* 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

Until Daniel Schacter published Forgotten Ideas, Neglected Pioneers: Richard Semon and the Story of Memory in 2000, Semon's work had little influence, though it was quoted extensively in Erwin Schrödinger's prescient 1956 Tarner Lecture " Mind and Matter ".

* 1956 – Beth Daniel, American golfer

Daniel " Danny " Boyle ( born 20 October 1956 ) is an English film director and producer, best known for his work on films such as Slumdog Millionaire, Shallow Grave, 127 Hours, 28 Days Later, Sunshine and Trainspotting.

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On February 15, 1850 Governor Daniel Haines and the New Jersey Legislature separated Ocean County from Monmouth County, and created Brick Township, including the Point Pleasant area, which became independent of Brick Township in 1920, though the post office carried the designation " West Point Pleasant " until 1956.

* Daniel Boone, Trail Blazer ( 1956 )

They married in 1956, and their son, Daniel, was born in 1958.

Their son, Daniel, was born in 1956.

* Beth Daniel ( b. 1956 ), American golfer

William Daniel " Danny " Hillis ( born September 25, 1956, in Baltimore, Maryland ) is an American inventor, scientist, engineer, entrepreneur, and author.

In 1956, Yarborough made it to the primary runoff for governor against U. S. Senator Price Daniel.

He wrote music for the theater, film, ballet and orchestra, but his greatest fame is associated with his operas The Devil and Daniel Webster ( 1938 ) and The Ballad of Baby Doe ( 1956 ).

He was awarded the Academy's Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal in 1956.

* Bob le flambeur, from Jean-Pierre Melville, with Isabelle Corey, Daniel Cauchy, Roger Duchesne, 1956

O ' Daniel refused to run for another term in 1948, but ran for governor of Texas in 1956 and 1958 and claimed that the Brown v. Board of Education decision was part of a communist conspiracy.

* Hollis, Daniel Walker, ( 1956 ) University of South Carolina Volume II College to University Columbia: University of South Carolina Press

Opposed to desegregation efforts, Senator Price Daniel joined 19 other Senators and 77 members of the United States House of Representatives in signing the 1956 Southern Manifesto, which condemned the 1954 United States Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education, and encouraged states to resist implementing it.

Then U. S. Senator Daniel was elected governor in 1956.

Brewster had two sons, Daniel Baugh Brewster, Jr. ( 1956 ) and Gerry Leiper Brewster ( 1958 ) from his first marriage to Carol Lieper DeHavenon of Philadelphia.

In 1946 and 1956 respectively, the brewery purchased the Bury Brewing Company and the Preston Brewery Company and in 1966 the Eanam Brewery was extended and renamed Daniel Thwaites ‘ The Star Brewery ’.

Like Shivers and Daniel, Blakley was an " Eisenhower Democrat " who had supported Dwight Eisenhower over the national Democratic Party candidate Adlai Stevenson in 1952 and 1956.

Daniel Swarovski ( 1862 – 1956 ), the founder of the company

Daniel Swarovski ( October 24, 1862 – January 23, 1956 ), formerly Daniel Swartz, was born in northern Bohemia ( now the Czech Republic ).