Lista de Personas Famosas que murieron en 1956

Fr. Edmund Aloysius Walsh, S.J. was an American Jesuit Catholic priest, author, professor of geopolitics and founder of the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service, the first school for international affairs in the United States. He founded the school in 1919–six years before the U.S. Foreign Service itself existed–and served as its first regent.

Lightner Witmer (1867-1956) es conocido por ser el creador del término “psicología clínica” y el cofundador de la primera clínica psicológica en el año 1896, en la Universidad de Pensilvania.

Kazushige Ugaki fue un general del Ejército Imperial Japonés, ministro y político japonés y dos veces Gobernador General de Corea.

Carlo Duse fue un actor y guionista cinematográfico de nacionalidad italiana.

Heinrich Scholz was a German logician, philosopher, and Protestant theologian. He was a peer of Alan Turing who mentioned Scholz when writing with regard to the reception of "On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem": "I have had two letters asking for reprints, one from Braithwaite at King's and one from a proffessor [sic] in Germany... They seemed very much interested in the paper. [...] I was disappointed by its reception here."

Hans Ludwig Hamburger was a German mathematician. He was a professor at universities in Berlin, Cologne and Ankara.

Art Tatum fue un pianista estadounidense de jazz.

Charles Burgess Fry was an English sportsman, politician, diplomat, academic, teacher, writer, editor and publisher, who is best remembered for his career as a cricketer. John Arlott described him with the words: "Charles Fry could be autocratic, angry and self-willed: he was also magnanimous, extravagant, generous, elegant, brilliant – and fun ... he was probably the most variously gifted Englishman of any age."

Artur o Arthur Văitoianu, militar rumano que sirvió como primer ministro de Rumanía casi tres meses en 1919. Durante su mandato se celebraron las primeras elecciones de la Gran Rumanía formada tras la Primera Guerra Mundial.