About the day » Tuesday August 21, 1956Calender converter

• Peter M. Beauvais, Monroe County, Michigan, Verenigde Staten († 2012)
• Anja van der Touw, Schiedam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1957)
• Egbert Nico Blom († 1999)
• Cynthia Anne Kondracki († 1995)
• Jean-Francois POELMANS
• Twan Claessens († 2011)
• Geesje Jopngman, Vollenhove († 2022)
• N.N. Verhage, Middelburg, Zeeland, NL
• Benjamin Boers, Delft, Nederland († 2010)
• Joel David Moorhead, Cambridge, Guernsey, Ohio, Verenigde Staten († 1956)

• Agatha Warbie (53), Rotterdam
• Albertus Sybes Sybesma (67), Sneek, Gem. Sneek, Friesland, Nederland
• Adrianus Cornelis de Keizer (30), Rotterdam
• Auwel Leegwater (86), Zaandam
• Aaltje Andries Kobus (84)
• Arie DE BOOM (44), Rotterdam
• Adriaan Hendrik Brus (72), Enschede, Overijssel, Nederland
• Adriana Maria Felten (85), Den Bosch
• Allegonda Margritha Eggings (82), Arnhm
• Aaltje Prins (80)

• 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)

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.
• March 1 » The International Air Transport Association finalizes a draft of the Radiotelephony spelling alphabet for the International Civil Aviation Organization.
• March 20 » Tunisia gains independence from France.
• April 26 » SSIdeal X, the world's first successful container ship, leaves Port Newark, New Jersey, for Houston, Texas.
• October 17 » The first commercial nuclear power station is officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II in Sellafield, England.
• November 2 » Suez Crisis: Israel occupies the Gaza Strip.

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.