* 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

On November 2, 1956, he married actress Neile Adams, by whom he had a daughter, Terry Leslie ( June 5, 1959-March 19, 1998 ), and a son, Chad ( born December 28, 1960 ).

Leslie Cheung Kwok-wing ( 12 September 1956 – 1 April 2003 ), nicknamed " Gor Gor " ( 哥哥 ), which means elder brother, was a Hong Kong film actor and musician.

* Leslie Lynnton, the socialite played by Elizabeth Taylor in the 1956 film Giant

Mark Leslie Norton ( February 7, 1956 – April 5, 2007 ), better known as Mark St. John, was a guitarist known for his brief work with the rock band Kiss.

From his first marriage to Margaret ( m. 1956 – 1975 ), he has four children, including daughters Joy Bellisario-Jenkins ( born c. 1956 ) and Leslie Bellisario-Ingham ( born c. 1961 ), son David Bellisario who is a producer on NCIS: Los Angeles, and daughter Julie Bellisario Watson who is a producer on NCIS.

It was then adapted into a feature-length film of the same name in 1956, written by Richard Maibaum and Cyril Hume starring Glenn Ford, Donna Reed and Leslie Nielsen.

Sir Leslie Joseph and Charles Forte bought Belle Vue in 1956, but by 1963 Forte was in sole control.

He made his screen acting debut in Lost Boundaries ( 1949 ), and as a film actor is best remembered for his roles as the injured puppeteer in the musical Lili ( 1953, starring Leslie Caron ), as the villainous Marquis de Maynes in Scaramouche ( 1952 ) and as Prince Andrei in War and Peace ( 1956, co-starring with his then-wife, Audrey Hepburn ).

Two kinescoped episodes from 1956 exist in the J. Fred & Leslie W. MacDonald Collection of the Library of Congress.

* Come Wind, Come Weather, Leslie Lyall, Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1956

Leslie Frost commended his performance in 1956 by that stating that the success of Metro to date " has been very largely dependent upon your own personality.

The Flying Saucers ( Fred F. Sears, 1956 ), Edward L. Cahn ’ s Zombies of Mora Tau ( 1957 ), Leslie Kardos ’ The Man Who Turned to Stone ( 1957 ) and Sears ' Escape from San Quentin ( 1957 ) as " Raymond T. Marcus ", all of which were produced by Katzman.

Leslie Jones ( 1886-1967 ), was the famous photographer, who worked for Boston Herald-Traveler newspaper for 39 years from 1917 to 1956.

He then joined the likes of Muriel Young and Leslie Mitchell as an announcer at Associated-Rediffusion from February 1956 until the company, by then called " Rediffusion London ", lost its franchise in 1968.

With Leslie Nielsen in Forbidden Planet ( 1956 )

Edgar Leslie Bainton ( 14 February 18808 December 1956 ) was a British-born, latterly Australian-resident composer, most celebrated for his church music.

* 3 Leslie Brown, ( 1956 ) The Indian Christians of St. Thomas.