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This article is about the year 1956. For the 2000 album by Soul-Junk, see
1956 (album).
Clockwise, from top left:
Elvis Presley becomes the leading figure of the newly popular music genre of rock and roll; Illustration of the
1956 Grand Canyon mid-air collision ; A reel of 2-inch
quadruplex videotape compared with a later
miniDV videocassette.; Smoke rises from oil tanks on Port Said following the invasion of Egypt by Israel, United Kingdom and France as part of the
Suez Crisis ;
Ron Clarke carrying the Olympic Torch during
1956 Summer Olympics opening ceremony; Seawall being repaired after
Typhoon Wanda ; people protesting in the
1956 Poznań protests ;
Hungarian Revolution of 1956
Calendar year
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1956 .
1956 (
MCMLVI ) was a
leap year starting on Sunday of the
Gregorian calendar , the 1956th year of the
Common Era (CE) and
Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 956th year of the
2nd millennium , the 56th year of the
20th century , and the 7th year of the
1950s decade.
Calendar year
Events
January
February
March
March 1 – The
International Air Transport Association finalizes a draft of the
radiotelephony spelling alphabet , for the
International Civil Aviation Organization .
March 2 –
Morocco declares its independence from France.
[3]
March 9
March 10 – The
Fairey Delta 2 breaks the World Air Speed Record, raising it to 1,132 mph (1,822 km/h) or Mach 1.73, an increase of some 300 mph (480 km/h) over the previous record, and thus becoming the first aircraft to exceed 1,000 mph (1,600 km/h) in level flight.
March 11 – After having opened in London the previous year,
Laurence Olivier 's film,
Richard III , adapted from
Shakespeare 's play, has its U.S. premiere in theatres and on
NBC -TV on the same day. On television it is not shown in prime time, but as an afternoon
matinée , in a slightly cut version, one of the first such experiments. Olivier is later nominated for an
Oscar for his performance.
March 12 – 96
U.S. Congressmen sign the
Southern Manifesto , a protest against the 1954
Supreme Court ruling (
Brown v. Board of Education ) that
desegregated public education.
March 13 –
Elvis Presley releases his first
gold album titled
Elvis Presley in the United States.
March 15 – The
Broadway musical
My Fair Lady opens in New York City.
March 19 – At age 48, Dutch
boxer
Bep van Klaveren contests his last match in
Rotterdam .
March 20 –
Tunisia gains independence from France.
March 21 – The
28th Academy Awards Ceremony is held in Los Angeles.
Marty is awarded
Best Picture .
March 23 –
Pakistan becomes the first
Islamic republic , and a
national holiday is observed in the country, including the state of
East Pakistan .
April
A reel of 2-inch
quadruplex videotape compared with a later
miniDV videocassette.
May
June
June 1 –
Vyacheslav Molotov resigns as foreign minister of the
Soviet Union ; he later becomes
ambassador to
Mongolia .
June 4 –
Montgomery bus boycott : The related civil suit
[5] is heard in federal district court; the U.S. Supreme Court will uphold the ruling in November.
June 5
June 6 – In
Singapore , chief minister
David Marshall resigns, after the breakdown of talks about internal self-government in London.
June 8 –
General Electric /Telechron introduces model 7H241 "The Snooz Alarm", the first snooze
alarm clock ever.
[6]
June 10 –
1956 Summer Olympics :
Equestrian events open in
Stockholm ,
Sweden (all other events are held in November in
Melbourne , Australia).
June 13
June 14 – The
Flag of the United States Army is formally dedicated.
[7]
June 15 –
Eindhoven University of Technology is founded in
Eindhoven , The Netherlands.
June 18 – The last British troops leave
Egypt .
June 21 – Playwright
Arthur Miller appears before the
House Un-American Activities Committee in
Washington, D.C.
June 23 –
Gamal Abdel Nasser becomes the 2nd president of
Egypt , a post he holds until his death in
1970 .
June 28
Poznań 1956 protests : Labour riots in
Poznań , Poland, are crushed with heavy loss of life.
Soviet troops fire at a crowd protesting high prices, killing 53 people.
The film version of
Rodgers and Hammerstein 's
The King and I , starring
Deborah Kerr and
Yul Brynner , is released only a few months after the film version of R&H's Carousel . It becomes the most financially successful film version of a Rodgers and Hammerstein musical up to this time, and the only one to win an acting Oscar (Yul Brynner wins Best Actor for his performance as the King of Siam). It is also one of two Rodgers and Hammerstein films to be nominated for Best Picture (which it does not win).
June 29
June 30 –
1956 Grand Canyon mid-air collision : A
TWA
Lockheed Constellation and
United Airlines
Douglas DC-7 collide in mid-air over the
Grand Canyon in
Arizona , killing all 128 people aboard both aircraft, in the deadliest civil
aviation disaster to date; the accident leads to sweeping changes in the regulation of cross-country flight and
air traffic control over the United States.
July
July 2 – A laboratory experiment involving scrap
thorium at Sylvania Electric Products in
Bayside, New York , results in an
explosion .
July 4 – An American
Lockheed U-2 reconnaissance aircraft makes its first flight over the
Soviet Union .
July 8 – The mountain
Gasherbrum II , on the border of
Pakistan and China, is first ascended, by an Austrian expedition.
July 9 – The 7.7 Mw
Amorgos earthquake shakes the
Cyclades island group in the
Aegean Sea , with a maximum
Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent ). The shaking and the subsequent tsunami leave 53 people dead.
July 10 – The British
House of Lords defeats the abolition of the death penalty.
July 13 –
John McCarthy (Dartmouth),
Marvin Minsky (MIT),
Claude Shannon (Bell Labs) and
Nathaniel Rochester (IBM) assemble the first coordinated research meeting on the topic of
artificial intelligence , at
Dartmouth College ,
Hanover, New Hampshire , in the United States.
July 16 – With the closing of its "Big Tent" show in
Pittsburgh ,
Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus announces all subsequent circuses will be "arena shows", due to changing economics.
July 24 – At New York City's
Copacabana nightclub,
Dean Martin and
Jerry Lewis perform their last comedy show together (their act started on July 25, 1946).
July 25 – The Italian ocean liner
SS Andrea Doria sinks after colliding with the Swedish ship
SS Stockholm in heavy fog 72 kilometers (45 mi) south of
Nantucket island, killing 51.
July 26 –
Egyptian president
Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalizes the
Suez Canal , sparking international condemnation.
July 30 – A
joint resolution of
Congress is signed by President
Dwight D. Eisenhower , authorizing "
In God we trust " as the U.S. national
motto .
July 31
August
August 6 – After going bankrupt in 1955, the American broadcaster
DuMont Television Network airs its final broadcast, an episode of its sports series
Boxing from St. Nicholas Arena .
August 7 – Seven ammunition trucks loaded with 1,053 boxes of dynamite
explode in Cali, Colombia . Death estimates range from 1,300 to 10,000, in a city that at this time has 120,000 inhabitants.
[9]
August 8 – 262 miners (chiefly Italian nationals) die in a fire at the
Bois du Cazier coal mine, in
Marcinelle , Belgium.
August 9 – Art exhibition
This Is Tomorrow opens at
Whitechapel Art Gallery in London.
August 12 – Around 5,000 members of the
Romanian Greek-Catholic Church hold a
mass outside
Cluj-Napoca Piarists' Church to demonstrate that their church, proscribed by the government in 1948, has not ceased to exist as the regime claims.
August 17 – West Germany bans the
Communist Party of Germany .
The first
interfaith dialogue between Christians, Jews and Muslims with over 850 participants takes place at the
monastery of Toumliline in
Azrou ,
Morocco .
[10]
September
October
November
November 1
The
States Reorganisation Act of India reforms the boundaries and names of Indian states. Three new states,
Kerala ,
Karnataka and
Andhra Pradesh , are formed.
City Lights Bookstore in
San Francisco publishes
Howl and Other Poems by
Allen Ginsberg , a key work of the
Beat Generation .
The film
Oklahoma! (1955), previously released to select cities in
Todd-AO , now receives a U.S. national release in
CinemaScope , since not all theatres are yet equipped for Todd-AO. To accomplish this, the film has actually been shot twice, rather than printing one version in two different film processes, as is later done.
November 3
November 4 –
Hungarian Revolution of 1956 : More
Soviet troops invade Hungary, to crush the revolt that started on October 23. Thousands are killed, more are wounded, and nearly a quarter million leave the country.
November 6 –
1956 United States presidential election :
Republican incumbent
Dwight D. Eisenhower defeats
Democratic challenger
Adlai Stevenson , in a rematch of their contest
4 years earlier .
November 7 –
Suez Crisis : The
United Nations General Assembly adopts a resolution calling for the United Kingdom, France and
Israel to withdraw their troops from Arab lands immediately.
November 11 –
Hungarian Revolution of 1956 : Last insurgents succumb to the invading Soviet army.
[14]
November 12 –
Morocco , Sudan and Tunisia join the United Nations.
November 13 –
Browder v. Gayle : The
United States Supreme Court declares illegal the state and municipal laws requiring segregated buses in
Montgomery, Alabama , thus ending the
Montgomery bus boycott .
November 14 – An eight-mile long stretch of highway is opened west of
Topeka, Kansas , creating the first portion of the
Interstate Highway System in the United States and the first highway to be completed with funds from the
Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956 .
[15]
November 15 –
Middle East Technical University is founded in
Ankara , Turkey.
November 18 – At a reception for Western ambassadors at the Polish embassy in Moscow,
Nikita Khrushchev utters his famous phrase "
We will bury you ".
November 20 – In
Yugoslavia , former prime minister
Milovan Đilas is arrested after he criticizes
Josip Broz Tito .
November 22 – The
1956 Summer Olympics begin in
Melbourne , Australia.
November 23 – The
Suez Crisis causes
petrol
rationing in Britain.
[16]
November 25 –
Fidel Castro and
Che Guevara depart from
Tuxpan, Veracruz , Mexico, en route to
Santiago de Cuba aboard the yacht
Granma , with 82 men.
November 30 – African-American
Floyd Patterson wins the world heavyweight boxing championship that is vacant after the retirement of
Rocky Marciano .
December
December 2
December 3 – The
1956 Bush Terminal explosion occurs in Brooklyn, United States.
December 4 – The
Million Dollar Quartet (
Elvis Presley ,
Jerry Lee Lewis ,
Carl Perkins , and
Johnny Cash ) get together at
Sun Studio , for the first and last time in history.
December 9 –
Trans-Canada Air Lines Flight 810 , a
Canadair North Star , crashes into
Slesse Mountain near
Chilliwack ,
British Columbia . All 62 people aboard, including five
Canadian Football League players, are killed.
December 12 – Japan becomes a member of the
United Nations .
December 18 –
To Tell the Truth debuts on
CBS -TV in the United States.
December 19 – British doctor
John Bodkin Adams is arrested for the murder of 2 patients in
Eastbourne , England; he will be acquitted.
December 23 – British and French troops leave the
Suez Canal region.
December 31 –
Bob Barker makes his television debut, as host of the game show
Truth or Consequences in the United States.
Date unknown
Births
January
Mel Gibson
David Caruso
Bill Maher
Robby Benson
Geena Davis
Mimi Rogers
John Lydon
January 1
January 3
January 4 –
Bernard Sumner , British musician
January 5
January 7
January 9
January 12 –
Nikolai Noskov , Soviet and Russian rock singer and songwriter
January 15 –
Vitaly Kaloyev , Russian convicted murderer, architect deputy minister of construction of North Ossetia-Alania
January 16 –
Martin Jol , Dutch football manager
January 17 –
Paul Young , English musician
January 18
January 19 –
Adriana Acosta , Argentine militant and field hockey player (d.
1978 )
January 20 –
Bill Maher , American actor, comedian and political analyst
January 21
January 24 –
Lounès Matoub , Algerian Berber Kabyle singer (d.
1998 )
January 25 –
Bronwyn Pike , Australian politician
January 26 –
Pat Musick , American voice actress
January 27
January 28 –
Peter Schilling , German singer
January 29
January 30 –
Keiichi Tsuchiya , Japanese race car driver
January 31
February
Nathan Lane
Enele Sopoaga
Jay Nixon
February 1 –
Mike Kitchen , Canadian ice hockey player and coach
February 2
February 3
February 10 –
Enele Sopoaga , 12th Prime Minister of Tuvalu
February 11
February 13
February 14 –
Tom Burlinson , Australian actor
February 15 –
Desmond Haynes , West Indian cricketer
February 18 –
Thomas Gradin , Swedish hockey player
February 19
February 20 –
François Bréda , Romanian essayist, poet, literary critic, literary historian, translator and theatrologist (d.
2018 )
February 23
February 24
February 25
February 26 –
Keisuke Kuwata , Japanese musician
February 28 –
Thomas Remengesau Jr. , 7th and 9th
President of Palau
February 29
March
Tim Daly
Bryan Cranston
John Kapelos
Rob Paulsen
Ingemar Stenmark
Catherine Ashton
José Manuel Barroso
March 1
March 2 –
Eduardo Rodríguez ,
President of Bolivia
March 5
March 7
March 9
March 11 –
Rob Paulsen , American voice actor and singer
March 12 –
Steve Harris , English musician and songwriter (Iron Maiden)
March 13 –
Dana Delany , American actress
March 16
March 18 –
Ingemar Stenmark , Swedish alpine skier
March 19 –
Yegor Gaidar , Russian economist and politician (d.
2009 )
[20]
March 20
March 22
March 24 –
Steve Ballmer , American businessman, CEO of Microsoft (2000–2014), owner of the
Los Angeles Clippers
March 25 –
Matthew Garber , English child actor (d.
1977 )
March 28
March 29 –
Evie , American Christian musician
March 30
Shahla Sherkat , Iranian feminist journalist
Paul Reiser , American actor
April
Miguel Bosé
Andy García
Melody Thomas Scott
Eric Roberts
Lars von Trier
April 3
April 4
April 5
April 6
April 7 –
Christopher Darden , African-American attorney, author, actor and lecturer
[24]
April 9 –
Edmund Chong Ket Wah , Malaysian politician (d.
2010 )
April 12
April 13 –
Possum Bourne , New Zealand rally car driver (d.
2003 )
April 14 –
Barbara Bonney , American soprano
April 16
April 18
April 19 –
Sue Barker , British tennis player and television presenter
April 21 –
Phillip Longman , American demographer
April 22 –
Jukka-Pekka Saraste , Finnish conductor
April 23 –
Greg Colson , American artist
April 26 –
Koo Stark , British actress
April 27 –
Bryan Harvey , American musician (d.
2006 )
April 28 –
Hanka Paldum , Bosnian singer
April 30 –
Lars von Trier , Danish film director and screenwriter
May
Jan Peter Balkenende
Sugar Ray Leonard
Giuseppe Tornatore
La Toya Jackson
David Sassoli
May 1 –
Alexander Ivanov , Russian-born American chess grandmaster
May 4
May 5 –
Lisa Eilbacher , American actress
May 6 –
Vladimir Lisin , Russian
business oligarch
May 7
May 9
May 10
May 12 –
Jānis Bojārs , Latvian shot putter (d.
2018 )
May 13
May 15 –
Dan Patrick , American sports commentator
May 17
May 19 –
Steven Ford , American actor
May 20
May 23
May 26 –
Lisa Niemi , American actress and dancer
May 27 –
Giuseppe Tornatore , Italian film director
May 28
May 29 –
La Toya Jackson , American singer, songwriter, actress, businesswoman and television personality
May 30 –
David Sassoli , 16th
President of the European Parliament (d.
2022 )
May 31 –
Yoshiko Sakakibara , Japanese voice actress
June
Keith David
Kenny G
Björn Borg
Joe Montana
Tim Russ
Randy Jackson
Anthony Bourdain
Bob West
Catherine Samba-Panza
Chris Isaak
June 1
June 3 –
George Burley , Scottish football manager
June 4 –
Keith David , African-American actor and voice actor
June 5 –
Kenny G , American saxophonist
June 6
June 7
June 8 –
Péter Besenyei , Hungarian pilot
June 9 –
Patricia Cornwell , American novelist
June 10 –
Borwin, Duke of Mecklenburg , German head of the
House of Mecklenburg
June 11
June 13 –
Yurik Vardanyan , Soviet weightlifter (d.
2018 )
June 14 –
King Diamond , Danish heavy metal musician
June 15 –
Robin Curtis , American actress
June 17 –
Kelly Curtis , American actor
June 20 –
Cho Chikun , Korean Go player
June 21 –
Thomas James O'Leary , American actor
June 22
June 23 –
Randy Jackson , African-American musician and talent judge
June 24 –
Turid Leirvoll , Norwegian-Danish politician
June 25
June 26
June 27
June 28 –
Noel Mugavin ,
Australian rules football player
June 29
June 30
July
Mullah Krekar
Min Aung Hlaing
Alan Ruck
Tom Hanks
Sela Ward
Michael Spinks
Dorothy Hamill
August
Robert Khuzami
Maureen McCormick
Bruce Greenwood
Kim Cattrall
Andreas Floer
Kevin Dunn
August 2 –
Robert Khuzami , Deputy Attorney for the Southern District of New York
August 4
August 5
August 6 –
Stepfanie Kramer , American actress
August 7
August 8 –
Chris Foreman , English rock guitarist
August 10
August 12 –
Bruce Greenwood , Canadian actor
August 14
August 17 –
Dave Jones , English football manager
August 18 –
John Debney , American film composer
August 19 –
Adam Arkin , American actor
August 20
August 21 –
Kim Cattrall , English-born Canadian actress
August 22 –
Paul Molitor , American baseball player
August 23
August 24
August 25 –
Henri Toivonen , Finnish rally car driver (d.
1986 )
August 26 –
Mark Mangino , American football coach
August 29 –
Mark Morris , American choreographer
August 31
September
Michael Feinstein
David Copperfield
Almazbek Atambayev
Gary Cole
Linda Hamilton
September 1 –
Bernie Wagenblast , American editor and broadcaster
September 2
September 3 –
Pat McGeown , Provisional Irish Republican Army member (d.
1996 )
September 11 –
Phillip D. Bissett , American politician
September 12
September 13 –
Ilie Balaci , Romanian football player (d.
2018 )
September 14
September 15 –
George Howard , American jazz saxophone musician (d.
1998 )
September 16
September 17 –
Almazbek Atambayev , 3-Time
Prime Minister of Kyrgyzstan and 4th
President of Kyrgyzstan
September 18 –
Tim McInnerny , English actor
September 20
September 21 –
Jack Givens , American basketball player
September 23
September 25 –
Jamie Hyneman , American television co-host
September 26 –
Linda Hamilton , American actress
September 29 –
Sebastian Coe , Baron Coe, British athlete; co-ordinator of the
London 2012 Olympic Games
[30]
September 30 –
Gordon Elliott , British-Australian television personality and talk show host
October
Theresa May
Charlie Adler
Christoph Waltz
Mae Jemison
Craig Bartlett
Carrie Fisher
Rita Wilson
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
October 1
October 2 –
Charlie Adler , American voice actor and director
October 3 –
Ralph Morgenstern , German actor
October 4 –
Christoph Waltz , German-Austrian actor
October 8
October 10 –
Amanda Burton , Irish actress
October 11 –
Nicanor Duarte , 47th
President of Paraguay
October 12 –
Trần Đại Quang ,
President of Vietnam (d.
2018 )
October 16 –
Rudra Mohammad Shahidullah , Bangladeshi poet (d.
1991 )
October 17
October 18
Craig Bartlett , American animator, writer, storyboard artist, director and voice actor
Martina Navratilova , Czech-American multiple Grand Slam title winning tennis player
October 19
October 20 –
Danny Boyle , English film director
October 21 –
Carrie Fisher , American actress and novelist (d.
2016 )
[31]
October 22 –
Marvin Bush , American businessman
October 23 –
Dwight Yoakam , American country singer, musician and actor
October 26 –
Rita Wilson , American actress and producer
October 28 –
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad , 6th
President of Iran
November
Richard Curtis
Sinbad
Bo Derek
William Fichtner
November 5 –
Rob Fisher , British keyboardist and songwriter (
Climie Fisher ) (d.
1999 )
November 7
November 8
November 10 –
Sinbad , African-American stand-up, comedian and actor
November 11 –
Talat Aziz , ghazal singer
November 13 –
Charlie Baker , American politician, 72nd
Governor of Massachusetts
November 14
November 17
November 18
November 20
November 21 –
Terri Welles , American actress and adult model
November 22 –
Richard Kind , American actor
November 23
November 24 –
Jouni Kaipainen , Finnish composer
November 26 –
Dale Jarrett , American Race Car Driver
November 27
November 28
November 29 –
Eric Laakso , American football player
December
Markos Kounalakis
Randy Rhoads
Iveta Radičová
Larry Bird
Rod Blagojevich
December 1 –
Sultan bin Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan , Emirati politician and royal (d.
2019 )
December 4 –
Bernard King , American basketball player and commentator
December 5
December 6
December 7
December 9 –
Baruch Goldstein , American-Israeli physician and mass murderer (d.
1994 )
December 10 –
Rod Blagojevich , American politician and convicted felon,
Governor of Illinois (2003–2009)
December 11 –
Lani Brockman , American playwright
December 12
December 13 –
Majida El Roumi , Lebanese singer
December 14 –
Béla Réthy , German sports journalist
December 16 –
Duncan Faure , South African musician
December 18 –
Ron White , American comedian
December 19
December 21 –
Anna Erlandsson , Swedish filmmaker and animator
December 23
December 24
December 26
December 28
December 29 –
Fred MacAulay , Scottish comedian
December 30
December 31 –
Hussein Ahmed Salah , Djiboutian marathon runner
Date unknown
Deaths
January
Joseph Wirth
Konstantin Päts
February
Elpidio Quirino
March
Irène Joliot-Curie
Wilhelm Miklas
April
Alben W. Barkley
May
Louis Calhern
June
Michio Miyagi
Artur Văitoianu
June 2 –
Jean Hersholt , Danish-born American actor (b.
1886 )
June 4 –
Katherine MacDonald , American actress (b.
1891 )
June 6
June 7 –
Julien Benda , French philosopher and novelist (b.
1867 )
[36]
June 11
June 17 –
Artur Văitoianu , Romanian general and politician, 27th
Prime Minister of Romania (b.
1864 )
June 19 –
Thomas J. Watson , American computer pioneer (b.
1874 )
[37]
June 22 –
Walter de la Mare , English poet, short story writer, and novelist (b.
1873 )
June 23 –
Reinhold Glière , Russian composer (b.
1875 )
June 25 –
Ernest King , American Navy Fleet Admiral and Commander in Chief (b.
1878 )
June 26 –
Clifford Brown , American jazz trumpeter (b.
1930 )
July
August
Bertolt Brecht
September
Anastasio Somoza García
October
Risto Ryti
October 2 –
George Bancroft , American actor (b.
1882 )
October 6 –
Charles E. Merrill , American banker, co-founder of
Merrill Lynch (b.
1885 )
[40]
October 9 –
Marie Doro , American actress (b.
1882 )
October 12 –
Lorenzo Perosi , Italian composer (b.
1872 )
October 14 –
Jules Richard , French mathematician (b.
1862 )
October 16 –
Jules Rimet , French football administrator, 3rd
president of FIFA (b.
1873 )
October 17 –
Anne Crawford , British actress (b.
1920 )
October 19 –
Isham Jones , American musician (b.
1894 )
October 22 –
Hannah Mitchell , English socialist and suffragette (b.
1872 )
October 25 –
Risto Ryti , 23rd
Prime Minister of Finland and 5th
President of Finland (b.
1889 )
October 26 –
Walter Gieseking , French-born German pianist (b.
1895 )
October 30 –
Pío Baroja , Spanish novelist (b.
1872 )
November
Pietro Badoglio
Juan Negrín
November 1
November 2 –
Leo Baeck , German rabbi, scholar and theologian (b.
1873 )
November 3 –
Jean Metzinger , French painter, theorist and critic (b.
1883 )
November 5 –
Art Tatum , American jazz pianist (b.
1909 )
November 6 –
Paul Kelly , American stage and film actor (b.
1899 )
November 10 –
Victor Young , American composer (b.
1900 )
November 12 –
Juan Negrín , 67th Prime Minister of Spain (b.
1892 )
November 19 –
Francis L. Sullivan , English actor (b.
1903 )
November 22 –
Theodore Kosloff , Russian-born ballet dancer, choreographer and actor (b.
1882 )
November 23 –
André Marty ,
French Communist Party leader (b.
1886 )
[41]
November 24 –
Guido Cantelli , Italian conductor (b.
1920 )
November 26 –
Tommy Dorsey , American trombonist and bandleader (b.
1905 )
December
Juho Kusti Paasikivi
December 2 –
Dell Henderson , Canadian actor (b.
1877 )
December 3 –
Alexander Rodchenko , Russian artist (b.
1891 )
December 6 –
B. R. Ambedkar , Indian jurist and politician (b.
1891 )
December 9 –
Charles Joughin , English-born baker on RMS Titanic (b.
1878 )
December 10 –
David Shimoni , Israeli poet and writer (b.
1891 )
December 12 –
Ewald André Dupont , German film director (b.
1891 )
December 14 –
Juho Kusti Paasikivi , twice
Prime Minister of Finland and 7th
President of Finland (b.
1870 )
December 16 –
Nina Hamnett , Welsh artist (b.
1890 )
December 17 –
Eddie Acuff , American actor (b.
1903 )
December 21 –
Lewis Terman , American psychologist (b.
1877 )
December 23 –
Josep Puig i Cadafalch , Spanish architect (b.
1867 )
December 26 –
Holmes Herbert , English actor (b.
1882 )
Date unknown
Nobel Prizes
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Bibliography
Further reading
London Institute of World Affairs, The Year Book of World Affairs 1957 (London 1957)
full text online , comprehensive reference book covering 1956 in diplomacy, international affairs and politics for major nations and regions
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