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• N.N. Eijndhoven, Jutphaas
• Marijtje van Duijn, Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2010)
• Annette Susan Raymond, Port Townsend, Jefferson, Washington, Verenigde Staten († 1999)
• Siem Buis, Schagen († 2014)
• Cornelis Johannes Ludovicus Maria Michielsen, Breda
• Jacob Roelf Ganzeveld († 2014)
• Dirkje Oosterhof († 2012)
• Anja Cornelia Wilhelmina de Bock, 's-Gravenhage († 1960)
• Johanna Petronella Maria Apeldoorn, 't Zand († 1956)
• Evalien Struik, Assen, Assen, Drenthe, Nederland († 2011)

• Adriana Janna van der Veen (71), Woubrugge, Kaag en Braassem, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Antonius Hermannus Meeuwenberg (87), Eindhoven, Nederland
• Caroline Virginia Lemmons (93), Osage County, Missouri, Verenigde Staten
• Antonius Kok de (87), Tilburg
• Antonius de Kok (87), Tilburg
• Catharina Adriana Bergenhenegouwen (81), Zundert, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Cecelia Dewaelsche (45)
• Dingeman VAN DER HEIJDE (93), Melissant
• Albertine Nikoline Emilie Albertsdatter,Kyskmo (76), Krokstrand, Beiarn, Nordland, Norge
• Alberta Goedhart (80)

• 1953 » Howard Kurtz, American journalist and author
• 1953 » Robert Cray, American blues singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1954 » Benno Möhlmann, German footballer and manager
• 1954 » James Gleick, American journalist and author
• 1954 » Trevor Berbick, Jamaican-Canadian boxer († 2006)
• 1957 » Taylor Negron, American actor and screenwriter († 2015)
• 1958 » Kiki Vandeweghe, American basketball player and coach
• 1958 » Michael Penn, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1958 » Rob Buck, American guitarist and songwriter († 2000)
• 1959 » Joe Elliott, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer

• 1943 » Lydia Litvyak, Russian lieutenant and pilot (b. 1921)
• 1944 » Manuel L. Quezon, Filipino soldier, lawyer, and politician, 2nd President of the Philippines (b. 1878)
• 1959 » Jean Behra, French race car driver (b. 1921)
• 1963 » Theodore Roethke, American poet (b. 1908)
• 1966 » Charles Whitman, American murderer (b. 1941)
• 1967 » Richard Kuhn, Austrian-German biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1900)
• 1970 » Doris Fleeson, American journalist (b. 1901)
• 1970 » Frances Farmer, American actress (b. 1913)
• 1970 » Otto Heinrich Warburg, German physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1883)
• 1973 » Gian Francesco Malipiero, Italian composer and educator (b. 1882)

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.
• March 9 » Soviet forces suppress mass demonstrations in the Georgian SSR, reacting to Nikita Khrushchev's de-Stalinization policy.
• July 16 » Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus closes its last "Big Tent" show in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; due to changing economics, all subsequent circus shows will be held in arenas.
• 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 7 » Suez Crisis: The United Nations General Assembly adopts a resolution calling for the United Kingdom, France and Israel to immediately withdraw their troops from Egypt.
• 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 August 1, 1956 was between 10.4 °C and 16.4 °C and averaged 13.3 °C. There was 12.9 mm of rain during 7.5 hours. There was 0.9 hours of sunshine (6%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.