About the day » Saturday January 7, 1956Calender converter

• Robert Allen Dornbush, Fort Wayne (Allen, Indiana, USA) († 2007)
• Mary A. Shrock, Anderson, Madison Co., IN († 1956)
• Leonardus Haller, Alkmaar († 2012)
• Jacob Willem Burggraaf, Soest († 2013)
• Marjolijn Klazina Sinterniklaas, Strijen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2007)
• Tjerk Douma, Oosterwierum († 1956)
• Wilhelmina van den Heuvel, Bleiswijk († 1956)
• Leenaarts, Loon op Zand, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Marijke Koopmans, Haarlem († 2017)
• Klara Wilhelmina Visser, Den Helder († 2007)

• Albert Webber (67), Baarn
• Albert Maywood Talley (83), Talihina, Le Flore, Oklahoma, United States
• Clara Minnie Martin (67), Jackson, Hinds, Mississippi, Verenigde Staten
• Cora Timken (85)
• Adriana Cornelia Willemsen (88), Kalmthout
• Adrianus Gerrit Besanger (87), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Barbera Cornelia Huiskes (80), Rotterdam
• Antonetta Maria van Melsen (81), Amsterdam (gem arch)
• Anthonie Stok (63), Rotterdam
• Claude Edward Jordan (47), Shelbyville, Shelby Co., IL, Shelby Hospital

• 1952 » Sammo Hung, Hong Kong actor, director, producer, and martial artist
• 1953 » Robert Longo, American painter and sculptor
• 1954 » Alan Butcher, English cricketer and coach
• 1955 » Mamata Shankar, Indian-Bengali actress
• 1956 » David Caruso, American actor
• 1957 » Katie Couric, American television journalist, anchor, and author
• 1959 » Angela Smith, Baroness Smith of Basildon, English accountant and politician
• 1959 » Kathy Valentine, American bass player and songwriter
• 1960 » Loretta Sanchez, American politician
• 1961 » John Thune, American lawyer and politician

• 1941 » Charles Finger, English journalist and author (b. 1869)
• 1943 » Nikola Tesla, Serbian-American physicist and engineer (b. 1856)
• 1951 » René Guénon, French-Egyptian philosopher and author (b. 1886)
• 1960 » Dorothea Douglass Lambert Chambers, English tennis player and coach (b. 1878)
• 1963 » Arthur Edward Moore, New Zealand-Australian farmer and politician, 23rd Premier of Queensland (b. 1876)
• 1964 » Reg Parnell, English racing driver and manager (b. 1911)
• 1967 » Carl Schuricht, German-Swiss conductor (b. 1880)
• 1967 » David Goodis, American author and screenwriter (b. 1917)
• 1968 » J. L. B. Smith, South African chemist and academic (b. 1897)
• 1972 » John Berryman, American poet and scholar (b. 1914)

1. Jan
2. Johannes
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Willem
6. Peter
7. Robert
8. Pieter
9. Petrus
10. Gerrit
11. John
12. Adrianus
13. Paul
14. Dirk
15. Jacobus
16. Jacob

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Cornelia
4. Elisabeth
5. Anna
6. Wilhelmina
7. Catharina
8. Petronella
9. Adriana
10. Hendrika
11. Yvonne
12. Geertruida
13. Margaretha
14. Marianne
15. Patricia
16. Jacoba

• Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from September 2, 1952 to October 13, 1956 the cabinet Drees II, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from October 13, 1956 to December 22, 1957 the cabinet Drees III, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 10.8 million citizens.
• February 20 » The United States Merchant Marine Academy becomes a permanent Service Academy.
• March 1 » The International Air Transport Association finalizes a draft of the Radiotelephony spelling alphabet for the International Civil Aviation Organization.
• July 25 » Forty-five miles south of Nantucket Island, the Italian ocean liner SSAndrea Doria collides with the MSStockholm in heavy fog and sinks the next day, killing 51.
• November 3 » Hungarian Revolution: A new Hungarian government is formed, in which many members of banned non-Communist parties participate. During negotiations on Tököl Island ostensibly on Soviet troop withdrawal, the KGB arrests Pál Maléter and other Hungarian Revolutionary commanders, effectively decapitating the Revolution's military leadership. János Kádár and Ferenc Münnich form a counter-government in Moscow as Soviet troops ready for the final assault.
• November 22 » The Summer Olympics, officially known as the games of the XVI Olympiad, are opened in Melbourne, Australia.
• December 6 » A violent water polo match between Hungary and the USSR takes place during the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, against the backdrop of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956.

The temperature on January 7, 1956 was between 0.4 °C and 2.2 °C and averaged 1.2 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south.