Bianco ( 1979 – 1983 ), Virginio Rognoni ( 1983 – 1986 ), Mino Martinazzoli ( 1986 – 1989 ), Vincenzo Scotti ( 1989 – 1990 ), Antonio Gava ( 1990 – 1992 ), Gerardo Bianco ( 1992 – 1994 )

* Antonio Commisso ( born 1956 ), ' Ndrangheta boss

Other film versions ( which are loose adaptations as opposed to straight translations from stage to screen ) include: the 1929 The Framing of the Shrew, directed by Arvid E. Gillstrom, and starring Edward Thompson and Evelyn Preer ; the 1933 You Made Me Love You, directed by Monty Banks, and starring Stanley Lupino and Thelma Todd ; the 1938 Second Best Bed, directed by Tom Walls, and starring Jane Baxter and Walls himself ; the 1942 Italian adaptation La bisbetica domata, directed by Ferdinando Maria Poggioli, and starring Amedeo Nazzari and Lilia Silvi ; the 1943 Hungarian adaptation Makacs Kata ( Stubborn Kate ) directed by Emil Martonffy, and starring Katalin Karády and Pál Jávor ; another 1943 Hungarian adaptation, Makrancos hölgy ( Unruly Lady ), directed by Viktor Bánky, and starring Emmi Buttykay and Miklós Hajmássy ; the 1948 Mexican adaptation Cartas marcadas, directed by René Cardona, and starring Marga López and Pedro Infante ; the 1956 Spanish adaptation La fierecilla domada, directed by Antonio Román, and starring Carmen Sevilla and Alberto Closas ; the 1962 Egyptian adaptation Ah min hawaa, directed by Fatin Abdel Wahab, and starring Lobna Abdel Aziz and Rushdy Abaza ; the 1963 western McLintock !, directed by Andrew McLaglen, and starring John Wayne and Maureen O ' Hara ; the 1999 teen film 10 Things I Hate About You, directed by Gil Junger, and starring Julia Stiles as Kat Stratford ( Katherina ) and Heath Ledger as Patrick Verona ( Petruchio ); the 2003 comedy Deliver Us from Eva, directed by Gary Hardwick, and starring Gabrielle Union and LL Cool J ; and the 2010 Bollywood film Isi Life Mein, directed by Vidhi Kasliwal, and starring Akshay Oberoi and Sandeepa Dhar.

Two children were born of this marriage: his eldest child and daughter, Maria Teresa Samaranch Salisachs ( born 1956 ), has been president of the Spanish Federation of Sports on Ice since 2005, while his youngest child and son, Juan Antonio Samaranch Salisachs ( born 1959 ), has been a member of the International Olympic Committee since 2001.

* The University of Texas at San Antonio houses a collection of records about Terrell Hills and spanning the years 1838 through 1956.

# Antonio Rattín ( 1956 – 70 ) 382 matches

* Herminio Antonio " Pierino " González ( 1949 – 54 ; 1956 – 59 )

* Antonio Rattín ( 1956 – 70 )

The yacht was purchased on 10 October 1956 for MX $ 50, 000 ( US $ 15, 000 ) from the U. S .- based Schuylkill Products Company, Inc. by a Mexican citizen — said to be Mexico City gun dealer Antonio " The Friend " del Conde — secretly representing Fidel Castro.

Antonio Mora served as the secretary general of the Organization of American States between 16 January 1956 and 18 May 1968.

González served on the San Antonio City Council from 1953 to 1956, when he was elected to the Texas Senate, having defeated the Republican candidate, Jesse Oppenheimer.

In 1956, law enforcement recorded a phone conversation between Profaci and Antonio Cottone, a Sicilian mafioso, about exporting Sicilian oranges to the United States.

* Antonio Muñoz Molina ( 1956 –), Spanish writer and member of the Royal Spanish Academy

Antonio M. Fernández ( D ), until November 7, 1956

Manarola was celebrated in paintings by the artists Llewelyn Lloyd ( 1879-1949 ) (" I ponti di Manarola " Bridges of Manarola, 1904 and " Tramonto a Manarola " at Manarola, 1904 and Antonio Discovolo ( 1874 – 1956 ).

In 1956, it was the location of a student demonstration headed by José Antonio Echeverría, against the Government of Fulgencio Batista.

Antonio García nom de guerre of Eliécer Erlington Chamorro Acosta ( born 10 January 1956 in Mocoa, Putumayo Department ), one of the main commanders of the Ejército de Liberación Nacional ( usually abbreviated to ELN ), or National Liberation Army.