Editing 1956 (section)

== Deaths ==
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=== January ===
[[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 146III-105, Joseph Wirth.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Joseph Wirth]]]]
[[File:Konstantin P%C3%A4ts.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Konstantin Päts]]]]
* [[January 3]]
** [[Alexander Gretchaninov]], Russian composer (b. [[1864]])
** [[Joseph Wirth]], [[Chancellor of Germany (German Reich)|Chancellor of Germany]] (b. [[1879]])
* [[January 5]] – [[Mistinguett]], French singer and actress (b. [[1875]])
* [[January 9]] – [[Marion Leonard]], American actress (b. [[1881]])
* [[January 12]] – [[Norman Kerry]], American actor (b. [[1894]])
* [[January 18]] – [[Konstantin Päts]], 1st [[president of Estonia]] (b. [[1874]])
* [[January 23]] – Sir [[Alexander Korda]], Hungarian-born film director (b. [[1893]])
* [[January 27]] – [[Erich Kleiber]], German conductor (b. [[1890]])
* [[January 29]] – [[H. L. Mencken]], American writer (b. [[1880]])
* [[January 31]] – [[A. A. Milne]], English author (''Winnie The Pooh'') (b. [[1882]])

=== February ===
[[File:Elpidio R Quirino.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Elpidio Quirino]]]]
* [[February 2]]
** [[Bob Burns (comedian)|Bob Burns]], American comedian (b. [[1890]])
** [[Charley Grapewin]], American actor (b. [[1869]])
* [[February 3]] – [[Robert Yerkes]], American psychologist and ethologist (b. [[1876]])
* [[February 8]] – [[Connie Mack]], American baseball executive and manager ([[Philadelphia Athletics]]) and a member of the [[MLB Hall of Fame]] (b. [[1862]])
* [[February 10]] – [[Hugh Trenchard, 1st Viscount Trenchard]], British marshal of the Royal Air Force (b. [[1873]])
* [[February 18]] – [[Gustave Charpentier]], French composer (b. [[1860]])
* [[February 20]] – [[Heinrich Barkhausen]], German physicist (b. [[1881]])
* [[February 26]] – [[Elsie Janis]], American singer and actress (b. [[1889]])
* [[February 28]] 
** [[Carlo Gnocchi]], Italian [[Roman Catholic]] priest and blessed (b. [[1902]])<ref>[https://worldmissionmagazine.com/angel-of-the-war-victims/ Angel of the war victims]</ref>
** [[Frigyes Riesz]], Hungarian mathematician (b. [[1880]])<ref>{{Cite web|title=Frigyes Riesz &#124; Hungarian mathematician &#124; Britannica|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Frigyes-Riesz|access-date=2022-10-28|website=www.britannica.com|language=en}}</ref>
* [[February 29]] – [[Elpidio Quirino]], 6th [[president of the Philippines]] (b. [[1890]])

=== March ===
[[File:Joliot-curie.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Irène Joliot-Curie]]]]
[[File:WilhelmMiklas37840v.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Wilhelm Miklas]]]]
* [[March 12]] – [[Bolesław Bierut]], Polish Communist politician and statesman, former [[Prime Minister of Poland|prime minister]] and [[President of Poland|president]] of Poland (b. [[1892]])
* [[March 14]] – [[David Browning]], American Olympic diver (b. [[1931]])
* [[March 17]]
** [[Fred Allen]], American comedian (b. [[1894]])
** [[Irène Joliot-Curie]], French physicist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]] (b. [[1897]])
* [[March 18]] – [[Louis Bromfield]], American writer (b. [[1896]])
* [[March 20]]
** [[Fanny Durack]], Australian swimmer (b. [[1889]])
** [[Wilhelm Miklas]], 3rd [[president of Austria]] (b. [[1872]])
* [[March 22]]
** [[Eduardo Lonardi]], 30th [[president of Argentina]] (b. [[1896]])
** [[George Sarton]], Belgian-American chemist and historian (b. [[1884]])
* [[March 25]] – [[Robert Newton]], English actor (b. [[1905]])
* [[March 28]] – [[Thomas de Hartmann]], Russian composer (b. [[1885]])
* [[March 30]] – [[Edmund Clerihew Bentley]], English writer (b. [[1875]])
* [[March 31]] – [[Ralph DePalma]], Italian-born American race car driver (b. [[1884]])

=== April ===
[[File:Alben Barkley, Vice-President.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Alben W. Barkley]]]]
* [[April 13]] – [[Emil Nolde]], German-Danish painter (b. [[1867]])
* [[April 15]] – [[Kathleen Howard]], Canadian-born American actress and opera singer (b. [[1884]])
* [[April 19]] – [[Ernst Robert Curtius]], Alsatian philologist (b. [[1886]])
* [[April 21]]
** [[Charles MacArthur]], American playwright and screenwriter (b. [[1895]])
* [[April 24]] – [[Henry Stephenson]], British actor (b. [[1871]])
* [[April 26]] – [[Edward Arnold (actor)|Edward Arnold]], American actor (b. [[1890]])
* [[April 29]]
** [[Harold Bride]], English-born junior radio officer on RMS ''Titanic'' (b. [[1890]])
** [[Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb]], German field marshal (b. [[1876]])
* [[April 30]] – [[Alben W. Barkley]], [[List of Vice Presidents of the United States|35th]] [[Vice President of the United States]] (b. [[1877]])

=== May ===
[[File:Louis Calhern 1946.JPG|thumb|100px|[[Louis Calhern]]]]
* [[May 6]] – [[Fergus Anderson]], British motorcycle racer (b. [[1909]])
* [[May 12]] – [[Louis Calhern]], American actor (b. [[1895]])
* [[May 15]] – [[Austin Osman Spare]], English artist and occultist (b. [[1886]])
* [[May 20]]
** [[Max Beerbohm]], English essayist, parodist and caricaturist (b. [[1872]])
** [[Zoltán Halmay]], Hungarian Olympic swimmer (b. [[1881]])
* [[May 23]] – [[Gustav Suits]], Estonian poet (b. [[1883]])
* [[May 24]] – [[Guy Kibbee]], American actor (b. [[1882]])
* [[May 26]] – [[Al Simmons]], American baseball player (b. [[1902]])
* [[May 29]] – [[Frank Beaurepaire]], Australian Olympic swimmer (b. [[1891]])
* [[May 30]] – [[George Murray Levick]], British Antarctic explorer and naval surgeon (b. [[1876]])<ref>{{cite web | url=https://livesofthefirstworldwar.iwm.org.uk/lifestory/7674183 | title=Life story: George Murray Levick &#124; Lives of the First World War }}</ref><ref> https://www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-4966529</ref>
* [[May 31]] – [[Diedrich Hermann Westermann]], German linguist (b. [[1875]])

=== June ===
[[File:Michio Miyagi.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Michio Miyagi]]]]
[[File:ArturVaitoianu.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Artur Văitoianu]]]]
* [[June 2]] – [[Jean Hersholt]], Danish-born American actor (b. [[1886]])
* [[June 4]] – [[Katherine MacDonald]], American actress (b. [[1891]])
* [[June 6]]
** [[Hiram Bingham III]], American explorer, discoverer of [[Machu Picchu]] (b. [[1875]])
** [[Margaret Wycherly]], English actress (b. [[1881]])
* [[June 7]] – [[Julien Benda]], French philosopher and novelist (b. [[1867]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Murray |first1=Christopher John |title=Encyclopedia of Modern French Thought |date=2013 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-135-45564-4 |page=77 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=P4dAiIBzRIYC&pg=PA77 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[June 11]]
** [[Frank Brangwyn]], Anglo-Welsh artist (b. [[1867]])
** [[Ralph Morgan]], American actor (b. [[1883]])
* [[June 17]] – [[Artur Văitoianu]], Romanian general and politician, 27th [[Prime Minister of Romania|prime minister of Romania]] (b. [[1864]])
* [[June 19]] – [[Thomas J. Watson]], American computer pioneer (b. [[1874]])<ref>{{Cite web| url = https://www.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/chairmen/chairmen_3.html| title = Thomas J. Watson| website = [[IBM]]| date = January 23, 2003}}</ref>
* [[June 22]] – [[Walter de la Mare]], English poet, short story writer, and novelist (b. [[1873]])
* [[June 23]] – [[Reinhold Glière]], Russian composer (b. [[1875]])
* [[June 25]] – [[Ernest King]], American Navy Fleet Admiral and Commander in Chief (b. [[1878]])
* [[June 26]] – [[Clifford Brown]], American jazz trumpeter (b. [[1930]])

=== July ===
* [[July 1]] – [[Tawfik Abu Al-Huda]], 4-Time Prime Minister of Jordan (b. [[1895]])
* [[July 7]] – [[Gottfried Benn]], German poet (b. [[1886]])
* [[July 8]] – [[Giovanni Papini]], Italian essayist, poet, novelist (b. [[1881]])

=== August ===
[[File:Bertolt-Brecht.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Bertolt Brecht]]]]
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* [[August 1]] – [[Johnny Murray (voice actor)|Johnny Murray]], American voice actor (b. [[1904]])
* [[August 11]]
** [[Jackson Pollock]], American painter (b. [[1912]])
** [[Mincho Neychev]], former chairman of the Presidium of the National Assembly (head of state) of Bulgaria (b. [[1887]])
* [[August 14]]
** [[Bertolt Brecht]], German playwright (b. [[1898]])
** [[Konstantin von Neurath]], Nazi German diplomat and foreign minister (b. [[1873]])
* [[August 16]] – [[Bela Lugosi]], Hungarian-born American film actor (''Dracula'') (b. [[1882]])
* [[August 19]] – [[Bernard Griffin]], English Cardinal (b. [[1899]])
* [[August 24]] – [[Kenji Mizoguchi]], Japanese film director (b. [[1898]])
* [[August 25]] – [[Alfred Kinsey]], American sex researcher (b. [[1894]])
* [[August 26]] – [[Yeung Kwo]], Malayan politician and Deputy Secretary-General of the Malayan Communist Party (b. [[1919]])

=== September ===
<!--[[File:Billy Bishop VC.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Billy Bishop]]]]-->
[[File:Somoza 1952 (centr%C3%A9e).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Anastasio Somoza García]]]]
* [[September 7]] – [[C. B. Fry]], English sportsman and writer (b. [[1872]])
* [[September 11]]
** [[Billy Bishop]], Canadian World War I flying ace (b. [[1894]])
** [[Carlos Bulosan]], Filipino-American novelist and poet (b. [[1913]])<ref>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780810396234|title=Notable Asian Americans|date=1995|publisher=[[Gale Research]]|editor1-first=Helen|editor1-last=Zia|editor1-link=Helen Zia|editor2-first=Susan B.|editor2-last=Gall|isbn=0810396238|edition=1st|location=New York City|oclc=31170596|page=22}}</ref>
** [[Lucien Febvre]], French historian (b. [[1878]])
* [[September 20]] – [[Flora Eldershaw]], Australian novelist, critic, and historian (b. [[1897]])<ref>[https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/eldershaw-flora-sydney-10107 Flora Sydney Eldershaw (1897–1956)]</ref>
* [[September 22]] – [[Frederick Soddy]], English chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1877]])
* [[September 27]]
** [[Babe Didrikson Zaharias]], American golfer (b. [[1911]])
* [[September 28]] – [[William E. Boeing]], American engineer and airplane manufacturer (b. [[1881]])<ref>{{Cite web|title=Boeing, William Edward (1881–1956)|url=https://www.historylink.org/file/8023|access-date=2022-10-28|website=www.historylink.org}}</ref>
* [[September 29]] – [[Anastasio Somoza García]], 29th [[president of Nicaragua]] (b. [[1896]])

=== October ===
[[File:Risto Ryti.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Risto Ryti]]]]
* [[October 2]] – [[George Bancroft (actor)|George Bancroft]], American actor (b. [[1882]])
* [[October 6]] – [[Charles E. Merrill]], American banker, co-founder of [[Merrill Lynch]] (b. [[1885]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Charles-E-Merrill|title=Charles E. Merrill &#124; American businessman &#124; Britannica|website=www.britannica.com|date=October 15, 2023 }}</ref>
* [[October 9]] – [[Marie Doro]], American actress (b. [[1882]])
* [[October 12]] – [[Lorenzo Perosi]], Italian composer (b. [[1872]])
* [[October 14]] – [[Jules Richard (mathematician)|Jules Richard]], French mathematician (b. [[1862]])
* [[October 16]] – [[Jules Rimet]], French football administrator, 3rd [[president of FIFA]] (b. [[1873]])
* [[October 17]] – [[Anne Crawford]], British actress (b. [[1920]])
* [[October 19]] – [[Isham Jones]], American musician (b. [[1894]])
* [[October 22]] – [[Hannah Mitchell]], English socialist and suffragette (b. [[1872]])
* [[October 25]] – [[Risto Ryti]], 23rd [[Prime Minister of Finland|prime minister of Finland]] and 5th [[president of Finland]] (b. [[1889]])
* [[October 26]] – [[Walter Gieseking]], French-born German pianist (b. [[1895]])
* [[October 30]] – [[Pío Baroja]], Spanish novelist (b. [[1872]])

=== November ===
[[File:Pietro Badoglio 3.jpg|100px|thumb|[[Pietro Badoglio]]]]
[[File:Juan Negrín.png|100px|thumb|[[Juan Negrín]]]]
* [[November 1]]
** [[Pietro Badoglio]], Italian field marshal and 28th [[Prime Minister of Italy|prime minister of Italy]] (b. [[1871]])
** [[Tommy Johnson (guitarist)|Tommy Johnson]], American musician (b. [[1896]])
* [[November 2]] – [[Leo Baeck]], German rabbi, scholar and theologian (b. [[1873]])
* [[November 3]] – [[Jean Metzinger]], French painter, theorist and critic (b. [[1883]])
* [[November 5]] – [[Art Tatum]], American jazz pianist (b. [[1909]])
* [[November 6]] 
** [[Paul Kelly (actor)|Paul Kelly]], American stage and film actor (b. [[1899]])
** [[Albert F. Nufer]], American diplomat and ambassador (b. [[1894]])<ref>{{Cite news |last=Times |first=Special to The New York Times The New York |date=1956-11-07 |title=A.F. NUFER DEAD; U.S. DIPLOMAT, 62; Ambassador to Philippines Had Served in Argentina During Peron Regime Headed European Branch |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1956/11/07/archives/af-nufer-dead-us-diplomat-62-ambassador-to-philippines-had-served.html |access-date=2025-02-01 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
* [[November 10]] – [[Victor Young]], American composer (b. [[1900]])
* [[November 12]] – [[Juan Negrín]], 67th prime minister of Spain (b. [[1892]])
* [[November 19]] – [[Francis L. Sullivan]], English actor (b. [[1903]])
* [[November 22]] – [[Theodore Kosloff]], Russian-born ballet dancer, choreographer and actor (b. [[1882]])
* [[November 23]] – [[André Marty]], [[French Communist Party]] leader (b. [[1886]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://spartacus-educational.com/FRmarty.htm|title=André Marty|website=Spartacus Educational}}</ref>
* [[November 24]] – [[Guido Cantelli]], Italian conductor (b. [[1920]])
* [[November 26]] – [[Tommy Dorsey]], American trombonist and bandleader (b. [[1905]])

=== December ===
[[File:Juho Kusti Paasikivi, 1940s.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Juho Kusti Paasikivi]]]]
* [[December 2]] – [[Dell Henderson]], Canadian actor (b. [[1877]])
* [[December 3]] – [[Alexander Rodchenko]], Russian artist (b. [[1891]])
* [[December 6]] – [[B. R. Ambedkar]], Indian jurist and politician (b. [[1891]])
* [[December 9]] – [[Charles Joughin]], English-born baker on RMS ''Titanic'' (b. [[1878]])
* [[December 10]] – [[David Shimoni]], Israeli poet and writer (b. [[1891]])
* [[December 12]] – [[Ewald André Dupont]], German film director (b. [[1891]])
* [[December 14]] – [[Juho Kusti Paasikivi]], twice [[Prime Minister of Finland]] and 7th [[president of Finland]] (b. [[1870]])
* [[December 16]] – [[Nina Hamnett]], Welsh artist (b. [[1890]])
* [[December 17]] – [[Eddie Acuff]], American actor (b. [[1903]])
* [[December 21]] – [[Lewis Terman]], American psychologist (b. [[1877]])
* [[December 23]] – [[Josep Puig i Cadafalch]], Spanish architect (b. [[1867]])
* [[December 26]] – [[Holmes Herbert]], English actor (b. [[1882]])

=== Date unknown ===
* [[Dumitru Coroamă]], Romanian soldier and fascist activist (b. [[1885]])
*[[Victoria Hayward (journalist)|Victoria Hayward]], Bermudan-born travel writer and journalist (b. [[1876]])
* [[Lotte Herrlich]], female photographer of German naturism (b. [[1883]])