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• Levenloos Suanet, Geldrop († 1956)
• a.a. (dre) ter voert, rheden (gelderland)
• Doodgeboren kind Couwenberg, Waalwijk († 1956)
• Timothy A Justin, Idaho Falls, Bonneville, Idaho, Verenigde Staten († 2012)
• Irene Marianne van Leeuwen, Leiden († 2000)
• Irene Marianne (Irene) van Leeuwen († 2000)
• Jelle Raap, Garijp, Friesland, Nederland
• Johannes Marinus Adrianus Couwenberg, Waalwijk († 1956)
• N.N. Bakx, Oostburg († 1956)
• Anne Boekema, Leeuwarden († 2013)

• ALBERT VILLERIUS (80), ROTTERDAM
• Berendina Hendrika Hamhuis (70), Hardenberg
• Cecilia Maria Johanna Eyck, Heerlen
• Catharina Janna Looije (72), Monster, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anne Jakobs Bekkema (68), Rottevalle Frl
• Annie Mabel GREGORY (59)
• Arthur Grunauer (66), San Francisco, California, Verenigde Staten
• Bertha Vliek (63)
• Clasina Adriana Koene (80), 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Catharina Elisabeth Nottelman (88), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland

• 1953 » Paul Ellering, American weightlifter, wrestler, and manager
• 1955 » Chiranjeevi, Indian film actor, producer and politician
• 1956 » Paul Molitor, American baseball player and coach
• 1956 » Peter Taylor, Australian cricketer
• 1957 » Holly Dunn, American country music singer-songwriter († 2016)
• 1957 » Steve Davis, English snooker player, sportscaster, and author
• 1958 » Colm Feore, American-Canadian actor
• 1958 » Stevie Ray, American semi-retired wrestler
• 1958 » Vernon Reid, English-born American guitarist and songwriter
• 1959 » Juan Croucier, Cuban-American singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer

• 1942 » Michel Fokine, Russian dancer and choreographer (b. 1880)
• 1946 » Döme Sztójay, Hungarian general and politician, 35th Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1883)
• 1950 » Kirk Bryan, American geologist and academic (b. 1888)
• 1951 » Jack Bickell, Canadian businessman and philanthropist (b. 1884)
• 1953 » Jim Tabor, American baseball player (b. 1916)
• 1958 » Roger Martin du Gard, French novelist and paleographer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1881)
• 1960 » Johannes Sikkar, Estonian soldier and politician, Prime Minister of Estonia in exile (b. 1897)
• 1963 » William Morris, 1st Viscount Nuffield, English businessman and philanthropist, founded Morris Motors (b. 1877)
• 1967 » Gregory Goodwin Pincus, American biologist and academic, co-created the birth-control pill (b. 1903)
• 1970 » Vladimir Propp, Russian philologist and scholar (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. Yvonne
11. Hendrika
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.
• 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.
• June 5 » Elvis Presley introduces his new single, "Hound Dog", on The Milton Berle Show, scandalizing the audience with his suggestive hip movements.
• July 9 » The 7.7 M_w  Amorgos earthquake shakes the Cyclades island group in the Aegean Sea with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent). The shaking and the destructive tsunami that followed left fifty-three people dead. A damaging M7.2 aftershock occurred minutes after the mainshock.
• October 26 » Hungarian Revolution: In the towns of Mosonmagyaróvár and Esztergom, Hungarian secret police forces massacre civilians. As rebel strongholds in Budapest hold, fighting spreads throughout the country.
• November 2 » Suez Crisis: Israel occupies the Gaza Strip.
• 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.

The temperature on August 22, 1956 was between 4.9 °C and 17.6 °C and averaged 12.2 °C. There was 1.6 hours of sunshine (11%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast.