List of Famous people who died in 1956

Alexander Alexandrovich Fadeyev was a Soviet writer, one of the co-founders of the Union of Soviet Writers and its chairman from 1946 to 1954.

Gottfried Benn was a German poet, essayist, and physician. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature five times.

Carl Henry Vogt, known professionally as Louis Calhern, was an American stage and screen actor. For portraying Oliver Wendell Holmes in the film The Magnificent Yankee (1950), he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor.

Hermann Paul Maximilian Abendroth was a German conductor.

Louis Emile Marie Madelin was a French historian and a Republican Federation deputy for Vosges from 1924 to 1928. He is buried at the Cimetière de Grenelle.

Louis Jacques Balsan was a French aviator and industrialist, born at Châteauroux (Indre) in 1868, who was the second husband of society beauty Consuelo Vanderbilt, Duchess of Marlborough. He married her immediately after her divorce from the 9th Duke of Marlborough in 1921.

Charles Henry Chandos Henniker-Major, 6th Baron Henniker, 3rd Baron Hartismere, DL was a British peer and British army officer.

Anton Marian August Hammerbacher was a German politician (SPD) and mayor of Erlangen from 1945 to 1946.

Francis Henry Taylor (1903–1957) was a distinguished American museum director and curator, who served as the Director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art for fifteen years.

Edmund Clerihew Bentley, who generally published under the names E. C. Bentley or E. Clerihew Bentley, was a popular English novelist and humorist, and inventor of the clerihew, an irregular form of humorous verse on biographical topics.