Lista de Personas Famosas que murieron en 1956

Jules-Géraud Saliège fue un cardenal y arzobispo francés que participó en la Resistencia francesa.

Johann Karl August Radon fue un matemático austríaco. Elaboró su tesis doctoral de la mano del matemático Gustav Ritter von Escherich, en cálculo de variaciones (1910), en la universidad de Viena.

Emil Georg Bührle was an arms manufacturer, art collector and patron. His art collection is now housed in the Foundation E.G. Bührle.

Paul Kelly fue un actor teatral, cinematográfico y televisivo de nacionalidad estadounidense.

George Washington Pierce was an American physicist. He was a professor of physics at Harvard University and inventor in the development of electronic telecommunications.

Daniel Swarovski fue el creador de una máquina de corte eléctrico de cristales y — a raíz de este invento — fundador de la compañía de joyería de cristal Swarovski en 1895.

Lars Eliel Sonck was a Finnish architect. He graduated from Helsinki Polytechnic Institute in 1894 and immediately won a major design competition for a church in Turku, St Michael's Church, ahead of many established architects. The church was designed in the prevailing neo-Gothic style. However, Sonck's style would soon go through a dramatic change, in the direction of Art Nouveau and National Romanticism that was moving through Europe at the end of the 19th century. During the 1920s, Sonck would also design a number of buildings in the emerging Nordic Classicism style.