* 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

* Whitelock, Dorothy, Review of The Witenagemot in the Reign of Edward the Confessor by Tryggvi J. Oleson, The English Historical Review 71 ( 1956 ): 640-42.

Sutherland was born in Saint John, New Brunswick, the son of Dorothy Isobel ( née McNichol ; 1892 – 1956 ) and Frederick McLea Sutherland ( 1894 – 1983 ), who worked in sales and ran the local gas, electricity, and bus company.

From 1956 to 1963 he was married to British actress Dorothy Bromiley ; they had a son, Joshua Losey, an actor.

RCA-owned NBC first used it on The Jonathan Winters Show on October 23, 1956, when a pre-recorded song sequence by Dorothy Collins in color was included in the otherwise live television program.

Over the next 13 years George and Barbara Bush had six children: George W. Bush ( born July 6, 1946 ), Pauline Robinson Bush ( December 20, 1949 – October 11, 1953, died of leukemia ), John Ellis " Jeb " Bush ( born February 11, 1953 ), Neil Mallon Bush ( born January 22, 1955 ), Marvin Pierce Bush ( born October 22, 1956 ), and Dorothy Bush Koch ( born August 18, 1959 ).

Dorothy Cross ( born 1956 ) is an artist born in Cork, Ireland.

In 1956 his Your Most Enchanted Listener was published ; in 1972, his Living With Change: The Semantics of Coping, a collection of selected portions of transcriptions of hundreds of his talks, organized by Dorothy Moeller, provided further general semantic insights.

Marvin Pierce Bush ( born October 22, 1956 ) is the youngest son of U. S. President George H. W. Bush and Barbara Pierce, and brother of President George W. Bush, John ( Jeb ), Neil and Dorothy.

In 1909 he married Dorothy Garnett ( 1885 – 1956 ), daughter of the mathematician and physicist William Garnett.

* 1956: Tasmania gets first woman mayor, Dorothy Edwards of Launceston

Wellington married Dorothy Violet Ashton ( 21 August 1885 – 11 July 1956 ) on 30 April 1914 ; they separated in 1922.

Dorothy Violet Wellesley, Duchess of Wellington ( 30 July 1889 – 11 July 1956 ), styled Lady Gerald Wellesley between 1914 and 1943, was an English socialite, author, poet, and literary editor.

Dorothy and Johnny had a third child together, Kathy Jo, born in December 1956.

The original producer of the series was Dennis Vance, who was in charge for the series ' first two years, and the early years drew heavily on North American sources including the first play, The Outsider, a medical drama adapted from a stage play by Dorothy Brandon, which was transmitted live on 8 July 1956 from ABC's northern studios in Didsbury, Manchester.

After his death ( March 22, 1956, Cambridge, Massachusetts ) a representative selection of his papers was edited by Dorothy Stimson and published by Harvard University Press in 1962.

Lynn was then married in 1956 to Mortimer Hall, son of New York Post newspaper publisher Dorothy Schiff.

Cowan was married twice: first to Dorothy Jones in 1945 and then, after they divorced, to Rose Amy Cooper in 1956.

* Dorothy Olsen ( the Singing Schoolteacher ), " Frog Went A-Courtin '" ( children's record, RCA / Bluebird WBY-54 )( 1956 )

* 1956: Dorothy D. Houghton ( USA ) and Gerrit Jan van Heuven Goedhart ( posthumously ) ( Netherlands )

The first, A Kiss Before Dying, was a 1956 film starring Robert Wagner as Bud Corliss, Virginia Leith as Ellen Kingship, Joanne Woodward as Dorothy (' Dorie ') Kingship, and Mary Astor as Mrs. Corliss.

WAOK was acquired by The Atlanta OK Broadcasting Company ( Stan Raymond, Zenas Sears, and Dorothy Lester each one third owners ) in January 1956.

Dorothy Napangardi ( born circa 1952 ?/ 1956?

Dorothy Napangardi is an Indigenous Australian, born circa 1952 or 1956. grew up in the settlement town of Yuendumu, where her father is still a senior lawgiver.