A more complete list would also include Bradbury's `` The Pedestrian '' ( 1951 ), Philip K. Dick's Solar Lottery ( 1955 ), David Karp's One ( 1953 ), Wilson Tucker's The Long Loud Silence ( 1952 ), Jack Vance's To Live Forever ( 1956 ), Gore Vidal's Messiah ( 1954 ), and Bernard Wolfe's Limbo ( 1952 ), as well as the three perhaps most outstanding dystopias, Frederik Pohl and C. M. Kornbluth's The Space Merchants ( 1953 ), Kurt Vonnegut's Player Piano ( 1952 ), and John Wyndham's Re-Birth ( 1953 ), works which we will later examine in detail.

* 1956 – David Grant, English singer ( Linx )

* 1956 – David McDowell Brown, American astronaut ( d. 2003 )

* 1891 – David Shimoni, Russian-Israeli poet and writer ( d. 1956 )

* Hubbard, David ( 1956 ) The Literary Sources of the Kebra Nagast Ph. D.

* 1956 – Chin Peng, David Marshall and Tunku Abdul Rahman meet in Baling to try and resolve the Malayan Emergency situation.

* 1956 – David Sedaris, American essayist

* 1956 – David Shimoni, Israeli poet and writer ( b. 1891 )

* David Sedaris ( born 1956 ), author of Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk

* 1956 – David Caruso, American actor

She married fantasy writer David Mason ( 1924-1974 ) in 1956.

* 1956 – David Rhodes, English guitarist, songwriter, and composer

* 2008 – G. David Low, American astronaut ( b. 1956 )

* David Mach ( born 1956 ), Scottish artist

* 1956 – David Stergakos, Greek-American basketball player

* 1956 – David Copperfield, American magician

* 1956 – Peter David, American author

: Hubbard, David “ The Literary Sources of the Kebra Nagast ” Ph. D. dissertation St Andrews University, Scotland, 1956

* In the 1956 film Around the World in Eighty Days, starring David Niven, Passepartout ( played by Cantinflas ) rescues a princess captured by the Thuggee and sentenced to burn to death in the funeral pyre with her deceased husband.

* August 25 – David Shimoni, Russian-born Israeli poet and writer ( d. 1956 )

The idea seems to have originated in a spoof history essay by Professor David Daube written for The Oxford Magazine in 1956, which was widely believed despite obvious improbabilities ( e. g., planning to cross River Severn by running the ram down a hill at speed, although the river is about 30 m ( 100 feet ) wide at this point ).

The suggestion that Humpty Dumpty was a " tortoise " siege engine, an armoured frame, used unsuccessfully to approach the walls of the Parliamentary held city of Gloucester in 1643 during the Siege of Gloucester in the English Civil War, was put forward in 1956 by Professor David Daube in The Oxford Magazine of February 16, 1956, on the basis of a contemporary account of the attack, but without evidence that the rhyme was connected.

* Golland, David Hamilton, " Constructing Affirmative Action: Federal Contract Compliance and the Building Construction Trades, 1956 – 1973 " ( PhD dissertation City University of New York, 2008 ).

* David Copperfield ( illusionist ) ( born 1956 ), American illusionist and stage magician

Hambardzumyan was awarded Gold Medals of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific ( 1959 ) and British Royal Astronomical Societies ( 1960 ), Gold Medal of Slovak Academy of Science ( 1970 ), Prix Jules Janssen of the French Astronomical Society ( 1956 ), Helmgolz Medal of German Academy of Science in Berlin ( 1971 ), Cotenius Medal of the German Academy of Sciece (“ Leopoldina ”) in Halle ( DRG ) ( 1974 ), Medal of the Czechoslovak Academy of Science ( 1984 ).

It was discovered at Janssen Pharmaceutica in 1956.

In 1956, he and Peter Breck appeared in John Bromfield's syndicated series Sheriff of Cochise in the episode " The Turkey Farmers ".

He made his first television appearance in 1954 and appeared in two films featuring James Dean, Rebel Without a Cause ( 1955 ) and Giant ( 1956 ).

The first manual for FORTRAN appeared in October 1956, with the first FORTRAN compiler delivered in April 1957.

" During Kurtzman's final two-plus years at EC, Mad appeared erratically ( ten issues appeared in 1954, followed by eight issues in 1955 and four issues in 1956 ).

In the same year he also appeared in Lady Godiva Rides Again and The Galloping Major ; in 1956 he had a non-comic supporting role as a journalist in the science-fiction film Quatermass 2.

The character was created by Romano Scarpa, and first appeared in a story published on February 10, 1956.

After October 1956 four books written by Gombrowicz appeared in Poland and they brought him great renown despite the fact that the authorities did not allow the publication of Dziennik ( Diary ).

The idea of a gas sculpture also appeared in the book Gog, by Giovanni Papini ( 1881 – 1956 ).

She appeared in several high-profile films from the 1950s to 1970s, including The Hucksters ( 1947 ), Show Boat ( 1951 ), The Snows of Kilimanjaro ( 1952 ), The Barefoot Contessa ( 1954 ), Bhowani Junction ( 1956 ), On the Beach ( 1959 ), Seven Days in May ( 1964 ), The Night of the Iguana ( 1964 ), The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean ( 1972 ), Earthquake ( 1974 ), and The Cassandra Crossing ( 1976 ).

After her role in RKO's Sudden Fear, Crawford appeared in films ranging from the camp western film Johnny Guitar ( 1954 ) to the drama Autumn Leaves ( 1956 ), opposite a young Cliff Robertson, a movie which showed Crawford in a great many kissing scenes which shocked some audiences.

In 1956 the group appeared in two of the earliest full-length rock and roll movies: Rock Around the Clock, and Don't Knock the Rock.

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.

This algorithm first appeared in Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society, pp. 48 – 50 in 1956, and was written by Joseph Kruskal.

In 1956, Lerner and Loewe's My Fair Lady first appeared.

His cartoons regularly appeared in The New Yorker, and he also created a syndicated comic strip, Out of This World, which ran in 1956.

From 1954 to 1960, she appeared in the television adaptations of Blithe Spirit in 1956 and The Bells of St. Mary's in 1959.

She appeared in many notable films in France during the 1950s, including Thérèse Raquin ( 1953 ), directed by Marcel Carné, Les Diaboliques ( 1954 ), and The Crucible ( Les Sorcières de Salem ; 1956 ), based on Arthur Miller's The Crucible.

On 4 October 1956, Garson appeared with Reginald Gardiner as the first two guest stars in the series premiere of NBC's The Ford Show, Starring Tennessee Ernie Ford.

Two stories by Hrabal ( Hovory lidí ) appeared in 1956 as a supplement in the annual Zprávy spolku českých bibliofilů ( Report of the Association of Czech Bibliophiles ).

Flynn starred in a 1956 anthology series The Errol Flynn Theatre that was filmed in England, where he presented the episodes and sometimes appeared in them.

Glomgold was created by Carl Barks and first appeared in The Second-Richest Duck, first published in September 1956.

In 1956 excavations at Isthmia by the University of Chicago under the direction of Oscar Broneer uncovered the small sanctuary of Palaimon, which eventually had a tiny Roman round temple in the Corinthian order, which appeared on coins of Corinth in the 2nd century CE ; it was the successor to two previous more modest architectural phases of the sanctuary.

* 1956 Gunsmoke ( appeared in various episodes )

* Shirley Bassey recorded the song in 1956 and it appeared on the B-side of her first single " Burn My Candle ( At Both Ends )" released on the Philips record label.