Lista de Personas Famosas que murieron en 1956

Hans Carossa fue un novelista y poeta alemán.

Felix Bernstein fue un matemático conocido por desarrollar un teorema de equivalencia de conjuntos en 1897. Fue alumno del matemático alemán Georg Cantor.

Walther Ludwig Julius Kossel was a German physicist known for his theory of the chemical bond, Sommerfeld–Kossel displacement law of atomic spectra, the Kossel-Stranski model for crystal growth, and the Kossel effect. Walther was the son of Albrecht Kossel who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1910.

Paul Rohrbach was a Baltic German writer, concerned with "world politics." He was born at Irgen manor, Raņķi parish, Skrunda Municipality, in the Courland Governorate. Between 1887 and 1896 he attended the universities of Dorpat, Berlin, and Strasbourg.

Thomas Francis Fremantle, 3rd Baron Cottesloe, 4th Baron Fremantle was a British peer and sportsman who competed in the shooting event at the 1908 Summer Olympics.

Erich Kleiber fue un director de orquesta austríaco nacionalizado argentino.