* 1956 – Lars von Trier, Danish director

* 1873 – Konstantin von Neurath, German diplomat and statesman ( d. 1956 )

Lars von Trier (; born Lars Trier ; 30 April 1956 ) is a Danish film director and screenwriter.

* 1876 – Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb, German field marshal ( d. 1956 )

* September 5 – Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb, German field marshal ( d. 1956 )

Through this system, designed by Wernher von Braun in 1956 for his proposed Project Orbiter, the Jupiter-C obviated the need for a guidance system in the upper stages.

This multi-stage system, designed by Wernher von Braun in 1956 for his proposed Project Orbiter, obviated the need for a guidance system in the upper stages, proving to be the simplest and most immediate method for putting a payload into orbit ; but as it had no upper-stage guidance, it could not inject the payload into a precise orbit.

On 20 September 1956, von Braun and his team did launch a Jupiter-C that was capable of putting a satellite into orbit, however the launch was used only as a suborbital test of nose cone reentry technology.

Had von Braun's team been allowed to orbit a satellite in 1956, the Space Race might have been over before it gained sufficient momentum to yield real benefits.

Hermann von Siemens ( August 9, 1885 – October 13, 1986 ) was a German industrialist who became head of the German electrical and electronics company Siemens AG in 1941 and served until 1956.

In February 1956, the Army Ballistic Missile Agency ( ABMA ) was established ; von Braun was the director of the Development Operations Division.

* 1956 – John von Neumann

It was established at Redstone Arsenal on February 1, 1956 and commanded by Major General John B. Medaris with Doctor Wernher von Braun.

* Marie-Antoinette reine de France ( 1956 ) as Comte Axel von Fersen

* Hermann von Siemens ( 1948 to 1956 )

* Ernst von Siemens ( 1956 to 1966 )

Konstantin Freiherr von Neurath ( 2 February 1873 – 14 August 1956 ) was a German diplomat remembered mostly for having served as Foreign minister of Germany between 1932 and 1938.

Other familiar titles are: Anzio by Edward Dmytryk, in 1968, his last Hollywood film appearance ; The North Star ( 1943 ), directed by Lewis Milestone with a script by playwright Lillian Hellman, with Erich von Stroheim ; Edge of Darkness ( 1943 ), also by Milestone, his first film role, where he played his first film German soldier role, opposite Judith Anderson ; Wilson ( 1944 ), where he played the German ambassador to Washington, D. C. during World War I, Count von Bernstorff ; The Cross of Lorraine ( 1943 ), with Gene Kelly ; The Hitler Gang, playing the Nazi official Alfred Rosenberg and Romanoff and Juliet ( 1961 ), written, directed and starring Peter Ustinov, and an Italian-American adaptation of Homer's Iliad, Helen of Troy ( 1956 ), directed by Robert Wise, with Rossanna Podesta, Jacques Sernas, and in two featured roles, Tonio Selwart playing opposite a then almost unknown Brigitte Bardot, in 1956.

* Ernst von Born ( 1955 – 1956 )

* Fünf Variationen über ein Thema von Franz Schubert ( Walzer cis-moll, D643 ) for piano ( 1956 )

Prandtl served Germany during World War II ; von Kármán and Qian served the United States ; after 1956, Qian served China.

The Lithuanian Opera Company of Chicago was founded by Lithuanian Chicagoans in 1956, and presents operas in Lithuanian.

Eisenhower founded People to People International in 1956, based on his belief that citizen interaction would promote cultural interaction and world peace.

The Eindhoven University of Technology was founded as the Technische Hogeschool Eindhoven ( THE ) on 23 June 1956 by the Dutch government.

The fight for independence began in 1956, when Amílcar Cabral founded the Partido Africano da Independência da Guiné e Cabo Verde (), the PAIGC.

In 1956, at age 22, Falwell founded the Thomas Road Baptist Church in Lynchburg, where he served as pastor.

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

* 1956 – Ravi Shankar, Indian spiritual leader, founded the Art of Living Foundation

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

* 1956 – Bernie Wagenblast, American publisher and editor, founded the Transportation Communications Newsletter

Alfred Charles Kinsey ( June 23, 1894 – August 25, 1956 ) was an American biologist, professor of entomology and zoology, and sexologist who in 1947 founded the Institute for Sex Research at Indiana University, now known as the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction.

Although the nationalist movement appeared less fervent in Cape Verde than in Portugal's other African holdings, the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde ( PAIGC, acronym for the Portuguese Partido Africano da Independência da Guiné e Cabo Verde ) was founded in 1956 by Amílcar Cabral and other pan-Africanists, and many Cape Verdeans fought for independence in Guinea-Bissau.

Halley Research Station was founded in 1956, for IGY, by an expedition from the Royal Society.

For reasons that are not entirely clear, virtually all of the Naskapis moved from Fort Chimo to the recently founded iron-ore mining community of Schefferville in 1956.

He founded the " Mondcivitan Republic ," Commonwealth of World Citizens, in 1956.

In 1952 he founded and led the Ordnance Engineering Corporation, selling the company to Aerojet General Corporation in 1956 and becoming Aerojet's Atlantic Division president.

* Archbishop John F. Noll ( 1875 – 1956 ), founded Our Sunday Visitor, the world's largest Catholic weekly newspaper.

Additionally, Bell Canada, the former Bell Telephone Company of Canada ( founded in 1880 ) and which started separating from the Bell System in 1956, and completely by 1975, continues to use the " Bell " trademarks, which it owns outright in Canada.

The modern organization was founded by Englishman Samuel Shenton in 1956 and was later led by Charles K. Johnson, who based the organization in his home in Lancaster, California.

The multi award-winning Theatre III was founded in 1956 when three organizations ( a local chorus, dance group, and dramatic troupe ) combined to present a show.

It was founded by Robert Lee Stowe Sr. ( 1866 – 1963 ), his brother Samuel Pinckney Stowe ( 1868 – 1956 ), and Abel Caleb Lineberger ( 1859 – 1948, son of Caleb John Lineberger, who had founded Gaston County's second textile mill, the Woodlawn, or " Pinhook ," Mill in Lowell, North Carolina in 1852 ).

In 1956, the Thornfield house was purchased by Caroline and Walter Isard, active Quakers who moved to the area when Walter founded the Regional Science department at the University of Pennsylvania.

Royal City was founded in 1956 and officially incorporated on February 14, 1962.

From 1948 to 1956, Silvestri taught at the Bucharest Conservatoire ( Conservatorul din Bucureşti ), where he founded its Conducting Department.