Athletes and Sports Stars Who Died in September 1956

Sep 7 C. B. Fry, English cricket batsman (26 Tests, 2 x 100s; Sussex, Hampshire), dies at 84
Sep 16 Shorty Ray, American football player and supervisor of NFL officials, dies at 71

Babe Didrikson Zaharias (1911-1956)

Sep 27 American all-round athlete (10 LPGA majors, Olympic gold medals 80m hurdles, javelin 1932), dies of colon cancer at 45