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• Pietertje Post († 1956)
• Wilhelmina de Graaff, Australie († 2020)
• Jacoba Hacquebard, Amsterdam († 1956)
• Diny Kivits († 2003)
• Anna Jacoba Maria Admiraal, Egmond Binnen (gem. Bergen, NH) († 2004)
• Cornelia Wilhelmina (Corry) de Graaff, Australia († 2020)
• Pietertje Post, Urk († 1956)
• Cornelia Wilhelmina de Graaff, Australie († 2020)
• Tjebbe Titus De Jong, Gouda († 2013)
• Robert Jon van de Brake, Orange City, Sioux County, Iowa († 1995)

• Adrianus Jacobus van Loon (78), Tilburg
• Elisabeth Knijff (62), Leiden, Nederland
• Elisabeth Knijff (62), Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Clazina Johanna Hoek (71), Den Haag, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Cornelis Goedegebuur (77), Rotterdam
• André Deraedt (52)
• Ella Wilcox (65), Park Rapids Minnesota, Verenigde Staten
• Eduard Albertus BAKE (70), Batavia (NOI)
• Alfonso Sammarco (85), Itapetininga, São Paulo, Brasil
• Batje van Vuren (73), Haarlemmermeer

• 1952 » Tamás Faragó, Hungarian water polo player
• 1953 » Rick Mahler, American baseball player and coach († 2005)
• 1955 » Eddie Ojeda, American guitarist and songwriter
• 1956 » Christopher Chessun, English Anglican bishop
• 1956 » Jerry Ciccoritti, Canadian actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1957 » David Gill, English businessman
• 1957 » Faith Prince, American actress and singer
• 1957 » Larry Corowa, Australian rugby league player
• 1959 » Pat Smear, American guitarist and songwriter
• 1959 » Pete Burns, English singer-songwriter († 2016)

• 1944 » Maurice Turnbull, Welsh cricketer and rugby player (b. 1906)
• 1946 » Wilhelm Marx, German lawyer and politician, 17th Chancellor of Germany (b. 1863)
• 1948 » Montagu Toller, English cricketer and lawyer (b. 1871)
• 1952 » Sameera Moussa, Egyptian physicist and academic (b. 1917)
• 1955 » Carmen Miranda, Portuguese-Brazilian actress and singer (b. 1909)
• 1957 » Heinrich Otto Wieland, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1877)
• 1959 » Edgar Guest, English-American journalist and poet (b. 1881)
• 1960 » Arthur Meighen, Canadian lawyer and politician, 9th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1874)
• 1963 » Salvador Bacarisse, Spanish composer (b. 1898)
• 1964 » Art Ross, Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach (b. 1886)

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. Jacob
16. Jacobus

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. Linda

• 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 2 » As the World Turns and The Edge of Night premiere on CBS. The two soaps become the first daytime dramas to debut in the 30-minute format.
• May 1 » A doctor in Japan reports an "epidemic of an unknown disease of the central nervous system", marking the official discovery of Minamata disease.
• June 30 » A TWA Super Constellation and a United Airlines DC-7 collide above the Grand Canyon in Arizona and crash, killing all 128 on board both airliners.
• September 13 » The dike around the Dutch polder East Flevoland is closed.
• 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.

The temperature on August 5, 1956 was between 7.4 °C and 17.5 °C and averaged 12.1 °C. There was 4.7 mm of rain during 1.9 hours. There was 1.6 hours of sunshine (10%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest.