page_title: 1956
section_title: March
hierarchical_section_title: 1956 / Deaths / March
caption_attribution_description: Irène Curie
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: March 11 – Aleksanteri Aava, Finnish poet (b. 1883)
  March 12 – Bolesław Bierut, Polish Communist politician and statesman, former Prime Minister and Presdident of Poland (b. 1892)
  March 14 – David Browning, American Olympic diver (b. 1931)
  March 17
  Fred Allen, American comedian (b. 1894)
  Irène Joliot-Curie, French physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (b. 1897)
  March 18
  Louis Bromfield, American writer (b. 1896)
  Paul Masson-Oursel, French orientalist and philosopher (b. 1882)
  March 20
  Fanny Durack, Australian swimmer (b. 1889)
  Wilhelm Miklas, 3rd President of Austria (b. 1889)
  March 21 – Edwin Thanhouser, American actor, businessman, and film producer, founder of the Thanhouser Company (b. 1865)
  March 22
  Eduardo Lonardi, Argentine military officer, (de facto) 30th President of Argentina (b. 1896)
  George Sarton, Belgian-American chemist and historian (b. 1884)
  March 25
  Lou Moore, American racing driver and team owner (b. 1904)
  Robert Newton, English film actor (b. 1905)
  March 28 – Thomas de Hartmann, Russian composer (b. 1885)
  March 30 – Edmund Clerihew Bentley, English writer (b. 1875)
  March 31 – Ralph DePalma, Italian-born race car driver (b. 1884)
caption: Irene Joliot-Curie
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