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Count Sándor Ágost Dénes Festetics de Tolna was a Hungarian nobleman and cabinet minister who later became an advocate of Nazism in Hungary.
Sándor Festetics, Hungarian politician, Hungarian Minister of War (born 1882)
Joseph-Adélard Godbout was a Canadian agronomist and politician. He served briefly as the 15th premier of Quebec in 1936 and again from 1939 to 1944. He was also leader of the Part…
Adélard Godbout, Canadian agronomist and politician, 15th Premier of Quebec (born 1892)
William Struth was a Scottish football manager. He was the second manager of Rangers Football Club, leading the club for 34 years between 1920 and 1954, as well as being the holder…
Bill Struth, Scottish footballer and manager (born 1875)
Frederick Soddy FRS was an English radiochemist who explained, with Ernest Rutherford, that radioactivity is due to the transmutation of elements, now known to involve nuclear reac…
Frederick Soddy, English chemist and economist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1877)
Gerald Raphael Finzi was an English composer. Finzi is best known as a choral composer, but also wrote in other genres. Large-scale compositions by Finzi include the cantata Dies n…
Gerald Finzi, English composer and educator (born 1901)
Mildred Ella "Babe" Didrikson Zaharias was an American athlete who excelled in golf, basketball, baseball, and track and field. She won two gold medals and a silver in track and fi…
Babe Didrikson Zaharias, American basketball player and golfer (born 1911)
William Edward Böing was an American aviation pioneer. He founded the Pacific Airplane Company in 1916, which was renamed to Boeing a year later. The company is now the largest exp…
William Boeing, American businessman, founded the Boeing Company (born 1881)
Anastasio Somoza García was the leader of Nicaragua from 1936 until his assassination in 1956. He was officially the 21st President of Nicaragua from 1 January 1937 to 1 May 1947 a…
Anastasio Somoza García, Nicaraguan politician, 21st President of Nicaragua (born 1896)
Clarence Birdseye was an American inventor, entrepreneur, and naturalist, who is widely considered the founder of the modern frozen food industry. He developed methods for quick-fr…
Clarence Birdseye, American businessman, founded Birds Eye (born 1886)
Marie Doro was an American stage and film actress of the early silent film era.
Marie Doro, American actress (born 1882)
Monsignor Lorenzo Perosi was an Italian composer of sacred music and the only member of the Giovane Scuola who did not write opera. In the late 1890s, while he was still only in hi…
Lorenzo Perosi, Italian composer and painter (born 1872)
Jules Ernest Séraphin Valentin Rimet was a French football administrator who was the 3rd president of FIFA, serving from 1921 to 1954. He is FIFA's longest-serving president, in of…
Jules Rimet, French businessman (born 1873)
Imelda Anne Crawford was a British film actress.
Anne Crawford, Israeli-English actress (born 1920)
Isham Edgar Jones was an American bandleader, saxophonist, bassist and songwriter.
Isham Jones, American saxophonist, songwriter, and bandleader (born 1894)
Cahit Sıtkı Tarancı was a Turkish poet. Identified with the poem "Otuz Beş Yaş", Tarancı adhered to the understanding of "art for art's sake". He mostly included the themes of joy …
Cahit Sıtkı Tarancı, Turkish poet and author (born 1910)
Yoshio Markino was a Japanese artist and author who from 1897 – 1942 was based in London. During the Edwardian years of 1903 – 1915 he was the most well known Japanese person livi…
Yoshio Markino, Japanese painter and author (born 1869)
Lawrence Dale "Larry" Bell was an American industrialist and founder of Bell Aircraft Corporation.
Lawrence Dale Bell, American industrialist and founder of Bell Aircraft Corporation (born 1894)
Hannah Mitchell was an English suffragette and socialist. Born into a poor farming family in Derbyshire, Mitchell left home at a young age to work as a seamstress in Bolton, where …
Hannah Mitchell, English activist (born 1872)
Risto Heikki Ryti was a Finnish politician who served as the president of Finland from 1940 to 1944. Ryti started his career as a politician in the field of economics and as a poli…
Risto Ryti, Finnish lawyer, politician and Governor of the Bank of Finland; 5th President of Finland (born 1889)
Walter Wilhelm Gieseking was a French-born German pianist and composer. Gieseking was renowned for his subtle touch, pedaling, and dynamic control—particularly in the music of Debu…
Walter Gieseking, French-German pianist and composer (born 1895)
Louis Claude Rosier was a French racing driver and motorsport executive, who competed in Formula One from 1950 to 1956. In endurance racing, Rosier won the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1…
Louis Rosier, French race car driver (born 1905)
Women's March took place on 9 August 1956 in Pretoria, South Africa. The marchers' aims were to protest the introduction of the Apartheid pass laws for black women in 1952 and the …
About 20,000 women marched on Pretoria, South Africa, to protest the introduction of pass laws for black women under…
Grace Patricia Kelly was an American actress and Princess of Monaco as the wife of Prince Rainier III from their marriage on April 18, 1956, until her death in 1982. Prior to her m…
American actress Grace Kelly (pictured) became the princess consort of Monaco upon her marriage to Rainier III
The Eurovision Song Contest 1956, originally titled the Gran premio Eurovisione 1956 della canzone europea, was the first edition of the Eurovision Song Contest, held on 24 May 195…
The first edition of the Eurovision Song Contest was held in Lugano, Switzerland