* 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

* 1869 – Charles Grapewin, American actor ( d. 1956 )

Straddle-jumper Charles Dumas was the first to clear 2. 13 m ( or 7 feet ) in 1956, and American John Thomas pushed the world mark to in 1960.

Knerr continued drawing The Katzenjammer Kids until his death in 1949 ; the strip was then written and drawn by Charles H. Winner ( 1949 – 56 ), with Joe Musial taking over in 1956.

Lyonel Charles Feininger ( July 17, 1871January 13, 1956 ) was a German-American painter, and a leading exponent of Expressionism.

* 1885 – Charles Merrill, American investment banker ( d. 1956 )

* Russell, Bertrand ( 1956 ), Logic and Knowledge: Essays 1901 – 1950, Robert Charles Marsh ( ed.

Alfred Charles Kinsey ( June 23, 1894 – August 25, 1956 ) was an American biologist, professor of entomology and zoology, and sexologist who in 1947 founded the Institute for Sex Research at Indiana University, now known as the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction.

Several notable films based on stories from Australian literature ( generally with strong rural themes ) were made in Australia in the 1950s-but by British and American production companies, including A Town Like Alice ( 1956 ) which starred Virginia McKenna and Peter Finch ; The Shiralee ( 1957 ) also starring Peter Finch with Australian actors Charles Tingwell, Bill Kerr and Ed Devereaux in supporting roles ; Roberry Under Arms, again starring Finch in 1957 ; and Summer of the Seventeenth Doll ( 1959 ), starring Ernest Borgnine, John Mills and Angela Lansbury ; and in 1960, The Sundowners was shot in the Snowy Mountains of New South Wales with foreign leads Deborah Kerr, Robert Mitchum, and Peter Ustinov but a supporting cast including Australians Chips Rafferty, John Meillon and Leonard Teale.

* Charles W. Sandman, Jr., an American politician who represented Cape May in the New Jersey State Senate from 1956 – 66 ; the 2nd district in the U. S. House of Representatives from 1967 – 75 ; candidate for Governor of New Jersey, 1973.

St. Charles, Missouri, is where the first claimed interstate project started in 1956.

The modern organization was founded by Englishman Samuel Shenton in 1956 and was later led by Charles K. Johnson, who based the organization in his home in Lancaster, California.

* Di Peso, Charles C. The Upper Pima of San Cayetano del Tumacacori: An Archaeohistorical Reconstruction of the Ootam of Pimeria Alta, Dragoon: Amerind Foundation, 1956

" Her son, Charles West McNab, who had farmed the land until 1927 and was the only grandson of the original owner, sold the last of family property there in 1956.

A few weeks later, on November 16, 1956, Secretary of Defense Charles E. Wilson directed the Army to transfer of North Camp Cooke to the United States Air Force for use as a missile launch and training base.

Green Cove Springs is the birthplace of Charles E. Merrill ( 1885 – 1956 ), one of the founders of Merrill, Lynch & Company.

Charles Gordon MacArthur ( November 5, 1895 – April 21, 1956 ) was an American playwright and screenwriter.

These include the Platnauer Concerts, established to honour the memory of Maurice Platnauer, Principal of Brasenose ( 1956 – 1960 ); termly Heberden Concerts, recently established to honour Charles Buller Heberden ( 1849 – 1921 ), Principal of Brasenose ( 1889 – 1920 ) and to showcase talented undergraduates and graduates of Oxford University ; the Principal's Concerts, established in 2009, for junior and senior members of Brasenose and other colleges to display their talents.

During the 1950s, Bogarde came to prominence playing a hoodlum who shoots and kills a police constable in The Blue Lamp ( 1950 ) co-starring Jack Warner and Bernard Lee ; a handsome artist who comes to rescue of Jean Simmons during the World's Fair in Paris in So Long at the Fair, a film noir thriller ; an accidental murderer who befriends a young boy played by Jon Whiteley in Hunted ( aka The Stranger in Between ) ( 1952 ); in Appointment in London ( 1953 ) as a young Wing-Commander in Bomber Command who, against orders, opts to fly his 90th mission with his men in a major air offensive against the Germans ; an unjustly imprisoned man who regains hope in clearing his name when he learns his sweetheart, Mai Zetterling, is still alive in Desperate Moment ( 1953 ); Doctor in the House ( 1954 ), as a medical student, in a film that made Bogarde one of the most popular British stars of the 1950s, and co-starring Kenneth More, Donald Sinden and James Robertson Justice as their crabby mentor ; The Sleeping Tiger ( 1954 ), playing a neurotic criminal with co-star Alexis Smith, and Bogarde's first film for American expatriate director Joseph Losey ; Doctor at Sea ( 1955 ), co-starring Brigitte Bardot in one of her first film roles ; as a returning Colonial who fights the Mau-Mau with Virginia McKenna and Donald Sinden in Simba ( 1955 ); Cast a Dark Shadow ( 1955 ), as a man who marries women for money and then murders them ; The Spanish Gardener ( 1956 ), co-starring Michael Hordern, Jon Whiteley, and Cyril Cusack ; Doctor at Large ( 1957 ), again with Donald Sinden, another entry in the " Doctor films series ", co-starring later Bond-girl Shirley Eaton ; the Powell and Pressburger production Ill Met by Moonlight ( 1957 ) co-starring Marius Goring as the German General Kreipe, kidnapped on Crete by Patrick " Paddy " Leigh Fermor ( Bogarde ) and a fellow band of adventurers based on W. Stanley Moss ' real-life account of the WW2 caper ; A Tale of Two Cities ( 1958 ), a faithful retelling of Charles Dickens ' classic ; as a Flt.

On 1 November 1956, at a ceremony in front of the Royal Exchange in the City of London, The Lord Mayor of London, Alderman Sir Cuthbert Ackroyd bought the first bond from the Postmaster-General, Dr. Charles Hill for £ 1.

Pomus also wrote " Lonely Avenue ", which became a 1956 hit for Ray Charles.

* Charles Lee ( author ) ( 1870 – 1956 ), British author

* Charles Moore ( journalist ) ( born 1956 ), editor of the Daily Telegraph from 1995 until 2003

* Charles Simpson ( acting ), 1956 to 1957

In 1956, Channing married her manager and publicist, Charles Lowe.