** Clifford Brown, American jazz trumpeter ( d. 1956 )

Thomas Francis " Tommy " Dorsey, Jr. ( November 19, 1905-November 26, 1956 ) was an American jazz trombonist, trumpeter, composer, and bandleader of the Big Band era.

Lee Morgan, a leading trumpeter and composer, recorded prolifically from 1956 until a day before his death in February 1972.

Clifford Brown ( October 30, 1930 – June 26, 1956 ), aka " Brownie ," was an influential and highly rated American jazz trumpeter.

In 1956, trumpeter Herb Pomeroy joined the faculty, remaining until his retirement in 1996.

* Clifford Brown ( 1930 – 1956 ), trumpeter

In early 1956, saxophonist and bop fanatic Brian Brown returned from Europe and formed a new band with like-minded players — Speer, trumpeter Keith Hounslow, schoolboy pianist Dave Martin and bassist Barry Buckley.

* 1956 – Brian Backer, American actor

* 1956 – Brian Benben, American actor

* 1956 – Brian Sutter, Canadian ice hockey player

* 1956 – Brian Robertson, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist ( Thin Lizzy, Motörhead, and Wild Horses )

Montel Brian Anthony Williams ( born July 3, 1956 ) is an American television personality, radio talk show host and actor.

Brian Norton Baird ( born March 7, 1956 ) is a former U. S. Representative for, serving from 1999 until 2011.

The regiment's rugby league internationals include :- Brian Curry, England, 1956 ; Norman Field, GB, 1963 ; Roy Sabine, GB ; Jack Scroby, Army 1959, GB Halifax & Bradford Northern ; Charlie Renilson, Scotland, GB, 1965 and Arthur ' Ollie ' Keegan, GB.

Once Carnell took over, Science Fantasy typically ran a long lead novelette along with several shorter stories ; prominent contributors in the 1950s included John Brunner, Ken Bulmer, and Brian Aldiss, whose first novel Nonstop appeared ( in an early version ) in the February 1956 issue.

Brian Louis Allen Sutter ( born October 7, 1956 ) is a retired Canadian ice hockey forward and former head coach in the National Hockey League ( NHL ).

Brian Moriarty ( born 1956 ) is an American video game developer who authored three of the original Infocom interactive fiction titles, Wishbringer ( 1985 ), Trinity ( 1986 ) and Beyond Zork: The Coconut of Quendor ( 1987 ).

He climbed extensively in Scotland, ( making the first winter traverse of the Cuillin ridge with Hamish MacInnes, David Crabbe and Brian Robertson in 1965 ), as well as achieving notable ascents in the Alps and the Karakoram including the first ascent of the Muztagh Tower ( 7273m ) with John Hartog, Joe Brown and Ian McNaught-Davis in 1956 and Rakaposhi ( 7788m ) in 1958 with Mike Banks.

* Brian Dennehy, 1956, multiple Tony Award-winning actor

* Brian Kettle ( born 1956 ), English football player

Cotchford Farm, Hartfield was the home of A. A. Milne ( 1882 – 1956 ), author of the Winnie the Pooh books, from where many of his books are set ; later it was owned by Brian Jones the guitarist and founder of The Rolling Stones who was discovered dead in the pool in 1969.

* Garth Manton, Brian Doyle, Harold Hewitt Olympic bronze medallists Melbourne 1956.

The New Zealand politician Brian David Connell ( born 23 April 1956 ) represented the New Zealand National Party in the New Zealand Parliament from 2002 to 2008.

In 1956 the new discoveries were studied by Brian B. Shefton.

All Australians: 1953, 1956, 1958 & 1961: Jack Clarke, 1958: Alan Preen, 1958: Norm Rogers, 1958 & 1961: Ray Sorrell, 1979 & 1980: Brian Peake, 1979: Tony Buhagiar, 1983: Kevin Taylor, 1986: Peter Wilson

All Australians: ( 6 total ) 1953: Steve Marsh, 1956: John Gerovich & Cliff Hillier, 1961: John Todd, 1972: Brian Ciccotosto, 1983: Stephen Michael 1983

Thanks to the tireless efforts of people like club captain Brian Faeshe ( who ironically never got to play on the ground having retired in 1956 ), Cliff Semmler, Roy Charles, Cliff Todd and City of West Torrens Mayor Steve Hamra, The Bloods finally had a home ground to call their own.

The Golden Ocean is a novel written by Patrick O ' Brian, published in 1956.

Brian R. Sabean ( born July 1, 1956 ) is the Senior Vice President and General Manager of the San Francisco Giants, a Major League Baseball franchise.

* Brian Kelly ( Canadian football ) ( born 1956 ), Canadian football Hall of Famer

Founded in 1956, ( originally under the name " Leicestershire and Rutland Trust for Nature Conservation ") the trust now has 9, 000 members helping care for over 30 nature reserves covering more than across the region.

Rutland & Tokyo: Tuttle, 1956.

Any attempt to reconcile this statement of the central issue in the campaign of 1956 with the nature of the man who could not conceive it as the central issue will at least resolve our confusions about the chaotic and misleading results of the earnestness of both doctors and President in a situation which should never have arisen.

Chaplin, 71, who met K. when the Soviet boss visited England in 1956, confided that he hopes to visit Russia some time this summer because `` I have marveled at your grandiose experiment and I believe in your future ''.

* Lucy Irvine ( b. 1956 ), writer, lived very briefley in the Summer Isles Hotel with her father, who owned it and the Hydroponicum.

It was at the Watkinson library that Whorf became friends with the young boy, John B. Carroll, who later went on to study psychology under B. F. Skinner, and who in 1956 edited and published a selection of Whorf's essays as Language, Thought and Reality.

From 1947 through 1956, each BBWAA voter used discretion as to who qualified as a rookie.

Bernard Allan Federko ( born May 12, 1956 ) is a retired professional ice hockey centre who played fourteen seasons in the National Hockey League from 1976 through 1990.

The first large-scale trial evaluating the efficacy of BCG was conducted from 1956 to 1963, and involved 54, 239 school children who received BCG at the age of 14 or 15 ; this study showed an efficacy of 84 % up to five years after immunization.

Jo Grimond, for example, who became Liberal leader in 1956, was MP for the remote Orkney and Shetland islands.

The award was first introduced in 1956 by Baseball Commissioner Ford Frick in honor of Hall of Fame pitcher Cy Young, who died in 1955.

The Cy Young Award was first introduced in 1956 by Commissioner of Baseball Ford Frick in honor of Hall of Fame pitcher Cy Young, who died in 1955.

Carl Barks ( March 27, 1901 – August 25, 2000 ) was an American Disney Studio illustrator and comic book creator, who invented Duckburg and many of its inhabitants, such as Scrooge McDuck ( 1947 ), Gladstone Gander ( 1948 ), the Beagle Boys ( 1951 ), The Junior Woodchucks ( 1951 ), Gyro Gearloose ( 1952 ), Cornelius Coot ( 1952 ), Flintheart Glomgold ( 1956 ), John D. Rockerduck ( 1961 ) and Magica De Spell ( 1961 ).

Semyonov shared the Nobel Prize in 1956 with Sir Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, who independently developed many of the same quantitative concepts.

In 1956, Brubeck hired Joe Morello, who had been working with Marian McPartland ; Morello's presence made possible the rhythmic experiments that were to come.

Controversy surrounds Harold Macmillan, who met with Eisenhower on September 25, 1956, then relayed to Prime Minister Anthony Eden the false impression that Eisenhower promised to support an invasion.

Frederick Soddy ( 2 September 1877 – 22 September 1956 ) was an English radiochemist and monetary economist who explained, with Ernest Rutherford, that radioactivity is due to the transmutation of elements, now known to involve nuclear reactions.

Roger Ebert, who gave the film a mere one star in the Chicago Sun-Times, wrote :" The filmmakers must have known that the original Godzilla ( 1956 ) had many loyal fans all over the world who treasured the absurd dialogue, the bad lip-synching, the unbelievable special effects, the phony profundity.

In 1956, Geelong recruited Billy Goggin, Geelong's greatest rover, who also coached Geelong in the 1980s.

Harrison, a dual Australian Champion Beach Sprinter who went on to row in the coxless four at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics, had been introduced to rowing after a chance meeting with one of the fathers of modern athletic physiological training and testing, and the coach of the Leichhardt Guinea Pigs, Professor Frank Cotton.

* John Ford ( cricketer ) ( born 1934 ), English right-handed batsman and right-arm fast bowler who played for Gloucestershire Second XI between 1953 and 1956

* Joseph Smith ( aircraft designer ) ( 1897 – 1956 ), English aircraft designer who took over as Chief Designer for Supermarine

One very famous colonial officer in the Gilbert and Ellice Islands colony was Sir Arthur Grimble ( 1888 – 1956 ), at first as a cadet officer in 1914, under Edward Carlyon Eliot who was Resident Commissioner of the Gilbert & Ellice Islands colony from 1913 to 1920.

Amongst these measures included the universalization of old-age pensions for all Canadians aged seventy and above ( 1951 ), the introduction of old age assistance for needy Canadians aged sixty-five and above ( 1951 ), the introduction of allowances for the blind ( 1951 ) and the disabled ( 1954 ), amendments to the National Housing Act ( 1954 ) which provided federal government financing to non-profit organisations as well as the provinces for the renovation or construction of hostels or housing for students, the disabled, the elderly, and families on low incomes, and unemployment assistance ( 1956 ) for unemployed employables on welfare who had exhausted ( or did not qualify for ) unemployment insurance benefits.

Knight also wrote in 1956 that Max Weber was the only economist who dealt with the problem of understanding the emergence of modern capitalism " from the angle which alone can yield an answer to such questions, that is, the angle of comparative history in the broad sense.