About the day » Wednesday July 25, 1956Calender converter

• Gerrit Van Putten, Schiedam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1961)
• Pieter van Steenis, Herwijnen (NL) († 2024)
• Lana Mae Hutchinson († 1956)
• Juan Pablo Cote Angulo († 1977)
• Geertruida Antonia Maria Kuiper, Oldenzaal, Overijssel, Nederland († 2001)
• Johannes Henricus Maria Klein Douwel, Diepenveen († 1956)
• Gwen Lambregts, Vancouver, Brits-Columbia († 1956)
• Geertruida Antonia Maria Kuiper, Oldenzaal, Overijssel, Netherlands († 2001)
• Louis Vermeiren, Hoogstraten (B) († 2003)
• Gerrit van Putten, Schiedam († 1961)

• Cornelia Hoek (0), Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Maria Broos (66)
• Aartje JANSEN (76), Putten, Gelderland, Nederland
• Cornelia Hendrika Rustenhoven (36), Arnhem (Gelderland)
• Dorothea Heiligers (68), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Jan Benjamins (89), Kampen
• Effie E. Banty (78)
• Bartha Zomer (49), Hoogeveen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Alice 2 BRIDGEWATER (MITCHELL) (87), Buchanan Home, Greytown, Wairarapa, New Zealand
• Elsje Nieboer (48), Leiden

• 1954 » Jochem Ziegert, German footballer and manager
• 1954 » Ken Greer, Canadian guitarist, keyboard player, and producer
• 1954 » Sheena McDonald, Scottish journalist
• 1954 » Walter Payton, American football player and race car driver († 1999)
• 1955 » Iman, Somalian-English model and actress
• 1955 » Randall Bewley, American guitarist and songwriter († 2009)
• 1956 » Andy Goldsworthy, English-Scottish sculptor and photographer
• 1956 » Frances Arnold, American scientist and engineer
• 1957 » Mark Hunter, English politician
• 1957 » Steve Podborski, Canadian skier

• 1942 » Fred Englehardt, American triple jumper (b. 1879)
• 1952 » Herbert Murrill, English organist and composer (b. 1909)
• 1958 » Otto Lasanen, Finnish wrestler (b. 1891)
• 1959 » Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog, Polish-born Irish rabbi and author (b. 1888)
• 1962 » Thibaudeau Rinfret, Canadian lawyer and jurist, 9th Chief Justice of Canada (b. 1879)
• 1963 » Ugo Cerletti, Italian neurologist and academic (b. 1877)
• 1966 » Frank O'Hara, American poet and critic (b. 1926)
• 1967 » Konstantinos Parthenis, Egyptian-Greek painter (b. 1878)
• 1971 » John Meyers, American swimmer and water polo player (b. 1880)
• 1971 » Leroy Robertson, American composer and educator (b. 1896)

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. 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.
• April 26 » SSIdeal X, the world's first successful container ship, leaves Port Newark, New Jersey, for Houston, Texas.
• May 24 » The first Eurovision Song Contest is held in Lugano, Switzerland.
• September 16 » TCN-9 Sydney is the first Australian television station to commence regular broadcasts.
• November 1 » The Indian states Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, and Mysore are formally created under the States Reorganisation Act; Kanyakumari district is joined to Tamil Nadu from Kerala.
• December 19 » Irish-born physician John Bodkin Adams is arrested in connection with the suspicious deaths of more than 160 patients. Eventually he is convicted only of minor charges.

The temperature on July 25, 1956 was between 10.8 °C and 22.4 °C and averaged 17.7 °C. There was 7.8 hours of sunshine (49%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west.