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• Hilligje Korneliske (Hilda) Winters, Steenwijkerwold († 2013)
• Wilhelmina Jankina Snippe, Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland († 1983)
• Eric MATTHIJNSSENS, Beveren-Waas
• Ronald Theodorus Cornelis Maria Ammerlaan, Zoeterwoude
• Karel Frederik Wolfram Vrijheer van Richthofen, Bartoszowek (Barzdorf), Neder-Silezië, Polen
• Aloysius Alphonsus Maria Olimulder, Geesteren († 2021)
• Yvette DE GENDT, Asse
• Henriette van Geest († 2017)
• Raymundus Marcelinus Reelick, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Henrietta Yepez Gonzales, Fresno, California († 2010)

• Cornelia Oostveen (66), Utrecht, Nederland
• Catharina Elisabeth Pflughaupt (76), Nieuwkoop, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Jantina Roelfsema (86), Zeist
• Benito Leybas Alvarado (63), Allende, Coahuila, México
• Adrianus Blox (72), Eersel
• Jantje Slinger (82), Oldemarkt
• Catharina Roozeboom (76), Amsterdam
• Cornelis Johannes van Wieringen (53), Durban,RSA
• Adriaan Cornelis Boland (78), Staphorst NL
• Cornelia Bos (79), Ede

• 1954 » Ang Lee, Taiwanese-American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1956 » Adam Nawałka, Polish football player and manager
• 1956 » Darrell Pace, American archer
• 1956 » Dianne Reeves, American singer
• 1956 » Dwight Yoakam, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
• 1957 » Graham Rix, English footballer and coach
• 1957 » Paul Kagame, Rwandan soldier and politician, 6th President of Rwanda
• 1958 » Frank Schaffer, German sprinter
• 1958 » Michael Eric Dyson, American activist, author, and academic
• 1958 » Rose Nabinger, German singer

• 1939 » Zane Grey, American dentist and author (b. 1872)
• 1942 » Ralph Rainger, American pianist and composer (b. 1901)
• 1943 » Wakashima Gonshirō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 21st Yokozuna (b. 1876)
• 1944 » Charles Glover Barkla, English-Scottish physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1877)
• 1944 » Hana Brady, Czech holocaust victim (b. 1931)
• 1950 » Al Jolson, Lithuanian-American actor and singer (b. 1886)
• 1953 » Adrien de Noailles, French son of Jules Charles Victurnien de Noailles (b. 1869)
• 1959 » George Bouzianis, Greek painter (b. 1885)
• 1959 » Gerda Lundequist, Swedish actress (b. 1871)
• 1964 » Frank Luther Mott, American historian and journalist (b. 1886)

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. Jacob
16. Jacobus

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Cornelia
4. Elisabeth
5. Anna
6. Wilhelmina
7. Catharina
8. Adriana
9. Petronella
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.
• May 20 » In Operation Redwing, the first United States airborne hydrogen bomb is dropped over Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean.
• June 11 » Start of Gal Oya riots, the first reported ethnic riots that target minority Sri Lankan Tamils in the Eastern Province. The total number of deaths is reportedly 150.
• July 13 » The Dartmouth workshop is the first conference on artificial intelligence.
• September 9 » Elvis Presley appears on The Ed Sullivan Show for the first time.
• September 27 » USAF Captain Milburn G. Apt becomes the first person to exceed Mach 3. Shortly thereafter, the Bell X-2 goes out of control and Captain Apt is killed.
• October 19 » The Soviet Union and Japan sign a Joint Declaration, officially ending the state of war between the two countries that had existed since August 1945.

The temperature on October 23, 1956 was between 8.8 °C and 14.2 °C and averaged 11.9 °C. There was 0.6 hours of sunshine (6%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.