page_title: 1956
section_title: October
hierarchical_section_title: 1956 / Births / October
caption_attribution_description: English: Craig Bartlett performing with the Ready, Jet Go band at a solar eclipse viewing event at the Homestead National Monument in Beatrice, Neb.
context_page_description: 1956 was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1956th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 956th year of the 2nd millennium, the 56th year of the 20th century, and the 7th year of the 1950s decade.
context_section_description: October 1
  Tara Buckman, American actress
  Andrus Ansip, Estonian politician, 10th Prime Minister of Estonia
  Theresa May, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
  October 2 – Charlie Adler, American voice actor and director
  October 3 – Ralph Morgenstern, German actor
  October 4 – Christoph Waltz, German-Austrian actor
  October 8
  Danny Jacob, American composer, songwriter and guitarist
  Stephanie Zimbalist, American actress
  October 10 – Amanda Burton, Irish actress
  October 11 – Nicanor Duarte, 47th President of Paraguay
  October 12 – Trần Đại Quang, President of Vietnam (d. 2018)
  October 16 – Rudra Mohammad Shahidullah, Bangladeshi poet (d. 1991)
  October 17
  Mae Jemison, African-American astronaut
  Stephen Palumbi, American academic and author
  Ken Morrow, American ice hockey player
  October 18
  Craig Bartlett, American animator and voice actor
  Martina Navratilova, Czech-American multiple Grand Slam title winning tennis player
  October 19
  Sunny Deol, Indian actor, director, producer and politician
  Carlo Urbani, Italian physician (d. 2003)
  October 20
  Sonja Ball, Canadian voice actress
  Danny Boyle, English film director
  October 21 – Carrie Fisher, American actress and novelist (d. 2016)
  October 22 – Marvin Bush, American businessman
  October 23
  Darrell Pace, American archer
  Dwight Yoakam, American country singer, musician and actor
  October 26 – Rita Wilson, American actress and producer
  October 28 – Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, 6th President of Iran
  October 29 - Wilfredo Gomez, Puerto Rican boxer
caption: Craig Bartlett
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