List of Famous people who died in 1956

Raymond Eugene Willis was a United States Senator from Indiana. Born in Waterloo, Indiana, he attended the public schools and graduated from Wabash College in 1896. He learned the printer's trade in Waterloo and moved to Angola, Indiana and engaged in the newspaper publishing business in 1898. He was postmaster of Angola from 1910 to 1914 and during the First World War he served as chairman of Steuben County Council of Defense, 1917-1918.

William Edward Boeing was an American aviation pioneer who founded The Boeing Company in 1916.

Oskar Kaufmann was a Hungarian-Jewish architect. He was an expert in construction and design and was active in Berlin beginning in 1900.

Zoltán Halmay was a Hungarian Olympic swimmer. He competed in four Olympics, winning the following medals:

• 1900: silver, bronze
• 1904: gold
• 1906: gold, silver
• 1908: silver

John Rädecker was a painter and sculptor from the northern Netherlands, best known for his Monument on the Dam.

Gerrit Bolkestein was a Dutch politician and member of the Free-thinking Democratic League.

Charles François Ernest Brune was a French veterinarian and politician who served as Minister of PTT in 1950–51 and then as Minister of the Interior in 1951–53.

Witold Hurewicz was a Polish mathematician.