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1956
1956 was a leap year starting on Sunday. (see link for calendar)
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Year in topic
Births
January births
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January 3 - Mel Gibson, actor and director
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January 7 - David Caruso, actor
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January 10 - Shawn Colvin, singer
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January 14 - Ben Heppner, Canadian tenor
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January 17 - Paul Young, English musician
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January 20 - Bill Maher, actor, comedian, political analyst
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January 21 - Geena Davis, actress
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January 27 - Mimi Rogers, actress
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January 31 - Johnny Rotten, musician (The "Sex Pistols")
February births
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February 3 - Nathan Lane, actor
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February 6 - Ken Lorraway , Australian athlete
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February 11 - Kathleen Beller , actress
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February 14 - Tom Burlinson , Australian actor
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February 15 - Desmond Haynes, West Indies cricketer
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February 24 - Paula Zahn, television journalist
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February 26 - Keisuke Kuwata, Japanese Musician
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February 29 - Randy Jackson, American musician, American Idol judge
- February 29 - Bob Speller, Canadian politician
- February 29 - Aileen Carol Wuornos, serial killer
April births
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April 3 - Ray Combs, game show host, comedian
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April 4 - Kerry Chikarovski , Australian politician
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April 4 - David E. Kelley, writer, television producer
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April 6 - Dilip Vengsarkar, Indian cricketer
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April 12 - Andy Garcia, US actor
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April 13 - Alison Wheeler, British Political activist
- April 13 - Peter 'Possum' Bourne, Australian Rally Driver (d. 2003)
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April 14 - Barbara Bonney , US soprano
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April 16 - Lise-Marie Morerod, slalom skier
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April 19 - Sue Barker, British TV presenter and former tennis champion
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April 21 - Rick DeMont , US Olympic swimmer
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April 23 - Judy Davis, Australian actress
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April 26 - Koo Stark, UK actress
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April 28 - Jimmy Barnes, Australian rocker
May births
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May 4 - Ulrike Meyfarth, German high jumper
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May 7 - Jan Peter Balkenende, Prime Minister of the Netherlands
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May 9 - John Jay Ruskin . Fiddle player
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May 15 - Dan Patrick, sportscaster
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May 16 - Olga Korbut, Russian Olympic gymnast
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May 17 - Sugar Ray Leonard, boxer
- May 17 - Bob Saget, US actor
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May 19 - James Gosling, the "father" of Java programming language
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May 20 - Ingvar Ambjørnsen, Norwegian author
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May 21 - Judge Reinhold, actor
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May 23 - Buck Showalter, baseball player, manager
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Deaths
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January 3 - Alexander Grechaninov, Russian composer
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January 5 - Mistinguett, French cabaret singer
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January 13 - Lyonel Charles Feininger, German painter
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January 24 - Sir Alexander Korda, Hungarian/UK film director
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January 27 - Erich Kleiber, German conductor (b. 1890)
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January 29 - H. L. Mencken
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January 31 - A. A. Milne, author of Winnie-the-Pooh
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February 2 - Charley Grapewin , US actor
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February 8 - Connie Mack, baseball executive, coach
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February 18 - Gustave Charpentier, French composer
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March 17 - Irène Joliot-Curie, French scientist
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March 20 - Fanny Durack , Australian Olympic swimmer
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March 25 - Robert Newton, English film actor
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March 30 - Edmund Clerihew Bentley, English inventor of the clerihew
- March 30 - Fritz Lehmann , German conductor
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March 31 - Ralph DePalma, race car driver (b. 1884)
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April 30 - Alben W Barkly , US Vice-President
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May 12 - Louis Calhern, US film actor
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May 17 - Austin Osman Spare, magician
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May 18 - Maurice Tate, Sussex and England cricketer.
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May 20 - Max Beerbohm, theater critic
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May 26 - Al Simmons, Baseball Hall of Famer (b. 1902)
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May 31 - Diedrich Hermann Westermann, German linguist
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July 7 - Gottfried Benn, German poet (b. 1886)
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August 2 - Albert Woolson, last surviving Union veteran of the American Civil War (b. 1847)
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August 11 - Jackson Pollock, US painter
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August 14 - Bertolt Brecht, German playwright (b. 1898)
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August 16 - Bela Lugosi, Hungarian-born film actor
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August 23 - Peaches Browning, American actress
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August 25 - Alfred Kinsey, sex researcher
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September 27 - Babe Didrikson Zaharias, American athlete and golfer
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October 19 - Isham Jones, jazz musician (b. 1894)
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October 26 - Walter Gieseking, French conductor (b. 1895)
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November 24 - Guido Cantelli, Italian conductor
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December 6 - Dr. B. R. Ambedkar, Indian Untouchable leader
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December 7 - Huntley Gordon, pioneer Hollywood actor
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December 16 - Jack Coe, Pioneer Tent Evangelist of Bublar Polio (b. 1918) 38 years old
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December 16 - Nina Hamnett, artist
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December 18 - Ron White, stand-up comedian
Last updated: 10-16-2005 16:33:40
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