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• Cock de Jong, Broek op L'dijk († 2011)
• Nomen Nescio TIEMESSEN, Gendringen (NL) († 1956)
• Lieve Dusar, Hasselt, België († 1996)
• Lidy Hendrickx, Geel, Belgie († 2011)
• Leon HENDRIKX, Horn (Limburg) (NL) († 2010)
• Michael Tarter "Bass" († 2019)
• Phillip Lee Doornink, Baldwin, St Croix, Wisconsin, VS († 2018)
• Randy Eugene Woodford († 1959)
• Cornelis Franse, ,, Achthuizen, Nederland († 1956)
• Cornelis Fransen, Achthuizen

• Dirk Haarman (49), Baarn, Utrecht, Nederland
• Dirk Oosterling (74), Zaandam
• Elijah Wade Kearney (61), Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee
• Cornelis PRONK (75), Scheveningen, gemeente 's-Gravenhage (Z-H)
• Albert HOVING (39), Emmen Drenthe Netherlands
• Christiaan Willem Zijlstra (80), Haarlem, Nederland
• Burnham Hilliker (81), Alpena, Alpena, Michigan, United States
• Emma T Booker Wilkinson (77), Holden, Livingston, Louisiana, Verenigde Staten
• Haarman (49), Baarn, Utrecht, Nederland
• Dirk Oosterling (74), Zaandam, Noord-Holland, Nederland

• 1954 » Alexander Lukashenko, Belarusian marshal and politician, 1st President of Belarus
• 1954 » David Paymer, American actor and director
• 1954 » Ravi Shankar Prasad, Indian lawyer and politician, Indian Minister of Communications and IT
• 1955 » Jamie Moses, English-American guitarist
• 1956 » Frank Conniff, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
• 1958 » Anna Politkovskaya, Russian journalist and activist († 2006)
• 1958 » Fran Fraschilla, American basketball player, coach, and sportscaster
• 1958 » Karen Buck, Northern Irish politician
• 1958 » Martin Jackson, English drummer
• 1958 » Muriel Gray, Scottish journalist and author

• 1945 » Alfréd Schaffer, Hungarian footballer, coach, and manager (b. 1893)
• 1946 » Konstantin Rodzaevsky, Russian lawyer (b. 1907)
• 1947 » Gunnar Sommerfeldt, Danish actor and director (b. 1890)
• 1949 » Arthur Fielder, English cricketer (b. 1877)
• 1951 » Konstantin Märska, Estonian director and cinematographer (b. 1896)
• 1954 » Alfredo Ildefonso Schuster, Italian cardinal (b. 1880)
• 1961 » Charles Coburn, American actor (b. 1877)
• 1961 » Cristóbal de Losada y Puga, Peruvian mathematician (b. 1894)
• 1963 » Guy Burgess, English-Soviet spy (b. 1911)
• 1964 » Salme Dutt, Estonian-English lawyer and politician (b. 1888)

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. Linda

• 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.
• April 5 » In Sri Lanka, the Mahajana Eksath Peramuna win the general elections in a landslide and S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike is sworn in as the Prime Minister of Ceylon.
• May 1 » The polio vaccine developed by Jonas Salk is made available to the public.
• July 9 » The 7.7 M_w  Amorgos earthquake shakes the Cyclades island group in the Aegean Sea with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent). The shaking and the destructive tsunami that followed left fifty-three people dead. A damaging M7.2 aftershock occurred minutes after the mainshock.
• July 30 » A joint resolution of the U.S. Congress is signed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, authorizing In God We Trust as the U.S. national motto.
• October 8 » The New York Yankees's Don Larsen pitches the only perfect game in a World Series.

The temperature on August 30, 1956 was between 5.7 °C and 17.0 °C and averaged 11.2 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain during 0.7 hours. There was 7.8 hours of sunshine (57%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.