* Austin Osman Spare ( 1886 – 1956 ), English artist and magician

* 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

Doubting Sebastian's chance of success, they make a wager: If Kathryn wins, she gets Sebastian's vintage 1956 Jaguar XK140 roadster ; if Sebastian wins, Kathryn will allow him to " put it anywhere " ( an oblique reference to anal sex ).

Sebastian Newbold Coe, Baron Coe, KBE ( born 29 September 1956 ), often known as Seb Coe, and formally styled Rt.

* 1890 – Nina Hamnett, Welsh artist ( d. 1956 )

* Hermann Josef Hack ( born 1956 ), German artist

* John Zerunge Young ( born 1956 ), Hong Kong-born Australian artist

* 1956 – Yoshiaki Yatsu, Japanese wrestler and mixed martial artist

* David Mach ( born 1956 ), Scottish artist

* 1956 – Tom Greenhalgh, multimedia artist and singer-songwriter known for his work with the Mekons

A. Rolfe, American musician known as " The Boy Trumpet Wonder ", bandleader, recording artist, radio personality and film producer ( d. 1956 )

A British Pathe News film of 1956 shows artist Michael Farrar-Bell at work producing inn signs.

* December 30 – Austin Osman Spare, English artist and magician ( d. 1956 )

* Jowe Head, ( born Joe Hendon in Kidderminster in 1956 ) bass guitarist, singer and visual artist was a member of Swell Maps before joining the Television Personalities.

Bert Geer Phillips ( 15 July 1868 – 16 June 1956 ) was an American artist and a founding member of the Taos Society of Artists.

* Oz Almog ( born 1956 ), an Israeli – Austrian artist

Glomgold was originally created in 1956 by the legendary Scrooge McDuck artist and creator Carl Barks, the creator of much of the Duck universe.

In 1956, Blue Note employed Reid Miles, an artist who worked for Esquire magazine.

In 1956, he began to tour Europe and America playing Indian classical music and increased its popularity there in the 1960s through teaching, performance, and his association with violinist Yehudi Menuhin and rock artist George Harrison of The Beatles.

* Alison Saar ( born 1956 ), American artist

Paul Jackson Pollock ( January 28, 1912 – August 11, 1956 ), known as Jackson Pollock, was a major figure in the abstract expressionist movement, and Canadian artist Jean-Paul Riopelle helped introduce Abstract Impressionism to Paris in the 1950s.

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.

During the 1950s, Bogarde came to prominence playing a hoodlum who shoots and kills a police constable in The Blue Lamp ( 1950 ) co-starring Jack Warner and Bernard Lee ; a handsome artist who comes to rescue of Jean Simmons during the World's Fair in Paris in So Long at the Fair, a film noir thriller ; an accidental murderer who befriends a young boy played by Jon Whiteley in Hunted ( aka The Stranger in Between ) ( 1952 ); in Appointment in London ( 1953 ) as a young Wing-Commander in Bomber Command who, against orders, opts to fly his 90th mission with his men in a major air offensive against the Germans ; an unjustly imprisoned man who regains hope in clearing his name when he learns his sweetheart, Mai Zetterling, is still alive in Desperate Moment ( 1953 ); Doctor in the House ( 1954 ), as a medical student, in a film that made Bogarde one of the most popular British stars of the 1950s, and co-starring Kenneth More, Donald Sinden and James Robertson Justice as their crabby mentor ; The Sleeping Tiger ( 1954 ), playing a neurotic criminal with co-star Alexis Smith, and Bogarde's first film for American expatriate director Joseph Losey ; Doctor at Sea ( 1955 ), co-starring Brigitte Bardot in one of her first film roles ; as a returning Colonial who fights the Mau-Mau with Virginia McKenna and Donald Sinden in Simba ( 1955 ); Cast a Dark Shadow ( 1955 ), as a man who marries women for money and then murders them ; The Spanish Gardener ( 1956 ), co-starring Michael Hordern, Jon Whiteley, and Cyril Cusack ; Doctor at Large ( 1957 ), again with Donald Sinden, another entry in the " Doctor films series ", co-starring later Bond-girl Shirley Eaton ; the Powell and Pressburger production Ill Met by Moonlight ( 1957 ) co-starring Marius Goring as the German General Kreipe, kidnapped on Crete by Patrick " Paddy " Leigh Fermor ( Bogarde ) and a fellow band of adventurers based on W. Stanley Moss ' real-life account of the WW2 caper ; A Tale of Two Cities ( 1958 ), a faithful retelling of Charles Dickens ' classic ; as a Flt.

King was succeeded by his former assistants, with Bill Perry taking responsibility for Sunday strips in 1951 and Dick Moores, first hired in 1956, becoming sole writer and artist for the daily strip in 1959.

Previously, the highest number of concurrent singles by one artist on the Hot 100 was nine by Elvis Presley, December 19, 1956.

In 1956 he left art school to visit his mother in Mexico and he stayed there eight months, after which he returned to work full-time as an artist.

From 1956 until " My Eyes Adored You " in 1975, records which the Four Seasons recorded had the following artist credit ( a sampling ):