1946

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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 - The Allies recognize the Austrian republic with 1937 borders, and divide the country into 4 occupation zones.

January 10: First meeting of UN.

January 10: Project Diana

January 10 - The first meeting of the United Nations is held in London.
January 10 - Project Diana bounces radar waves off the Moon, measuring the exact distance between the earth and the moon, and proving that communication is possible between 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 calls for an end to discrimination in the workplace. 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 founders.

January 25 - The United Mine Workers rejoins the American Federation of Labor.
January 28 - The Canadian schooner Bluenose founders on a Haitian reef.
January 29 - The Central Intelligence Group is established (the CIA in 1947).
January 31 - Yugoslavia's new constitution, modeling the Soviet Union, establishes 6 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 - The Kingdom of Hungary becomes a republic.
February 14 - The Bank of England is 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 - An explosion kills more than 400 coal miners in West Germany.
February 24 - Juan Peron is elected president of Argentina.
February 28 - In Philadelphia, General Electric strikers and police clash.

March

March 2 - British troops withdraw from Iran according to treaty; the Soviets do not.
March 2 - Ho Chi Minh is elected President of North Vietnam.
March 4 - C.G.E. Mannerheim resigns as 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 - The 18th Academy Awards ceremony is held.
March 9 - Juho Kusti Paasikivi becomes president of Finland.
March 10 - British troops begin withdrawing from Lebanon.
March 15 - Clement Attlee promises independence to India as soon as they can agree on a constitution.
March 19 - The Soviet Union and Switzerland resume diplomatic relations.
March 19 - French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Martinique and Réunion become overseas départements of France.
March 22 – The United Kingdom grants Transjordan, as it is then known, its independence; 3 years later the country changes its name to Jordan.¹
March 29 - The Gold Coast has an African majority in its parliament.

April

April 1 - A 14-meter high tsunami strikes Hilo and Laupāhoehoe on the Big Island of Hawaii; 173 are killed, thousands injured.
April 1 - The Malayan Union is formed.
April 1 - Singapore becomes a Crown colony.
April 3 - Japanese Lt. General Masaharu Homma is executed outside Manila, the Philippines for leading the Bataan Death March.
April 10 - In Japan, women vote for the first time, during elections for the House of Representatives of the 90th Imperial Diet.
April 17 - Syria's independence from France is officially recognised.
April 18 - The United States recognizes Josip Broz Tito's government in Yugoslavia.
April 18 - The League of Nations, in its last meeting, transfers its mission to the United Nations and disbands itself.
April 23 - The Eastern Pennsylvania Basketball League (Which is now the CBA) is founded.
April 29 - Trial against war criminals begin in Tokyo; the 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 inmates unsuccessfully try to escape from Alcatraz Prison.
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 is elected leader of the Congress Party in India.
May 10 - The first V-2 rocket is successfully launched at the White Sands Missile Range.
May 20 - The British House of Commons decides to nationalize mines.
May 21 - At the Los Alamos Laboratory, Dr. Louis Slotin saves his coworkers but receives a fatal dose of ionizing radiation (the incident is initially classified).
May 22 - The Kingdom of Transjordan is 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 - A Greek referendum supports the return of the 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 the Romanian people for benefits of Germany and sentenced to death by the Bucharest People's Tribunal.
June 2 - In a referendum, Italians decide to turn Italy from a monarchy into a republic. 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 10 - Italy is declared a 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 - A tornado on the Detroit River kills 17.
June 17 - Laurence Olivier's Henry V opens in the United States nearly 2 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.
June 23 - The 1946 Vancouver Island earthquake strikes Vancouver Island.

July

July 4 - Ankara University is founded in Turkey.
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 - An 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: The Irgun bombs the King David Hotel (headquarters of the British civil and military administration) in Jerusalem, 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.
July 25 - In the last mass lynching in the United States, a mob of white men kill two African-American couples near Moore's Ford Bridge in Georgia.

August

August 1 - The Hungarian Forint is introduced in Hungary by the government, ending the world's biggest hyperinflation in the country.
August 4 - The 1946 Dominican Republic earthquake (magnitude 8.0) hits the northern Dominican Republic, killing 100, and leaving 20,000 homeless.
August 18 - The Vergarolla explosion in Croatia kills 70.
August 19 - Violence between Muslims and Hindus in Calcutta leaves 3,000 dead.
August 25 - Ben Hogan wins the PGA Championship.

September

September 4 - Street violence between Muslims and Hindus erupts in Bombay.
September 8 - Bulgaria is declared a People's Republic after a referendum; King Simeon II leaves.
September 24 - Cathay Pacific Airways is 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: Hermann Göring, founder of the Gestapo and recently convicted Nazi war criminal, poisons himself hours before his scheduled execution.
October 23 - The United Nations' first meeting in Long Island is held.

November

November 1 - The New York Knicks play against the Toronto Huskies at the Maple Leaf Gardens, in the first Basketball Association of America game. The Knicks 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. The French cruiser Suffren opens fire, killing 6,000 Vietnamese.
November 10 - At least 1,400 people are killed in an earthquake measuring 7.4 on the Richter Scale, in the Ancash Region and Quiches District in Peru.
November 10 - The Slimbridge Wetland Reserve opens in England.
November 12 - A truce is declared between Indonesian nationalist troops and the Dutch army in Indonesia.
November 12 - in Chicago, a branch of the Exchange National Bank (now part of the LaSalle Bank) opens the first 10 drive-up teller windows.
November 15 - The Netherlands recognizes 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, 1946: The Romanian Communist Party wins 79.86% of the vote 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 2 The International Whaling Commission was signed in Washington to "provide for the proper conservation of whale stocks and thus make possible the orderly development of the whaling industry".
December 7 - A fire at the Winecoff Hotel in Atlanta, United States kills 119.
December 11 - UNICEF (the United Nations Children's Emergency Fund) is founded.
December 12 - The United Nations severs relations with Franco's Spain and recommends that member countries sever diplomatic relations.
December 12 - Léon Blum founds a government of socialist parties in France.
December 12 - A communist government takes power in Tabriz, Iranian Azerbaijan Province.
December 19 - Martial law is declared in Vietnam.
December 20 - Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life, featuring 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 an earthquake and associated tsunami in Japan.
December 22 - The Havana Conference begins between U.S. organized crime bosses in Havana, Cuba.
December 24 - France's Fourth Republic is founded.
December 26 - The Flamingo Hotel opens in Las Vegas, Nevada.
December 26 - David Lean's Great Expectations, based on the Charles Dickens novel, and featuring 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 ends hostilities in World War II.

Undated

The 20mm M61 Vulcan Gatling gun contract is released.
The Devil's Island penal colony closes permanently.
Female suffrage is enacted in Belgium, Romania, Yugoslavia, Argentina and the Canadian province of Quebec.
The first female police officers are hired in Korea and Japan.
The Chinese Civil War intensifies between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party of China.
The first Tupperware is 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.
The Breathalyzer machine for estimating blood alcohol concentration is invented.
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.
The Casio Company is founded by 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 rock bassist (Led Zeppelin)
January 3 - Cissy King, American dancer and singer (The Lawrence Welk Show)
January 5 - Diane Keaton, American actress (Annie Hall)
January 6 - Syd Barrett, English rock guitarist and singer (Pink Floyd) (d. 2006)
January 8 - Stanton Peele, American psychologist
January 8 - Robby Krieger, American rock musician (The Doors)
January 11 - Naomi Judd, American country singer
January 11 - John Piper, American theologian
January 12 - George Duke, African-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 country singer and actress (9 to 5)
January 20 - David Lynch, American film director
January 21 - Johnny Oates, American baseball player and manager (d. 2004)
January 22 - Serge Savard, Canadian hockey player and executive
January 24 - Michael Ontkean, Canadian actor (The Rookies)
January 26 - Gene Siskel, American film critic (d. 1999)
January 27 - Nedra Talley, American singer (Ronettes)
January 31 - Terry Kath, American rock musician (Chicago) (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, African American dancer and actor (Lost At Home) (d. 2003)
February 19 - Karen Silkwood, American activist (d. 1974)
February 20 - Brenda Blethyn, English actress
February 21 - Tyne Daly, American actress (Cagney and Lacey)
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 rock musician (Pink Floyd)
March 7 - Peter Wolf, American rock musician (The J. Geils Band)
March 10 - Mike Hollands, Australian animator
March 12 - Liza Minnelli, American singer and actress
March 15 - Bobby Bonds, American 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, British musician (Crass Records)
April 7 - Léon Krier, Luxembourgian architect
April 12 - Ed O'Neill, American actor (Married....With Children)
April 16 - Margot Adler, American journalist
April 19 - Tim Curry, British actor, vocalist, and composer (The Rocky Horror Picture Show)
April 20 - Julien Poulin, Canadian actor
April 25 - John Fox, British statistician
April 25 - Talia Shire, American actress (Rocky)
April 25 - Strobe Talbott, American journalist
April 30 - King Carl XVI Gustav of Sweden

May–June

May 2 - Lesley Gore, American rock singer (It's My Party)
May 4 - John Watson, Northern Irish racecar driver
May 7 - Thelma Houston, African-American singer (Don't Leave Me This Way)
May 9 - Candice Bergen, American actress
May 9 - Drafi Deutscher, German Schlager singer (d. 2006)
May 10 - Donovan Leitch, Scottish rock musician (Sunshine Superman)
May 10 - Dave Mason, English rock musician (Traffic)
May 11 - Robert Jarvik, American physicist and artifical heart 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, African-American baseball player
May 19 - André the Giant, French professional wrestler (d. 1993)
May 19 - Claude Lelièvre, Belgian Commissioner for Children Rights
May 20 - Cher, American actress and rock singer (Sonny and Cher)
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 rock 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
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 23 - Ted Shackelford, American actor
June 24 - Ellison Onizuka, American astronaut (d. 1986)
June 24 - Robert Reich, 22nd United States Secretary of Labor
June 28 - Gilda Radner, American comedienne and actress (Saturday Night Live) (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 (Rambo)
July 9 - Natasha Pyne, English actress
July 9 - Bon Scott, Australian rock singer (AC/DC) (d. 1980)
July 13 - Cheech Marin, American actor and comedian (Cheech and Chong)
July 14 - John Wood, Australian actor
July 15 - Linda Ronstadt, American singer and songwriter (You're No Good)
July 16 - Dave Goelz, American puppeteer
July 16 - Ron Yary, American football player
July 17 - Alun Armstrong, English actor
July 22 - Danny Glover, African-American actor (Lethal Weapon)
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 techno singer and musician (Kraftwerk)
August 20 - N.R. Narayana Murthy, Indian businessman
August 23 - Keith Moon, English rock drummer (The Who) (d. 1978)
August 24 - John Grahl, British economist
August 25 - Charles Ghigna (Father Goose), American poet and children's author
August 25 - Rollie Fingers, American baseball player
August 26 - Valerie Simpson, African-American singer (Ashford and Simpson)
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 rock musician (The Bee Gees)
September 2 - Luis Avalos, Cuban-born American character actor
September 3 - Francisco Trois, Brazilian chess player
September 4 - Gary Duncan, American rock guitarist (Quicksilver Messenger Service)
September 4 - Greg Elmore, American rock drummer (Quicksilver Messenger Service)
September 5 - Freddie Mercury, Zanzibar-born English singer (Queen) (d. 1991)
September 7 - Willie Crawford, American 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, American rock vocalist (Iron Butterfly)
September 9 - Billy Preston, African-American soul musician (d. 2006)
September 10 - Jim Hines, American athlete
September 10 - Don Powell, English rock drummer (Slade)
September 15 - Tommy Lee Jones, American actor (Men In Black)
September 15 - Oliver Stone, American film director (JFK)
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' of Raelism
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 (The Client)
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, British 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 rock musician (Hall & Oates)
October 13 - Edwina Currie, English politician
October 13 - Dorothy Moore, American singer
October 14 - Justin Hayward, English rock singer and songwriter (Moody Blues)
October 15 - Richard Carpenter, American pop musician and composer (The Carpenters)
October 15 - Marsha Hunt, American singer and novelist
October 16 - Suzanne Somers, American actress (Three's Company)
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 (NBC News)
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 rock 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 (The Flying Nun)
November 7 - Diane Francis, Canadian journalist
November 7 - Martin Barre, English rock 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 reporter
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), English 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 (The Patty Duke Show)
December 16 - Alice Aycock, American sculptor
December 16 - Benny Andersson, Swedish rock 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 (SCTV)
December 18 - Nina Skottova, Czech politician and member of the European Parliament
December 18 - Steven Spielberg, American film director (E.T.)
December 18 - Steve Biko, South African anti-apartheid activist (d. 1977)
December 19 - Candace Pert, American nueroscientist
December 19 - Robert Urich, American actor (Vega$)
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 (Days of Our Lives)
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 rock guitarist (Focus)
December 25 - Jimmy Buffett, American rock singer and songwriter (Margaritaville)
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 rock musician (Frankenstein)
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 - Ananda Mahidol, King of Siam (b. 1925)
June 10 - Jack Johnson, African-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 science fiction writer and historian (b. 1866)
September 17 - Frank Burke, American baseball player (b. 1880)
September 29 - Raimu, French actor (b. 1883)
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, German Nazi Reichsmarshall (suicide) (b. 1893)
October 16 - Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Austrian Nazi leader (executed) (b. 1892)
October 16 - Hans Frank, German Nazi Governor General of Poland (executed) (b. 1900)
October 16 - Wilhelm Frick, German Nazi Minister of the Interior (executed) (b. 1877)
October 16 - Alfred Jodl, German Nazi Chief of the OKW (executed) (b. 1890)
October 16 - Ernst Kaltenbrunner, German Nazi Police General (executed) (b. 1903)
October 16 - Wilhelm Keitel, German Nazi Generalfeldmarschall (executed) (b. 1882)
October 16 - Joachim von Ribbentrop, German Nazi foreign minister (executed) (b. 1893)
October 16 - Alfred Rosenberg, German Nazi ideologist (executed) (b. 1893)
October 16 - Fritz Sauckel, German Nazi General Plenipotentiary (executed) (b. 1892)
October 16 - Julius Streicher, German Nazi propaganda publisher (executed) (b. 1885)
November 11 - Nikolai Burdenko, Russian surgeon, founder of 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, American baseball player (b. 1887)
December 14 - Tom Dowse, Irish major league baseball player 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)
Howard Hyde Russell, Founder, Anti-Saloon League (b. 1855)

1946

Events of 1946

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March

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August

September

October

November

December

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March–April

May–June

July–August

September–October

November

December

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Deaths

January–June

July–December

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Nobel Prizes

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