About the day » Tuesday September 4, 1956Calender converter

• Geertruida Margaretha Kompagne († 1976)
• Foskiene Jantien Ellen Sorgdrager († 1983)
• Wessels, Haarlem
• James Harmon Swann, Columbus, Franklin, Ohio, Verenigde Staten († 2006)
• Maria Arnouts († 1956)
• Jan Moes, Almelo († 2001)
• Dorinda Mary Millar Richard, Edinburgh, Scotland († 2018)
• Ronald SPRONK, utrecht († 1965)
• Pearline Mae Ramlal Rowe- Haplo M, Jamaica († 1986)
• Marrigje Harmke Hofstede, Wilsum, Overijssel, Nederland († 2020)

• Carolus Augustinus FEYEN (73), Retie,2470,Anvers,Flandre,BELGIQUE
• Abraham Paul Swartzlander Gerhart (89), Telford, Bucks, Pennsylvania, Verenigde Staten
• Charles Andoetoe (59), Soerabaja, Ned. Indië
• Cornelis Smit (25), Assen, Drenthe, Netherlands
• Antonia Johanna van Tol (80), Almelo
• Charles Wilson (Charlie) Hodge (69), Huttig, Arkansas
• Carolus Augustinus Feyen (73), Retie, België
• Apolonia van der Ende (77), Delft,Gemeente Delft,South Holland,Nederland
• Cornelis Hanemaaijer (65), De Lier
• Christina Johanna Barink (68), Zutphen

• 1953 » Janet Biehl, American philosopher and author
• 1953 » Michael Stean, English chess player and author
• 1955 » Brian Schweitzer, American politician, 23rd Governor of Montana
• 1955 » David Broza, Israeli singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1955 » Garth Le Roux, South African cricketer
• 1956 » Blackie Lawless, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1957 » Khandi Alexander, American actress, dancer, and choreographer
• 1958 » Drew Pinsky, American radio and television host
• 1958 » Jacqueline Hewitt, American astrophysicist and astronomer
• 1958 » Marzio Innocenti, Italian rugby player and coach

• 1940 » George William de Carteret, French-English journalist and author (b. 1869)
• 1944 » Erich Fellgiebel, German general (b. 1886)
• 1963 » Robert Schuman, Luxembourgian-French politician, 130th Prime Minister of France (b. 1886)
• 1965 » Albert Schweitzer, French-Gabonese physician, theologian, and missionary, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1875)
• 1974 » Charles Arnison, English airman (b. 1893)
• 1974 » Creighton Abrams, American general (b. 1914)
• 1974 » Lewi Pethrus, Swedish minister and hymn-writer (b. 1884)
• 1974 » Marcel Achard, French playwright and screenwriter (b. 1899)
• 1977 » Jean Rostand, French biologist and philosopher (b. 1894)
• 1977 » Stelios Perpiniadis, Greek singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1899)

• 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.
• March 23 » Pakistan becomes the first Islamic republic in the world. This date is now celebrated as Republic Day in Pakistan.
• June 28 » in Poznań, workers from HCP factory go to the streets, sparking one of the first major protests against communist government both in Poland and Europe.
• September 9 » Elvis Presley appears on The Ed Sullivan Show for the first time.
• October 15 » FORTRAN, the first modern computer language, is first shared with the coding community.
• October 17 » Bobby Fischer defeats Donald Byrne in the chess Game of the Century.
• October 30 » Hungarian Revolution: The government recognizes the new workers' councils. Army officer Béla Király leads an attack on the Communist Party headquarters.

The temperature on September 4, 1956 was between 9.3 °C and 16.4 °C and averaged 12.6 °C. There was 1.0 mm of rain during 0.6 hours. There was 2.2 hours of sunshine (16%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south.