1946: Difference between revisions

** The [[Kingdom of Hungary (1920–46)|Kingdom of Hungary]] becomes a [[Second Hungarian Republic|republic]], heavily influenced by the [[Soviet Union]].

* [[February 14]] – [[ENIAC]] (for "Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer"), an early general-purpose electronic [[computer]], is unveiled at the [[University of Pennsylvania]]; it weighs 60,000 pounds (over 27 tons), and occupies a big room.

* [[February 20]] – An explosion kills more than 400 coal miners in [[Bergkamen]], West Germany.<ref>{{cite book|author=F. S. V. Donnison|title=Civil Affairs and Military Government: North-west Europe, 1944-1946.|publisher=H.M. Stationery Office|year=1961|page=416}}</ref>

* [[February 24]] – [[Juan Perón]] is elected [[president of Argentina]].

** The [[Malayan Union]] is formed.

** [[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 5]] – A [[Fleet Air Arm]] [[Vickers Wellington]] [[1946 Rabat Vickers Wellington crash|crashes]] into a residential area in [[Rabat, Malta|Rabat]], [[Crown Colony of Malta|Malta]] during a training exercise, killing all 4 crew members and 16 civilians on the ground.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Attard |first1=Eddie |title=The air crash disaster in Rabat 70 years ago |url=https://timesofmalta.com/articles/view/The-air-crash-disaster-in-Rabat-70-years-ago.607711 |work=[[Times of Malta]] |date=4 April 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200202142854/https://timesofmalta.com/articles/view/The-air-crash-disaster-in-Rabat-70-years-ago.607711 |archive-date=2 February 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Crash of a Vickers 440 Wellington X in Ir-Rabat: 20 killed |url=https://www.baaa-acro.com/crash/crash-vickers-440-wellington-x-ir-rabat-20-killed |website=Bureau of Aircraft Accidents Archives |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200209145837/https://www.baaa-acro.com/crash/crash-vickers-440-wellington-x-ir-rabat-20-killed |archive-date=9 February 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Accident details |url=http://www.planecrashinfo.com/1946/1946-19.htm |website=PlaneCrashInfo.com |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200209150524/http://www.planecrashinfo.com/1946/1946-19.htm |archive-date=9 February 2020}}</ref>

* [[April 10]] – In Japan, women vote for the first time, during elections for the House of Representatives of the 90th [[Meiji Constitution|Imperial Diet]].

* [[April 17]] – [[Syria]]'s independence from France is officially recognized.

* [[April 18]]

* [[May 21]] – [[Manhattan Project]] physicist Dr. [[Louis Slotin]] accidentally triggers a [[fission reaction]] at the [[Los Alamos National Laboratory]] in the United States and, although saving his coworkers, gives himself a lethal dose of [[hard radiation]], making him the second victim of a [[criticality accident]] in history (the incident is initially treated as [[classified information]]).

* [[May 23]]–[[May 24|24]] – [[Tornado outbreak of May 23–24, 1946|A two-day violent tornado outbreak]] occurs across the Central [[United States]], with at least 15 significant tornadoes killing four people and injuring 42 others.

* [[May 26]] – [[1946 Czechoslovak parliamentary election]]: Communists win with (38%), in the last election before communists take power.

* [[May 31]] – The [[1946 Greek referendum]] supports the return of the [[monarchy of Greece|monarchy]].

** The [[Kielce Pogrom]] takes place in [[Poland]].

* [[July 5]] – The [[bikini]] is first modeled in Paris.

* [[July 21]] – An [[Irgun]] bomb explodes in [[Jerusalem]], due to 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.

* [[December 2]] – The [[International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling]] is signed in Washington, D.C., to "provide for the proper conservation of whale stocks and thus make possible the orderly development of the whaling industry" through establishment of the [[International Whaling Commission]].

* [[December 7]] – The [[Winecoff Hotel fire]] in [[Atlanta]], United States, kills 119.

* [[December 11]] – [[UNICEF]] (the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund) is founded.

* [[December 12]]

===Date unknown===

* The cancelled 1946 [[FIFA World Cup]].

* The first female police officers are hired in Korea and Japan.

* The [[Chinese Civil War]] intensifies between the [[Kuomintang]] and the [[Chinese Communist Party]].

* The 20&nbsp;mm [[M61 Vulcan]] [[Gatling gun]] contract is released.

* The [[Casio]] company is founded by engineer Tadao Kashio in Japan.

 

==Births==

** [[John Paul Jones (musician)|John Paul Jones]], English rock bassist ([[Led Zeppelin]], [[Them Crooked Vultures]])

** [[Cissy King]], American dancer, singer

* [[January 5]] – [[Diane Keaton]], American actress, film director (''[[Annie Hall]]'')

* [[January 6]] – [[Syd Barrett]], English rock guitarist, singer and songwriter ([[Pink Floyd]]) (d. [[2006]])

** [[Michael Coats]], American astronaut

** [[Katia Ricciarelli]], Italian singer

* [[January 18]]

** [[Joseph Deiss]], Swiss Federal Councillor

* [[January 19]]

* [[January 20]] – [[David Lynch]], American film director

* [[January 22]]

** [[Serge Savard]], Canadian hockey player, executive

* [[January 23]] – [[Arnoldo Alemán]], [[President of Nicaragua]]

* [[January 26]]

** [[Gene Siskel]], American film critic (''[[Sneak Previews]]'') (d. [[1999]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1999-02-21-9902210326-story.html |title=He Changed The Way We Look At Movies |work=Chicago Tribune |date=February 21, 1999 |access-date=October 11, 2021}}</ref>

* [[January 27]] – [[Nedra Talley]], African-American singer ([[The Ronettes]])

* [[January 31]] – [[Terry Kath]], American rock musician ([[Chicago (band)|Chicago]]) (d. [[1978]])

 

[[File:Anthony Daniels 2011.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Anthony Daniels]]]]

[[File:Alan Rickman at BAM -17.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Alan Rickman]]]]

* [[February 2]]

** [[Isaias Afwerki]], [[President of Eritrea]]

** [[Blake Clark]], American actor, comedian

* [[February 5]] – [[Charlotte Rampling]], British actress

* [[February 6]]

** [[Jim Turner (politician)|Jim Turner]], American politician

* [[February 7]]

** [[Pete Postlethwaite]], English actor (d. [[2011]])

* [[February 9]] – [[Seán Neeson]], Northern Irish politician

* [[February 13]]

** [[Joe Estevez]], American actor

** [[Colin Matthews]], British composer

* [[February 14]]

** [[Bernard Dowiyogo]], 7-time [[President of Nauru]] (d. [[2003]])

** [[Gregory Hines]], African-American dancer, actor (d. [[2003]])

* [[February 19]] – [[Karen Silkwood]], American activist (d. [[1974]])

* [[February 20]]

** [[Monica Johnson]], American screenwriter (d. [[2010]])

** [[Tyne Daly]], American actress ([[Cagney & Lacey]])

* [[February 25]]

** [[Andrew Ang]], judge of the [[Supreme Court of Singapore]]

** [[Franz Xaver Kroetz]], German dramatist<ref>{{cite book|author1=Franz Xaver Kroetz|author2=Richard W. Blevins|title=Franz Xaver Kroetz: The Emergence of a Political Playwright|publisher=P. Lang|year=1983|isbn=9780820400136|page=14}}</ref>

** [[Jean Todt]], French motorsport manager

* [[February 26]]

** [[Ahmed Zewail]], Egyptian-born chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[2016]])

* [[February 28]]

** [[Robin Cook]], British politician (d. [[2005]])

** [[Don Francisco (Christian musician)|Don Francisco]], American Christian musician

 

===March===

** [[Jan Kodeš]], Czech tennis player

** [[Lana Wood]], American actress, producer

* [[March 2]] – [[Morari Bapu]], Hindu Kathakaar

* [[March 4]]

** [[Michael Ashcroft]], English entrepreneur

** [[Murray Head]], English singer, actor

** [[Lova Moor]], French singer, dancer

* [[March 6]]

** [[Larry Huber]], American television producer, animator

** [[Leandro Mendoza]], Filipino politician (d. [[2013]])

** [[Peter Wolf]], American rock musician ([[The J. Geils Band]])

* [[March 10]] – [[Mike Hollands]], Australian animator

* [[March 12]]

** [[Frank Welker]], American voice actor, singer

** [[Liza Minnelli]], American singer, actress

* [[March 14]]

** [[Álvaro Arzú]], 32nd President of Guatemala (d. [[2018]])

** [[Wes Unseld]], American basketball player (d. [[2020]])

* [[March 15]] – [[Bobby Bonds]], American baseball player, manager (d. [[2003]])

* [[March 17]] – [[Georges J. F. Köhler]], German biologist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] (d. [[1995]])<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Alkan|first=Sefik S.|date=July 2019|title=Legends of allergy/immunology: Georges Köhler and the discovery of MONOCLONAL antibodies|url=https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30920663|journal=Allergy|volume=74|issue=7|pages=1412–1414|doi=10.1111/all.13798|issn=1398-9995|pmid=30920663|s2cid=219281951 }}</ref>

* [[March 18]] – [[Larry Langford]], American politician (d. [[2019]])

* [[March 21]] – [[Timothy Dalton]], Welsh actor

* [[March 26]] – [[Gil Carlos Rodríguez Iglesias]], Spanish judge (d. [[2019]])

* [[March 27]]

** [[Mike Jackson (left-handed pitcher)|Mike Jackson]], American baseball pitcher

* [[March 28]] – [[Alejandro Toledo]], 63rd [[President of Peru]]

* [[March 29]]

** [[Segun Bucknor]], Nigerian musician, journalist (d. [[2017]])

* [[March 30]] – [[Carolyn Simpson]], judge of the [[Supreme Court of New South Wales]]

* [[March 31]]

[[File:9.16.13BillPlymptonByLuigiNovi1.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Bill Plympton]]]]

* [[April 1]] – [[Ronnie Lane]], English musician ([[Small Faces]], [[Faces (band)|Faces]]) (d. [[1997]])

* [[April 3]] – [[Hanna Suchocka]], [[Prime Minister of Poland]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Hanna Suchocka |url=https://www.britannica.com/explore/100women/profiles/hanna-suchocka |website=Britannica Presents 100 Women Trailblazers |access-date=28 July 2021 |language=en |date=25 February 2020}}</ref>

* [[April 5]]

** [[Jane Asher]], English actress

** [[János Bródy]], Hungarian singer, guitarist, composer and songwriter

** [[Björn Granath]], Swedish actor (d. [[2017]])

* [[April 7]]

** [[Colette Besson]], French track and field athlete (d. [[2005]])

** [[Léon Krier]], Luxembourgian architect

* [[April 8]]

** [[Catfish Hunter]], American baseball player (d. [[1999]])

* [[April 11]] – [[Chris Burden]], American artist (d. [[2015]])

* [[April 12]] – [[Ed O'Neill]], American actor (''[[Married... with Children]]'')

* [[April 15]] – [[Marsha Hunt (actress, born 1946)|Marsha Hunt]], American actress, singer and novelist

* [[April 16]] – [[Margot Adler]], American journalist

** [[John Waters]], American film director

** [[Paul Davies]], English physicist

* [[April 25]]

** [[John Fox (statistician)|John Fox]], British statistician

** [[Jennie Stoller]], British actress (d. [[2018]])

** [[Richard S. Fuld Jr.]], American banker

* [[April 30]]

** King [[Carl XVI Gustaf]] of Sweden<ref>{{cite book |last1=Paxton |first1=J. |title=The Statesman's Year-Book 1987-88 |date=16 December 2016 |publisher=Springer |isbn=978-0-230-27116-6 |page=1138 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-Li8DQAAQBAJ&pg=PA1138 |language=en}}</ref>

 

===May===

** [[Lesley Gore]], American rock singer ("[[It's My Party (Lesley Gore song)|It's My Party]]") (d. [[2015]])

** [[Ralf Gothóni]], Finnish pianist, conductor and composer

* [[May 5]]

** [[Jim Kelly (martial artist)|Jim Kelly]], African-American actor, martial artist and tennis player (d. [[2013]])

** [[Kebby Musokotwane]], Prime Minister of Zambia (d. [[1996]])

** [[Beth Carvalho]], Brazilian samba singer, guitarist and composer (d. [[2019]])

* [[May 7]]

** [[Thelma Houston]], African-American singer ("[[Don't Leave Me This Way]]")

* [[May 10]]

** [[Donovan]], Scottish rock musician ("[[Sunshine Superman (song)|Sunshine Superman]]")

** [[Dave Mason]], English rock musician ([[Traffic (band)|Traffic]])

** [[Murade Isaac Murargy]], Mozambican diplomat, politician

* [[May 12]] – [[Richard Bruce Silverman]], John Evans Professor of Chemistry at [[Northwestern University]]

* [[May 18]]

** [[Reggie Jackson]], American baseball player<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/j/jacksre01.shtml|title=Reggie Jackson Stats|website=Baseball Reference|access-date=April 16, 2021}}</ref>

** [[Claude Lelièvre]], Belgian Commissioner for Children Rights

** [[Roger Sloman]], English actor

* [[May 20]]

** [[Craig Patrick]], American-Canadian hockey player, coach and manager

** [[George Best]], Northern Irish footballer (d. [[2005]])

** [[Howard Kendall]], English footballer (d. [[2015]])

* [[May 24]]

** [[Tansu Çiller]], Turkish politician, [[Prime Minister of Turkey]]<ref>{{cite book |last1=Jalalzai |first1=Farida |title=Shattered, Cracked, Or Firmly Intact?: Women and the Executive Glass Ceiling Worldwide |date=28 March 2013 |publisher=OUP USA |isbn=978-0-19-994353-1 |page=214 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Q5yOS_qcK2oC&pg=PA214 |language=en}}</ref>

** [[Irena Szewińska]], Polish Olympic sprinter (d. [[2018]])

** [[Nicolau dos Reis Lobato]], East Timorese politician, acting [[President of East Timor]] (d. [[1978]])

* [[May 26]] – [[Mick Ronson]], English guitarist (d. [[1993]])

* [[May 28]]

** [[Bruce Alexander (actor)|Bruce Alexander]], English actor

** [[Tomomichi Nishimura]], Japanese voice actor

* [[June 3]] – [[Michael Clarke (musician)|Michael Clarke]], American musician (d. [[1993]])

* [[June 5]] – [[Stefania Sandrelli]], Italian actress

* [[June 7]]

** [[Robert Tilton]], American televangelist, author

* [[June 8]] – [[Pearlette Louisy]], Governor-General of St. Lucia

* [[June 10]] – [[Fernando Balzaretti]], Mexican actor (d. [[1998]])

* [[June 11]] – [[Biancamaria Frabotta]], Italian writer (d. [[2022]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.sololibri.net/addio-biancamaria-frabotta-poetessa-ha-insegnato-letteratura.html|title=Addio a Biancamaria Frabotta, la poetessa che ha insegnato la letteratura|first=Alice|last=Figini|website=SoloLibri.net}}</ref>

* [[June 14]] – [[Donald Trump]], American businessman, television personality, 45th [[President of the United States]]

* [[June 15]]

** [[Janet Lennon]], American singer ([[The Lennon Sisters]])

** [[Demis Roussos]], Greek singer (d. [[2015]])

* [[June 17]] – [[Marcy Kaptur]], U.S. Representative for the Ninth Congressional District of Ohio

* [[June 18]]

** [[Russell Ash]], British author (d. [[2010]])

** [[Fabio Capello]], Italian football player, manager

* [[June 21]]

** [[Vincenzo Camporini]], Italian Chief of the Defence General Staff

** [[Robert Reich]], 22nd [[United States Secretary of Labor]]

* [[June 25]]

** [[Henk van Kessel]], Dutch road racer

* [[June 26]]

** [[Anthony John Valentine Obinna]], Nigerian priest

** [[Leo Rossi]], American actor

* [[June 27]] – [[Russ Critchfield]], American basketball player

* [[June 28]]

** [[Gilda Radner]], American comedian, actress (''[[Saturday Night Live]]'') (d. [[1989]])

** [[Jaime Guzmán]], Chilean lawyer and senator, founder of the [[Independent Democratic Union]] (d. [[1991]])

* [[June 29]]

** [[Egon von Fürstenberg]], Swiss fashion designer (d. [[2004]])

** [[Ram Gopal Yadav]], Indian politician

** [[Ernesto Pérez Balladares]], [[President of Panama]]

 

===July===

[[File:Danny Glover June 2019.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Danny Glover]]]]

* [[July 1]]

** [[Mireya Moscoso]], [[President of Panama]]

* [[July 4]]

** [[Sam Hunt (poet)|Sam Hunt]], New Zealand poet

** [[Gerard 't Hooft]], Dutch physicist and academic, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate

** [[Ram Vilas Paswan]], Indian politician

* [[July 6]]

** [[George W. Bush]], 43rd [[President of the United States]]

** [[Peter Singer]], Australian philosopher

** [[Sylvester Stallone]], American actor, screenwriter and film director (''[[Rocky]]'')

* [[July 8]]

** [[Massimo Vanni]], Italian actor

** [[Jean-Pierre Coopman]], Belgian boxer

** [[Jack Wrangler]], American porn star (d. [[2009]])

* [[July 13]]

** [[João Bosco]], Brazilian singer, songwriter

** [[Monica Aspelund]], Finnish singer

** [[Ron Yary]], American football player

* [[July 17]]

** [[Claudia Islas]], Mexican actress

** [[Petre Roman]], 53rd Prime Minister of Romania

** [[Johnson Toribiong]], 8th President of Palau

* [[July 25]] – [[Rita Marley]], Cuban-Jamaican singer

* [[July 27]]

** [[Gwynne Gilford]], American actress

** [[Jacques Sylla]], 12th [[Prime Minister of Madagascar]] (d. [[2009]])

* [[July 30]]

** [[Neil Bonnett]], American race car driver (d. [[1994]])

** [[Mike Emrick]], American sportscaster

** [[Sandi Griffiths]], American singer

* [[August 5]]

** [[Reinhard Tritscher]], Austrian alpine skier (d. [[2018]])

** [[Loni Anderson]], American actress (''[[WKRP in Cincinnati]]'')

** [[Shirley Ann Jackson]], African-American President of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Chair of the President's Intelligence Advisory Board

* [[August 6]] – [[Allan Holdsworth]], British musician (d. [[2017]])

* [[August 8]] – [[Ralph Gonsalves]], 4th [[Prime Minister of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines]]

* [[August 13]]

**[[Janet Yellen]], American [[Chair of the Federal Reserve]]

* [[August 16]]

**[[Masoud Barzani]], Iraqi-Kurdish politician, President of Iraqi Kurdistan

**[[Lesley Ann Warren]], American actress, singer

* [[August 17]] – [[Drake Levin]], American rock guitarist ([[Paul Revere & the Raiders]]) (d. [[2009]])

* [[August 19]]

** [[Charles Bolden]], African-American astronaut

** [[Ralf Hütter]], German techno musician ([[Kraftwerk]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Pascal Bussy|title=Kraftwerk: Man, Machine and Music|publisher=SAF|year=2004|isbn=9780946719709|page=18}}</ref>

** [[N. R. Narayana Murthy]], Indian businessman

* [[August 23]]

** [[Keith Moon]], English rock drummer ([[The Who]]) (d. [[1978]])

** [[Raza Murad]], Indian actor

* [[August 25]]

** [[Rollie Fingers]], American baseball player

** [[Queen Anne-Marie of Greece]]

** [[Peggy Lipton]], American actress and model (d. [[2019]])

* [[August 31]]

** [[Ann Coffey]], Scottish politician

** [[Freddie Mercury]], British-Indian singer-songwriter, pianist and frontman of rock band [[Queen (band)|Queen]] (d. [[1991]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Freddie Mercury {{!}} Biography, Parents, Songs, & Facts {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Freddie-Mercury |website=www.britannica.com |access-date=9 January 2022 |language=en}}</ref>

** [[Loudon Wainwright III]], American folk singer-songwriter, humorist and actor

* [[September 7]]

** [[Willie Crawford]], American baseball player (d. [[2004]])

** [[Doug Ingle]], American rock vocalist ([[Iron Butterfly]])

** [[Bruce Palmer]], Canadian musician ([[Buffalo Springfield]]) (d. [[2004]])

* [[September 10]]

** [[Michèle Alliot-Marie]], French politician

** [[Don Powell]], English rock drummer ([[Slade]])

* [[September 12]] – [[Neil Lyndon]], British journalist, writer<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/thinking-man/from-trump-to-ranieri-is-this-the-era-of-the-older-man/ |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/thinking-man/from-trump-to-ranieri-is-this-the-era-of-the-older-man/ |archive-date=January 12, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=From Trump to Ranieri: is this the era of the older man?|first=Neil|last=Lyndon|newspaper=The Telegraph|date=May 10, 2016|via=www.telegraph.co.uk}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

* [[September 13]] – [[Henri Kuprashvili]], Georgian swimmer

** [[Tetsu Nakamura]], Japanese-Afghan physician (d. [[2019]])

** [[Oliver Stone]], American film director, producer (''[[JFK (film)|JFK]]'')

* [[September 16]] – [[Camilo Sesto]], Spanish singer-songwriter music producer and composer (d. [[2019]])

* [[September 18]]

** [[Peter Alsop]], American musician

** [[Akira Kamiya]], Japanese voice actor

* [[September 21]]

** [[Mikhail Kovalchuk]], Russian physicist, official

** [[Richard St. Clair]], American musician, composer

** [[Mart Siimann]], [[Prime Minister of Estonia]]

* [[September 23]] – [[Franz Fischler]], Austrian politician

* [[September 24]]

** [[Radha Krishna Mainali]], Nepalese politician

** [[Christine Todd Whitman]], American politician

* [[September 28]] – [[Jeffrey Jones]], American actor

* [[September 29]]

** [[Rhie Won-bok]], South Korean artist

** [[Chuck Hagel]], American politician, 24 [[United States Secretary of Defense]]

* [[October 6]]

** [[Lloyd Doggett]], American politician

** [[Daryl Hall]], American rock musician ([[Hall & Oates]])

** [[Sawao Katō]], Japanese gymnast

* [[October 12]] – [[Drew Edmondson]], American politician

* [[October 13]]

** [[Dorothy Moore]], American singer

** [[Demond Wilson]], African-American actor, minister (''[[Sanford and Son]]'')

* [[October 14]]

** [[Craig Venter]], American [[biotechnologist]]

** [[François Bozizé]], [[President of the Central African Republic]]

** [[Joey de Leon]], Filipino actor, host

* [[October 15]]

** [[Richard Carpenter (musician)|Richard Carpenter]], American pop musician, composer ([[The Carpenters]])

** [[Suzanne Somers]], American actress, singer (''[[Three's Company]]'') (d. [[2023]])

** [[Elizabeth Witmer]], Dutch-born politician

* [[October 17]]

** [[Vicki Hodge]], English actress, model

** [[Howard Shore]], Canadian film composer

** [[Andrea Zsadon]], Hungarian soprano

* [[October 19]] – [[Philip Pullman]], English author

* [[October 20]]

** [[Ric Grech]], British rock bassist (d. [[1990]])

** [[Lynne Russell]], American newsreader

* [[November 2]]

** [[Giuseppe Sinopoli]], Italian conductor, composer (d. [[2001]])

** [[Marieta Severo]], Brazilian actress

* [[November 4]]

** [[Les Lannom]], American actor, musician

** [[Robert Mapplethorpe]], American photographer (d. [[1989]])

** [[Loleatta Holloway]], American singer (d. [[2011]])

** [[Gram Parsons]], American musician (d. [[1973]])

* [[November 7]] – [[Diane Francis]], Canadian journalist

* [[November 8]]

** [[Stella Chiweshe]], Zimbabwean musician

** [[Guus Hiddink]], Dutch football player, manager

* [[November 10]] – [[Alaina Reed Hall]], American actress (d. [[2009]])

* [[November 15]]

** [[Gwyneth Powell]], British actress (d. [[2022]])

** [[Terence McKenna]], American writer, philosopher, [[ethnobotanist]] and [[shaman]] (d. [[2000]])<ref>{{cite news |last= Sharkey |first= Alix |date= April 15, 2000 |title= Terence McKenna |type= Obituary |newspaper= [[The Independent]] |page= 7}}</ref>

** [[Jo Jo White]], American basketball player (d. [[2018]])

* [[November 18]]

** [[Andrea Allan]], Scottish actress

** [[Marina Warner]], English writer

* [[November 22]]

* [[November 23]]

** [[Diana Quick]], English actress

** [[Atiku Abubakar]], 11th [[Vice President of Nigeria]]

** [[Marika Lindström]], Swedish actress

* [[November 26]] – [[Ottilia Borbáth]], Romanian-born Hungarian actress

* [[November 27]]

* [[November 28]] – [[Regina Braga]], Brazilian actress

* [[November 29]]

** [[Suzy Chaffee]], American singer, actress

* [[November 30]]

** [[Marina Abramović]], Yugoslavian performance artist

** [[Barbara Cubin]], U.S. Congresswoman from Wyoming

 

===December===

[[File:Diane_von_Furstenberg_2012_Shankbone.JPG|thumb|100px|[[Diane von Fürstenberg]]]]

* [[December 1]] – [[Jonathan Katz]], American comedian, actor and voice actor

* [[December 3]]

** [[Marjana Lipovšek]], Slovenian singer, actress

** [[Joop Zoetemelk]], Dutch cyclist

* [[December 4]]

** [[Sherry Alberoni]], American actress, voice artist

** [[Yō Inoue]], Japanese voice actress (d. [[2003]])

** [[Karina (Spanish singer)|Karina]], Spanish singer/actress

* [[December 5]]

** [[José Carreras]], Spanish tenor

** [[Eva-Britt Svensson]], Swedish politician

* [[December 6]]

** [[Roger Hoy]], English footballer (d. [[2018]])

** [[John Rubinstein]], American actor

** [[Sharmila Tagore]], Indian actress

* [[December 9]] – [[Sonia Gandhi]], Indian politician

* [[December 10]]

** [[Chrystos]], American poet

** [[Thomas Lux]], American poet

* [[December 11]]

** [[Rhoma Irama]], Indonesian dangdut musician, actor and politician

* [[December 14]]

** [[Antony Beevor]], English historian

** [[Patty Duke]], American actress (d. [[2016]])

** [[Lynne Marie Stewart]], American actress

* [[December 16]]

** [[Alice Aycock]], American sculptor

** [[Trevor Pinnock]], English harpsichordist, conductor

* [[December 17]]

** [[Eugene Levy]], Canadian actor, comedian and director (''[[Second City Television]]'')

**[[Brian Davison (cricketer)|Brian Davison]], Rhodesian cricketer, Tasmanian politician

** [[Carl Wilson]], American musician ([[The Beach Boys]]) (d. [[1998]])

* [[December 23]]

** [[Edita Gruberová]], Slovakian soprano (d. [[2021]])

** [[John Sullivan (writer)|John Sullivan]], English television scriptwriter (d. [[2011]])

* [[December 24]]

** [[Jeff Sessions]], American politician, [[United States Attorney General]]

* [[December 25]] – [[Jimmy Buffett]], American rock singer-songwriter (d. [[2023]])

* [[December 27]] – [[Janet Street-Porter]], English broadcast journalist

* [[December 28]]

** [[Mike Beebe]], American politician and attorney

** [[Edgar Winter]], American rock musician

* [[December 29]]

** [[Ruth Shady]], Peruvian archaeologist

* [[December 30]]

** [[Patti Smith]], American poet, singer

** [[Berti Vogts]], German football player and manager

** [[Diane von Fürstenberg]], Belgian-American fashion designer

 

===Date unknown===

* [[Afsaneh Najmabadi]], Iranian historian, gender theorist

* [[Raul Bragança Neto]], 8th Prime Minister of São Tomé and Príncipe (d. [[2014]])

 

==Deaths==

[[File:GEORGSaxeMeiningen.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Georg, Prince of Saxe-Meiningen]]]]

[[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 146-1984-018-35A, Laszlo von Bardossy.jpg|thumb|110px|[[László Bárdossy]]]]

* [[January 3]] – [[William Joyce]], Irish-born American World War II Nazi propaganda broadcaster known as "[[Lord Haw-Haw]]" (executed) (b. [[1906]])

* [[January 6]]

**[[Dion Fortune]], British writer (b. [[1890]])<ref>{{cite book |title=Dion Fortune and the Inner Light |last=Knight |first=Gareth |year=2000 |publisher=Thoth Publications |location=Loughborough |isbn=978-1-870450-45-4 |page=293}}</ref>

** [[Georg, Prince of Saxe-Meiningen]] (b. [[1892]])

** [[Slim Summerville]], American actor (b. [[1892]])

* [[January 9]]

** [[Countee Cullen]], American poet (b. [[1903]])

* [[January 10]]

** [[László Bárdossy]], Hungarian diplomat, politician and 33rd [[Prime Minister of Hungary]] (executed) (b. [[1890]])

** [[Harry Von Tilzer]], American songwriter (b. [[1872]])

* [[January 13]] – [[Wilhelm Souchon]], German admiral (b. [[1864]])

* [[January 15]] – [[Karl Nabersberg]], German youth leader (b. [[1908]])

* [[January 25]] – [[Orishatukeh Faduma]], American missionary (b. [[1855]])

* [[January 29]]

** [[Hideo Hatoyama]], Japanese jurist (b. [[1884]])

** [[Pietro Boetto]], Italian [[Roman Catholic]] cardinal and eminence (b. [[1871]])

** [[Luis Orgaz Yoldi]], Spanish general (b. [[1881]])

 

===February===

[[File:Imredybela.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Béla Imrédy]]]]

* [[February 2]] – [[Rondo Hatton]], American actor (b. [[1894]])

* [[February 5]] – [[George Arliss]], British actor (b. [[1868]])

* [[February 6]]

** [[Upendranath Brahmachari]], Indian scientist (b. [[1873]])

** [[Oswald Kabasta]], Austrian conductor (suicide) (b. [[1896]])

* [[February 8]]

** [[Felix Hoffmann]], German chemist (b. [[1868]])

** [[Miles Mander]], British actor (b. [[1888]])

* [[February 11]] – [[Ludovic-Oscar Frossard]], French socialist, communist politician (b. [[1889]])

* [[February 15]]

** [[Maliq Bushati]], Albanian collaborator, 18th [[Prime Minister of Albania]] (b. [[1880]])

** [[Dorothy Gibson]], American actress (b. [[1889]])

** [[Benjamin I of Constantinople|Benjamin I]], [[Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople]] (b. [[1871]])

* [[February 21]] – [[Theodore Stark Wilkinson]], American admiral (b. [[1888]])

* [[February 23]] – [[Tomoyuki Yamashita]], Japanese general (executed) (b. [[1885]])

* [[February 25]] – [[René Le Grèves]], French cyclist (b. [[1910]])

* [[February 26]] – [[Leo the Lion (MGM)#Jackie (1928–1956)|Jackie]], Nubian-born [[MGM]] lion (b. [[1915]])

[[File:Francisco Largo Caballero 1927 (cropped).jpg|thumbnail|110px|right|[[Francisco Largo Caballero]]]]

[[File:Barbu Stirbey.jpg|thumbnail|110px|right|[[Barbu Știrbey]]]]

* [[March 3]] – [[Viktor Axmann]], Yugoslav architect (b. [[1883]])

* [[March 4]]

** [[Bror von Blixen-Finecke]], Swedish big-game hunter (b. [[1886]])

** [[Martyrs of Albania]], Catholics (executed)

*** Mark Çuni, seminarian (b. [[1919]])

*** Kolë Shllaku, friar (b. [[1906]])

* [[March 6]] – [[Antonio Caso Andrade]], Mexican philosopher (b. [[1878]])

* [[March 9]] – [[Adolfo Ferrata]], Italian pathologist, hematologist (b. [[1880]])

* [[March 12]]

** [[Leonida Tonelli]], Italian mathematician (b. [[1885]])

* [[March 13]] – [[Werner von Blomberg]], German field marshal (b. [[1878]])

* [[March 16]]

** [[José Júlio da Costa]], Portuguese activist (b. [[1893]])

* [[March 17]] – [[Joseph de Pesquidoux]], French writer (b. [[1869]])

* [[March 19]] – [[Augusto Nicolás Martínez]], Ecuadorian agronomist, economist, geologist, researcher, educator and mountaineer (b. [[1860]])

* [[March 23]]

** [[Francisco Largo Caballero]], Spanish politician, trade unionist and 66th [[Prime Minister of Spain]] (b. [[1869]])

* [[March 29]]

** [[László Baky]], Hungarian Nazi leader (executed) (b. [[1898]])

* [[March 31]] – [[John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort]], British field marshal (b. [[1886]])

 

** [[Alf Common]], English footballer (b. [[1880]])

** [[Masaharu Homma]], Japanese general (executed) (b. [[1887]])

* [[April 5]]

** [[Ion Boițeanu]], Romanian general (b. [[1885]])

** [[Bo Gu]], 3rd [[General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party]] (accident) (b. [[1907]])

** Patriarch [[Eulogius (Georgiyevsky)|Eulogius]] (b. [[1868]])

* [[April 14]] – [[Otto Dowling]], [[United States Navy]] [[Captain (USN)|Captain]], 25th [[Governor of American Samoa]] (b. [[1881]])

* [[April 15]]

** [[Guido Calza]], Italian archaeologist (b. [[1888]])

** [[Juan Bautista Sacasa]], 20th [[President of Nicaragua]] (b. [[1874]])

* [[April 21]] – [[John Maynard Keynes]], British economist (b. [[1883]])

* [[April 22]]

** [[Lionel Atwill]], British actor (b. [[1885]])

** [[Harlan F. Stone]], [[United States Supreme Court/Chief Justice|Chief Justice of the United States]] (b. [[1872]])

* [[April 30]] – [[Sava Athanasiu]], Romanian geologist, paleontologist (b. [[1861]])

 

** [[Bill Johnston (tennis)|Bill Johnston]], American tennis champion (b. [[1894]])

** [[Israfil Mammadov]], Soviet WWII heroine (b. [[1919]])

* [[May 10]] – [[Emile de Cartier de Marchienne]], Belgian diplomat (b. [[1871]])

* [[May 11]] – [[Pedro Henríquez Ureña]], Dominican essayist, philosopher, humanist and philologist (b. [[1884]])

** [[Bruno Tesch]], German chemist, Nazi war criminal (executed) (b. [[1890]])

** [[Karl Weinbacher]], German manager, war criminal (executed) (b. [[1898]])

* [[May 19]]

** [[Francesco Camero Medici]], Italian diplomat (b. [[1886]])

** [[Ángel Ossorio y Gallardo]], Spanish lawyer, statesman (b. [[1873]])

** [[Booth Tarkington]], American novelist (b. [[1869]])

* [[May 20]]

** [[Jacob Ellehammer]], Danish inventor (b. [[1871]])

** [[Enrico Gasparri]], Italian [[Roman Catholic]] cardinal, archbishop (b. [[1871]])

* [[May 22]] – [[Karl Hermann Frank]], German Nazi official, war criminal (executed) (b. [[1898]])

* [[May 26]]

** [[Friedrich, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont]] (b. [[1865]])

** [[Joseffy]], Austrian magician (b. [[1873]])

* [[May 27]]

** [[Claire Croiza]], French soprano (b. [[1882]])

** [[Henri Hauser]], French historian, geographer and economist (b. [[1866]])

* [[May 30]]

**[[Marcela Agoncillo]], Filipino who sewed the first Filipino flag (b. [[1860]])

** [[Ion Antonescu]], Romanian soldier, politician, 43rd [[Prime Minister of Romania]] and Romanian dictator (executed) (b. [[1882]])

** [[Leo Slezak]], German tenor (b. [[1873]])

* [[June 4]] – [[Sándor Simonyi-Semadam]], Hungarian politician, 26th [[Prime Minister of Hungary]] (b. [[1864]])

* [[June 5]] – [[Maud Watson]], British tennis player, first female Wimbledon champion (b. [[1864]])

** [[Isidro Ancheta]], Filipino painter (b. [[1882]])

** [[Gerhart Hauptmann]], German writer, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1862]])

* [[June 9]] – [[Ananda Mahidol]] (Rama VIII), [[Monarchy of Thailand|King of]] [[Thailand]] (assassinated) (b. [[1925]])

* [[June 13]] – [[Charles Butterworth (actor)|Charles Butterworth]], American actor (b. [[1896]])

* [[June 14]]

** [[João Batista Becker]], German-born Brazilian [[Roman Catholic]] prelate, archbishop (b. [[1870]])

** [[Jovita Idar]], Mexican-American journalist and political activist (b. [[1885]])<ref>[https://wams.nyhistory.org/modernizing-america/xenophobia-and-racism/jovita-idar-juarez/ Life Story: Jovita Idar Juárez (1885–1946)]</ref>

* [[June 18]] – Eugen Hirschfield, Australian practitioner (b. [[1866]])

* [[June 20]] – [[Empress Wanrong]] of China (b. [[1906]])

* [[June 23]] – [[William S. Hart]], American stage actor, silent film [[Western (genre)|Western]] star, film director and writer (b. [[1864]])

* [[June 24]] – [[Marian Bernaciak]], Polish World War II heroine (b. [[1917]])

* [[June 27]]

** [[Juan Antonio Ríos]], Chilean political figure, 24th [[President of Chile]] and [[World War II]] leader (b. [[1888]])

** [[Wanda Gág]], American artist, author, translator and illustrator (b. [[1893]])

* [[June 28]] – [[Antoinette Perry]], American actress, director (b. [[1888]])

* [[June 30]] – [[Jelica Belović-Bernardzikowska]], Yugoslav journalist, writer and journalist (b. [[1870]])

 

** [[Ewa Paradies]], German Nazi overseer at Stutthof concentration camp (executed) (b. [[1920]])

** [[Gerda Steinhoff]], German Nazi overseer at Stutthof concentration camp (executed) (b. [[1922]])

* [[July 7]] – [[Federico Laredo Brú]], 8th [[President of Cuba]] (b. [[1875]])

* [[July 12]]

** [[Ray Stannard Baker]], American journalist, author (b. [[1870]])

* [[July 17]]

** [[Consolata Betrone]], Italian [[Franciscan]] mystic and servant of God (b. [[1903]])

** [[Kosta Mušicki]], Yugoslav general (b. [[1897]])

** [[Campbell Tait|Sir Campbell Tait]], admiral and Governor of Southern Rhodesia (b. [[1886]])

* [[July 18]]

** [[Ehrhard Schmidt]], German admiral (b. [[1863]])

** [[Alfons Tracki]], Albanian priest (executed) (b. [[1896]])

* [[July 19]] – [[George Mackenzie Brown]], Canadian-born British publisher (b. [[1869]])

* [[July 20]] – [[Shiro Kawase]], Japanese admiral (b. [[1889]])

**[[Arthur Greiser]], German general (b. [[1897]])

* [[July 22]] – [[Edward Sperling]], Russian-American-Jewish writer, Zionist (assassinated) (b. [[1889]])

* [[July 26]] – [[Alexander Vvedensky (religious leader)|Alexander Vvedensky]], Soviet [[Russian Orthodox Church|Orthodox]] religious leader and blessed (b. [[1889]])

* [[July 27]]

** [[Franz Anton Basch]], German politician (b. [[1901]])

** [[Gertrude Stein]], American writer (b. [[1874]])

 

===August===

[[File:King Inayatullah Khan of Afghanistan.jpg|thumb|110px|King [[Inayatullah Khan]]]]

[[File:H.G. Wells by Beresford.jpg|thumb|110px|[[H. G. Wells]]]]

* [[August 2]] – [[Karl, Prince of Leiningen]], German prince (b. [[1898]])

* [[August 5]]

** [[Blanche Bingley]], English tennis champion (b. [[1863]])

** [[Tony Lazzeri]], American baseball player ([[New York Yankees]]), [[MLB Hall of Fame]]r (b. [[1903]])

* [[August 10]] – [[Léon Gaumont]], French film pioneer (b. [[1864]])

* [[August 11]] – [[Giuseppe Pietri]], Italian composer (b. [[1886]])

** [[Inayatullah Khan]], King of Afghanistan (b. [[1888]])

** [[Alfred Stock]], German chemist (b. [[1876]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/science/dictionaries-thesauruses-pictures-and-press-releases/stock-alfred|title=Stock, Alfred &#124; Encyclopedia.com|website=www.encyclopedia.com}}</ref>

* [[August 13]]

** [[H. G. Wells]], British science fiction writer, historian (''[[The Time Machine]]'') (b. [[1866]])

** [[Émile Berlia]], French politician (b. [[1878]])

* [[August 16]] – [[Prince Fushimi Hiroyasu]] (b. [[1875]])

* [[August 17]] – [[Channing Pollock (writer)|Channing Pollock]], American playwright (b. [[1880]])

* [[August 19]] – [[Jules-Albert de Dion]], French automobile pioneer (b. [[1856]])

* [[August 22]] – [[Döme Sztójay]], 35th [[Prime Minister of Hungary]] (b. [[1883]])

* [[August 23]] – [[Fulco Ruffo di Calabria|Prince Fulco Ruffo di Calabria]] (b. [[1884]])

** [[Florence Turner]], American actress (b. [[1885]])

* [[August 29]] – [[John Steuart Curry]], American painter (b. [[1897]])

 

===September===

[[File:Don Francesco Bonifacio.jpg|thumbnail|100px|right|Blessed [[Francesco Bonifacio]]]]

* [[September 3]] – [[Paul Lincke]], German composer (b. [[1866]])

* [[September 11]] – [[Francesco Bonifacio]], Italian [[Roman Catholic]] priest and blessed (killed in action) (b. [[1912]])

* [[September 16]]

** [[Henri Gouraud (general)|Henri Gouraud]], French general (b. [[1867]])

** [[James Hopwood Jeans]], English physicist, astronomer and mathematician (b. [[1877]])

* [[September 24]] &ndash; [[Gustav Globočnik Edler von Vojka]], Austro-Hungarian nobleman and field marshal (b. [[1859]])

* [[September 25]] – [[Heinrich George]], German actor (b. [[1893]])

* [[September 29]] – [[Raimu]], French actor (b. 1883)

* [[September 30]] – [[Takashi Sakai]], Japanese general (executed) (b. [[1887]])

** [[Joseph Francis Sartori]], American banker (b. [[1858]])

* [[October 8]] – [[Agustín Parrado y García]], Spanish [[Roman Catholic]] cardinal (b. [[1872]])

* [[October 12]] – [[Joseph Stilwell]], American World War II general (b. [[1883]])

* [[October 15]] – [[Hermann Göring]], German Nazi Reichsmarschall (suicide) (b. [[1893]])

** [[Nuremberg executions]]

*** [[Hans Frank]], German Nazi Governor General of Poland (b. [[1900]])

*** [[Joachim von Ribbentrop]], German Nazi foreign minister (b. [[1893]])

*** [[Alfred Rosenberg]], German Nazi ideologist (b. [[1893]])

*** [[Arthur Seyss-Inquart]], Austrian Nazi leader (b. [[1892]])

*** [[Julius Streicher]], German Nazi propaganda publisher (b. [[1885]])

* [[October 24]] – [[Kurt Daluege]], German Nazi officer, SS general and police official, war criminal (executed) (b. [[1897]])

 

===November===

<!--[[File:Izabela Wi%C5%82ucka.jpg|thumb|110px|right|Saint [[Maria Izabela Wiłucka-Kowalska]]]]-->

* [[November 2]] – [[John Barrett (bishop)|John Barrett]], British clergyman, [[Roman Catholic]] bishop and reverend (b. [[1878]])

* [[November 5]] – [[Joseph Stella]], Italian-American painter (b. [[1877]])

* [[November 6]] – [[Maria Innocentia Hummel]], German [[Franciscan]] religious sister and blessed (b. [[1909]])

* [[November 12]] – [[Camillo Caccia Dominioni]], Italian [[Roman Catholic]] cardinal, eminence (b. [[1877]])

* [[November 14]] – [[Manuel de Falla]], Spanish composer (b. [[1876]])

* [[November 25]] – [[George Gandy]], American entrepreneur (b. [[1851]])

* [[November 26]] – [[Sultana Racho Petrova]], Bulgarian memoirist (b. [[1869]])

* [[November 28]] – [[Maria Izabela Wiłucka-Kowalska]], Polish [[Roman Catholic]] religious leader, saint (b. [[1890]])

 

===December===

[[File:W. C. Fields 1938.jpg|thumb|110px|[[W. C. Fields]]]]

* [[December 5]] – [[Louis Dewis]], Belgian [[Post-Impressionist]] [[Painting|painter]] (b. [[1872]])

* [[December 7]]

** [[Laurette Taylor]], American actress (b. [[1884]])

** [[Sada Yacco]], Japanese stage actress (b. [[1871]])

* [[December 10]]

** [[Walter Johnson]], American baseball player ([[Washington Senators (1901–60)|Washington Senators]]), [[MLB Hall of Fame]]r (b. [[1887]])

** [[Ben Carter (actor)|Ben Carter]], American actor (b. [[1910]])

** [[Renée Falconetti]], French actress (b. [[1892]])

* [[December 16]] – [[Salman al-Murshid]], Syrian religious leader, political figure (b. [[1907]])

* [[December 20]] – [[Einosuke Harada]], Japanese ophthalmologist (b. [[1892]])

* [[December 22]] – [[Pierre Bénard]], French journalist (b. [[1898]])

* [[December 25]]

** [[W. C. Fields]], American actor, comedian (b. [[1880]])

** [[Henri Le Fauconnier]], French painter (b. [[1881]])

* [[December 26]] – [[Franjo Bučar]], Yugoslav writer (b. [[1866]])

* [[December 28]]

** [[Carrie Jacobs-Bond]], American singer, songwriter (b. [[1862]])

** [[Francis Salabert]], French publisher (b. [[1884]])

 

==Nobel Prizes==

* Goulden, Joseph C. ''The Best Years: 1945–1950'' (1976), popular social history of USA

* Hennessy, Peter. ''Never Again: Britain, 1945–1951'' (1994), a scholarly survey.

* Sebestyen, Victor. ''1946: The Making of the Modern World'' (2015) [https://www.amazon.com/1946-Making-Modern-Victor-Sebestyen/dp/1101870427/ excerpt]

* Weisbrode, Kenneth. ''The Year of Indecision, 1946: A Tour Through the Crucible of Harry Truman's America'' (2016) [https://www.amazon.com/Year-Indecision-1946-Through-Crucible/dp/0670016845/ excerpt]