Lista de Personas Famosas que murieron en 1956

Ganesh Vasudev Mavalankar popularly known as Dadasaheb was an independence activist, the President of the Central Legislative Assembly, then Speaker of the Constituent Assembly of India, and later the first Speaker of the Lok Sabha, the lower house of the Parliament of India. His son Purushottam Mavalankar was later elected to the Lok Sabha twice from Gujarat.

Eduardo Ernesto Lonardi fue un dictador y militar argentino que ejerció brevemente de facto como presidente de la Nación Argentina entre el 23 de septiembre y el 13 de noviembre de 1955 durante los comienzos de la Revolución Libertadora iniciada tras el golpe de Estado del mismo año. Fue desplazado del poder prematuramente por las propias Fuerzas Armadas argentinas, que encumbraron a Pedro Eugenio Aramburu como presidente de facto. Lonardi murió al poco tiempo, en 1956.

Sisowath Monipong was the second son of the King of Cambodia Sisowath Monivong and of Queen Norodom Kanviman Norleak Tevi. He took part in Cambodian politics during and after World War II.

Jean Alexandru Steriadi was a Romanian painter and drawing artist. He made portraits and compositions based on a strong, expressive drawing; then he evolved towards impressionistic influenced landscapes in which the subtle harmony is combined with a refined sense of picturesque. Jean Alexandru Steriadi was an honorary member of the Romanian Academy since 1948.

Louis Charles Karpinski was an American mathematician born in Rochester, New York to Henry Hermanagle Karpinski from Warsaw, Poland and Mary Louise Engesser from Guebweiler, Alsace. He was educated at Cornell University and in Europe at Strassburg.

Corrado Alvaro fue un escritor, dramaturgo, periodista y poeta italiano.

Johannes Gabriel Granö (1882–1956) was a Finnish geographer, chiefly remembered as a professor of three universities and an explorer of Siberia and Mongolia. He is also noted for his pioneering studies on landscape geography, and his book Pure Geography. Granö was a professor in universities of Tartu, Helsinki and Turku.

David Seymour, también conocido por el seudónimo Chim fue un fotógrafo y miembro fundador de la Agencia Magnum de fotografía.