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# 1956

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

## [edit] Events

- The Olympic Games are in Melbourne, Australia.
- Bette Nesmith Graham, creates what later becomes liquid paper.

## [edit] Births

- January 3 - Mel Gibson, American actor
- July 9 - Tom Hanks, American actor
- August 31 - Masashi Tashiro, Japanese television performer
- Danny Boyle, British fim director

## [edit] Deaths

- January 3 - Alexander Grechaninov, Russian composer (b. 1864)
- January 5 - Mistinguett, French singer
- January 13 - Lyonel Charles Feininger, German painter
- January 24 - Sir Alexander Korda, Hungarian-born film director
- January 27 - Erich Kleiber, German conductor (b. 1890)
- January 29 - H. L. Mencken
- January 31 - A. A. Milne, English author
- February 2 - Charley Grapewin, American actor
- February 8 - Connie Mack, baseball executive and manager
- February 18 - Gustave Charpentier, French composer
- March 17 - Irène Joliot-Curie, French physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (b. 1897)
- March 20 - Fanny Durack, Australian swimmer
- March 25 - Robert Newton, English film actor
- March 30 - Edmund Clerihew Bentley, English inventor
- March 30 - Fritz Lehmann, German conductor
- March 31 - Ralph DePalma, race car driver (b. 1884)
- April 30 - Alben W Barkly, Vice-President of the United States
- August 11- Jackson Pollack, American painter

## [edit] Hit Songs

- Blue Suede Shoes - Carl Perkins
- I Walk the Line - Johnny Cash

## [edit] New Books

- Boon Island - Kenneth Roberts
- Boy in Darkness - Mervyn Peake
- Cairo Trilogy - Naguib Mahfouz
- A Certain Smile - Françoise Sagan
- Diamonds Are Forever - Ian Fleming
- Don't Go Near the Water - William Brinkley
- Eloise - Kay Thompson
- The Fall (La Chute) - Albert Camus
- Heike Story - Eiji Yoshikawa
- The Last Battle - C. S. Lewis
- The Last Hurrah - Edwin O'Connor
- The Last of the Wine - Mary Renault
- Lucy Crown - Irwin Shaw
- The Mandarins - Simone de Beauvoir
- Minority Report - Philip K. Dick
- Misty of Chincoteague - Marguerite Henry
- The Mysterious North - Pierre Berton
- The Naked Sun - Isaac Asimov
- The Nun's Story - Kathryn Hulme
- Palace Walk - Naguib Mahfouz
- Peyton Place - Grace Metalious
- Les racines du ciel - Romain Gary
- Seize the Day - Saul Bellow
- The Sweet Science - A. J. Liebling
- Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold - C. S. Lewis
- The Tribe That Lost Its Head - Nicholas Monsarrat
- The White Negro: Superficial Reflections on the Hipster - Norman Mailer
- The Wizard of Linn - A. E. van Vogt

## [edit] Films Released

- The Ten Commandments

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