1946
Year 1946 (MCMXLVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar.
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Births
January–February
- January 1 – Roberto Rivelino, Brazilian football player
- January 3
- January 5 – Diane Keaton, American actress and film director
- January 6 – Syd Barrett, English rock guitarist and singer (Pink Floyd) (d. 2006)
- January 8
- January 9 – Mogens Lykketoft, Danish politician
- January 11
- January 12 – George Duke, American musician
- January 14 – Harold Shipman, British serial killer (d. 2004)
- January 16
- January 18 – Joseph Deiss, Swiss Federal Councillor
- January 19
- January 20 – David Lynch, American film director
- January 21 – Johnny Oates, American baseball player and manager (d. 2004)
- January 22
- January 24 – Michael Ontkean, Canadian actor
- January 26 – Gene Siskel, American film critic (d. 1999)
- January 27 – Nedra Talley, American singer (Ronettes)
- January 29 – Bettye Lavette, American soul singer-songwriter
- January 31 – Terry Kath, American rock musician (d. 1978)
- February 1 – Elisabeth Sladen, English actress (d. 2011)
- February 2
- February 5 – Charlotte Rampling, British actress
- February 6 – Jim Turner, American politician
- February 7 – Pete Postlethwaite, English actor (d. 2011)
- February 9 – Séan Neeson, Northern Irish politician
- February 13 – Colin Matthews, British composer
- February 14
- February 19 – Karen Silkwood, American activist (d. 1974)
- February 20 – Brenda Blethyn, English actress
- February 21
- February 25
- February 26 – Ahmed H. Zewail, Egyptian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
- February 28
March–April
- March 1
- March 4
- 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 13 – Yonatan Netanyahu, American-born Israeli Army officer, killed in Operation Entebbe (d. 1976)
- 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
- March 25 – Cliff Balsam, English footballer
- March 26 – Johnny Crawford, American child actor and musician
- March 27 – Olaf Malolepski, German musician (Die Flippers)
- March 28 – Alejandro Toledo, former President of Peru
- 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 5
- April 7
- April 12 – Ed O'Neill, American actor
- April 16 – Margot Adler, American journalist
- April 19 – Tim Curry, British actor, singer and composer
- April 20 – Julien Poulin, Canadian actor
- April 25
- April 30 – King Carl XVI Gustav of Sweden
May–June
- May 1 – Joanna Lumley, English actress and author
- May 2 – Lesley Gore, American rock singer
- May 4 – John Watson, Northern Irish racecar driver
- May 7 – Thelma Houston, American singer
- May 9
- May 10
- May 11 – Robert Jarvik, American physicist and artificial 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, American baseball player
- May 19
- May 20 – Cher, American actress and rock 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 7
- June 8 – Pearlette Louisy, Governor-General of St. Lucia
- June 10 – Fernando Balzaretti, Mexican actor (d. 1998)
- June 14 – Donald Trump, American real estate magnate
- June 15
- June 17 – Marcy Kaptur, U.S. Representative for the Ninth Congressional District of Ohio
- June 18
- June 20 – Xanana Gusmão, first President of East Timor
- June 22 – Kay Redfield Jamison, American psychiatrist
- June 23 – Ted Shackelford, American actor
- June 24
- 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
- July 6
- July 9
- July 11 – Jack Wrangler, American porn star (d. 2009)
- July 13 – Cheech Marin, American actor and comedian
- July 14 – John Wood, Australian actor
- July 15 – Linda Ronstadt, American singer and songwriter
- July 16
- July 17 – Alun Armstrong, English actor
- July 19 – Ilie Năstase, Romanian tennis player
- July 22
- July 23 – Sally Flynn, American singer
- July 25 – Rita Marley, Jamaican singer
- July 29 – Ximena Armas, Chilean painter
- July 30 – Neil Bonnett, American race car driver (d. 1994)
- August 1
- August 3 – Jack Straw, British politician
- August 5 – Ron Silliman, American poet
- August 9 – Jim Kiick, American football player
- August 16 – Lesley Ann Warren, American actress and singer
- August 17 – Drake Levin, guitarist for the band Paul Revere & The Raiders.
- August 19
- August 20
- August 23 – Keith Moon, English rock drummer (The Who) (d. 1978)
- August 24 – John Grahl, British economist
- August 25
- August 26
- August 29
September–October
- September 1
- September 2 – Luis Avalos, Cuban-born American character actor
- September 3 – Francisco Trois, Brazilian chess player
- September 4
- September 5
- September 7
- September 9
- September 10
- September 15
- September 18 – Akira Kamiya, Japanese voice actor
- September 19 – Connie Kreski, American model (d. 1995)
- September 21
- September 23 – Franz Fischler, Austrian politician
- September 24 – Lars Emil Johansen, Prime Minister of Greenland
- September 25
- September 26
- September 28 – Jeffrey Jones, American actor
- September 30
- October 1 – Tim O'Brien, American author
- October 2
- October 3 – P. P. Arnold, American singer
- October 4 – Susan Sarandon, American actress
- October 6
- October 7
- October 8
- October 9 – Tansu Çiller, Turkish politician
- October 10
- October 11
- October 13
- October 14
- October 15
- October 16
- October 17
- October 18
- October 19 – Philip Pullman, English author
- October 20
- 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
- October 27
- October 28 – Sharon Thesen, Canadian poet
- October 29 – Kathryn J. Whitmire, Mayor of Houston, Texas
- October 30
- October 31 – Stephen Rea, Northern Irish actor
November
- November 1
- November 2 – Giuseppe Sinopoli, Italian conductor and composer (d. 2001)
- November 4 – Laura Bush, former First Lady of the United States
- November 5
- November 6 – Sally Field, American actress and singer
- November 7 – Diane Francis, Canadian journalist
- November 8
- November 10 – Alaina Reed Hall, American actress (d. 2009)
- 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
- November 16
- November 17 – Petra Burka, Canadian figure skater
- November 18 – Andrea Allan, Scottish actress
- November 20
- November 21
- November 22 – Anne Wheeler, Canadian television and film director
- November 23 – Diana Quick, English actress
- 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
- November 30 – Barbara Cubin, U.S. Congresswoman from Wyoming
December
Date unknown
Deaths
January–June
- January 4 – George Woolf, Canadian jockey (b. 1910)
- January 6 – Slim Summerville, American actor (b. 1892)
- January 9 – Countee Cullen, American poet (b. 1903)
- January 10 – Harry von Tilzer, American songwriter (b. 1872)
- January 29 – Harry Hopkins, American politician (b. 1890)
- February 2 – Rondo Hatton, American actor (b. 1894)
- February 5 – George Arliss, English actor (b. 1868)
- February 8 – Miles Mander, English actor (b. 1888)
- February 15 – Cornelius Johnson, American athlete (b. 1913)
- February 17 – Dorothy Gibson, American actress (b. 1889)
- 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 23 – Gilbert N. Lewis, American chemist (b. 1875)
- March 24 – Alexander Alekhine, Russian chess player (b. 1892)
- March 31 – John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort, British Field Marshal (b. 1886)
- April 1
- April 2 – Kate Bruce, veteran silent screen actress, made many films with D.W. Griffith (b. 1858)
- April 3 – Alf Common, English footballer (b. 1880)
- April 5 – Vincent Youmans, American composer (b. 1898)
- April 8 – Qin Bangxian, General Secretary of the Communist Party of China (b. 1907)
- April 14 – Otto Dowling, United States Navy Captain, and the 25th Governor of American Samoa (b. 1881)
- April 20 – Mae Busch, American actress (b. 1891)
- April 21 – John Maynard Keynes, British economist (b. 1883)
- April 22
- May 1 – Bill Johnston, American tennis champion (b. 1894)
- May 19 – Booth Tarkington, American novelist (b. 1869)
- May 20 – Jacob Ellehammer, Danish inventor (b. 1871)
- May 31 – Picoğlu Osman, Turkish kemenche player (b. 1901)
- June 1
- 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 13 – Charles Butterworth, American actor (b. 1896)
- June 14
- June 20 – Wan Rong, Empress of China (b. 1906)
- June 23 – William S. Hart, stage actor and silent film cowboy star (b. 1864/or 65)
- June 28 – Antoinette Perry, American actress and director (b. 1888)
July–December
- July – Howard Hyde Russell, Founder, Anti-Saloon League (b. 1855)
- July 2 – Mary Alden, American stage & screen actress (b. 1883)
- July 8 – Orrick Glenday Johns, American writer (b. 1887)
- July 12 – Ray Stannard Baker, American journalist and author (b. 1870)
- July 13 – Alfred Stieglitz, American photographer (b. 1864)
- July 15 – Razor Smith, English cricketer (b. 1877)
- July 17 – Campbell Tait, Governor of Southern Rhodesia (b. 1886)
- 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 9 – Leon Gaumont, French film pioneer (b. 1864)
- August 13 – H.G. Wells, English science fiction writer and historian (b. 1866)
- August 20 – Rags Ragland, American comedian and actor (b. 1905)
- August 26 – Jeanie MacPherson, American actress (b. 1887)
- August 28 – Florence Turner, American actress (b. 1885)
- September 17 – Frank Burke, American baseball player (b. 1880)
- September 25 – Heinrich George, German actor (b. 1893)
- September 29 – Raimu, French actor (b. 1883)
- September 30 – Takashi Sakai, Japanese general (executed) (b. 1887)
- October 2 – Ignacy Mościcki, former President of Poland (b. 1867)
- 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 12 – Joseph Stilwell, American World War II general (b. 1883)
- October 15 – Hermann Göring, German Nazi Reichsmarschall (suicide) (b. 1893)
- October 16 (executed):
- Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Austrian Nazi leader (b. 1892)
- Hans Frank, German Nazi Governor General of Poland (b. 1900)
- Wilhelm Frick, German Nazi Minister of the Interior (b. 1877)
- Alfred Jodl, German Nazi Chief of the OKW (b. 1890)
- Ernst Kaltenbrunner, German Nazi Police General (b. 1903)
- Wilhelm Keitel, German Nazi Generalfeldmarschall (b. 1882)
- Joachim von Ribbentrop, German Nazi foreign minister (b. 1893)
- Alfred Rosenberg, German Nazi ideologist (b. 1893)
- Fritz Sauckel, German Nazi General Plenipotentiary (b. 1892)
- Julius Streicher, German Nazi propaganda publisher (b. 1885)
- November 5 – Joseph Stella, Italian-American painter (b. 1877)
- November 7 – Henry Lehrman, American actor (b. 1886)
- November 11 – Nikolai Burdenko, Russian surgeon, founder of Russian neurosurgery (b. 1876)
- November 14 – Manuel de Falla, Spanish composer (b. 1876)
- November 18 – Donald Meek, Scottish actor (b. 1878)
- November 25 – George Gandy, American entrepreneur (b. 1851)
- December 5 – Louis Dewis, Belgian Post-Impressionist painter (b. 1872)
- December 7
- December 10
- December 12 – Renee Falconetti, French actress (b. 1892)
- 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)
- December 28 – Carrie Jacobs-Bond, American singer and songwriter (b. 1862)
Date unknown
Nobel Prizes
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