Month August 1956 Calendar

About Month of August Calendar

• August is the eighth month of the year (between July and September) in the Julian and Gregorian calendars and one of seven months with a length of 31 days. In the Southern Hemisphere, August is the seasonal equivalent of February in the Northern Hemisphere.
  
  August symbols: The birthstones of August are the peridot and sardonyx. Its birth flower is the gladiolus or poppy, meaning beauty, strength of character, love, marriage and family. The zodiac signs for the month of August are Leo (until August 22) and Virgo (from August 23 onwards).

Historical Events for August, 1956

• Day of Week 6th » After going bankrupt in 1955, the American broadcaster DuMont Television Network makes its final broadcast, a boxing match from St. Nicholas Rink e.g St. Nicholas Arena in New York in the 'Boxing from St. Nicholas Arena' series.
• Day of Week 30th » The Lake Pontchartrain Causeway opens.

Famous Birthdays on August in 1956

• 1st » Janet Beer, English academic
• 1st » Ok-Hee Ku, South Korean golfer (d. 2013)
• 1st » Tom Leykis, American radio host
• 1st » Lewis Smith, American actor
• 2nd » Fulvio Melia, Italian-American physicist, astrophysicist, and author
• 2nd » Jim Neidhart, American wrestler
• 2nd » Isabel Pantoja, Spanish singer and actress
• 3rd » Kirk Brandon, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Theatre of Hate, Spear of Destiny (band) known as Spear of Destiny, and Dead Men Walking)
• 3rd » Todd Christensen, American football player and sportscaster (d. 2013)
• 3rd » Balwinder Sandhu, Indian cricketer and coach
• 4th » Gerry Cooney, American boxer
• 5th » Christopher Chessun, English bishop
• 5th » Jerry Ciccoritti, Canadian actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 5th » Maureen McCormick, American actress and singer
• 6th » Bill Emmott, English journalist
• 6th » Stepfanie Kramer, American actress and singer
• 7th » Sharon Isbin, American guitarist
• 8th » Chris Foreman, English guitarist and songwriter (Madness (band) named Madness)
• 8th » David Grant (singer) or David Grant, English singer (Linx (band) or Linx)
• 8th » Cecilia Roth, Argentinian actress
• 10th » José Luis Montes, Spanish footballer and manager (d. 2013)
• 10th » Fred Ottman, American wrestler
• 10th » Charlie Peacock, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer
• 10th » Peter Robbins (actor) e.g Peter Robbins, American actor
• 10th » Perween Warsi, Indian-English businesswoman
• 11th » Pierre-Louis Lions, French mathematician and academic
• 12th » Bruce Greenwood, Canadian-American actor
• 12th » Sidath Wettimuny, Sri Lankan cricketer
• 14th » Jackée Harry, American actress and director
• 14th » Andy King (footballer, born 1956) known as Andy King, English footballer and manager
• 14th » Rusty Wallace, American race car driver
• 15th » Lorraine Desmarais, Canadian pianist and composer
• 15th » Freedom Neruda, Ivorian journalist
• 15th » Robert Syms, English politician
• 16th » Vahan Hovhannisyan, Armenian politician
• 16th » Daniel Willems, Belgian cyclist
• 17th » Gail Berman, American businessman, co-founded BermanBraun
• 17th » Álvaro Pino, Spanish cyclist
• 18th » John Debney, American composer and conductor
• 18th » Sandeep Patil, Indian cricketer and coach
• 18th » Jon Schwartz (drummer) called Jon Schwartz, American drummer and producer
• 18th » Kelly Willard, American singer-songwriter
• 18th » Rainer Woelki, German cardinal
• 19th » Adam Arkin, American actor, director, and producer
• 19th » José Rubén Zamora, Guatemalan journalist, founded 'Siglo Veintiuno' and 'El Periódico (Guatemala) e.g El Periódico'
• 20th » Joan Allen, American actress
• 20th » Alvin Greenidge, Barbadian cricketer
• 20th » Desmond Swayne, English soldier and politician, Vice-Chamberlain of the Household
• 21st » Kim Cattrall, English-American actress and producer
• 21st » Jon Tester, American farmer and politician
• 22nd » Paul Molitor, American baseball player and coach
• 23rd » Andreas Floer, German mathematician and academic (d. 1991)
• 23rd » Valgerd Svarstad Haugland, Norwegian politician, Minister of Culture (Norway) called Norwegian Minister of Culture
• 23rd » Robert L. Manahan, American actor (d. 2000)
• 23rd » Hans-Jürgen Salewski, German footballer
• 23rd » Skipp Sudduth, American actor
• 24th » John Culberson, American lawyer and politician
• 24th » Dick Lee, Singaporean singer-songwriter and playwright
• 24th » Kevin Dunn, American actor
• 25th » Takeshi Okada, Japanese footballer, coach, and manager
• 25th » Henri Toivonen, Finnish race car driver (d. 1986)
• 26th » Sally Beamish, English viola player and composer
• 26th » Brett Cullen, American actor
• 26th » Mark Mangino, American football player and coach
• 28th » Luis Guzmán, Puerto Rican-American actor
• 29th » GG Allin, American singer-songwriter (The Murder Junkies and The Jabbers) (d. 1993)
• 29th » Mark Morris (choreographer) known as Mark Morris, American dancer and choreographer
• 29th » Charalambos Xanthopoulos, Greek footballer
• 31st » Mária Balážová, Slovak painter
• 31st » Masashi Tashiro, Japanese singer, actor, and director (Rats & Star)

Famous Deaths for August 1956

• 11th » Jackson Pollock, American painter (b. 1912)
• 14th » Bertolt Brecht, German poet, playwright, and director (b. 1898)
• 16th » Bela Lugosi, Hungarian-American actor (b. 1882)
• 24th » Kenji Mizoguchi, Japanese director and screenwriter (b. 1898)
• 24th » Mitchell Lewis, American actor (b. 1880)
• 25th » Alfred Kinsey, American biologist and academic (b. 1894)
• 26th » Alfred Wagenknecht, German-American activist (b. 1881)

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