* 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

She returned to Mexico in 1955, and filmed successful films like La Escondida ( 1955 ) with Pedro Armendariz, Tizoc ( 1956 ) with Pedro Infante and The Soldiers of Pancho Villa ( 1959 ) with Dolores del Rio.

Other film versions ( which are loose adaptations as opposed to straight translations from stage to screen ) include: the 1929 The Framing of the Shrew, directed by Arvid E. Gillstrom, and starring Edward Thompson and Evelyn Preer ; the 1933 You Made Me Love You, directed by Monty Banks, and starring Stanley Lupino and Thelma Todd ; the 1938 Second Best Bed, directed by Tom Walls, and starring Jane Baxter and Walls himself ; the 1942 Italian adaptation La bisbetica domata, directed by Ferdinando Maria Poggioli, and starring Amedeo Nazzari and Lilia Silvi ; the 1943 Hungarian adaptation Makacs Kata ( Stubborn Kate ) directed by Emil Martonffy, and starring Katalin Karády and Pál Jávor ; another 1943 Hungarian adaptation, Makrancos hölgy ( Unruly Lady ), directed by Viktor Bánky, and starring Emmi Buttykay and Miklós Hajmássy ; the 1948 Mexican adaptation Cartas marcadas, directed by René Cardona, and starring Marga López and Pedro Infante ; the 1956 Spanish adaptation La fierecilla domada, directed by Antonio Román, and starring Carmen Sevilla and Alberto Closas ; the 1962 Egyptian adaptation Ah min hawaa, directed by Fatin Abdel Wahab, and starring Lobna Abdel Aziz and Rushdy Abaza ; the 1963 western McLintock !, directed by Andrew McLaglen, and starring John Wayne and Maureen O ' Hara ; the 1999 teen film 10 Things I Hate About You, directed by Gil Junger, and starring Julia Stiles as Kat Stratford ( Katherina ) and Heath Ledger as Patrick Verona ( Petruchio ); the 2003 comedy Deliver Us from Eva, directed by Gary Hardwick, and starring Gabrielle Union and LL Cool J ; and the 2010 Bollywood film Isi Life Mein, directed by Vidhi Kasliwal, and starring Akshay Oberoi and Sandeepa Dhar.

# Infante Alfonso of Spain ( Alfonso Cristino Teresa Angelo Francisco de Asis y Todos los Santos ) ( 1941 – 1956 )

In 1956, Fujimori graduated high school from La gran unidad escolar Alfonso Ugarte in Lima

* Alfonso in Alfonso und Estrella ( 1956 )

For 1956 Hamilton partnered Alfonso de Portago in a Ferrari but again did not finish.

Alfonso Darío Pereyra Bueno ( born 19 October 1956 ) is a Uruguayan former football player.

Ricardo Alfonso Cerna ( c. 1956 – December 19, 2003 ) was a Guatemalan immigrant to the United States known for committing suicide in 2003 with a gun in an interrogation room in the San Bernardino County Sheriff's office in Muscoy, California.

* 1956, Grand Cross of the Civil Order of Alfonso X, the Wise.

* Alfonso Castillo – 1938-1940, 1956 – 1959

* 1956 – Spain relinquishes its protectorate in Morocco.

The abolition of the Spanish protectorate and the recognition of Moroccan independence by Spain were negotiated separately and made final in the Joint Declaration of April 1956.

Through this agreement with Spain in 1956 and another in 1958, Moroccan control over certain Spanish-ruled areas was restored, though attempts to claim other Spanish possessions through military action were less successful.

It was founded in 1956 ( except the Royal Navy founded in 1960 ) after Morocco's independence from France and Spain.

In 1956 Mervyn and Maeve visited Spain, financed by a friend who hoped that Peake's health, which was already declining, would be improved by the holiday.

* Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Morocco from France and Spain in 1956.

When Morocco became independent in 1956, it asked for the cession of Moroccan areas controlled by Spain.

During her young adulthood she took a number of short trips ( between 3 and 6 weeks ): to Wales and Southern England in 1951 ; to Belgium, Germany, and France in 1952 ; and two trips to Spain in 1954 and 1956.

When Spain relinquished its protectorate, and recognized Morocco's independence in 1956, it did not give up these minor territories, since Spain had held them well before the establishment of its protectorate.

At the Melbourne Olympics in 1956, the Soviet handling of the Hungarian uprising led to a boycott by Spain, the Netherlands and Switzerland.

The first television channel to go on air in Spain, it first broadcast on 28 October 1956.

Formerly designated as Sixteenth Air Force, the command was the first newly established Numbered Air Force ( NAF ) by the USAF after World War II, It was activated in 1954 as a Joint Military Group to provide command and control of USAF activities in Spain, being designated a NAF in 1956.

Born Millicent Vernon Hammond, she was the middle of three children born to renowned politician and later Ambassador to Spain, Ogden Haggerty Hammond ( October 13, 1869 – October 29, 1956 ) of Louisville, Kentucky and his first wife, Mary Picton Stevens ( May 16, 1885 – May 7, 1915 ) of Hoboken, New Jersey.

France was obliged to grant Morocco independence on March 2, 1956, leaving behind both a legacy of urbanization and industrial economy in some cities, and destruction and isolation in the areas that hosted the Berber resistance against France and Spain between 1912 and 1933.

General Ryan became director of materiel for the Strategic Air Command in June 1956, and four years later assumed command of SAC's Sixteenth Air Force in Spain.

The abolition of the Spanish protectorate and the recognition of Moroccan independence by Spain were negotiated separately and made final in the Joint Declaration of April 1956.

Through this agreements with Spain in 1956 and another in 1958, Moroccan control over certain Spanish-ruled areas was restored, though attempts to claim other Spanish possessions through military action were less successful.

Examples include Russia in 1905 and 1917, where councils were called " soviets "; Germany during 1918 ( Räte ); Turin, Italy during 1919-1920 ; rural Ireland during 1920-1921 ; China during 1926-1927 ; Spain during 1936 ; Hungary during 1919 and 1956 ; France during 1871 and 1968 ; Chile in 1973 ( cordones ); Iran during 1978-1979 ( shoras ); and from at the latest 2002 to the present in Venezuela.

But due to the colonisation era Spain took Larache in 1911 and held it for 45 years until 1956.

When Morocco became independent in 1956, it asked for the cession of Moroccan areas controlled by Spain.

Television was officially introduced in Spain in October 1956, and in October 1973 the two broadcasting networks, RNE and Televisión Española ( TVE — Spanish Television ) were consolidated into the Servicio Público Centralizado RadioTelevisión Española ( RTVE Centralised Public Service ).

The Spanish protectorate of Morocco ( Himayet Isbaniya fi Al-Maghreb ; ) was the area of Morocco under colonial rule by the Spanish Empire, established by the Treaty of Fez in 1912 and ending in 1956, when both France and Spain recognized Moroccan independence.