About the day » Wednesday May 2, 1956Calender converter

• Antoon van Heumen, Eindhoven († 2017)
• Freddy Jules Bouckaert
• Ron Groot, Den Helder († 2005)
• Juliana de Meulmeester, Valburg († 1979)
• Barbara Huizinga
• Lynne Maree McLAREN, Zeehan, Tasmania, Australia († 1993)
• Juliana de Meulmeester, Valburg, Gelderland, Nederland († 1979)
• Elizabeth Koster, Middelharnis, Gemeente Goeree-Overflakkee, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Joseph Nicolaas Martinus Maria Alsemgeest, Maasland († 2023)
• Richard Sinke († 1956)

• Adriana CAPTEIJN (76), Den Haag
• anna clazina BAKKER (78), rotterdam
• Albertus Lonnee (77), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Auguste Debroeck (76), Saint-Nicolas-lés-Coteaux, Côte d'Or, Bourgogne, France
• Alice Delargy (81), Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, Verenigde Staten
• Bernard Calis (0), Bussum, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• August Wilhelm HAYE (51), Burg/Fehmarn (DE)
• Alida Dorothea van den Berg (45), Leiden
• Antje Leek (65), Alkmaar
• Asselina Everdina Oosterbroek (70), Nederhorst den Berg, Utrecht, Nederland

• 1953 » Valery Gergiev, Russian conductor and director
• 1954 » Dawn Primarolo, English politician
• 1954 » Elliot Goldenthal, American composer and conductor
• 1954 » Stephen Venables, English mountaineer and author
• 1955 » Donatella Versace, Italian fashion designer
• 1955 » Willie Miller, Scottish footballer
• 1956 » Régis Labeaume, Canadian businessman and politician, 41st Mayor of Quebec City
• 1958 » David O'Leary, English-Irish footballer and manager
• 1958 » Stanislav Levý, Czech footballer and manager
• 1958 » Yasushi Akimoto, Japanese songwriter and producer

• 1941 » Penelope Delta, Greek author (b. 1874)
• 1945 » Joe Corbett, American baseball player and journalist (b. 1875)
• 1945 » Martin Bormann, German politician (b. 1900)
• 1947 » Dorothea Binz, German SS officer (b. 1920)
• 1953 » Wallace Bryant, American archer (b. 1863)
• 1957 » Joseph McCarthy, American captain, lawyer, judge, and politician (b. 1908)
• 1963 » Ronald Barnes, 3rd Baron Gorell, English cricketer, peer, politician, poet, author and newspaper editor (b. 1884)
• 1964 » Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor, American-English politician (b. 1879)
• 1969 » Franz von Papen, German general and politician, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1879)
• 1972 » J. Edgar Hoover, American 1st director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (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. Johan

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.
• 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.
• 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.
• September 9 » Elvis Presley appears on The Ed Sullivan Show for the first time.
• November 1 » The Springhill mining disaster in Springhill, Nova Scotia kills 39 miners; 88 are rescued.
• November 4 » Soviet troops enter Hungary to end the Hungarian revolution against the Soviet Union that started on October 23. Thousands are killed, more are wounded, and nearly a quarter million leave the country.
• 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 May 2, 1956 was between 0.6 °C and 16.1 °C and averaged 9.5 °C. There was 1.3 mm of rain during 0.3 hours. There was 6.9 hours of sunshine (46%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east.