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• Elward Lee Pitchford († 2011)
• Hendrik Johan Arnold de Zwart, Texel († 2014)
• Jan Lammens († 1974)
• carla Siegers, Den Haag
• Tineke Hagedoorn († 2016)
• Jan Lammens († 1974)
• Tineke Scheurkogel, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1996)
• Ron van Tunen, Surrey († 2016)
• Eduard Maurits Nicolaas BERGMAN, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1983)
• Raymond Bartholomeo Franciska († 1957)

• Charles Arthur Jackson (82), Havre, Hill, Montana, VS
• Charles T Reiman (57), Missouri, Verenigde Staten
• Antje Zwaneveld (82), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Andrew Lewis "Bud" McGown (79), Beaumont, Jefferson, Texas, United States
• Anna Petronella Vellekoop (63), Hilversum
• Annechien Roggen (82)
• Antje KRAMER (76), Urk, Flevoland, Nederland
• Alberdina Brandsema (91), Waddinxveen, Zuid-Holland, Pays-Bas
• Anetta Martina VAN VOORST (61), Arnhem
• Anna Lindner (56), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1954 » Alain Daigle, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1954 » Heini Otto, Dutch footballer, coach, and manager
• 1955 » Mike Huckabee, American minister and politician, 44th Governor of Arkansas
• 1956 » Dick Lee, Singaporean singer-songwriter and playwright
• 1956 » Gerry Cooney, American boxer
• 1956 » John Culberson, American lawyer and politician
• 1957 » Jeffrey Daniel, American singer-songwriter and dancer
• 1957 » Stephen Fry, English actor, journalist, producer, and screenwriter
• 1958 » Chris Offutt, American author and academic
• 1958 » Steve Guttenberg, American actor and producer

• 1939 » Frederick Carl Frieseke, American painter and educator (b. 1874)
• 1940 » Paul Gottlieb Nipkow, Polish-German technician and inventor, invented the Nipkow disk (b. 1860)
• 1943 » Antonio Alice, Argentinian painter and educator (b. 1886)
• 1943 » Simone Weil, French philosopher and activist (b. 1909)
• 1946 » James Clark McReynolds, American lawyer and judge, 48th United States Attorney General (b. 1862)
• 1954 » Getúlio Vargas, Brazilian lawyer and politician, 14th President of Brazil (b. 1882)
• 1956 » Kenji Mizoguchi, Japanese director and screenwriter (b. 1898)
• 1958 » Paul Henry, Irish painter and educator (b. 1876)
• 1967 » Henry J. Kaiser, American businessman, founded Kaiser Shipyards and Kaiser Aluminum (b. 1882)
• 1974 » Alexander P. de Seversky, Russian-American pilot and businessman, co-founded Republic Aviation (b. 1894)

• 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.
• April 3 » Hudsonville–Standale tornado: The western half of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan is struck by a deadly F5 tornado.
• April 30 » Former Vice President and Democratic Senator Alben Barkley dies during a speech in Virginia.
• 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.
• 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 24, 1956 was between 9.8 °C and 17.1 °C and averaged 13.1 °C. There was 4.6 mm of rain during 1.5 hours. There was 9.5 hours of sunshine (67%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.