* 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

They married in 1956 and had two children, Christopher John Hall ( TV producer ) in 1957 and Jennifer Caron Hall, a writer, painter and actress, in 1958.

He and Ebeling had a son, Christopher ( b. 1952 ), and three daughters: Courtenay ( b. 1954 ), Cynthia ( b. 1956 ) and Claudia ( b. 1958 ).

* 2010 – Christopher Moran, English air marshal ( b. 1956 )

* Christopher J. Connors ( born 1956 ), represents the 9th legislative district in the New Jersey General Assembly.

* Christopher J. Connors ( born 1956 ), represents the 9th legislative district in the New Jersey General Assembly.

He and his wife had five children, Christopher Joseph McCarthy ( April 30, 1940 – April 30, 1940 ), Eleanor McCarthy Howell ( born October 30, 1947 ), Mary Abagail McCarthy ( April 29, 1949 – July 28, 1990 ), Michael Benet McCarthy ( born April 5, 1952 ) and Margaret Alice McCarthy Brown ( born July 17, 1956 ).

He was reelected in 1956 with 55 percent of the vote over Democrat Thomas J. Dodd ( later U. S. Senator from Connecticut and father of the recent U. S. Senator from Connecticut, Christopher J. Dodd ), and decided not to run for another term in 1962.

* GB patent 868, 753 – Improvements in or relating to Calculating Machines – Norbert Kitz, Robert Milburn, Christopher Webb: Bell Punch Company Ltd., 1961 ( first application Sept. 6, 1956, filed Sept. 6, 1957 ),-Electronically controlled key operated office desk type calculating machine capable of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.

* Christopher J. Connors ( born 1956 ), member of the New Jersey Senate.

In quick succession, Morison wrote Christopher Columbus, Mariner ( 1955 ), Freedom in Contemporary Society ( 1956 ), The Story of the ' Old Colony ' of New Plymouth, 1620 – 1692 ( 1956 ), Nathaniel Homes Morison ( 1957 ), William Hickling Prescott ( 1958 ), Strategy and Compromise ( 1958 ), and John Paul Jones: A Sailor's Biography ( 1959 ), which earned Morison his second Pulitzer Prize.

* The Wrong Man – 1956 – novel The True Story of Christopher Emmanuel Balestrero

The evening Roundup, previously known as The World Tonight, has aired in its current form since 1956 and has been anchored by Blair Clark, Douglas Edwards, Dallas Townsend and Christopher Glenn.

They had four children: their son, actor and author Christopher Kennedy Lawford ( born 1955 ), their daughters Sydney Maleia Kennedy Lawford ( born 1956 ), Victoria Francis Lawford ( born 1958 ), and Robin Elizabeth Lawford ( born 1961 ).

Lange's first marriage was to actor Don Murray in 1956 ; they had two children, actor Christopher Murray and photographer Patricia Murray.

Pincher Martin: The Two Deaths of Christopher Martin ‎ ( often referred to simply as Pincher Martin ), is a survivalist novel by British writer William Golding, first published in 1956.

* Christopher Philip Roger Mills, 3rd Viscount Mills ( b. 1956 )

Notable Hollywood performances include Marni Nixon in West Side Story for Natalie Wood's character ( she also did dubbings in The King and I ( 1956 film ) and My Fair Lady ), Bill Lee voicing the Christopher Plummer character in The Sound of Music ,, Lindsay Ridgeway for Ashley Peldon's character as Darla Dimple in the animated film Cats Don't Dance, Claudia Brücken providing the singing voice for Erika Heynatz's character as Elsa Lichtmann in L. A. Noire, and Betty Noyes singing for Debbie Reynolds in Singin ' in the Rain, a movie in which playback singing is a major plot point.

Christopher Allen Darden ( born April 7, 1956 ) is an American lawyer, writer, lecturer and practicing attorney.

D ' Amboise married Carolyn George, a photographer and former ballerina, on New Year's Day, 1956, and they have four children including ballet dancer / choreographer Christopher d ' Amboise and dancer Charlotte d ' Amboise.

David Christopher Lane ( born April 29, 1956, Burbank, California ) is a professor of philosophy and sociology at Mt.

The standard modern life, however, is Christopher Devlin's The Life of Robert Southwell, Poet and Martyr, London, 1956.

The British Leeward Islands-Antigua, Dominica, Montserrat, Nevis, St. Christopher ( St. Kitts ), and the Virgin Islands all used postage stamps inscribed " LEEWARD ISLANDS " between 1890 and 1 July 1956, often concurrently with stamps inscribed with the colony's name.

London: University College London, for the Viking Society for Northern Research, 1956 ; introduction by Christopher Tolkien.