Curated playlist
1956 deaths
- Bertolt BrechtBertolt Brecht left a U.S. congressional hearing in 1947 and flew to Europe the next morning.
- Manilal GandhiManilal Gandhi edited a weekly newspaper in Durban for thirty-six years. He was Mohandas Gandhi's son.
- A. A. MilneA. A. Milne accused his old cricket teammate P. G. Wodehouse of near treason.
- Sheila Kaye-SmithSheila Kaye-Smith slipped a joke about Cold Comfort Farm into her own 1939 novel.
- Jules RimetThe Jules Rimet Trophy was stolen in 1966 and recovered by a dog named Pickles. It was stolen again in 1983.
- Alex RaymondAlex Raymond, an American cartoonist who lived from 1909 to 1956, sent a world-famous polo player into space on a rocket. The destination was Mongo, a planet on course to collide with Earth. That adventure became the comic strip Flash…
- B. R. AmbedkarB. R. Ambedkar said he would be the first to burn India's Constitution. He had chaired the committee that drafted it.
- George SartonGeorge Sarton buried his Civil Guard coat and manuscripts in a Belgian garden in 1914.
- Fletcher PrattFletcher Pratt was arrested at eighteen for robbing cash drawers. He became a noted military historian.
- Ezriel CarlebachA street in Tel Aviv bears the name of Ezriel Carlebach, and so does a large underground light rail station nearby. Both stand close to the offices of Ma'ariv, the newspaper he led. Carlebach was a journalist and editorial writer who…