List of Famous people who died in 1956

Fr. Edmund Aloysius Walsh, S.J. was an American Jesuit Catholic priest, author, professor of geopolitics and founder of the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service, the first school for international affairs in the United States. He founded the school in 1919–six years before the U.S. Foreign Service itself existed–and served as its first regent.

Lightner Witmer was an American psychologist. He introduced the term "clinical psychology" and is often credited with founding the field that it describes. Witmer created the world's first "psychological clinic" at the University of Pennsylvania in 1896, including the first journal of clinical psychology and the first clinical hospital school in 1907.

Kazushige Ugaki was a Japanese general and in the Imperial Japanese Army and cabinet minister before World War II, the 5th principal of Takushoku University, and twice Governor-General of Korea. He was also nicknamed Ugaki Issei.

Carlo Duse was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 82 films between 1916 and 1956. He was born in Udine, Italy and died in Rome, Italy.

Heinrich Scholz was a German logician, philosopher, and Protestant theologian. He was a peer of Alan Turing who mentioned Scholz when writing with regard to the reception of "On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem": "I have had two letters asking for reprints, one from Braithwaite at King's and one from a proffessor [sic] in Germany... They seemed very much interested in the paper. [...] I was disappointed by its reception here."

Hans Ludwig Hamburger was a German mathematician. He was a professor at universities in Berlin, Cologne and Ankara.

Arthur Tatum Jr. was an American jazz pianist who is widely regarded as one of the greatest in his field.

Charles Burgess Fry was an English sportsman, politician, diplomat, academic, teacher, writer, editor and publisher, who is best remembered for his career as a cricketer. John Arlott described him with the words: "Charles Fry could be autocratic, angry and self-willed: he was also magnanimous, extravagant, generous, elegant, brilliant – and fun ... he was probably the most variously gifted Englishman of any age."

Artur or Arthur Văitoianu was a Romanian general who served as a Prime Minister of Romania for about two months in 1919. During his mandate, the first elections of Greater Romania were held.