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• Sjaak van Os
• Alain DERAMAUX, Ieper,8900,West Vlaanderen,Vlaams Gewest,Belgie († 2015)
• Wilhelmus Maria de Bruijn, Schalkwijk († 1956)
• Nicole CASTELEYN, Snellegem († 1974)
• Paulo Roberto Thomaz, Piracicaba, São Paulo, Brasil († 1996)
• Wilhelmus Maria de Bruijn, Schalkwijk († 1956)
• Petronella Catharina Cornelia Maria van der Horst, Standdaarbuiten, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Martha Koster, Leeuwarden
• Joseph BIJNENS, Zutendaal (Limburg) (B) († 1956)
• Frederick Earl Mann, Washington, District of Columbia († 1992)

• Andries Vels (74), Apeldoorn
• Ada Elizabeth Hankinson (84)
• Alida Henrika THUS (86), Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• (Stillborn) LEENSTRA (0), Sneek Friesland Netherlands
• Aaltje Venema (79), Meeden, Groningen, Nederland
• Adrianus Cornelis van Zetten (71), Utrecht
• Angèle Eugènie Deharvengt (69), Tourcoing
• Betty Roberts [K] (83)
• Alko van der Wiel (63), ede
• Anna Christina Morsman (90), Enschede

• 1952 » Peter Tatchell, Australian-English journalist and activist
• 1954 » Kay Cottee, Australian sailor
• 1954 » Renate Dorrestein, Dutch journalist and author († 2018)
• 1954 » Ricardo Bochini, Argentinian footballer and manager
• 1956 » Andy Cox, English guitarist
• 1956 » Dinah Manoff, American actress
• 1957 » Andrew Harris, American politician
• 1957 » Eskil Erlandsson, Swedish technologist and politician, Swedish Minister for Rural Affairs
• 1957 » Jenifer Lewis, American actress and singer
• 1958 » Franco Pancheri, Italian footballer and manager

• 1947 » Al Capone, American gangster and mob boss (b. 1899)
• 1949 » Makino Nobuaki, Japanese politician, 15th Japanese Minister for Foreign Affairs (b. 1861)
• 1957 » Ichizō Kobayashi, Japanese businessman, founded Hankyu Hanshin Holdings (b. 1873)
• 1957 » Kiyoshi Shiga, Japanese physician and bacteriologist (b. 1871)
• 1958 » Cemil Topuzlu, Turkish surgeon and politician, Mayor of Istanbul (b. 1866)
• 1958 » Robert R. Young, American businessman and financier (b. 1897)
• 1960 » Diana Barrymore, American actress (b. 1921)
• 1966 » Saul Adler, Belarusian-English microbiologist and parasitologist (b. 1895)
• 1968 » Louie Myfanwy Thomas, Welsh writer (b. 1908)
• 1970 » Jane Bathori, French soprano (b. 1877)

• 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.
• July 13 » The Dartmouth workshop is the first conference on artificial intelligence.
• 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.
• September 27 » USAF Captain Milburn G. Apt becomes the first person to exceed Mach 3. Shortly thereafter, the Bell X-2 goes out of control and Captain Apt is killed.
• November 1 » The Springhill mining disaster in Springhill, Nova Scotia kills 39 miners; 88 are rescued.
• November 22 » The Summer Olympics, officially known as the games of the XVI Olympiad, are opened in Melbourne, Australia.

The temperature on January 25, 1956 was between -2.5 °C and 5.2 °C and averaged 1.6 °C. There was 1.5 mm of rain during 0.5 hours. There was 7.5 hours of sunshine (86%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west.