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• Jan Ouwehand, Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2003)
• Koen Arne De Kort, Amsterdam
• Marijke Smeets, Oeffelt († 1980)
• Evert Jan van de Vlekkert, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 2020)
• Liliane Schaers, Genk, België († 1995)
• Luuk van der Helm († 2015)
• Cynthia Elaine Alisch, Worcester, Worcester, Massachusetts, Verenigde Staten († 2013)
• José de Groote, Heerlen,, Limburg, Nederland († 1981)
• David Neil Goldby († 1989)
• Sharon Kay van de Weerd, Sioux Center, Sioux County, Iowa († 2017)

• Adriana Jacoba van Hugte (63), Noordwijk
• Bessie Belle Jones (67), Hughes, Oklahoma, Verenigde Staten
• Albert Hoekman (61), Steenwijkerwold
• Aaltje Kaasjager (77), Kerkrade, Limburg, Netherlands
• Antonius Henricus van Rosmalen (75), Boxtel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Christiaan van Someren (81), Weesp, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Andries Jacobus Hauser (74), Voorburg, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Geertruida Klifman (77), Utrecht
• Aimé Lucien BOIS (45), Brest, 29019, Finistère, Bretagne, France
• Andrew Robert ATKINSON (76), Queensland, Australia

• 1954 » François Hollande, French lawyer and politician, 24th President of France
• 1954 » Ibolya Dávid, Hungarian lawyer and politician, Minister of Justice of Hungary
• 1954 » Leung Chun-ying, Hong Kong businessman and politician, 3rd Chief Executive of Hong Kong
• 1954 » Rob Borbidge, Australian politician, 35th Premier of Queensland
• 1954 » Sam J. Jones, American actor
• 1956 » Bruce Greenwood, Canadian actor and producer
• 1956 » Lee Freedman, Australian horse trainer
• 1956 » Sidath Wettimuny, Sri Lankan cricketer
• 1957 » Amanda Redman, English actress
• 1957 » Friedhelm Schütte, German footballer

• 1941 » Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon, English soldier and politician, 56th Governor General of Canada (b. 1866)
• 1943 » Vittorio Sella, Italian photographer and mountaineer (b. 1859)
• 1944 » Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., American lieutenant and pilot (b. 1915)
• 1952 » David Bergelson, Ukrainian author and playwright (b. 1884)
• 1955 » James B. Sumner, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1887)
• 1955 » Thomas Mann, German author and critic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1875)
• 1959 » Mike O'Neill, Irish-American baseball player and manager (b. 1877)
• 1964 » Ian Fleming, English spy, journalist, and author (b. 1908)
• 1966 » Artur Alliksaar, Estonian poet and author (b. 1923)
• 1967 » Esther Forbes, American historian and author (b. 1891)

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.
• January 30 » African-American civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr.'s home is bombed in retaliation for the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
• March 23 » Pakistan becomes the first Islamic republic in the world. This date is now celebrated as Republic Day in Pakistan.
• June 29 » The Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956 is signed by U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower, officially creating the United States Interstate Highway System.
• July 25 » Forty-five miles south of Nantucket Island, the Italian ocean liner SSAndrea Doria collides with the MSStockholm in heavy fog and sinks the next day, killing 51.
• 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.
• 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.

The temperature on August 12, 1956 was between 10.2 °C and 19.0 °C and averaged 14.4 °C. There was 10.5 hours of sunshine (70%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.