Famous Deaths for March 1956
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| 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 |
| 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 |
◀ 1955 1956 1957 ▶ | ||||||
Months in 1956: January February April May June July August September October November December
Deaths 1 - 16 of 16
2nd - Fred Merkle, American baseball figure (b. 1888)
3rd - Willem H Keesom, Dutch physicist (Helium I/II), dies at 79
5th - Erich Itor Kahn, composer, dies at 50
11th - Sergey Nikiforovich Vasilenko, Russian opera composer, dies at 83
16th - Joseph John Richards, composer, dies at 77
17th - Fred Allen, comedian (Fred Allen Radio Show), dies at 61
17th - Irene Joliot-Curie, French physicist, Nobel laureate, dies at 58
18th - Friedrich Panzer, German germanist (Hilde-Gudrun), dies at 85
18th - Louis Bromfield, writer, dies at 59
22nd - George A L Sarton, Belgian/US historian, dies at 71
25th - George Luther Foote, composer, dies at 70
25th - Robert Newton, actor (Henry V, Odd Man Out), dies at 50
26th - Thomas Alexandrovich de Hartmann, composer, dies at 70
27th - Frans Beelaerts van Blokland, minister of Foreign affairs, dies at 84
29th - Infante Alfonso of Spain (b. 1941)
31st - Ralph DePalma, Italian-American race car driver (b. 1884)
