About the day » Tuesday August 21, 1956Calender converter

• Jean-Francois POELMANS
• N.N. Verhage, Middelburg, Zeeland, NL
• catharina gertruda lphonsa maria (carla) reijnen, helden-dorp
• Geesje Jongman, Vollenhove († 2022)
• Egbert Nico Blom († 1999)
• petrus franciscus maria (pieter) grommen, helden-beringe
• Cynthia Anne Kondracki († 1995)
• Johannes Johannsz Heemskerk, Katwijk († 2005)
• Koenraad Johananes Gerardus Maria (Koen) van den Hombergh, Velden, Limburg, Nederland († 2016)
• Daniel John Boksteyn, Medicine Hat (Canada) († 2000)

• Adrianus Sijbrand van den ANCKER (45), Kokengen
• Andreas Meijers (74)
• Arie DE BOOM (44), Rotterdam
• Antje Anje (76), Groningen (Groningen)
• Aaltje Bronner (79), Amsterdam
• Adriana Maria Felten (85), Eindhoven
• Agatha DUBBEL (72), 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Albertus Chr. Joh. Schepper (65)
• Aaltje Prins (80), Doornspijk
• Aaltje Andries Kobus (84)

• 1953 » Ivan Stang, American author, publisher, and director
• 1954 » Archie Griffin, American football player
• 1954 » Mark Williams, New Zealand-Australian singer-songwriter
• 1954 » Steve Smith, American drummer
• 1956 » Jon Tester, American farmer and politician
• 1956 » Kim Cattrall, English-Canadian actress
• 1957 » Frank Pastore, American baseball player and radio host († 2012)
• 1958 » Mark Williams, Australian footballer and coach
• 1959 » Anne Hobbs, English tennis player and coach
• 1959 » Jim McMahon, American football player and coach

• 1940 » Hermann Obrecht, Swiss lawyer and politician (b. 1882)
• 1943 » Henrik Pontoppidan, Danish journalist and author, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1857)
• 1947 » Ettore Bugatti, Italian-French engineer and businessman, founded Bugatti (b. 1881)
• 1951 » Constant Lambert, English composer and conductor (b. 1905)
• 1957 » Harald Sverdrup, Norwegian meteorologist and oceanographer (b. 1888)
• 1957 » Mait Metsanurk, Estonian author and playwright (b. 1879)
• 1957 » Nels Stewart, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1902)
• 1960 » David B. Steinman, American engineer, designed the Mackinac Bridge (b. 1886)
• 1964 » Palmiro Togliatti, Italian journalist and politician, Italian Minister of Justice (b. 1893)
• 1971 » George Jackson, American activist and author, co-founded the Black Guerrilla Family (b. 1941)

• 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 8 » Operation Auca: Five U.S. missionaries are killed by the Huaorani of Ecuador shortly after making contact with them.
• 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.
• July 13 » The Dartmouth workshop is the first conference on artificial intelligence.
• August 6 » After going bankrupt in 1955, the American broadcaster DuMont Television Network makes its final broadcast, a boxing match from St. Nicholas Arena in New York in the Boxing from St. Nicholas Arena series.
• November 12 » In the midst of the Suez Crisis, Palestinian refugees are shot dead in Rafah by Israeli soldiers following the invasion of the Gaza Strip.
• December 28 » Chin Peng, David Marshall and Tunku Abdul Rahman meet in Baling, Malaya to try and resolve the Malayan Emergency situation.

The temperature on August 21, 1956 was between 6.6 °C and 18.4 °C and averaged 13.5 °C. There was 9.8 hours of sunshine (68%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.