page_title: 1956
section_title: January
hierarchical_section_title: 1956 / Births / January
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Mel Gibson au festival de Cannes
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: January 1
  Mark R. Hughes, American entrepreneur (d. 2000)
  Kōji Yakusho, Japanese actor
  Christine Lagarde, French lawyer and politician, IMF Managing Director and ECB president
  Andrew Lesnie, Australian cinematographer (d. 2015)
  Andy Gill, English musician (d. 2020)
  January 3
  Mel Gibson, American-born Australian/Irish actor and director
  Tomiko Suzuki, Japanese voice actress (d. 2003)
  January 4 – Bernard Sumner, British musician
  January 5
  Ana Pessoa Pinto, East Timorese politician and jurist
  Celso Blues Boy, Brazilian singer and guitarist (d. 2012)
  Chen Kenichi, Japan-born Chinese chef
  Frank-Walter Steinmeier, German politician
  January 7
  David Caruso, American actor
  Uwe Ochsenknecht, German actor
  Johnny Owen, Welsh boxer (d. 1980)
  Miladin Šobić, Montenegrin singer
  January 9
  Kimberly Beck, American actress
  Imelda Staunton, English actress
  January 12 – Nikolai Noskov, Soviet and Russian rock singer and songwriter
  January 13 – Janet Hubert, African-American actress
  January 14 – Ronan Bennett, Northern Irish writer
  January 15 – Vitaly Kaloyev, Russian convicted murderer, architect deputy minister of construction of North Ossetia-Alania
  January 16 – Martin Jol, Dutch football manager
  January 17 – Paul Young, English musician
  January 18
  Tom Bailey, English musician
  Sharon Mitchell, American sexologist
  Jim Mothersbaugh, American rock drummer
  January 19 – Adriana Acosta, Argentine militant and field hockey player (d. 1978)
  January 20 – Bill Maher, American actor, comedian and political analyst
  January 21
  Robby Benson, American actor, voice actor, director, singer and educator
  Geena Davis, American actress
  January 24 – Lounès Matoub, Algerian Berber Kabyle singer (d. 1998)
  January 25 – Bronwyn Pike, Australian politician
  January 26 – Pat Musick, American voice actress
  January 27
  Susanne Blakeslee, American actress
  Mimi Rogers, American actress
  January 28 – Peter Schilling, German singer
  January 29
  Jan Jakub Kolski, Polish film director
  Irlene Mandrell, American musician, actress
  January 30 – Keiichi Tsuchiya, Japanese race car driver
  January 31
  John Lydon, British punk musician and TV personality
  Trevor Manuel, South African politician
caption: Mel Gibson
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