* 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

* 1956: Les Truands, directed by Carlo Rim

* 2003 – Carlo Urbani, Italian physician ( b. 1956 )

* Carlo Maria Giulini, ( 1953 – 1956 )

On the other hand, producers Dino De Laurentiis and Carlo Ponti are considered to have personally won the 1956 Foreign Language Film Award given to Fellini's La Strada ( 1954 ), since their names were explicitly included in the nomination.

Carlo Urbani ( Castelplanio, Italy October 19, 1956 – Bangkok, Thailand March 29, 2003 ) was an Italian physician and the first to identify severe acute respiratory syndrome ( SARS ) as a new and dangerously contagious disease.

Designed by Carlo Scarpa, 1956.

His conducting debut with the Concertgebouw Orchestra was on 7 November 1956, substituting for Carlo Maria Giulini.

* March 29 – Carlo Urbani ( b. 1956 ), physician, discoverer of SARS.

In the early years, De Laurentiis produced neorealist films such as Bitter Rice ( 1946 ) and the Fellini classics La Strada ( 1954 ) and Nights of Cabiria ( 1956 ), often in collaboration with producer Carlo Ponti.

Carlo Rovelli was born in Verona, Italy, in 1956.

In 1956 she made her stage debut as Santuzza in Mascagni's Cavalleria rusticana with the San Carlo Opera in Tampa, Florida.

Ca ' Foscari: boiserie designed by Carlo ScarpaIn 1956 Carlo Scarpa was asked to return to Ca ' Foscari to transform the great hall into a lecture hall.

Models produced had been: 1900, 1903, 1905, 1908, 1910, 1924 High Velocity Sporting Rifle, 1950, 1952, 1956 Monte Carlo, 1961 Monte Carlo All-Purpose, Magnum.

Alongside Delfo Zorzi, his neo-fascist comrades Carlo Maria Maggi and Maurizio Tramonte, all members of the Ordine Nuovo group founded in 1956 by Pino Rauti, are also suspected of having organized the Piazza della Loggia bombing.

* 1956 – 45 miles south of Nantucket Island, the Italian ocean liner SS Andrea Doria collides with the MS Stockholm in heavy fog and sinks the next day, killing 51.

* Ordine Nuovo ( New Order ) far-right Italian organization founded in 1956

When in 1956 Italian editors had no more new Floyd Gottfredson's stories to reprint, he was given the responsibility to continue Gottfredson's stories about Mickey Mouse.

* April 27 – Guido Cantelli, Italian conductor ( d. 1956 )

** Giovanni Papini, Italian essayist, poet, and novelist ( d. 1956 )

* September 28 – Pietro Badoglio, Italian general and prime minister ( d. 1956 )

* December 21 – Don Lorenzo Perosi, Italian composer ( d. 1956 )

* Caesar Cardini ( 1896 – 1956 ), Italian hotel owner, restaurateur, and chef in Tijuana, Mexico

| 7 | Earlier the French had incorporated Tunisia into their sphere ( 1881 – 1956 ), preceded by many Italian settlers, merchants and farmers.

Following the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, the Italian Socialist Party ( PSI ) had taken a definitive distance from the Italian Communist Party ( PCI ), and Pietro Nenni had collaborated with the DC in the early 1960s.

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.

* In 1956, a British-Italian epic titled Helen of Troy was released, directed by Oscar-winning director Robert Wise and starring Italian actress Rossana Podestà in the title role.

In 1956 Jurado debuted on Broadway, playing Filomena Marturano with Raf Vallone, which would later be filmed in Italy as Marriage Italian Style with Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni.

* SS Ausonia ( 1956 ), an Italian cruise ship

Robert Hofstadter coined the term fermi ( unit ), symbol fm, in honor of the Italian physicist Enrico Fermi ( 1901 – 1954 ), one of the founders of nuclear physics, in Hofstadter's 1956 paper published in the Reviews of Modern Physics journal, " Electron Scattering and Nuclear Structure ".

He recommended that Cartwright study La strada, a 1956 Italian film starring Giulietta Masina and directed by Federico Fellini.

100px-Order of Merit of the Italian Republic ( 1956 )

Margheriti started out in the Italian film industry in 1956 as a screenwriter.

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Luis Miguel González Bosè known simply as Miguel Bosé ( born April 3, 1956 ) is a Latin Grammy-winning Spanish / Italian musician and actor.

* Setton, Kenneth M. ' The Byzantine background to the Italian Renaissance ', in: Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, 100 ( 1956 ), 1-76.

" The Byzantine background to the Italian Renaissance ", in, Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, 100 ( 1956 ), 1 – 76.