List of Famous people who died in 1956

Major Arthur George Villiers Peel was a British Member of Parliament and writer on politics and economics.

Günther Werner Hans Ramin was an influential German organist, conductor, composer and pedagogue in the first half of the 20th century.

Günther Edward Arnold Schneider was an American actor.

Isabelle Vengerova was a Russian, later American, pianist and music teacher.

Lieutenant General Sir Denis John Charles Kirwan Bernard, was a British Army officer who commanded 3rd Infantry Division. He was also Governor of Bermuda and General Officer Commanding the Bermuda Garrison.

Giovanni Papini was an Italian journalist, essayist, novelist, short story writer, poet, literary critic, and philosopher. A controversial literary figure of the early and mid-twentieth century, he was the earliest and most enthusiastic representative and promoter of Italian pragmatism. Papini was admired for his writing style and engaged in heated polemics. Involved with avant-garde movements such as futurism and post-decadentism, he moved from one political and philosophical position to another, always dissatisfied and uneasy: he converted from anti-clericalism and atheism to Catholicism, and went from convinced interventionism – before 1915 – to an aversion to war. In the 1930s, after moving from individualism to conservatism, he finally became a fascist, while maintaining an aversion to Nazism.

Gerrit Smith Miller Jr., was an American zoologist and botanist.

Doris Marjorie Fielding was a British stage and film actress.

Kyösti Haataja was a twentieth century Finnish politician, born in Oulu. He was a member of the Parliament of Finland from 1916 to 1919 and again from 1929 to 1930.

Francis Anthony Nixon was an American grocer, rancher, and the father of U.S. President Richard Nixon.