About the day » Friday July 13, 1956Calender converter

• N.N. Maljaars, Vlissingen, Walcheren, NL
• Hendrik Karst, Emmen {DR} († 2016)
• Jean-Louis VAN NUETEN († 2020)
• Albertus Bernardus Zantvoort, Sungai Gerong († 1956)
• Hennie van Dasselaar, Nijkerk, Gelderland, Nederland († 1977)
• Ernst Willem Christiaan Duijn, Ottawa, Canada
• Jan Duerink († 2010)
• Willem Bons, Zeist († 1976)
• Hennie van Dasselaar, Nijkerk, Gelderland, Nederland († 1977)
• Hennie Van Dasselaar, Nijkerk, Gelderland, Nederland († 1977)

• Adriana Petronella Sandberg (76), ‘s-Gravenhage,Gemeente ’s-Gravenhage,South Holland,Netherlands
• Adrianus Kramer (57), Apeldoorn, Gelderland, Netherlands
• Aafien Bellinga (63), Veendam Gemeente, Veendam, Groningen, The Netherlands
• Anna Maria Catharina Leenders (81), Venlo
• Aaltje van Lozenoord (81), Nijkerk
• Agnes Cecilia McDonnell (76), Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Verenigde Staten
• Adriana Petronella Sandberg Van Essenburg (76), 's Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Antonia (2) CHECK Antonia 1903 AND Anton 1904 van Vught (50), Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Clara Matilda Jincks (81), Henry County, Missouri
• Anna Parker Burgess (77), Sumter, Sumter, South Carolina

• 1953 » David Thompson, American basketball player
• 1954 » Louise Mandrell, American singer-songwriter and actress
• 1954 » Ray Bright, Australian cricketer
• 1956 » Mark Mendoza, American bass player and songwriter
• 1956 » Michael Spinks, American boxer
• 1957 » Cameron Crowe, American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1957 » Thierry Boutsen, Belgian race car driver and businessman
• 1959 » Fuziah Salleh, Malaysian politician
• 1959 » Richard Leman, English field hockey player
• 1960 » Robert Abraham, American football player

• 1945 » Alla Nazimova, Russian-American actress, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1879)
• 1946 » Alfred Stieglitz, American photographer and curator (b. 1864)
• 1949 » Walt Kuhn, American painter and academic (b. 1877)
• 1951 » Arnold Schoenberg, Austrian-American composer and painter (b. 1874)
• 1954 » Frida Kahlo, Mexican painter and educator (b. 1907)
• 1960 » Joy Davidman, American-English poet and author (b. 1915)
• 1965 » Photis Kontoglou, Greek painter and illustrator (b. 1895)
• 1967 » Tom Simpson, English cyclist (b. 1937)
• 1970 » Leslie Groves, American general and engineer (b. 1896)
• 1970 » Sheng Shicai, Chinese warlord (b. 1895)

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. 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.
• 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.
• August 6 » After going bankrupt in 1955, the American broadcaster DuMont Television Network makes its final broadcast, a boxing match from St. Nicholas Arena in New York in the Boxing from St. Nicholas Arena series.
• September 13 » The IBM 305 RAMAC is introduced, the first commercial computer to use disk storage.
• 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.
• November 22 » The Summer Olympics, officially known as the games of the XVI Olympiad, are opened in Melbourne, Australia.
• 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.

The temperature on July 13, 1956 was between 12.8 °C and 22.1 °C and averaged 17.4 °C. There was 2.4 hours of sunshine (15%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east.