Birth Chart and Horoscope of 1956 deaths
- "Babe" Didrickson
- Al Simmons
- Albert Simon
- Alec Thurlow
- Alex Raymond
- Alexander Bell (sportsman)
- Alfredo Ferrari
- Andreas Aubert
- Anne Crawford
- Arne Johansson (ice hockey)
- Art Tatum
- Augustin Chantrel
- Ava Alice Muriel Astor
- B. S. Mardhekar
- Baiano (basketball)
- Barry Norton
- Betty Helsengreen
- Bill Cronin (fullback)
- Bill Hosket Sr.
- Billy Dixon (footballer, born 1905)
- Billy Richards (footballer, born 1905)
- Bob Olin
- Bob Rives
- Cahit Sıtkı Tarancı
- Cal Jones
- Carlo Gnocchi
- Carlos Enrique Díaz Sáenz Valiente
- Cesare Milani
- Charles Jackson French
- Clarice Hanson
- Clifford Brown
- Corinne Malvern
- César Moro
- Dave Trottier
- David Browning
- David C. Schilling
- David Seymour (photographer)
- Don Barker (politician)
- Don Currivan
- Ed Heusser
- Eddie Acuff
- Eduardo Juan Couture
- Etta Lee
- Émile Buisson
- Faith Bacon
- Feliksas Vaitkus
- Fernand Jourdant
- Fernanda Riva
- Francis J. Myers
- Frankie Trumbauer
- Fred Beeson
- Fumitaka Konoe
- George W. Church Sr.
- George Weir
- George Sessions Perry
- Gerald Chatham
- Gerald Finzi
- Gerrit Jan van Heuven Goedhart
- Giampiero Combi
- Gianpiero Combi
- Giuseppe Aliberti
- Gordon Sturtridge
- Guido Cantelli
- Hans Hutmacher
- Harald Pettersson
- Harold Edward Dahl
- Harry Chesswas
- Harry Söderman
- Hazel Jane Raines
- Helen von Münchofen
- Herminio Masantonio
- Herschel McCoy
- Hickey Nicholson
- Howard Wandrei
- Ion Călugăru
- Isaac Rosenfeld
- Jagannath Raoji Chitnis
- James Smith (footballer, born 1908)
- Jean Pusie
- Jean van Silfhout (sportsman)
- Jesús Galíndez
- Jim Beck
- Jim Elliot
- Jock McLaren
- John Magnabosco
- John McVitty
- John Shea (baseball)
- Johnny Claes
- Julius Caesar de Miranda
- Khadr El-Touni
- Leah Horowitz (runner)
- Leonard Fons
- Leonardo De Mitri
- Les Jones (footballer, born February 1910)
- Leslie Holton
- Leslie Wright (cricketer)
- Lonnie R. Moore
- Louis Rosier
- Luigi Fantappiè
- Léo Valentin
- Marilyn Mills
- Mario DeMarco
- Marshall Schact
- Matthew Halton
- Maurice Lalonde (politician)
- Maurice Tompkin
- Maurie Sheahan
- Mel Becket
- Miguel Torruco
- Milburn G. Apt
- Mona Mårtenson
- Mostefa Ben Boulaïd
- Murray J. Shubin
- Nanette Bordeaux
- Navvab Safavi
- Norbert Mueller
- Paul Gerhardt (athlete)
- Per Kaufeldt
- Preston Tucker
- Princess of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg Elisabeth
- René Bougnol
- René Couzinet
- Richard B. Fitzgibbon Jr.
- Richard Cantwell
- Richard Mead-Briggs
- Robert Norgate (sculptor)
- Rodney Collin
- Roelof Hommema
- Roy Lonergan
- Samad Vurgun
- Stan Ockers
- Sven Arefeldt
- T. Millet Hand
- Takashi Matsumoto (poet)
- Thure Sjöstedt
- Tommy Dorsey
- Tommy Maskill
- Una Mae Carlisle
- Valaida Snow
- Walt Faulkner
- Werner Haas
- Whitey McDonald
- Wilfred Shardlow
- William Ruhl
- Witold Hurewicz
- Yolanda Oreamuno