1956

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Centuries:	19th century - 20th century - 21st century
Decades:	1920s  1930s  1940s  - 1950s -  1960s  1970s  1980s
Years:	1953 1954 1955 - 1956 - 1957 1958 1959

Contents 1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Movies released

[change] Events

• The Summer Olympics were held in Melbourne, Australia.
• The Winter Olympics were held in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy. This was the first Olympic Games in which the USSR competed.

[change] Births

• January 3 - Mel Gibson, American-Australian actor
• January 28 - Dario Chioli, Italian poet
• February 16 - Peter Hook, English bass guitarist
• February 27 - Angela Aames, American actress (d. 1988)
• February 29 - Aileen Wuornos , American serial killer (d. 2002)
• March 24 - Steve Ballmer, American business person, CEO of Microsoft
• April 5 - Dwight Hicks, American NFL player
• April 12 - Andy García, American actor
• May 7 - Jan Peter Balkenende, Prime minister of the Netherlands
• May 17 - Bob Saget, American actor and comedian
• June 2 - Mani Ratnam, Indian film director
• June 4 - Martin Adams, English darts player
• June 11 - Joe Montana, American NFL player
• June 11 - Ray Nagin, American politician, mayor of New Orleans
• July 9 - Tom Hanks, American actor
• July 13 - Michael Spinks, American boxer
• August 4 - Margaret Whitman, American business person, CEO of Ebay
• August 26 - Sally Beamish, English composer
• August 31 - Masashi Tashiro, Japanese television performer
• September 17 - Andreas Starke, German politician, Lord Mayor of Bamberg
• October 2 - Mike Scully, American television writer
• October 28 - Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, 6th President of Iran
• November 11 - Ian Craig Marsh, English musician
• Hugh Cook, English-born New Zealand writer
• Hans Enoksen, Prime minister of Greenland

[change] Deaths

• March 8 - Drastamat Kanayan, Armenian military leader and politician (b. 1884))
• August 11- Jackson Pollack, American painter
• August 14 - Bertolt Brecht, German playwright (b. 1898)
• August 25 - Alfred Kinsey, American sex researcher (b. 1894)
• October 30 - Pio Baroja, Spanish writer (b. 1872)

[change] Movies released

• The Searchers