List of Famous people who died in 1956

Sir John Maxwell Stirling-Maxwell, 10th Baronet, KT, DL, FRSE was a Scottish landowner, Tory politician and philanthropist.

Sir Albert Lambert Ward, 1st Baronet was a volunteer soldier in the Territorial Army and a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom.

Sir Arthur Elijah Trueman was a British geologist.

Ravishankar Shukla was a leader of the Indian National Congress, Indian independence movement activist, the Premier of the Central Provinces and Berar from 27 April 1946 to 25 January 1950, first chief minister of the reorganised Madhya Pradesh state from 1 November 1956 until his death on 31 December 1956, he was elected from Saraipali, Madhyapradesh now part of the state of Chhattisgarh.

Perce Dempsey Tabler was a Tennessee-born opera singer, athlete, businessman and actor, remembered for being the third actor to portray Tarzan in films.

Guido Cantelli was an Italian orchestral conductor. He was named Musical Director of La Scala, Milan in November 1956 but his promising career was cut short only one week later by his death at the age of 36 in an airplane crash in Paris, France.