* November 6 – André Marty, French Communist Party leader ( d. 1956 )

John Rewald, an art historian focused on the birth of Modern art, wrote a series of books about the Post-Impressionist period, including Post-Impressionism: From Van Gogh to Gauguin ( 1956 ) and an essay, Paul Gauguin: Letters to Ambroise Vollard and André Fontainas ( included in Rewald's Studies in Post-Impressionism, 1986 ), discusses Gauguin's years in Tahiti, and the struggles of his survival as seen through correspondence with the art dealer Vollard and others.

Ewald André Dupont ( 25 December 1891, Zeitz, Saxony, Germany – 12 December 1956, Hollywood ) was a German film director, one of the founders of the German film industry.

When the Vienna Philharmonic made their first tour to the USA in 1956, Schuricht replaced Erich Kleiber, sharing the conducting during the six-weeks with André Cluytens.

However, the name Upper Normandy existed prior to 1956 and referred by tradition to territories currently included within the administrative region: the Pays de Caux, the Pays de Bray ( not that of Picardy ), the Roumois, the Campagne of Le Neubourg, the Plaine de Saint André and the Norman Vexin.

* 1956 — Constant, Bart van der Leck, Piet Mondriaan, André Volten

The Curie Museum, the guardian of this institutional heritage, houses Marie Curie ’ s personal chemistry laboratory and the director's office, which was successively occupied by Marie Curie from 1914 to 1934, by André Debierne until 1946, by Irène Joliot-Curie up to 1956, and lastly by Frédéric Joliot.

* Deutsch, André and Louis Hagen: The Schellenberg Memoirs ( André Deutsch, 1956 )

According to Pierre Cartier, the word scheme was first used in the 1956 Chevalley Seminar, in which Chevalley was pursuing Zariski's ideas ; and it was André Martineau who suggested to Serre the move to the current spectrum of a ring in general.

* Plays André Hodeir ( Philips, 1956 )

On 25 June 1956, Pierre Plantard and André Bonhomme legally registered in the town of St Julien-en-Genevois a new association called the Priory of Sion, based in Annemasse close to the French border near Geneva.

Lille's most successful period was the decade from 1946 – 1956 when the team was led by managers George Berry and André Cheuva.

André Desmarais, OC, OQ, BA, LLD ( born October 26, 1956, in Ottawa, Ontario ) is a Canadian businessman, whose hometown is Montreal, Quebec.

There, he met and married Mary Schaefer ( 1926 – 2006 ) in 1949 and had four children, Michel ( 1950-), André ( 1951-), Pierre ( 1956 – 2005 ) and Marie ( 1959-), and now, 5 grandchildren.

The Citroën Prototype C was a range of vehicles created by Citroën from 1955 to 1956 under the direction of André Lefèbvre.

He was a co-recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1956 with André Cournand and Werner Forssmann for the development of cardiac catheterization and the characterisation of a number of cardiac diseases.

For this work, André Cournand and Werner Forssmann, were awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for 1956.

Paul-Marie Coûteaux ( born 31 July 1956 in Paris ) is the son of André Couteaux and a French politician, writer, and former Member of the European Parliament for Ile-de-France with the Mouvement pour la France, Member of the Bureau of the Independence and Democracy and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Foreign Affairs.

* Ewald André Dupont ( 1891 – 1956 ), German movie director

* 1956: Le Père, André Perrin ( Julliard )

After the 1956 Uprising in Hungary, he moved to Vienna and then to Paris, where he studied with André Martinet and Joseph Tubiana.

* Mezcala, Ancient Mexican Sculpture, with William Spratling & André Emmerich, 1956

) Even though his films were hailed at the time by some critics, including French critic André Bazin, who praised the first, Seven Men from Now ( 1956 ), as an " exemplary Western ", they were largely forgotten until a new generation of scholars and critics championed them in the 1970s.

* 1956 – Frédéric Dutoit, French politician

Irène Joliot-Curie ( 12 September 1897-17 March 1956 ) was a French scientist, the daughter of Marie Skłodowska-Curie and Pierre Curie and the wife of Frédéric Joliot-Curie.

Werner Theodor Otto Forßmann ( 29 August 1904 – 1 June 1979 ) was a physician from Germany who shared the 1956 Nobel Prize in Medicine ( with Andre Cournand and Dickinson Richards ) for developing a procedure that allowed for cardiac catheterization.

In 1956, the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to Cournand, Richards, and Forßmann.

Gilberte Cournand, Paris 1956

For their work in the discovery of cardiac catheterization and hemodynamic measurements, Cournand, Forssmann, and Richards shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1956.

* 1940: The world's first cardiopulmonary laboratory is established at Bellevue by Andre Cournand and Dickinson Richards, who win the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1956.

The term byte was coined by Dr. Werner Buchholz in July 1956, during the early design phase for the IBM Stretch computer.

* J. Werner, Beiträge zur Archäologie des Attila-Reiches ( 1956 ).

The studies by Werner Betz ( 1949, 1939 ), Einar Haugen ( 1950, also 1956 ), and Uriel Weinreich ( 1953 ) are regarded as the classical theoretical works on loan influence.

Sitzender Junge (" Sitting boy ") by Werner Stötzer, 1956

* Sheppard E. W. Coote Bahadur: A Life of Lieutenant-General Sir Eyre Coote, KB Werner Laurie 1956

Later recipients include Arthur Compton ( 1954 ), Hermann Hesse ( 1954 ), Albert Schweitzer ( 1954 ), Thomas Mann ( 1955 ), Oskar Kokoschka ( 1955 ), Carl Orff ( 1956 ), Erwin Schrödinger ( 1956 ), Thornton Wilder ( 1956 ), Karl Schmidt-Rottluff ( 1956 ), Werner Heisenberg ( 1957 ), Gerhard Ritter ( 1957 ), Ludwig Mies van der Rohe ( 1957 ), Percy Ernst Schramm ( 1958 ), Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker ( 1961 ), Karl Jaspers ( 1964 ), Otto Klemperer ( 1967 ), Carl Zuckmayer ( 1967 ), Henry Moore ( 1972 ), Raymond Aron ( 1973 ), George F. Kennan ( 1976 ), Friedrich Hayek ( 1977 ), Karl Popper ( 1980 ), Eugène Ionesco ( 1983 ), Hans Bethe ( 1984 ), Gordon A. Craig ( 1990 ), Rudolf Mößbauer ( 1996 ), Umberto Eco ( 1998 ), Hans Magnus Enzensberger ( 1999 ), and Wim Wenders ( 2005 ).

Werner Forssmann received his 1956 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his experiments with cathetering his own heart, made in Eberswalde in 1929.

* Werner Forßmann ( 1904 – 1979 ), physician, Nobel Prize for medicine in 1956

The last category occurs in Stockhausen's electronic music for the first time in Gesang der Jünglinge, and originates in the course of studies Stockhausen took between 1954 and 1956 with Werner Meyer-Eppler at the University of Bonn.

From the Nobel Prize in Medicine acceptance speech given by Werner Forssmann in 1956:

* Sombart, Werner ( 1956 ): Noo-Soziologie.

* J. Werner, Beiträge zur Archäologie des Attila-Reiches ( 1956 ).

He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1956 along with Werner Forssmann and Dickinson W. Richards for the development of cardiac catheterization.

* 1951 – 1956: Werner Dankwort

A West German film adaptation The Beggar Student was directed by Werner Jacobs in 1956.

* 1956 – Reinhold Schneider ( Werner Bergengruen )