Editing 1956 (section)

=== February ===
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* [[February 1]] – [[Mike Kitchen]], Canadian ice hockey player and coach
* [[February 2]] – [[Alireza Soleimani]], Iranian heavyweight freestyle wrestler (d. [[2014]])
* [[February 3]]
** [[Nathan Lane]], American actor
** [[Lee Ranaldo]], American musician
* [[February 10]] – [[Enele Sopoaga]], 12th prime minister of Tuvalu
* [[February 11]] – [[Didier Lockwood]], French jazz violinist (d. [[2018]])
* [[February 13]]
** [[Peter Hook]], British bass player
** [[Yiannis Kouros]], Greek-Australian ultra marathoner
** [[Jay Nixon]], 55th [[governor of Missouri]]
* [[February 14]] – [[Tom Burlinson]], Australian actor
* [[February 15]] – [[Desmond Haynes]], West Indian cricketer
* [[February 18]] – [[Thomas Gradin]], Swedish hockey player
* [[February 19]]
** [[Kathleen Beller]], American actress
** [[Roderick MacKinnon]], American biologist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]]
* [[February 20]] – [[François Bréda]], Romanian essayist, poet, literary critic, literary historian, translator and theatrologist (d. [[2018]])
* [[February 23]] – [[Reinhold Beckmann]], German television presenter
* [[February 24]] – [[Judith Butler]], American philosopher
* [[February 25]]
** [[Davie Cooper]], Scottish footballer (d. [[1995]])
** [[Michel Friedman]], German lawyer, politician and talk show host
* [[February 26]] – [[Keisuke Kuwata]], Japanese musician
* [[February 28]] – [[Thomas Remengesau Jr.]], 7th and 9th [[president of Palau]]
* [[February 29]] – [[Aileen Wuornos]], American serial killer (d. [[2002]])