About the day » Sunday May 6, 1956Calender converter

• Osni Soares, Anitápolis, Santa Catarina, Brasil († 1985)
• S M (Jolanda) Bouwhuis, Hengelo (O) († 2015)
• Anne Marie Denturck, Luluabourg Congo († 2017)
• Bruce Moore, Perth, WA Australia († 2013)
• Ronald C ( Ronnie ) Mak († 2013)
• Petrus Nicolaas Maria van der Loos, Ouder Amstel / Duivendrecht († 1956)
• Nel Admiraal († 2006)
• Lies de Vries († 1994)
• Bruce Kenneth REID († 2008)
• Antonia Petronella (Anja) Lobé, Rotterdam

• Bertram Friedman (60)
• Anna- Catharina GOEN (87), ,Belgi
• Anthonetta Johanna Overduin (88), 's Gravenhage
• Antonia Willemina Pater (80), Utrecht, Nederland
• Anna Friederika GRAGE (80), Durant, Cedar Co. (US/IA)
• Antoine BESSETTE (88), Massachusetts,États-Unis
• Abraham Prins (67), Bergen, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Alida Metselaar (69), Leiden
• Anna Maria Groen (70), Willemstad
• Anna Catharina GOEN (87)

• 1954 » Ain Lutsepp, Estonian actor and politician
• 1954 » Angela Hernández Nuñez, Dominican author and poet
• 1954 » Dora Bakoyannis, Greek politician, 120th Greek Minister for Foreign Affairs
• 1954 » Tom Abernethy, American basketball player
• 1955 » John Hutton, Baron Hutton of Furness, English academic and politician, Secretary of State for Defence
• 1955 » Nicholas Alexander, 7th Earl of Caledon, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Armagh
• 1955 » Tom Bergeron, American television host
• 1956 » Cindy Lovell, American educator and writer
• 1956 » Lakis Lazopoulos, Greek actor and screenwriter
• 1956 » Roland Wieser, German race walker and coach

• 1949 » Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgian-French poet and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1862)
• 1951 » Élie Cartan, French mathematician and physicist (b. 1869)
• 1952 » Maria Montessori, Italian-Dutch physician and educator (b. 1870)
• 1959 » Maria Dulęba, Polish actress (b. 1881)
• 1959 » Ragnar Nurkse, Estonian-American economist and academic (b. 1907)
• 1961 » Lucian Blaga, Romanian poet, playwright, and philosopher (b. 1895)
• 1963 » Monty Woolley, American raconteur, actor, and director (b. 1888)
• 1963 » Ted Weems, American violinist, trombonist, and bandleader (b. 1901)
• 1963 » Theodore von Kármán, Hungarian-American mathematician, physicist, and engineer (b. 1881)
• 1967 » Zhou Zuoren, Chinese author and translator (b. 1885)

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.
• January 4 » The Greek National Radical Union is formed by Konstantinos Karamanlis.
• January 30 » African-American civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr.'s home is bombed in retaliation for the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
• February 20 » The United States Merchant Marine Academy becomes a permanent Service Academy.
• May 1 » The polio vaccine developed by Jonas Salk is made available to the public.
• May 24 » The first Eurovision Song Contest is held in Lugano, Switzerland.
• December 28 » Chin Peng, David Marshall and Tunku Abdul Rahman meet in Baling, Malaya to try and resolve the Malayan Emergency situation.

The temperature on May 6, 1956 was between 7.8 °C and 23.9 °C and averaged 16.7 °C. There was 12.1 hours of sunshine (80%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.