List of Famous people who died in 1956

Viggo Hjalmar Wiehe was a Danish stage and film actor whose career spanned over five decades.

Louis Bromfield was an American author and conservationist. A bestselling novelist in the 1920s, he reinvented himself as a farmer in the late 1930s and became one of the earliest proponents of sustainable and organic agriculture in the United States. He won the Pulitzer Prize, founded the experimental Malabar Farm near Mansfield, Ohio, and played an important role in the early environmental movement.

Grand Duke Andrei Vladimirovich of Russia (Russian: Андрей Владимирович; was a son of Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich of Russia, a grandson of Emperor Alexander II and a first cousin of Nicholas II, Russia’s last Tsar.

William Howard Greene (1895-1956) was an American cinematographer.

Caroline King Duer was an editor at Vogue magazine and writer.

Major-General Sir Casimir Cartwright van Straubenzee was a Canadian officer in the British Army ; GOC Singapore and Malaya Command. In 1900, he played cricket for Canada.

Charles Kennedy, 5th Marquess of Ailsa was a Scottish peer, the son of Archibald Kennedy, 3rd Marquess of Ailsa. He was known as Lord Charles Kennedy until 1943, when he inherited the marquessate.

Alexander Tikhonovich Gretchaninov was a Russian Romantic composer.

Gerrit Jan van Heuven Goedhart was a Dutch politician and diplomat of the Labour Party (PvdA) and journalist. He served as first United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees from 1 January 1951 until 8 July 1956.