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• Aart van Winkoop, Gemeente Hattem, Gelderland, Nederland († 2012)
• Lorie Ann Foppes († 1971)
• Geert Krol, Leiden
• Aart van Winkoop, Hattem († 2012)
• Laurie Jean Skelly, Hennepin, Minnesota, Verenigde Staten
• Leendert Jan Zwart, Heiloo, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 2009)
• Hendrika Folmer, Bennekom
• Willem Steegstra, Grouw († 1956)
• Amir Morteza Mokri, Tehran-Iran
• Henricus Johannes Maria (Henny) ten Bookum, Amsterdam, Nederland († 2018)

• Adella Pearl Harris (65), Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia
• Bokke Jozef Vogelzang (62), Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
• Cornelia Jacoba de Jong (31), Haarlem
• Adriaan Jacobus Siebel (79), Tholen
• Aike Krijgsveld (74), Surrey, British Columbia, Canada
• Adrianus Cornelis van der Helm (70), Nootdorp
• Celestina Van Nuffel (71), Herdersem
• Antonia Anna Maria de Rooij (80), Oudenbosch (Brabant)
• Cornelis Johannes Willemse (78), Waalwijk
• Agnes Marie Swank (39), Oskaloosa

• 1953 » Steve Bassam, Baron Bassam of Brighton, English politician
• 1954 » John Dyson, Australian cricketer
• 1954 » Johnny Neel, American singer-songwriter and keyboard player
• 1955 » Duncan Steel, English-Australian astronomer and author
• 1955 » Yuriy Sedykh, Ukrainian hammer thrower
• 1956 » Arthur Porter, Canadian physician and academic († 2015)
• 1956 » Jamaaladeen Tacuma, American bass player and bandleader
• 1956 » Joe Montana, American football player and sportscaster
• 1956 » Simon Plouffe, Canadian mathematician and academic
• 1958 » Barry Adamson, English singer and bass player

• 1937 » R. J. Mitchell, English engineer, designed the Supermarine Spitfire (b. 1895)
• 1941 » Daniel Carter Beard, American author and illustrator, founded the Boy Scouts of America (b. 1850)
• 1955 » Pierre Levegh, French race car driver (b. 1905)
• 1962 » Chhabi Biswas, Indian actor and director (b. 1900)
• 1963 » Thích Quảng Đức, Vietnamese monk and martyr (b. 1897)
• 1965 » José Mendes Cabeçadas, Portuguese admiral and politician, 9th President of Portugal (b. 1883)
• 1965 » Paul B. Coremans, Belgian chemist and academic (b. 1908)
• 1970 » Frank Laubach, American missionary and mystic (b. 1884)
• 1974 » Eurico Gaspar Dutra, Brazilian general and politician, 16th President of Brazil (b. 1883)
• 1974 » Julius Evola, Italian philosopher and author (b. 1898)

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. 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.
• April 3 » Hudsonville–Standale tornado: The western half of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan is struck by a deadly F5 tornado.
• July 13 » The Dartmouth workshop is the first conference on artificial intelligence.
• 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.
• October 8 » The New York Yankees's Don Larsen pitches the only perfect game in a World Series.
• November 1 » Hungarian Revolution: Imre Nagy announces Hungary's neutrality and withdrawal from the Warsaw Pact. Soviet troops begin to re-enter Hungary, contrary to assurances by the Soviet government. János Kádár and Ferenc Münnich secretly defect to the Soviets.
• November 2 » Hungarian Revolution: Imre Nagy requests UN aid for Hungary. Nikita Khrushchev meets with leaders of other Communist countries to seek their advice on the situation in Hungary, selecting János Kádár as the country's next leader on the advice of Josip Broz Tito.

The temperature on June 11, 1956 was between 11.6 °C and 14.0 °C and averaged 12.5 °C. There was 14.9 mm of rain during 11.5 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.