People who died in 1956
Bertolt Brecht
1898
– 1956
· Age 58
Deceased
B. R. Ambedkar
1891
– 1956
· Age 65
Deceased
Jackson Pollock
1912
– 1956
· Age 44
Deceased
Irène Joliot-Curie
1897
– 1956
· Age 58
Deceased
Frederick Soddy
1877
– 1956
· Age 79
Deceased
A. A. Milne
1882
– 1956
· Age 74
Deceased
Pietro Badoglio
1871
– 1956
· Age 85
Deceased
Bela Lugosi
1882
– 1956
· Age 73
Deceased
H. L. Mencken
1880
– 1956
· Age 75
Deceased
Alben W. Barkley
1877
– 1956
· Age 78
Deceased
Juho Kusti Paasikivi
1870
– 1956
· Age 86
Deceased
Jules Rimet
1873
– 1956
· Age 83
Deceased
Alfred Kinsey
1894
– 1956
· Age 62
Deceased
Konstantin Päts
1874
– 1956
· Age 81
Deceased
Émile Borel
1871
– 1956
· Age 85
Deceased
Oleksandr Dovzhenko
1894
– 1956
· Age 62
Deceased
Emil Nolde
1867
– 1956
· Age 88
Deceased
Bolesław Bierut
1892
– 1956
· Age 63
Deceased
Risto Ryti
1889
– 1956
· Age 67
Deceased
Pío Baroja
1872
– 1956
· Age 83
Deceased
Joseph Wirth
1879
– 1956
· Age 76
Deceased
Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb
1876
– 1956
· Age 79
Deceased
Konstantin von Neurath
1873
– 1956
· Age 83
Deceased
Gottfried Benn
1886
– 1956
· Age 70
Deceased
Kenji Mizoguchi
1898
– 1956
· Age 58
Deceased