Lista de Personas Famosas que murieron en 1956

Rabbi Wolf Gold was a rabbi, Jewish activist, and one of the signatories of the Israeli declaration of independence

Walter John de la Mare, OM, CH, fue un poeta, cuentista, ensayista, dramaturgo y novelista inglés. Es recordado principalmente en su patria por su poema The Listeners (1912). Fue considerado por Thomas Hardy uno de los poemas más importantes del siglo y que sigue siendo uno de los poemas que más a menudo se incluyen en las antologías de poesía inglesa.

Charles Gordon MacArthur was an American playwright, screenwriter and 1935 winner of the Academy Award for Best Story.

Samad Vurgun fue un poeta, dramaturgo, personaje público, académico de Academia Nacional de Ciencias de Azerbaiyán (1945), laureado del Premio Stalin de segundo grado y el miembro del Partido Comunista de la Unión Soviética desde 1940.

Nikolai Aleksandrovich Panin-Kolomenkin was a Russian figure skater and coach. He won the gold medal in special figures in the 1908 Summer Olympics, became one of the oldest figure skating Olympic champions. Panin was Russia's first Olympic champion.

Karl o Carl Schelenz fue un profesor de deporte y atleta alemán. Está considerado, junto a Max Heiser, el «padre» del balonmano moderno.

Charles Ellsworth Grapewin was an American vaudeville and circus performer, a writer, and a stage and film actor. He worked in over 100 motion pictures during the silent and sound eras, most notably portraying Uncle Henry in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's The Wizard of Oz (1939), Grandpa Joad in The Grapes of Wrath (1940), Jeeter Lester in Tobacco Road (1941), and California Joe in They Died With Their Boots On (1941).

Ernst Rüdiger Camillo Maria Starhemberg fue un político austríaco.

Albrecht Alt, was a leading German Protestant theologian.

Una Mary Ross, 25th Baroness de Ros of Helmsley was a British peer. She succeeded her mother to the title in 1943. She was the daughter of Anthony, 3rd Earl of Dartrey, and his wife, Mary, Countess of Dartrey, who held the barony in her own right.