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• Johan T'JAMPENS, Deinze, Province of East Flanders, Belgium († 1977)
• Thea van de Kooij, Grisolles (Frankrijk) († 2022)
• Willem Odink († 1992)
• Hendrik Arnold Mulderij († 1971)
• Greg Shepherd, Lake Oswego, Clackamas County, Oregon, United States of America († 2011)
• Marnick Callens, Rumbeke († 2001)
• Piet, Jansz Zwart, Egmond aan Zee († 1993)
• Maria Bernardina Gerarda Tijsse Klasen, Wijchen
• Piet Jansz Zwart, EaZ († 1993)
• Bennie Sijp, Emmer-Compascuum († 2019)

• Clara Wilhelmina Crona (82), Pensacola, Florida, Verenigde Staten
• Aren Verhage (61), Oostvoorne
• Alphonsus Johannes de Weerd (76), Halsteren, N-Br, NL
• Alje Jacobus van Deemter (70), Apeldoorn, Gelderland, Nederland
• Bernardus ter Horst (61), Amsterdam
• Alan GEURINK (18), Wausau Marathon County Wisconsin U.S.A
• Allardus Meijer (78), Bedum, Groningen, Nederland
• Anton Wilhelm Rudolf van Renesse van Duivenbode (76), 's Gravenhage
• Ambrosina Nogueira da Gama (81), Nilópolis, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
• Antonetta Goossens (79), 's-Hertogenbosch, NL

• 1954 » George Galloway, Scottish-English politician and broadcaster
• 1954 » James Cameron, Canadian director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1955 » James Reilly, Irish surgeon and politician, Minister for Children and Youth Affairs
• 1956 » Vahan Hovhannisyan, Armenian soldier and politician († 2014)
• 1957 » Laura Innes, American actress and director
• 1957 » R. R. Patil, Indian lawyer and politician, Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra († 2015)
• 1958 » Angela Bassett, American actress
• 1958 » José Luis Clerc, Argentinian tennis player and coach
• 1958 » Madonna, American singer-songwriter, producer, actress, and director
• 1958 » Oscar Collodo, Swiss-Italian rugby player and coach

• 1945 » Takijirō Ōnishi, Japanese admiral (b. 1891)
• 1948 » Babe Ruth, American baseball player and coach (b. 1895)
• 1949 » Margaret Mitchell, American journalist and author (b. 1900)
• 1952 » Lydia Field Emmet, American painter and academic (b. 1866)
• 1956 » Bela Lugosi, Hungarian-American actor (b. 1882)
• 1957 » Irving Langmuir, American chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1881)
• 1959 » Wanda Landowska, Polish-French harpsichord player (b. 1879)
• 1959 » William Halsey, Jr., American admiral (b. 1882)
• 1961 » Abdul Haq, Pakistani linguist and scholar (b. 1870)
• 1971 » Spyros Skouras, Greek-American businessman (b. 1893)

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.
• 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.
• May 24 » The first Eurovision Song Contest is held in Lugano, Switzerland.
• August 27 » The nuclear power station at Calder Hall in the United Kingdom was connected to the national power grid becoming the world's first commercial nuclear power station to generate electricity on an industrial scale.
• November 2 » Suez Crisis: Israel occupies the Gaza Strip.
• November 22 » The Summer Olympics, officially known as the games of the XVI Olympiad, are opened in Melbourne, Australia.

The temperature on August 16, 1956 was between 13.2 °C and 16.7 °C and averaged 14.6 °C. There was 5.5 mm of rain during 11.5 hours. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.