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• Willem Jan Aaftink († 2003)
• Barry Neil Radestock, Adelaide, South Australia
• Gerrit van Asselt, Elspeet (Ermelo) († 2009)
• gerardus theodorus (gerard) sonnemans, helden-beringe
• André van der Valk, Jutphaas († 2001)
• Arie Pennings († 2005)
• Gerry Bouwknegt († 2007)
• N.N. Mulder, Groningen († 1956)
• Johanna Maria Langeslag († 1977)
• Sandra PRETORIUS († 1973)

• Catharina Laurina van Dun (76), 's-Hertogenbosch, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Annigje Cornelisdr van Leenen (81), Numansdorp
• Aart Jacobus IJzerman (71), Heerde
• Aagje AAFJES (77), Wassenaar, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Bas Roemen (83), Leeuwen
• Carmack Harris (46), Chattanooga, Hamilton, Tennessee
• Carolus Cornelis Henricus Meijers (64), Nijmegen
• Aaltje Bruggeman (87), Lochem, Lochem, Gelderland, Netherlands
• Anna Bertha Grimm (64), Odersberg, Lahn-Dill-Kreis, Hesse, Germany
• Catharina Laurina Maria van Dun (76), 's-Hertogenbosch

• 1954 » Aleksander Kwaśniewski, Polish journalist and politician, 3rd President of Poland
• 1954 » Emma Dent Coad, British politician
• 1954 » Kevin S. Bright, American director and producer
• 1954 » Randy Thomas, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1955 » Joe Leeway, English pop singer-songwriter and percussionist
• 1956 » Michael Hampton, American guitarist and producer
• 1957 » Gerry Connolly, Australian comedian and actor
• 1957 » Harold Marcuse, American historian and educator
• 1957 » Kevin Eubanks, American guitarist and composer
• 1957 » Michael Woythe, German footballer and manager

• 1949 » Narayan Apte, Indian activist, assassin of Mahatma Gandhi (b. 1911)
• 1949 » Nathuram Godse, Indian assassin of Mahatma Gandhi (b. 1910)
• 1951 » Frank Weston Benson, American painter and educator (b. 1862)
• 1954 » Lionel Barrymore, American actor, singer, director, and screenwriter (b. 1878)
• 1956 » Emma Richter, German paleontologist (b. 1888)
• 1958 » Tyrone Power, American actor, singer, and producer (b. 1914)
• 1959 » Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, Scottish physicist and meteorologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1869)
• 1960 » Robert Raymond Cook, Canadian murderer (b. 1937)
• 1961 » Elsie Ferguson, American actress (b. 1883)
• 1961 » Johanna Westerdijk, Dutch pathologist and academic (b. 1883)

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. Yvonne
11. Hendrika
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.
• February 25 » In his speech On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences, Nikita Khrushchev, leader of the Soviet Union, denounces Stalin.
• June 23 » The French National Assembly takes the first step in creating the French Community by passing the Loi Cadre, transferring a number of powers from Paris to elected territorial governments in French West Africa.
• June 28 » in Poznań, workers from HCP factory go to the streets, sparking one of the first major protests against communist government both in Poland and Europe.
• October 31 » Suez Crisis: The United Kingdom and France begin bombing Egypt to force the reopening of the Suez Canal.
• November 3 » Hungarian Revolution: A new Hungarian government is formed, in which many members of banned non-Communist parties participate. During negotiations on Tököl Island ostensibly on Soviet troop withdrawal, the KGB arrests Pál Maléter and other Hungarian Revolutionary commanders, effectively decapitating the Revolution's military leadership. János Kádár and Ferenc Münnich form a counter-government in Moscow as Soviet troops ready for the final assault.
• December 4 » The Million Dollar Quartet (Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, and Johnny Cash) get together at Sun Studio for the first and last time.

The temperature on November 15, 1956 was between 2.4 °C and 10.3 °C and averaged 6.7 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.8 hours. There was 6.0 hours of sunshine (68%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest.