Lista de Personas Famosas que murieron en 1956

Walter Wilhelm Julius Warzecha was a German naval commander and high-ranking officer of the Kriegsmarine. Serving in the rank of General Admiral he succeeded General Admiral Hans-Georg von Friedeburg as the last Oberbefehlshaber der Kriegsmarine after the end of World War II.

John Garstang, arqueólogo británico, nació el 5 de mayo de 1876 y murió en Beirut el 12 de septiembre de 1956. Dedicó sus estudios especialmente al Cercano Oriente, Anatolia y el sur del Levante mediterráneo.

Henry Nicholas Ridley fue un botánico inglés.

Roy Kellino, born Philip Roy Gislingham was an English film director, producer and cinematographer.

Major General George Mackintosh Lindsay, was a British Army officer who played a prominent role in the development of mechanised forces during the 1920s and 1930s. Lindsay had spent much of the First World War developing doctrine for the use of machine-guns and training specialist units to operate them. After the war, commanding an armoured-car unit in Iraq, he became intrigued by the potential of mechanised warfare techniques. He was an influential figure in the debate around armoured forces during the 1920s and 1930s, working with J.F.C. Fuller on the Experimental Mechanized Force, and commanded the first experimental armoured division in 1934. Retiring just before the Second World War, Lindsay was called out of retirement to command 9th Highland Division in the first months of the war, following which he worked as a civil defence commissioner and as a representative of the Red Cross during the liberation of Europe.

Alexander Korda fue un director y productor de cine húngaro nacionalizado británico que realizó películas tanto en su país natal como en Austria, Alemania, Hollywood y Francia antes de establecerse definitivamente en el Reino Unido, en 1931, como uno de los más importantes productores independientes.