About the day » Monday February 6, 1956Calender converter

• Toussaint, Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• N.N. Hanssen, Heerlen
• Hendrikje Plomp, Hellendoorn, Overijssel, Nederland
• Rudy Lugtenberg, Creil († 2011)
• Agnes Mathea Jacobs, Helden († 1956)
• Oranda Maria Theresia Sanders, Landsmeer († 2002)
• Mariane Yvonne Kooy, Delft, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2014)
• Saat, Huissen
• Joyce Elaine Merchant, Sioux City († 2016)
• N.N. Jacobs, Chaam († 1956)

• Charles Harvey Patterson (65)
• Bernadette Louise Theresia Héman (0), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Agnes Anthonette Maria Serrarens (22), Oostburg, Zeeland, Nederland
• Albert Wassink (71), Voorst, Gelderland, Nederland
• Anthonia Houtman (88), Yerseke, Zeeland, Nederland
• Axel Adlersparre (74), Högalid, Stockholm, Sverige
• Bernard Eelco Rudolphus Hessling (57), Bussum, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• ALICE GISLENA SIGENITZ von SIGENBURG (74), SINT-NIKLAAS,OOST-VLAANDEREN,BELGIE
• A.S.J(Arnoldus) Hoek, Almelo
• Antonius van den Boomen (55)

• 1952 » Ric Charlesworth, Australian cricketer, coach, and politician
• 1955 » Avram Grant, Israeli football manager
• 1955 » Bruno Stolorz, French rugby player and coach
• 1955 » Michael Pollan, American journalist, author, and academic
• 1956 » Jerry Marotta, American drummer
• 1957 » Andres Lipstok, Estonian economist and politician, Estonian Minister of Economic Affairs
• 1957 » Kathy Najimy, American actress and comedian
• 1957 » Robert Townsend, American actor and director
• 1957 » Simon Phillips, English drummer and producer
• 1958 » Cecily Adams, American actress and casting director († 2004)

• 1938 » Marianne von Werefkin, Russian-Swiss painter (b. 1860)
• 1942 » Jaan Soots, Estonian general and politician, 7th Estonian Minister of War (b. 1880)
• 1951 » Gabby Street, American baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1882)
• 1952 » George VI of the United Kingdom (b. 1895)
• 1958 » victims of the Munich air disaster
• 1963 » Piero Manzoni, Italian painter and sculptor (b. 1933)
• 1964 » Emilio Aguinaldo, Filipino general and politician, 1st President of the Philippines (b. 1869)
• 1967 » Martine Carol, French actress (b. 1920)
• 1972 » Julian Steward, American anthropologist (b. 1902)
• 1976 » Ritwik Ghatak, Bangladeshi-Indian director and screenwriter (b. 1925)

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.
• January 30 » African-American civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr.'s home is bombed in retaliation for the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
• April 5 » In Sri Lanka, the Mahajana Eksath Peramuna win the general elections in a landslide and S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike is sworn in as the Prime Minister of Ceylon.
• October 14 » Dr. B. R. Ambedkar, leader of India's Untouchable caste, converts to Buddhism along with 385,000 of his followers (see Neo-Buddhism).
• October 17 » The first commercial nuclear power station is officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II in Sellafield, England.
• 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.
• December 6 » A violent water polo match between Hungary and the USSR takes place during the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, against the backdrop of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956.

The temperature on February 6, 1956 was between -5.4 °C and -1.0 °C and averaged -2.4 °C. The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast.