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• Catharina Johanna Maria van Beijsterveldt, Gilze en Rijen
• Camille Jean-René LEPERLIER, Cilaos († 1956)
• Gerarda Antonia Wilhelmina van der Pluijm, Geertruidenberg, Geertruidenberg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 2002)
• ? Siebrand, Kampen, Overijssel, Nederland († 1956)
• Marie Anne Colpaert, Sleidinge
• Jan Roelf Hofsteenge, Groningen († 1969)
• Sylvia GOB († 1998)
• Aaltje Klazina Karssies († 1988)
• Antonius Licht, Bergen († 1956)
• N.N. Siebrand, Kampen,Gemeente Kampen, Overijssel, Nederland

• Alphonsus Henricus Isenborghs (70), Rillaar, Provincie Vlaams-Brabant, Flanders, België
• Albert Pakes (63), Peize
• Adrianus Kuijpers (78), Boekel
• Alexander Adolf Karel Willem Eckbrecht Joachim Kielman Graaf van Kielmansegg (67), Seestermüh, Sleeswijk-Holstein
• Bernard Heinrich (Bernard Henry) Suhlmann OR Suelmann (73), St. Louis, Missouri (USA)
• Carolus Ludovicus De Maerschalck (65), Lier
• Adrianus de Leeuw (81), Rotterdam
• Aleida Bakker (86), Coevorden, Drenthe, Nederland
• Cassie Gerdes (69), Idaho
• Cecilia Maria Adriana van Loon (81), Roosendaal

• 1954 » Johnny Logan, Australian-Irish singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1956 » Fred Melamed, American actor
• 1956 » Kailash Vijayvargiya, National General Secretary of Bhartiya Janta Party
• 1956 » Richard Madeley, English journalist and author
• 1957 » Alan Ball, American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1957 » David Hill, English organist and conductor
• 1957 » Frances Barber, English actress
• 1957 » Koji Suzuki, Japanese author and screenwriter
• 1957 » Mar Roxas, Filipino economist and politician, 24th Filipino Secretary of the Interior
• 1957 » Mark Heap, English actor

• 1941 » Frederick Christian, English cricketer (b. 1877)
• 1945 » Tubby Hall, American drummer (b. 1895)
• 1946 » Zara DuPont, American suffragist (b. 1869)
• 1947 » Sukanta Bhattacharya, Indian poet and playwright (b. 1926)
• 1948 » Kathleen Cavendish, Marchioness of Hartington (b. 1920)
• 1957 » Michael Fekete, Hungarian-Israeli mathematician and academic (b. 1886)
• 1961 » Gary Cooper, American actor (b. 1901)
• 1962 » Franz Kline, American painter and academic (b. 1910)
• 1962 » Henry Trendley Dean, American dentist (b. 1893)
• 1963 » Alois Hudal, Austrian-Italian bishop (b. 1885)

• 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.
• March 23 » Pakistan becomes the first Islamic republic in the world. This date is now celebrated as Republic Day in Pakistan.
• July 13 » The Dartmouth workshop is the first conference on artificial intelligence.
• September 13 » The IBM 305 RAMAC is introduced, the first commercial computer to use disk storage.
• October 30 » Hungarian Revolution: The government recognizes the new workers' councils. Army officer Béla Király leads an attack on the Communist Party headquarters.
• November 1 » The Springhill mining disaster in Springhill, Nova Scotia kills 39 miners; 88 are rescued.
• 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 May 13, 1956 was between 5.3 °C and 18.0 °C and averaged 11.4 °C. There was 9.2 hours of sunshine (59%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.