1956

«	1956	»

The year 1956 (MCMLVI) predates the launch of the Transformers brand by twenty-eight years.

For further information, see: Transformers timeline

Fiction

Movie continuity

The Psychopathic Institute for the Long-Term Insane in Baton Rouge, Louisiana is shut down. Prime Directive (IDW) issue 4

Non-Fiction

Events

• The Rainbow Crafts company is formed to sell Play-Doh, which will eventually be acquired by Hasbro.

Births

• ???? — Lutz Harder, Jörg Hengstler, Gunnar Helm

January

• January ???? — Jerry DeCapua
• January 1 — Pierre Laurent
• January 3 — Tomiko Suzuki
• January 11 — Hamilton Ricardo
• January 14 — Nelson Machado
• January 19 — Heike Schroetter
• January 26 — Vicente Gil
• January 31 — Carlos Segundo

February

• February 9 — Javier Pontón
• February 13 — Fábio Vilalonga
• February 16 — Sandro Larenas
• February 26 — Kevin Dunn

March

• March 3 — Vilmos Papucsek
• March 11 — Rob Paulsen, Óscar Gómez
• March 23 — Gerald Paradies
• March 24 — Ken Yamaguchi

April

• April 11 — Martine Reigner
• April 14 — Chris Ellis
• April 17 — Han Li
• April 23 — Alejandro Villeli, Jeff Manning

May

• May 12 — Claudio Fattoretto
• May 13 — Kirk Thornton
• May 19 — Steven Ford
• May 20 — Marc Alfos
• May 21 — Yolanda Vidal
• May 28 — Patrick Béthune
• May 30 — Robert Guilmard

June

• June 4 — Keith David
• June 7 — Mark Ryan
• June 18 — Alan Davis

July

• July 3 — Sándor Rosta
• July 20 — Jin Urayama

August

• August 5 - Katsumi Suzuki, Pep Antón Muñoz
• August 10 — Michel Vigné
• August 14 - Jackée Harry
• August 31 - Shirō Saitō

September

• September 23 — Peter David
• September 30 — Manuel Tadros

October

• October 2 — Charlie Adler
• October 15 — Patrick Donnay
• October 2 — Shinpachi Tsuji

November

• November 17 — Vânia Alexandre
• November 21 — Alessandra Valeri Manera

December

• December 11 — Gu-han Gang
• December 13 — Patrick Descamps
• December 15 — Antonio Angrisano
• December 16 — Vesa Hämes
• December 18 — T.K. Carter