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• Wilhelmina van 't Spijker, Drogeham, Friesland, Netherlands
• Jacobus Theodorus Gerardus van Dorresteijn, Soest († 2002)
• Levenloos geboren dochter Kuijer, Baarn, Utrecht, Nederland
• Carl Schepers, McBain, Missaukee County, US-MI († 1956)
• Guido Petrus Aloijsius Marie de Maat, Hontenisse, Zeeland, Nederland († 2018)
• Marc Vergote, Roeselare († 2022)
• Yves Durieux († 1956)
• Rob Schellart († 2003)
• Koenrardus Adrianus (Koen) van Zoest, Reeuwijk († 2021)
• Robert Jack Vanderford, Longview, Cowlitz, Washington († 1970)

• Carl Schepers (0), McBain, Missaukee County, US-MI
• Aaltjen NIBBELINK (74), Dinxperlo, Nederland, Gelderland, Nederland
• Aaltje Koops (85), Ruinerwold
• Anna de Ronde (87), Schiedam
• Arnoldus Rozeboom (85), Enschede, Overijssel, Nederland
• Aafien van der Winden (78), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aaltje NIBBELINK (74), Dinxperlo, Gelderland, NL
• Caroline d'Uxkull-Gyllenband (81)
• Albert Jan Slijkhuis (88), Deventer
• ANNA JOANNA CATHARINA BISCOPS (56), MORTSEL,ANTWERPEN,BELGIE

• 1952 » Billy Powell, American keyboard player and songwriter († 2009)
• 1952 » David Richards, Welsh entrepreneur and businessman
• 1954 » Dan Hill, Canadian singer-songwriter
• 1954 » Susan Landau, American mathematician and engineer
• 1956 » Danny Wilde, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1956 » George Burley, Scottish footballer and manager
• 1957 » Horst-Ulrich Hänel, German field hockey player
• 1959 » Imbi Paju, Estonian-Finnish journalist and author
• 1960 » Catherine Davani, first female Papua New Guinean judge († 2016)
• 1960 » Tracy Grimshaw, Australian television host

• 1946 » Mikhail Kalinin, Russian civil servant and politician (b. 1875)
• 1963 » Edmond Decottignies, French weightlifter (b. 1893)
• 1963 » Nâzım Hikmet Ran, Turkish poet, author, and playwright (b. 1902)
• 1963 » Pope John XXIII (b. 1881)
• 1964 » Frans Eemil Sillanpää, Finnish author and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)
• 1964 » Kâzım Orbay, Turkish general and politician, 9th Turkish Speaker of the Parliament (b. 1887)
• 1969 » George Edwin Cooke, American soccer player (b. 1883)
• 1970 » Hjalmar Schacht, Danish-German economist, banker, and politician (b. 1877)
• 1971 » Heinz Hopf, German-Swiss mathematician and academic (b. 1894)
• 1973 » Jean Batmale, French footballer and manager (b. 1895)

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.
• May 1 » The polio vaccine developed by Jonas Salk is made available to the public.
• September 9 » Elvis Presley appears on The Ed Sullivan Show for the first time.
• October 29 » Suez Crisis begins: Israeli forces invade the Sinai Peninsula and push Egyptian forces back toward the Suez Canal.
• December 4 » The Million Dollar Quartet (Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, and Johnny Cash) get together at Sun Studio for the first and last time.
• December 19 » Irish-born physician John Bodkin Adams is arrested in connection with the suspicious deaths of more than 160 patients. Eventually he is convicted only of minor charges.
• December 31 » The Romanian Television network begins its first broadcast in Bucharest.

The temperature on June 3, 1956 was between 12.4 °C and 18.6 °C and averaged 14.6 °C. There was 1.2 mm of rain during 0.9 hours. There was 6.5 hours of sunshine (39%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.