1946

1946

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Millennium:	2nd millennium
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Decades:	1910s 1920s 1930s - 1940s - 1950s 1960s 1970s
Years:	1943 1944 1945 - 1946 - 1947 1948 1949

Year 1946 (MCMXLVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full 1946 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar.

Contents:
Events of 1946 - Jan. ^. Feb. ^. March ^. April - May ^. June ^. July ^. Aug. - Sept. ^. Oct. ^. Nov. ^. Dec. - Undated ^. Ongoing Births Deaths Nobel prizes Ship events See also - Notes - External links

Events of 1946

January

January 7 - Allies recognize Austrian republic with 1937 borders - the country is divided into four occupation zones

January 10: First meeting of UN.

January 10: Project Diana

January 10 - First meeting of the United Nations
January 10 - Project Diana bounces Radar waves off the Moon, measuring the exact distance between the earth and the moon and proving that the communication was possible between the earth and outer space, effectively opening the space age.
January 11 - Enver Hoxha declares the People's Republic of Albania with himself as prime minister.
January 11 - Porfirio Barba-Jacob's ashes go back to Colombia.
January 16 - Charles de Gaulle resigns as a head of a French provisional government
January 17 - The UN Security Council holds its first session
January 17 - Senator Dennis Chavez (D-NM) calls for a vote on an FEPC bill which called for the end to discrimination in the work place. A filibuster prevents it from passing.
January 20 - Charles De Gaulle resigns as president of France
January 22 - Iran:Qazi Muhammad declares the independent people's Republic of Mahabad at the Chuwarchira Square in the Kurdish city of Mahabad. He is the new president, Hadschi Baba Scheich is the prime minister.

Jan. 28: Bluenose will founder.

January 25 - The United Mine Workers rejoins the American Federation of Labor.
January 28 - Bluenose founders on a Haitian reef.
January 29 - Central Intelligence Group established, CIA established in 1947
January 31 - Yugoslavia's new constitution, modeling the Soviet Union, establishes six constituent republics (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Slovenia).

February

February 1 - Trygve Lie of Norway is selected to be the first United Nations Secretary General.
February 1 - Kingdom of Hungary becomes a republic.
February 14 - The Bank of England nationalized
February 14 - ENIAC (for "Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer"), the first general-purpose electronic computer, is unveiled at the University of Pennsylvania
February 15 - Canada indicts 22 communist agents.
February 20 - Explosion kills more than 400 coal miners in West Germany.
February 24 - Juan Peron elected president of Argentina
February 28 - In Philadelphia, strikers of General Electric and police clash

March

March 2 - British troops withdraw from Iran according to treaty - Soviets do not.
March 2 - Ho Chi Minh elected the President of North Vietnam
March 4 - C.G.E. Mannerheim resigns from the post of president of Finland
March 5 - In his speech at Westminster College, in Fulton, Missouri, Winston Churchill talks about the Iron Curtain.
March 6 - Vietnam War: Ho Chi Minh signs an agreement with France which recognizes Vietnam as an autonomous state in the Indochinese Federation and the French Union.
March 6 - A communist-dominated government under Petru Groza assumes power in Romania.
March 7 - 18th Academy Awards ceremony
March 9 - Juho Kusti Paasikivi becomes president of Finland
March 10 - British troops begin withdrawal from Lebanon
March 15 - Clement Attlee promises independence to India as soon as they can agree on constitution
March 19 - Soviet Union and Switzerland reform diplomatic relations.
March 19 - French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Martinique and Réunion become overseas départements of France
March 22 – The United Kingdom grants Transjordan, as it was then known, its independence. Three years later the country changes its name to Jordan.¹
March 29 - Gold Coast has an African majority in the parliament

April

April 1 - 14-meter high tsunami strikes Hilo and Laupāhoehoe on the Big Island of Hawaii - 173 dead, thousands injured.
April 1 - Formation of the Malayan Union.
April 1 - Singapore becomes a Crown colony
April 3 - Japanese Lt. General Masaharu Homma is executed outside Manila in the Philippines for leading the Bataan Death March.
April 10 - In Japan, women vote for the first time during the elections for the House of Representatives of the Ninetieth Imperial Diet
April 17 - Syria's independence from France is officially recognised
April 18 - USA recognizes Josip Broz Tito's government in Yugoslavia
April 18 - Last meeting of League of Nations – it transfers its mission to United Nations and disbands itself.
April 23 - the Eastern Pennsylvania Basketball League (Which is now the CBA) was founded
April 29 - Trial against war criminals begin in Tokyo – accused include Hideki Tojo, Shigenori Togo and Hiroshi Oshima.

May

May 1 - At least 800 Indigenous Australian pastoral workers walk off the job in Northwest Western Australia, starting one of the longest industrial strikes in Australia
May 2 - Six prisoners unsuccessfully try to escape from the Alcatraz prison island
May 7 - Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering (later renamed Sony) is founded with about 20 employees.
May 9 - King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy abdicates, and is succeeded by his son Humbert II.
May 10 - Nehru elected leader of the Congress Party in India.
May 10 - First successful launch of a V-2 rocket at White Sands Proving Ground.
May 20 - In Britain, the House of Commons decides to nationalize mines.
May 21 - Radiation accident in Los Alamos laboratory; Dr Louis Slotin saves his coworkers but receives a fatal dose of radiation. Incident is initially classified
May 22 - Kingdom of Transjordan founded.
May 25 - The parliament of Transjordan makes emir Abdullah their king.
May 26 - Czechoslovak parliamentary election, with Communist victory (38%), last before communist take power
May 31 - Greece referendum supports return of monarchy

June

June 1 - Ion Antonescu, prime minister and "Conducator" (Leader) of Romania during World War II is executed; he was found guilty of betraying Romanian people for benefits of Germany and sentenced to death by Bucharest People's Tribunal.
June 2 - In a referendum Italians decide to turn Italy from a monarchy into a Republic. After this referendum, the king of Italy Umberto II di Savoia was exiled. Women vote for the first time.
June 6 - The Basketball Association of America is formed in New York City.
June 8 - In Indonesia, Sukarno incites his supporters to fight Dutch colonial occupation
June 9 - In Thailand, King Bhumibol Adulyadej (Rama IX) accedes the throne after the mysterious death of his brother, King Ananda Mahidol (Rama VIII).
June 9 - Arthur John "Jack" Johnson, first African-American heavy-weight boxing champion, dies in a high speed car crash.
June 10 - Italy declared republic
June 13 - Humbert II of Italy leaves the country and goes into exile in Portugal; Alcide de Gasperi becomes head of state.
June 17 - Tornado on the Detroit River - 17 dead
June 17 - Laurence Olivier's Henry V opens in the United States nearly two years after its release in England. It is the first Shakespeare film in color, and critics hail it as the finest film of a Shakespeare play ever made.

July

July 4 - Ankara University is founded.
July 4 - After over 381 years of Western dominance, the Philippines achieves full independence.
July 5 - Bikinis go on sale in Paris
July 7 - Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini becomes the first American saint to be canonized.
July 21 - Irgun bomb explodes in Jerusalem because of secretive talks between Jews and Britain to consolidate the state of Israel.
July 22 - King David Hotel bombing: Irgun bombs King David Hotel in Jerusalem, headquarters of the British civil and military administration killing 90.
July 25 - Nuclear testing: In the first underwater test of the atomic bomb, the surplus USS Saratoga is sunk near Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean when the United States detonates the Baker device during Operation Crossroads.
July 25 - At Club 500 in Atlantic City, New Jersey, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis stage their first show as a comedy team.

August

August 1 - The Hungarian Forint is introduced in Hungary by the local government this ends the world's biggest hyperinflation in the country
August 4 - 1946 Dominican Republic earthquake - earthquake of magnitude 8.0 hits northern Dominican Republic. 100 killed, 20,000 left homeless.
August 18 - Approximately 70 people die in the Vergarolla explosion.
August 19 - Violence between Muslims and Hindus in Calcutta leaves 3000 dead.
August 25 - Ben Hogan wins PGA Championship

September

September 4 - Street violence between Muslims and Hindus in Bombay.
September 8 - Bulgaria declared a People's Republic after a referendum – King Simeon II leaves.
September 24 - Cathay Pacific Airways was founded by Roy C Farrell and H de Kantzow.
September 28 - George II of Greece returns to Athens

October

October 1 - Mensa is founded in the United Kingdom.
October 2 - Communists take over in Bulgaria
October 13 - France adopts the constitution of the Fourth Republic.
October 15 - Nuremberg Trials: Founder of the Gestapo and recently convicted Nazi war criminal, Hermann Göring, poisons himself hours before his scheduled execution.
October 23 - United Nations' first meeting in Long Island.

November

November 1 - The New York Knicks played against the Toronto Huskies at the Maple Leaf Gardens, in the first Basketball Association of America game. The Knicks would win 68-66.
November 6 - Senate and House elections in the United States both give majorities to the Republicans.
November 8 - Vietnamese riot in Haiphong and clash with French troops. French cruiser Suffren opens fire. 6000 Vietnamese killed.
November 10 - At least 1,400 people were killed in an earthquake measuring 7.4 on the Richter Scale at the Ancash and Quiches area in Peru.
November 10 - Opening of the Slimbridge wetland reserve in England.
November 12 - Truce between Indonesian nationalist troops and Dutch army in Indonesia.
November 12 - in Chicago, a branch of the Exchange National Bank (now part of the LaSalle Bank) opens the first ten drive-up teller windows.
November 15 - Netherlands recognized the Republic of Indonesia.
November 17 - Eight British servicemen are killed in Jerusalem by Jewish nationalists.
November 19 - Afghanistan, Iceland and Sweden join the United Nations
November 19 - Romanian general election, carried with 79.86% of the vote by the Romanian Communist Party through widespread intimidation tactics and electoral fraud
November 22 - Tony Benn is elected as Treasurer of the Oxford Union.
November 23 - The Workers Party of South Korea is founded.
November 27 - Cold War: Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru appeals to the United States and the Soviet Union to end nuclear testing and to start nuclear disarmament, stating that such an action would "save humanity from the ultimate disaster."

December

December 1 - Miguel Alemán Valdés takes office as President of Mexico.
December 7 - Fire at the Winecoff Hotel in Atlanta, United States kills 119.
December 11 - UNICEF (UNIted nations Children's Emergency Fund) founded.
December 12 - United Nations severs relations with Franco's Spain and recommends the member countries to sever diplomatic relations
December 12 - Léon Blum founds a government of socialist parties in France
December 12 - The new communist government held power in Tabriz center of Iranian Azerbaijan Province.
December 19 - Martial law in Vietnam
December 20 - Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life, featuring a cast including James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore, Henry Travers, and Thomas Mitchell, is released in New York.
December 20 - At least 1,362 people are killed in a earthquake and associated tsunami in Japan
December 22 - Havana Conference begins between US organized crime bosses in Havana, Cuba
December 24 - France's Fourth Republic founded
December 26 - Flamingo Hotel opens in Las Vegas.
December 26 - David Lean's Great Expectations, based on the novel by Charles Dickens, and featuring a cast headed by John Mills, Valerie Hobson, Martita Hunt, Alec Guinness, Francis L. Sullivan, Jean Simmons, and Finlay Currie, is released to great acclaim in England.
December 31 - President Harry Truman delivers Proclamation 2714, which officially proclaimed the end of hostilities in World War II.

Undated

The 20mm M61 Vulcan Gatling gun contract is released.
Devil's Island penal colony closes permanently.
Female suffrage in Belgium, Romania, Yugoslavia, Argentina and Canadian province of Quebec. First female police officers in Korea and Japan.
Chinese Civil War intensifies between Kuomintang and Communist Party of China.
First Tupperware sold in department and hardware stores.
Grantley Adams becomes the premier of Barbados.
The Alcatraz Island prison riot occurs.
The British government takes emergency powers to deal with the balance-of-payments crisis.
Eva Perón tours Spain, Italy and France on behalf of Argentina, a circuit called the Rainbow Tour.
Breathalyzer machine for estimating blood alcohol concentration was invented.
Howard Hyde Russell established the Anti-Saloon League.
George Orwell writes Politics and the English Language
The NFL team San Francisco 49ers is formed.
'Deaths and Entrances' by Dylan Thomas is published. It includes one of Thomas' most famous poems, Fern Hill.
Casio Company was founded by the engineer, Tadao Kashio.

Ongoing

Marshall Plan

Fictional

5 November - In Bioshock, the underwater Objectivist gulch city of Rapture is officially opened.
Undated - In The X-Files, the first X-file is opened by J. Edgar Hoover

Births

**1946 in other calendars**
Gregorian calendar	1946 MCMXLVI
Ab urbe condita	2699
Armenian calendar	1395 ԹՎ ՌՅՂԵ
Bahá'í calendar	102 – 103
Berber calendar	2896
Buddhist calendar	2490
Burmese calendar	1308
Byzantine calendar	7454 – 7455
Chinese calendar	乙酉年十一月廿八日 (4582/4642-11-28) — to — 丙戌年十二月初九日 (4583/4643-12-9)
Coptic calendar	1662 – 1663
Ethiopian calendar	1938 – 1939
Hebrew calendar	5706 – 5707
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	2001 – 2002
- Shaka Samvat	1868 – 1869
- Kali Yuga	5047 – 5048
Holocene calendar	11946
Iranian calendar	1324 – 1325
Islamic calendar	1365 – 1366
Japanese calendar	Shōwa 21 (昭和21年)
Korean calendar	4279
Thai solar calendar	2489
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January–February

January 3 - John Paul Jones, English bassist (Led Zeppelin)
January 3 - Cissy King, American dancer and singer The Lawrence Welk Show
January 5 - Diane Keaton, American actress
January 6 - Syd Barrett, English guitarist and singer (Pink Floyd) (d. 2006)
January 8 - Stanton Peele, American psychologist
January 8 - Robby Krieger, American musician (The Doors)
January 11 - Naomi Judd, American singer
January 11 - John Piper, American theologian
January 12 - George Duke, American musician
January 14 - Harold Shipman, British serial killer (d.2004)
January 16 - Kabir Bedi, Indian actor
January 16 - Katia Ricciarelli, Italian singer
January 18 - Joseph Deiss, Swiss Federal Councillor
January 19 - Julian Barnes, English writer
January 19 - Dolly Parton, American singer and actress
January 20 - David Lynch, American film director
January 21 - Johnny Oates, baseball player and manager (d. 2004)
January 22 - Serge Savard, Canadian hockey player and executive
January 24 - Michael Ontkean, Canadian actor
January 26 - Gene Siskel, American film critic (d. 1999)
January 27 - Nedra Talley, American singer (Ronettes)
January 31 - Terry Kath, American musician (d. 1978)
February 2 - Blake Clark, American actor and comedian
February 6 - Jim Turner, American politician
February 9 - Séan Neeson, Northern Irish politician
February 13 - Colin Matthews, British composer
February 14 - Bernard Dowiyogo, President of Nauru (d. 2003)
February 14 - Gregory Hines, American dancer and actor (d. 2003)
February 19 - Karen Silkwood, American activist (d. 1974)
February 20 - Brenda Blethyn, English actress
February 21 - Tyne Daly, American actress
February 21 - Alan Rickman, English actor
February 25 - Franz Xaver Kroetz, German dramatist
February 26 - Ahmed H. Zewail, Egyptian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
February 28 - Robin Cook, British politician (d. 2005)

March–April

March 4 - Michael Ashcroft, English entrepreneur
March 4 - Haile Gerima, Ethiopian filmmaker
March 4 - Harvey Goldsmith, British impresario
March 5 - Lova Moor, French singer and dancer
March 6 - David Gilmour, English musician (Pink Floyd)
March 7 - Peter Wolf, American musician (The J. Geils Band)
March 10 - Mike Hollands, Australian animator
March 12 - Liza Minnelli, American singer and actress
March 15 - Bobby Bonds, baseball player and manager (d. 2003)
March 17 - Georges J. F. Kohler, German biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1995)
March 21 - Timothy Dalton, Welsh actor
March 25 - Cliff Balsam, English footballer
March 27 - Olaf Malolepski, German musician (Die Flippers)
March 30 - Carolyn Simpson, judge of the Supreme Court of New South Wales
March 31 - Gonzalo Márquez, Venezuelan Major League Baseball player (d. 1984)
April 4 - Dave Hill, English guitarist (Slade)
April 7 - Colette Besson, French runner
April 7 - John Loder, musician (CRASS)
April 7 - Léon Krier, Luxembourgian architect
April 12 - Ed O'Neill, American actor
April 16 - Margot Adler, American journalist
April 19 - Tim Curry, British actor, vocalist, and composer
April 20 - Julien Poulin, Canadian actor
April 25 - John Fox, British statistician
April 25 - Talia Shire, American actress
April 25 - Strobe Talbott, American journalist
April 30 - King Carl XVI Gustav of Sweden

May–June

May 2 - Lesley Gore, American singer
May 4 - John Watson, Northern Irish racecar driver
May 7 - Thelma Houston, American singer
May 9 - Candice Bergen, American actress
May 9 - Drafi Deutscher, German Schlager singer (d. 2006)
May 10 - Donovan Leitch, Scottish musician
May 10 - Dave Mason, English musician (Traffic)
May 11 - Robert Jarvik, American physicist and inventor
May 12 - Richard Bruce Silverman, John Evans Professor of Chemistry at Northwestern University
May 16 - Robert Fripp, British musician
May 17 - Udo Lindenberg, German musician
May 18 - Reggie Jackson, baseball player
May 19 - André the Giant, French professional wrestling (d. 1993)
May 19 - Claude Lelièvre, Belgian Commissioner for Children Rights
May 20 - Cher, American actress and singer
May 22 - George Best, Northern Irish footballer (d. 2005)
May 23 - Frederik de Groot, Dutch actor
May 26 - Mick Ronson, English guitarist (d. 1993)
May 28 - K. Satchidanandan, Malayalam poet
May 29 - Fernando Buesa, Basque politician (d. 2000)
May 30 - Candy Lightner, American founder of Mothers Against Drunk Driving
June 2 - Peter Sutcliffe, English serial killer
June 8 - Pearlette Louisy, Governor-General of St. Lucia
June 12 - Harry Glasper, English football historian
June 14 - Donald Trump, American real estate magnate
June 15 - Demis Roussos, Greek singer
June 15 - Noddy Holder, English singer (Slade)
June 15 - Roy Holder, English actor
June 15 - Janet Lennon, American singer, The Lennon Sisters
June 17 - Marcy Kaptur, U.S. Representative for the Ninth Congressional District of Ohio, based in Toledo
June 18 - Russell Ash, British author
June 20 - Xanana Gusmão, first President of East Timor
June 22 - Kay Redfield Jamison, American psychiatrist
June 23 - Kathy Wilkes, English philosopher
June 24 - Ellison Onizuka, astronaut (d. 1986)
June 24 - Robert Reich, 22nd United States Secretary of Labor
June 28 - Gilda Radner, American comedienne and actress (d. 1989)
June 29 - Egon von Furstenberg, Swiss fashion designer (d. 2004)

July–August

July 2 - Richard Axel, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
July 4 - Ed O'Ross, American actor
July 4 - Michael Milken, American financier
July 6 - George W. Bush, 43rd President of the United States
July 6 - Sylvester Stallone, American actor
July 9 - Natasha Pyne, English actress
July 9 - Bon Scott, Australian singer (AC/DC) (d. 1980)
July 13 - Cheech Marin, American actor and comedian
July 14 - John Wood, Australian actor
July 15 - Linda Ronstadt, American singer and songwriter
July 16 - Dave Goelz, American puppeteer
July 16 - Ron Yary, American football player
July 17 - Alun Armstrong, English actor
July 22 - Danny Glover, American actor
July 22 - Mireille Mathieu, French singer
July 23 - Sally Flynn, American singer The Lawrence Welk Show
July 25 - Rita Marley, Jamaican singer
July 30 - Neil Bonnett, American race car driver (d. 1994)
August 1 - Mike Emrick, American sportscaster
August 1 - Sandi Griffiths, American singer
August 3 - Jack Straw, British politician
August 5 - Ron Silliman, American poet
August 9 - Jim Kiick, American football player
August 19 - Bill Clinton, 42nd President of the United States
August 19 - Beat Raaflaub, Swiss conductor
August 19 - Charles Bolden, American astronaut
August 20 - Ralf Hütter, German singer and musician (Kraftwerk)
August 20 - N.R. Narayana Murthy, Indian businessman
August 23 - Keith Moon, English drummer (The Who) (d. 1978)
August 24 - John Grahl, Economist
August 25 - Charles Ghigna (Father Goose), American poet and Children's Author
August 25 - Rollie Fingers, baseball player
August 26 - Valerie Simpson, American singer
August 26 - Mark Snow, American composer
August 26 - Tom Ridge, first United States Secretary of Homeland Security
August 26 - Zhou Ji, education minister of the People's Republic of China
August 29 - Bob Beamon, American athlete
August 29 - Leona Gom, Canadian novelist and poet

September–October

September 1 - Roh Moo-hyun, President of South Korea
September 1 - Barry Gibb - British/Australian Musician The Bee Gees
September 2 - Luis Avalos, character actor
September 3 - Francisco Trois,Brazilian chess player
September 4 - Gary Duncan, American guitarist (Quicksilver Messenger Service)
September 4 - Greg Elmore, American drummer (Quicksilver Messenger Service)
September 5 - Freddie Mercury, Zanzibar-born singer (Queen) (d. 1991)
September 7 - Willie Crawford, baseball player (d. 2004)
September 7 - Francisco Varela, Chilean biologist (d. 2001)
September 9 - Bruce Palmer, Canadian musician (Buffalo Springfield) (d. 2004)
September 9 - Doug Ingle, Vocalist
September 9 - Billy Preston, American soul musician (d. 2006)
September 10 - Jim Hines, American athlete
September 10 - Don Powell, English drummer
September 15 - Tommy Lee Jones, American actor
September 15 - Oliver Stone, American film director
September 21 - Moritz Leuenberger, Swiss Federal Councilor
September 21 - Mikhail Kovalchuk, Russian physicist and official
September 23 - Franz Fischler, Austrian politician
September 24 - Lars Emil Johansen, Prime Minister of Greenland
September 25 - Jerry Penrod, American bass player
September 25 - Felicity Kendal, British actress
September 26 - Christine Todd Whitman, American politician
September 26 - Radha Krishna Mainali, Nepalese politician
September 30 - Héctor Lavoe, Puerto Rican singer (d. 1993)
September 30 - Claude Vorilhon, French-born Messenger
October 1 - Tim O'Brien, American author
October 2 - Gen. Sonthi Boonyaratglin, President of the Council for National Security and Commander-in-Chief of the Royal Thai Army
October 3 - P. P. Arnold, American singer
October 4 - Susan Sarandon, American actress
October 6 - Lloyd Doggett, American politician
October 6 - Renate Holub, German philosopher
October 7 - Xue Jinghua, Chinese ballerina
October 7 - Catharine MacKinnon, American feminist
October 8 - Hanan Ashrawi, Palestinian scholar
October 8 - John T. Walton, son of Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton (d. 2005)
October 9 - Tansu Çiller, Turkish politician
October 10 - Anne Boyd, Australian musician
October 10 - Chris Tarrant, Radio and TV personality
October 10 - Naoto Kan, Japanese politician
October 10 - Mildred Grieveson (aka: Anne Mather, Caroline Fleming, Cardine Fleming), British writer
October 11 - Amitabh Bachchan Indian Actor
October 11 - Daryl Hall, American musician (Hall & Oates)
October 13 - Edwina Currie, English politician
October 13 - Dorothy Moore, American singer
October 14 - Justin Hayward, English singer and songwriter (Moody Blues)
October 15 - Richard Carpenter, American musician and composer (The Carpenters)
October 15 - Marsha Hunt, American singer and novelist
October 16 - Suzanne Somers, American actress
October 16 - Elizabeth Witmer, Dutch-born politician
October 17 - Vicki Hodge, English actress
October 17 - Bob Seagren, American athlete and actor
October 18 - James Robert Baker, American novelist, screenwriter
October 18 - Howard Shore, Canadian film composer
October 18 - Andrea Zsadon, Hungarian soprano
October 19 - Philip Pullman, English author
October 20 - Elfriede Jelinek, Austrian writer, Nobel Prize laureate
October 21 - Lyn Allison, Australian politician
October 22 - Eileen Gordon, British politician
October 25 - Edith Leyrer, Austrian actress
October 26 - Pat Sajak, American game show host (Wheel of Fortune)
October 27 - Leslie L. Byrne, American politician
October 27 - Ivan Reitman, Slovakian-born film director and producer
October 27 - Carrie Snodgress, American actress (d. 2004)
October 28 - Sharon Thesen, Canadian poet
October 29 - Kathryn J. Whitmire, Mayor of Houston, Texas
October 30 - Lynne Marta, American actress
October 30 - Andrea Mitchell, American journalist
October 31 - Caroline Jackson, British politician
October 31 - Stephen Rea, Northern Irish actor

November

November 1 - Marina Abramovic, Yugoslavian performance artist
November 1 - Ric Grech, British bassist (Family, Blind Faith, Traffic (d. 1990)
November 1 - Lynne Russell, American newsreader
November 2 - Giuseppe Sinopoli, Italian conductor and composer (d. 2001)
November 4 - Laura Bush, First Lady of the United States
November 5 - Herman Brood, Dutch artist (d. 2001)
November 5 - Loleatta Holloway, American singer
November 5 - Gram Parsons, American musician (d. 1973)
November 6 - Sally Field, American actress
November 7 - Diane Francis, Canadian journalist
November 7 - Martin Barre, English musician (Jethro Tull)
November 8 - Stella Chiweshe, Zimbabwe musician
November 10 - Alaina Reed Hall, American actress
November 11 - Corrine Brown, American politician
November 12 - P.P. Arnold, English singer
November 13 - Ohara Reiko, Japanese actress
November 14 - Carola Dunn, English writer
November 15 - Gwyneth Powell, British actress
November 15 - Sandy Skoglund, American photographer
November 17 - Petra Burka, Canadian figure skater
November 18 - Andrea Allan, Scottish actress
November 18 - Amanda Lear, Hong Kong singer
November 19 - Terry Baum, American playwright
November 20 - Greg Cook, American football player
November 20 - Judy Woodruff, American television personality
November 21 - Emma Cohen, Spanish actress
November 21 - Pam Freeman, American actress
November 21 - Chaviva Hosek, Czech-born feminist
November 21 - Ulla Jessen, Danish actress
November 21 - Jacky Lafon, Belgian actress
November 21 - Marina Warner, English writer
November 22 - Anne Wheeler, Canadian television and film director
November 24 - Penelope Jones Halsall (aka: Caroline Courtney, Melinda Wright, Lydia Hitchcock, Penny Jordan, Annie Groves), British writer
November 24 - Ted Bundy, American serial killer (d. 1989)
November 25 - Marika Lindstrom, Swedish actress
November 26 - Ottilia Borbath, Romanian actress
November 27 - Nina Maslova, Russian actress
November 28 - Regina Braga, Brazilian actress
November 29 - Brian Cadd, Australian singer-songwriter
November 29 - Suzy Chaffee, American singer and actress
November 30 - Barbara Cubin, U.S. Congresswoman from Wyoming

December

December 2 - Gulsun Karamustafa, Turkish artist and film director
December 2 - Gianni Versace, Italian fashion designer (d. 1997)
December 3 - Marjana Lipovsek, Slovenian singer and actress
December 3 - Joop Zoetemelk, Dutch cyclist
December 4 - Sherry Alberoni, American actress
December 4 - Angela Browning, British politician
December 4 - You Inoue, Japanese voice actress (d. 2003)
December 5 - José Carreras, Spanish tenor
December 5 - Eva-Britt Svensson, Swedish politician
December 6 - Chelsea Brown, American actress
December 8 - Jacques Bourboulon, French photographer
December 8 - Sharmila Tagore, Indian actress
December 9 - Sonia Gandhi, Indian politician
December 10 - Chrystos, American poet
December 10 - Thomas Lux, American poet
December 11 - Ellen Meloy, American writer (d. 2004)
December 12 - Gloria Loring, American singer
December 12 - Emerson Fittipaldi, Brazilian racing car driver
December 14 - Jane Birkin, English actress and singer
December 14 - Patty Duke, American actress
December 16 - Alice Aycock, American sculptor
December 16 - Benny Andersson, Swedish singer and songwriter (ABBA)
December 16 - Trevor Pinnock, English harpsichordist and conductor
December 17 - Bel Mooney, English broadcast journalist
December 17 - Eugene Levy, Canadian Actor
December 18 - Nina Skottova, Czech politician and member of the European Parliament
December 18 - Steven Spielberg, American film director
December 18 - Steve Biko, Apartheid activist (d. 1977)
December 19 - Candace Pert, American nueroscientist
December 19 - Robert Urich, American actor
December 20 - Lesley Judd, English actress and television presenter
December 20 - John Spencer, American actor (d. 2005)
December 20 - Dick Wolf, American television producer
December 21 - Carl Wilson, American musician (d. 1998)
December 23 - Edita Gruberova, Slovakian soprano
December 23 - Susan Lucci, American actress
December 24 - Roselyne Bachelot-Narquin, French politician and member of the European Parliament
December 24 - Brenda Howard, American bisexual activist (d. 2005)
December 24 - Jan Akkerman, Dutch guitarist, mostly known from Focus
December 25 - Jimmy Buffett, American singer and songwriter
December 25 - Larry Csonka, American football player
December 25 - Gene Lamont, American baseball player and manager
December 26 - Joyce Jillson, American astrologer (d. 2004)
December 27 - Lenny Kaye, American guitarist
December 27 - Janet Street Porter, English broadcast journalist
December 27 - Polly Toynbee, English journalist and writer
December 28 - Edgar Winter, American musician
December 29 - Marianne Faithfull, English singer and actress
December 29 - Ruth Shady, Peruvian archaeologist
December 30 - Patti Smith, American poet and singer

Unknown dates

Kebby Musokotwane, Prime Minister of Zambia (d. 1996)
Pete Price, Merseyside radio disc jockey
Tyler Burge, American philosopher

Deaths

January–June

January 4 - George Woolf, Canadian jockey (b. 1910)
January 29 - Harry Hopkins, American politician (b. 1890)
February 5 - George Arliss, English actor (b. 1868)
February 19 - Rafael Erich, Prime Minister of Finland (b. 1879)
March 2 - George E. Stewart, American Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1872)
March 4 - Bror von Blixen-Finecke, Danish big-game hunter (b. 1886)
March 12 - Joachim Spungel, Austrian linguistics expert (b. 1874)
March 23 - Gilbert N. Lewis, American chemist (b. 1875)
March 24 - Alexander Alekhine, Russian chess player (b. 1892)
April 1 - Noah Beery, Sr., American actor (b. 1882)
April 3 - Alf Common, English footballer (b. 1880)
April 8 - Qin Bangxian, General Secretary of the Communist Party of China (b. 1907)
April 21 - John Maynard Keynes, British economist (b.1883)
April 22 - Harlan F. Stone, Chief Justice of the United States (b. 1872)
May 19 - Booth Tarkington, American novelist (b. 1869)
May 20 - Jacob Ellehammer, Danish inventor (b. 1871)
June 1 - Ion Antonescu, Romanian prime minister and dictator (b. 1882)
June 6 - Gerhart Hauptmann, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1862)
June 9 - King Ananda Mahidol of Siam (b. 1925)
June 10 - Jack Johnson, American boxer (b. 1878)
June 14 - John Logie Baird, Scottish television pioneer (b. 1888)
June 28 - Antoinette Perry, American actress and director (b. 1888)

July–December

July 8 - Orrick Glenday Johns, American writer (b. 1887)
July 13 - Alfred Stieglitz, American photographer (b. 1864)
July 15 - Razor Smith, English cricketer (b. 1877)
July 27 - Gertrude Stein, American writer (b. 1874)
July 30 - Nikolai Alexandrovich Morozov, Russian poet, scientist and revolutionary (b. 1854)
August 5 - Wilhelm Marx, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1863)
August 13 - H.G. Wells, English writer (b. 1866)
September 17 - Frank Burke, American baseball player (b. 1880)
September 30 - Takashi Sakai, Japanese General (executed) (b. 1887)
October 4 - Barney Oldfield, American race car driver and automobile pioneer (b. 1878)
October 6 - Per Albin Hansson, Prime Minister of Sweden (b. 1885)
October 15 - Hermann Göring, Nazi Reichsmarshall (suicide) (b. 1893)
October 16 - Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Austrian Nazi Leader (executed) (b. 1892)
October 16 - Hans Frank, Nazi Governor General of Poland (executed) (b. 1900)
October 16 - Wilhelm Frick, Nazi Minister of Interior (executed) (b. 1877)
October 16 - Alfred Jodl, Nazi Chief of OKW (executed) (b. 1890)
October 16 - Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Nazi Police General (executed) (b. 1903)
October 16 - Wilhelm Keitel, Nazi Generalfeldmarschall (executed) (b. 1882)
October 16 - Joachim von Ribbentrop, Nazi foreign minister (executed) (b. 1893)
October 16 - Alfred Rosenberg, Nazi ideologist (executed) (b. 1893)
October 16 - Fritz Sauckel, Nazi General Plenipotentiary (executed) (b. 1892)
October 16 - Julius Streicher, Nazi propaganda publisher (executed) (b. 1885)
November 11 - Nikolai Burdenko, Russian surgeon, the founder of the Russian neurosurgery (b. 1876)
November 14 - Manuel de Falla, Spanish composer (b. 1876)
November 25 - George Gandy, American entrepreneur (b. 1851)
December 5 - Louis Dewis, Belgian Post-Impressionist painter (b. 1872)
December 7 - Sada Yacco, Japanese stage actress (b. 1871)
December 10 - Walter Johnson, baseball player (b. 1887)
December 14 - Tom Dowse, Irish baseball player who played in major league baseball in the 1890s (b. 1866)
December 23 - John A. Sampson, American gynecologist (b. 1873)
December 25 - W.C. Fields, American actor and comedian (b. 1880)

Unknown

Curtis Hidden Page New Hampshire politician. (b. 1870)

Events of 1946

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December

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Births

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March–April

May–June

July–August

September–October

November

December

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Deaths

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July–December

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Nobel Prizes

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