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In the year 1956
404 Notable deaths
Navvab Safavi
Iranian cleric (1924–1955).
Born October 9th, 1924 in Ghaniabad.
Died January 18th, 1956 at 31 years old in Tehran (gunshot wound).
Flora Sandes
World war i soldier and nurse (1876-1956).
Born January 22nd, 1876 in Nether Poppleton.
Died November 24th, 1956 at 80 years old in East Suffolk and Ipswich Hospital.
Al Simmons
Major league baseball player.
Born May 22nd, 1902 in Milwaukee.
Died May 26th, 1956 at 54 years old in Milwaukee.
Henry Stephenson
British stage and film actor (1871-1956).
Born April 16th, 1871 in Grenada.
Died April 24th, 1956 at 85 years old in San Francisco (pneumonia).
Jan Łukasiewicz
Polish logician, mathematician, philosopher, rector of the university of warsaw..
Born December 21st, 1878 in Lviv.
Died February 13th, 1956 at 77 years old in Dublin.
Christian Rub
Austrian-american actor (1886–1956).
Born April 13th, 1886 in Passau.
Died April 14th, 1956 at 70 years old in Santa Barbara.
Hildebrand Gurlitt
German art dealer authorized by third reich to sell looted art, historian.
Born September 15th, 1895 in Dresden.
Died November 9th, 1956 at 61 years old in Düsseldorf (traffic collision).
Oleksandr Dovzhenko
Soviet ukrainian screenwriter, film producer and director (1894–1956).
Born September 10th, 1894 in Sosnytsia.
Died November 25th, 1956 at 62 years old in Moscow (myocardial infarction).
Savielly Tartakower
Polish and french chess player.
Born February 22nd, 1887 in Rostov-on-Don. [ref]
Died February 5th, 1956 at 68 years old in 10th arrondissement of Paris. [ref]
Gottfried Benn
German novelist, poet.
Born May 2nd, 1886 in Putlitz. [ref]
Died July 7th, 1956 at 70 years old in West Berlin (cancer). [ref]
Deaths 91 to 100 of 404
Tell your friend that in his death, a part of you dies and goes with him. Wherever he goes, you also go. He will not be alone. Jiddu Krishnamurti