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• Adrianus Wilhelmus van der Werf, Deurne († 1957)
• Pieter Wouter (Peter) SONNEVELD, Naaldwijk (NL/ZH) († 2012)
• Frans Hendrik Kraan, Zeist († 2014)
• Veronica Wilhelmina Paula Maria Albers, Amsterdam,, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Johan Maria van Sikkelerus († 2020)
• Pieter van der Ende, de Lier († 2022)
• Joost Macquine
• Marie-Caroline Dadvisard de Talairan, Brest, 29019, France († 2010)
• Pieter Wouter Sonneveld, Naaldwijk († 2012)
• Mary Katherine Graff, Pittsburgh, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, Verenigde Staten († 1984)

• Alphile Gerda Fredricka Bergman (59), Flint, Genesee County, Michigan, Verenigde Staten
• Anna Gerarda Vink (86), Haarlem
• Ate van der Schaaff (77)
• Bertus Mol (8), Dalfsen, Overijssel, Nederland
• Bastiaan van Elswijk (70), Rotterdam
• Adriana van NIELEN (82), Vught, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anne Antoine (64), Lorquin, 57414, France
• Anthonia Lemstra (66)
• Arend Veltkamp (72), Hattem, Nederland
• Anna Roze (95), Ellsworth/Minnesota

• 1954 » Jeff Allam, English race car driver
• 1954 » Tim Parks, English author and translator
• 1955 » Lincoln Hall, Australian mountaineer and author († 2012)
• 1955 » Rob Portman, American lawyer and politician
• 1956 » Phil Harris, American captain and fisherman († 2010)
• 1956 » Shane McEntee, Irish farmer and politician, Minister of State for Food, Horticulture and Food Safety († 2012)
• 1956 » Tom Lawless, American baseball player and manager
• 1957 » Cyril Collard, French actor, director, and composer († 1993)
• 1957 » Kevin McHale, American basketball player, coach, and manager
• 1958 » Steven Isserlis, English cellist and author

• 1932 » Yun Bong-gil, South Korean activist (b. 1908)
• 1933 » George Jackson Churchward, English engineer and businessman (b. 1857)
• 1938 » Stephen Warfield Gambrill, American lawyer and politician (b. 1873)
• 1944 » Abbas II of Egypt (b. 1874)
• 1944 » Rudolph Karstadt, German businessman (b. 1856)
• 1946 » Paul Langevin, French physicist and academic (b. 1872)
• 1953 » Robert Andrews Millikan, American physicist and eugenicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1868)
• 1968 » Norman Thomas, American minister and politician (b. 1884)
• 1972 » Ahmet Emin Yalman, Turkish journalist, author, and academic (b. 1888)
• 1976 » Giuseppe Caselli, Italian painter (b. 1893)

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 3 » A fire damages the top part of the Eiffel Tower.
• March 9 » Soviet forces suppress mass demonstrations in the Georgian SSR, reacting to Nikita Khrushchev's de-Stalinization policy.
• June 5 » Elvis Presley introduces his new single, "Hound Dog", on The Milton Berle Show, scandalizing the audience with his suggestive hip movements.
• 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.
• November 13 » The Supreme Court of the United States declares Alabama laws requiring segregated buses illegal, thus ending the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

The temperature on December 19, 1956 was between 2.7 °C and 6.6 °C and averaged 4.3 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain. The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.