List of Famous people who died in 1956

Hans Carossa was a German novelist and poet, known mostly for his autobiographical novels, and his "innere Emigration" during the Nazi era.

Felix Bernstein, was a German Jewish mathematician known for proving in 1896 the Schröder–Bernstein theorem, a central result in set theory, and less well known for demonstrating in 1924 the correct blood group inheritance pattern of multiple alleles at one locus through statistical analysis.

Walther Ludwig Julius Kossel was a German physicist known for his theory of the chemical bond, Sommerfeld–Kossel displacement law of atomic spectra, the Kossel-Stranski model for crystal growth, and the Kossel effect. Walther was the son of Albrecht Kossel who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1910.

Paul Rohrbach was a Baltic German writer, concerned with "world politics." He was born at Irgen manor, Raņķi parish, Skrunda Municipality, in the Courland Governorate. Between 1887 and 1896 he attended the universities of Dorpat, Berlin, and Strasbourg.

Thomas Francis Fremantle, 3rd Baron Cottesloe, 4th Baron Fremantle was a British peer and sportsman who competed in the shooting event at the 1908 Summer Olympics.

Erich Kleiber was an Austrian, later Argentine, conductor, known for his interpretations of the classics and as an advocate of new music.