List of Famous people who died in 1956

Herminio Masantonio was an Argentine football centre-forward. He played most of his career for Club Atlético Huracán and represented Argentina at international level.

Gilbert Alan Hamilton Wills, 1st Baron Dulverton, also known same Sir Gilbert Wills, 2nd Baronet of Northmoor & Manor Heath, was a British businessman and Conservative Member of Parliament from 1909-29.

Bolesław Bierut was a Polish politician, communist activist and leader of Communist Poland between 1947 and 1956. He was President of the State National Council from 1944 to 1947, President of Poland from 1947 to 1952, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Polish United Workers' Party from 1948 to 1956 and temporarily Prime Minister of Poland from 1952 to 1954. Bierut, a self-taught man, with full knowledge and iron resolve aimed to implement the Stalinist system in Poland. However, together with Władysław Gomułka, his main rival, Bierut is chiefly responsible for the historic changes that Poland underwent in the aftermath of World War II. Unlike any of his communist successors, Bierut ruled Poland until his death.

Sir Frank William Brangwyn was an Welsh artist, painter, watercolourist, printmaker, illustrator, and designer.

Ernst Robert Curtius was a German literary scholar, philologist, and Romance language literary critic, best known for his 1948 study Europäische Literatur und Lateinisches Mittelalter, translated in English as European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages.

Helmer Julius Hanssen was a Norwegian sailor, pilot and polar explorer. He participated in three of the polar expeditions led by Roald Amundsen and was one of the first five explorers to reach the South Pole.

Constant ("Stan") Ockers was a Belgian professional racing cyclist.

Guy Molesworth Kindersley was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom who represented Hitchin, Hertfordshire.

Harendra Coomar Mukherjee, also spelt as H.C. Mukherjee, was the Vice-President of the Constituent Assembly of India for drafting the Constitution of India before Partition of India, and the third Governor of West Bengal after India became a republic with partition into India and Pakistan.

Frederick George Donnan CBE FRS FRSE was an Irish physical chemist who is known for his work on membrane equilibria, and commemorated in the Donnan equilibrium describing ionic transport in cells. He spent most of his career at University College London.