* 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

After the " Polish October " of 1956 the Sixth Section in Paris welcomed Polish historians and exchanges between the circle of the Annales and Polish scholars continued until the early 1980s.

Hollywood films in the 1950s and 1960s were often inclined towards spectacular heroics or self-sacrifice in films like Sands of Iwo Jima ( 1949 ), Halls of Montezuma ( 1950 ) or D-Day the Sixth of June ( 1956 ).

There is also a scene from the 1956 film D-Day the Sixth of June starring Robert Taylor and Richard Todd where Taylor's character is seen with Dana Wynter's character having drinks together during the Second World War in London.

* D-Day the Sixth of June ( 1956 )

* D-Day the Sixth of June ( 1956 )

Saint Bernard School had opened its doors in 1955 followed by the adjacent Blossom Park Public School in 1956 and later Sainte Bernadette: a French-language Roman Catholic school on the east side of Sixth Street which opened in 1965.

The New York School which represented the New York abstract expressionists of the 1950s was documented through a series of artists ' committee invitational exhibitions commencing with the 9th Street Art Exhibition in 1951 and followed by consecutive exhibitions at the Stable Gallery, NYC: Second Annual Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, 1953 ; Third Annual Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, 1954 ; Fourth Annual Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, 1955 ; Fifth Annual Exhibitions of Painting and Sculpture, 1956 and Sixth New York Artists ’ Annual Exhibition, 1957.

She is believed by those adherent to the Ascended Master Teachings to have succeeded the previous Chohan, the Master Jesus, on January 1, 1956, when she is said to have fully taken on the Office of Chohan of the Sixth Ray., thus advancing from the fifth to the sixth level of initiation.

He had the Kaba Aye Pagoda and the Maha Pasana Guha ( Great Cave ) built in 1952 in preparation for the Sixth Buddhist Synod that he convened and hosted in 1954 – 1956 as prime minister.

* D-Day the Sixth of June ( 1956 )

The Sixth Menzies Ministry was the thirty-seventh Australian Commonwealth ministry, and ran from 9 July 1954 to 11 January 1956.

He went on to act in The Relapse 1950 ( Sir Tunbelly Clumsey ); The Taming of the Shrew 1951 ( Grumio ); The Way of the World 1954 ( Petulant ); The Carefree Tree 1955 ( The Sixth Son ); King Lear 1956 ( Duke of Cornwall ); Mister Johnson 1956 ( Gollup ); Saint Joan 1956 ( The Inquisitor ); Protective Custody 1956 ( Dr. Steidl ); Oscar Wilde 1957 ( Oscar Wilde ); The Golden Six 1958 ( Tiberius ); A Man for All Seasons 1961 ( Cardinal Wolsey ); Andorra 1963 ( pub keeper ); The Seagull 1964 ( Sorin ); The Crucible 1964 ( Danforth ); Baker Street 1965 ( Moriarty ); The Royal Hunt of the Sun 1965 ( Miguel Estete ); Ring Round the Moon 1966 ( Messerchann ); Those That Play the Clowns 1966 ( Henning ); Breakfast at Tiffany's 1966 ( Rusty Trawler ); The Sorrows of Frederick 1967 ; The Bench 1968 ( Phillipi ); Uncle Vanya 1971 ( Serebryakov ); The Jockey Club Stakes 1973 ( Sir Dymock Blackburn ); The Dogs of Pavlov 1974.

He was also director of photography on more than 130 films, including many other notable productions, such as Goodbye, Mr Chips ( 1939 ), 49th Parallel ( 1941 ), Lust for Life ( 1956 ), The Inn of the Sixth Happiness ( 1958 ), Lord Jim ( 1965 ), Battle of Britain ( 1969 ), Nicholas and Alexandra ( 1971 ), and the James Bond film You Only Live Twice ( 1967 ).

* D-Day the Sixth of June ( 1956 )

* 1956 – Sixth place

In 1956, he was named editor-in-chief of Vietnamese Buddhism, the periodical of the Unified Vietnam Buddhist Association ( Giáo Hội Phật Giáo Việt Nam Thống Nhất ).

In 1956, a ceremony was held at the temple by the Shanghai Buddhist Association to celebrate the 2500th anniversary of Gautama Buddha's enlightenment.

* Buddhist Meditation ( 1956 & 1972 )

When the king undertook a period of service as a Buddhist monk in 1956 ( as is customary for all Thai Buddhist males ), Queen Sirikit became regent.

In 1956 the Buddhist Society moved to its present location at 58 Ecclestone Square in South West London.

Bandaranaike ; January 8, 1899 – September 26, 1959 ) was the fourth Prime Minister of Ceylon ( later Sri Lanka ), serving from 1956 until his assassination by a Buddhist monk in 1959.

His book Bhikshuvakage Urumaya ( Heritage of the Bhikkhu ) was a strong voice in the Buddhist Nationalist movement that led to the 1956 electoral victory of Solomon Bandaranaike.

The Trust had been established in 1956 for the purpose of establishing a suitable residence for the training of Buddhist monks in England.