* 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

* 1956 – Jerry Doyle, American actor

* 1956 – Jerry Douglas, American musician and producer ( The Country Gentlemen and Strength in Numbers )

The band's popularity in the United States began to wane in 1956 – 57 as sexier, wilder acts such as Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis and Little Richard began to dominate the record charts ( although Haley's cover version of Little Richard's " Rip It Up "-which was released in direct competition-actually outsold the original ).

The 2010 tribute Million Dollar Quartet is based on the famous photograph of Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash and Jerry Lee Lewis grouped round Elvis Presley at the piano, the night when the four joined in an impromptu jam at Sun Record's one-room sound studio, the " Million Dollar Quartet " of 4 December 1956.

* Jerry Pimm Men's Basketball Coach, MHS Class of 1956,

EBHS also became known for alumnus Jerry West ( nicknamed " Zeke from Cabin Creek "), who played basketball there, leading the Pioneers to a state championship in 1956.

In the mid-1950s, Charlton briefly published a Blue Beetle title with new and reprinted stories, and in 1956, several short-lived titles written by Superman co-creator Jerry Siegel, such as Mr. Muscles and Nature Boy ( the latter with artist Mastroserio ), and the Joe Gill-created Zaza the Mystic.

Mayfield's career began in 1956 when he joined The Roosters with Arthur and Richard Brooks and Jerry Butler.

Begun in 1956 by a group of thirty-five, including Jerry Falwell, Thomas Road now claims more than 24, 200 members.

* 1956: Damn Yankees – Book by George Abbott and Douglass Wallop, music by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross, based on the novel, The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant by Wallop

Jerry Falwell was affiliated with the Baptist Bible Fellowship International since his graduation from Baptist Bible College in Springfield Missouri in 1956, and later also affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention.

Jerry Faye Hall ( born July 2, 1956 ) is an American model and actress, also known for her long-term relationship with Mick Jagger and her four children with him.

Jerry Frieheim, a 1956 graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism, was the first executive director of the Newseum and claims to have coined the name.

Jerry Ross ( né Jerold Rosenberg March 9, 1926 – November 11, 1955 ) was an American lyricist and composer whose works with Richard Adler for the musical theater include The Pajama Game and Damn Yankees, winners of Tony Awards in 1955 and 1956 respectively in both the " Best Musical " and " Best Composer and Lyricist " categories.

In the 1956 Cinemascope Tom and Jerry cartoon, Blue Cat Blues, he was Jerry's voice who narrated the short ; he had also voiced Jerry's cousin Muscles in Jerry's Cousin five years earlier.

Unlike the modern style in which multiple sportscasters have an on-air conversation ( usually with one functioning as play-by-play announcer and the other ( s ) as color commentator ), Scully, and his broadcast partners Jerry Doggett ( 1956 – 1987 ) and Ross Porter ( 1977 – 2004 ) generally called games solo, trading with each other inning-by-inning.

* Jerry Doyle ( born 1956 ), American talk radio host

Born and raised in Southern California, Norton graduated from Fullerton Union High School in 1956 and played college football for head coach Skip Stahley at Idaho, alongside future pros Jerry Kramer, Wayne Walker, and Jim Prestel in the Pacific Coast Conference.

Hanna and Barbera served as writer / directors of the Tom and Jerry cartoons until 1956, when they also became the producers.

The success of the animated segment of Anchors Aweigh, which was noted as " stealing the show " in contemporary trade reviews, led to two more live-action / animated projects for Hanna and Barbera and MGM: an underwater ballet sequence featuring both Tom and Jerry in Esther Williams ' 1953 film Dangerous When Wet, and the " Sinbad the Sailor " sequence of Kelly's 1956 film Invitation to the Dance.

Around 1956, Harnick met Jerry Bock, forming " what is arguably the most important musical partnership of the ' 60s.

They were first given in 1956 under the direction of theater critic Jerry Tallmer.

Tom and Jerry also made guest appearances in several of MGM's live-action films, including Anchors Aweigh ( 1945 ) and Invitation to the Dance ( 1956 ) with Gene Kelly, and Dangerous When Wet ( 1953 ) with Esther Williams.

As a child living near the United States consulate in Salvador, capital of the state of Bahia he became fluent in the English language, and was introduced to early rock and roll records of artists like Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis and Elvis Presley through his contacts with American diplomats ' children around 1956.