About the day » Monday March 19, 1956Calender converter

• Gijsbert Struijk, rotterdam († 2011)
• Elisabeth van Veenendaal, Ommen († 1973)
• Jacobus Hendrikus Gijsbertus (Hans) den Haring, Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1998)
• Debra Marie Willen, Covington, Kenton, Kentucky, Verenigde Staten († 1992)
• NN Buntjer, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Emke Maria Cardinaal
• Robert van den Heuvel, Utrecht († 2017)
• José Rommers († 2008)
• Wilhelma Frederike COOMANS, Rotterdam († 2018)
• marie-jose (jean) dambacher, tegelen

• Andrew Jackson Hall (89), Akron, OH
• Albertine Coralie VAN HOUTTE (70), Lille,59000,Nord,Nord-Pas-de-Calais,FRANCE
• Alice (Ellechina) Timmer (78), Mille Lacs County, Minnesota, United States
• Adriana Catharina Van Geest (77), Wassenaar, Wassenaar, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Albert Zuiderweg (76)
• Annie Louisa Morris NMOR03.ANN01 (89), Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
• Anna Gezina den Haan (80), Oegstgeest
• Alfred Gamman Todd (75), Warren, Warren, Pennsylvania
• Abraham (Bram) van der Leden (0), Ameide
• Anna Geziena den Haan (80), Oegstgeest

• 1952 » Harvey Weinstein, American director and producer
• 1952 » Martin Ravallion, Australian economist and academic
• 1952 » Warren Lees, New Zealand cricketer and coach
• 1953 » Ian Blair, English police officer
• 1953 » Peter Hendy, English businessman
• 1953 » Ricky Wilson, American singer-songwriter and musician († 1985)
• 1954 » Cho Kwang-rae, South Korean footballer, coach, and manager
• 1955 » Bruce Willis, German-American actor and producer
• 1956 » Yegor Gaidar, Russian economist and politician, First Deputy Prime Minister of Russia († 2009)
• 1958 » Andy Reid, American football player and coach

• 1942 » Clinton Hart Merriam, American zoologist, ornithologist, and entomologist (b. 1855)
• 1944 » William Hale Thompson, American rancher and politician, 41st Mayor of Chicago (b. 1869)
• 1949 » James Newland, Australian soldier and policeman (b. 1881)
• 1949 » James Somerville, English admiral and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Somerset (b. 1882)
• 1950 » Edgar Rice Burroughs, American soldier and author (b. 1875)
• 1950 » Norman Haworth, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1883)
• 1951 » Dmytro Doroshenko, Ukrainian historian and politician, Prime Minister of Ukraine (b. 1882)
• 1976 » Albert Dieudonné, French actor and author (b. 1889)
• 1976 » Paul Kossoff, English guitarist and songwriter (b. 1950)
• 1977 » William L. Laurence, Lithuanian-born American journalist and author (b. 1888)

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 3 » A fire damages the top part of the Eiffel Tower.
• March 1 » The International Air Transport Association finalizes a draft of the Radiotelephony spelling alphabet for the International Civil Aviation Organization.
• September 9 » Elvis Presley appears on The Ed Sullivan Show for the first time.
• November 1 » The Springhill mining disaster in Springhill, Nova Scotia kills 39 miners; 88 are rescued.
• November 2 » Suez Crisis: Israel occupies the Gaza Strip.
• November 7 » Hungarian Revolution: János Kádár returns to Budapest in a Soviet armored convoy, officially taking office as the next Hungarian leader. By this point, most armed resistance has been defeated.

The temperature on March 19, 1956 was between 1.0 °C and 10.3 °C and averaged 5.9 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.3 hours. There was 4.5 hours of sunshine (37%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east.