* 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

As controls, other sections were similarly treated with Af or conjugated antiserum to the New York strain of potato yellow-dwarf virus ( Wolcyrz and Black, 1956 ).

Jazz Impressions of the USA ( 1956, Morello's debut with the group ), Jazz Impressions of Eurasia ( 1958 ), Jazz Impressions of Japan ( 1964 ), and Jazz Impressions of New York ( 1964 ) are less well-known albums, but all are brilliant examples of the quartet's studio work, and they produced Brubeck standards such as " Summer Song ," " Brandenburg Gate ," " Koto Song ," and " Theme From Mr. Broadway.

In 1956, after the 1954 closing of the U. S. immigration station, the then Mayor of Jersey City, Bernard J. Berry, commandeered a U. S. Coast Guard cutter and led a contingent of New Jersey officials on an expedition to claim the island.

* 1956 – Peter Hook, English bassist ( Joy Division and New Order )

* 1956 – Vincent Ward, New Zealand director and screenwriter

Brooks joined IBM in 1956, working in Poughkeepsie, New York and Yorktown, New York.

* The expression of the " Gnomes of Zürich ", Swiss bankers pictured as diminutive creatures hoarding gold in subterranean vaults, was coined in 1956 by Harold Wilson and gained currency in the 1960s ( OED notes the New Statesman issue of 27 November 1964 as earliest attestation ).

Encyclopædia Britannicas 1956 article on " New York ( City )" ( subheading " Greenwich Village ") states that the southern border of the Village is Spring Street, reflecting an earlier understanding ( today, Spring Street might be considered the southern boundary of the neighborhood sometimes called the South Village, though some cite Canal Street as the furthest extent of the South Village ).

New York: McGraw-Hill, 1956.

* 1956 – A Venezuelan Super-Constellation crashes in the Atlantic Ocean off Asbury Park, New Jersey, killing 74 people.

In 1956, Reno enrolled at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, where she majored in chemistry, became president of the Women's Self-Government Association, and earned her room and board.

In December 1956, the year of his death, he was given a memorial retrospective exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art ( MoMA ) in New York City, and a larger more comprehensive exhibition there in 1967.

In 1956 Philby began an affair with Eleanor Brewer, the wife of New York Times correspondent Sam Pope Brewer.

Old Bullion Benton: Senator From the New West ( 1956 )

Kathleen Dee-Anne Stark, better known as Koo Stark ( born April 26, 1956 in New York City ), is an American film actress and photographer.

* 1956: Gigi, by Anita Loos, director Sir Peter Hall, New Theatre, London

The skyscraper, such as Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's Seagram Building in New York ( 1956 – 1958 ), became the archetypal modernist building.

* New Lives for Old: Cultural Transformation in Manus, 1928-1953 ( 1956 )

* 1956 – Mark Shaw, New Zealand rugby player

In 1956, during his fifth visit to the US, Baba stayed at New York's Hotel Delmonico before traveling to the Meher Center at Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.

* Ordine Nuovo ( New Order ) far-right Italian organization founded in 1956