* 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

The term byte was coined by Dr. Werner Buchholz in July 1956, during the early design phase for the IBM Stretch computer.

* Lester Matthews ( 56 ) in The Adventures of Dr. Fu Manchu ( 1956 )

Prime Minister of the Gold Coast ( British colony ) | Gold Coast Dr. Kwame Nkrumah with Egyptian Egyptology | Egyptologist Pahor Labib at the Coptic Museum in Cairo, Egypt, in 1956.

Nine years later, in 1956, the school was renamed to Los Angeles Pierce College, retaining the name of its founder, Dr. Pierce, as well as his commitment to agricultural and veterinary study.

Jean Pierre Hersholt ( 12 July 1886 – 2 June 1956 ) was a Danish-born actor who lived in the United States, where he was a leading film and radio talent, best known for his 17 years starring on radio in Dr. Christian and for playing Shirley Temple's grandfather in Heidi.

In 1956, his Dr. Christian character made the transition to television, scripted by Gene Roddenberry, with Macdonald Carey as his nephew Dr. Mark Christian.

In 1956, years before being cast as Dr. McCoy, Kelley played a small supporting role as a medic in The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit in which he utters the diagnosis " This man's dead, Captain " and " That man is dead " to Gregory Peck.

In 1956, under the influence of Dr. Hans Erich Slany, Robert Bosch GmbH was one of the first companies to introduce a power tool housing made of glass filled nylon.

Trials began there in 1956 and were supervised by Dr. Edris Rice-Wray.

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.

Once more ( as with Live and Let Die and Dr. No ) it is Bond the British agent who has to sort out what turns out to be an American problem and this can be seen as Fleming's reaction to the lack of US support over the Suez Crisis in 1956 as well as Bond's warning to Goldfinger not to underestimate the English.

Mr. Galusha researched for L. Ron Hubbard during the 1950s, and was one of the founders of the first Church of Scientology in 1953. by Dr. Anastasius Nordenholz ( as opposed to Hubbard's Scientology: The Fundamentals of Thought, 1956 ), which they use as the basis of their challenge to Scientology's trademark claims.

Dr. Rudolf Ernst ( 1865 – 1956 )

* Dr Percy Tom Freeman, 1926 to 1956

In or around 1956, Dr. Hans Erich Slany worked with Bosch to design one of the first plastic power tools.

Dr. Alfred Kinsey was director of the institute from 1947 until his death in 1956.

* Warren, Dr. John C. USAF Historical Study 97: Airborne Operations in World War II, European Theater ( 1956 ).

Dr Robert Douglas McIntyre ( Gaelic: Raibeart Dùghlas Mac an t-Saoir ; 15 December 1913 – 2 February 1998 ) was the Leader of the Scottish National Party ( SNP ) from 1947 – 1956 and a doctor by profession.

Dr Walter Russell wrote of weather control in Atomic Suicide 1956.

The first prototype coupled FDR / CVR designed with civilian aircraft in mind, for explicit post-crash examination purposes, was produced in 1956 by Dr. David Warren of the Defence Science and Technology Organisation's Aeronautical Research Laboratories in Melbourne, Australia.

* Dr. Richard Elvee 1953 to 1956

In 1956, Dr. Hannes Lindemann crossed the Atlantic Ocean in an Aerius II, proof of the folding kayak's integrity and seaworthiness.

Cuiheng is home to Former Residence of Dr. Sun Yat-sen ( 孫中山故居 ) and the Sun Yat-sen Residence Memorial Museum ( 孫中山故居紀念館 ), which was built next to the residence in 1956.