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• Aleid De Jong, Utrecht († 2020)
• Jacoba Antonetta Imthorn, Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1956)
• Jan Hooiman, Huisen († 2019)
• Arthur van der Molen, Schiedam, Provincie Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Robert Nicholas Brayley, Los Angeles Calif., Verenigde Staten († 1987)
• HENDRIK ANJEMA, SARNIA ONTARIO CANADA,CA († 2024)
• Antonius Adrianus Maria Klaassen, Gilze en Rijen († 2003)
• Albert Seinen († 1992)
• Wilhelmus Gerardus Lambertus Maria Puts, Posterholt († 2008)
• Bernadette Antonia Maria Berends, Nijmegen († 2008)

• Anna Maria HOUBEN (93), Schimmert,, Limburg, Nederland
• Anne Klazes Jansen (81), Wirdum, Leeuwarderadeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Aaltje Pieters (83), Haren
• Alice Gertrude Hall (44), Los Angeles, Los Angeles Co., California, Verenigde Staten
• VERTENTEN (72), Ruisbroek-Sauvegarde
• Albert Oldejans (79)
• Aaltje Groote (79)
• Anne Klazes Jansen (81), Leeuwarden, Friesland, Nederland
• Agnes Brouillet (93), Kankakee, Illinois, Verenigde Staten
• "Jean Thierry" Marie Ghislain de Beughem de Houtem (49), Woluwe-Saint-Lambert, Bruxelles, Belgique

• 1953 » Kenny Bee, Hong Kong singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
• 1953 » Satoru Nakajima, Japanese race car driver
• 1954 » Rajini Thiranagama, Sri Lankan physician and academic († 1989)
• 1954 » Viktor Yushchenko, Ukrainian captain and politician, 3rd President of Ukraine
• 1955 » Flip Saunders, American basketball player and coach († 2015)
• 1955 » Howard Jones, English singer-songwriter
• 1956 » Sandra Osborne, Scottish politician
• 1958 » David Sylvian, English singer-songwriter
• 1959 » Clayton Anderson, American engineer and astronaut
• 1959 » Nick de Bois, English politician

• 1944 » Leo Baekeland, Belgian-American chemist and engineer (b. 1863)
• 1946 » Tomoyuki Yamashita, Japanese general (b. 1885)
• 1948 » John Robert Gregg, Irish-American publisher and educator (b. 1866)
• 1955 » Paul Claudel, French poet and playwright (b. 1868)
• 1965 » Stan Laurel, English actor and comedian (b. 1890)
• 1969 » Madhubala, Indian actress and producer (b. 1933)
• 1969 » Saud bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, 2nd King of Saudi Arabia (b. 1902)
• 1973 » Dickinson W. Richards, American physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1895)
• 1974 » Harry Ruby, American composer and screenwriter (b. 1895)
• 1976 » L. S. Lowry, English painter (b. 1887)

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.
• April 26 » SSIdeal X, the world's first successful container ship, leaves Port Newark, New Jersey, for Houston, Texas.
• May 1 » The polio vaccine developed by Jonas Salk is made available to the public.
• May 20 » In Operation Redwing, the first United States airborne hydrogen bomb is dropped over Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean.
• October 29 » Suez Crisis begins: Israeli forces invade the Sinai Peninsula and push Egyptian forces back toward the Suez Canal.
• 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 12 » Morocco, Sudan and Tunisia join the United Nations.

The temperature on February 23, 1956 was between -18.0 °C and -6.7 °C and averaged -12.2 °C. There was 5.5 hours of sunshine (53%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast.