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1946 (MCMXLVI) was
a common year starting
on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar,
the 1946th year of the Common Era (CE)
and Anno Domini (AD)
designations, the 946th year of the 2nd millennium, the 46th year of
the 20th century,
and the 7th year of the 1940s decade. Contents · 1Events · 2Births · 3Deaths Events[edit] January[edit] Main article: January 1946 ·
The first general election ever in Vietnam is held. ·
A
revised and streamlined revival of Kern and Hammerstein's Show Boat opens on Broadway at
the Ziegfeld Theatre. ·
January 7 – The Allies recognize the
Austrian republic with its 1937 borders, and divide the country into
four occupation zones. January 10: First meeting of UN. ·
The
first meeting of the United Nations is held at Methodist
Central Hall Westminster in London. ·
Project Diana bounces radar waves off the Moon, measuring the
exact distance between the Earth and the Moon, and proves that communication
is possible between Earth and outer space, effectively opening the Space Age. ·
Enver Hoxha declares the People's
Republic of Albania, with himself as prime minister. ·
Porfirio Barba-Jacob's
ashes go back to Colombia. ·
January 16 – Charles de Gaulle resigns
as a head of a French provisional government. ·
The United
Nations Security Council holds its first session at Church House,
Westminster in London. ·
United
States Senator Dennis Chávez (D-NM)
calls for a vote on a Fair
Employment Practice Committee bill which calls for an end
to discrimination in
the workplace. A filibuster prevents
it from passing. ·
The Bell XS-1 is test flown for the first
time (unpowered), with Bell's chief test pilot Jack Woolams at the controls. ·
General Douglas MacArthur establishes
the International Military Tribunal for the Far East in
Tokyo to try Japanese war criminals. ·
January 20 – Charles de Gaulle resigns
as president of France. ·
Iran crisis of 1946: Qazi Muhammad declares the independent
people's Republic of Mahabad at
the Chahar Cheragh
Square in the Kurdish city of Mahabad. He is the new president, Haji Baba Sheikh is the prime minister. ·
The
National Intelligence Authority and its operational arm the Central
Intelligence Group are established in the United States; these become part of
the Central
Intelligence Agency in 1947.[1] January 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. ·
The
last session of the Permanent
Court of International Justice occurs. ·
Yugoslavia's new constitution,
modeling the Soviet Union,
establishes 6 constituent republics (Bosnia and
Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Slovenia). February[edit] Main article: February 1946 ·
Trygve Lie of Norway is selected as the
first United
Nations Secretary-General. ·
The Kingdom of
Hungary becomes a republic, heavily influenced by the Soviet Union. ·
The Bank of England is nationalized. ·
ENIAC (for "Electronic Numerical
Integrator and Computer"), an early general-purpose electronic computer, is unveiled at the University of
Pennsylvania. Weighed 60,000 pounds (over 27 tons) and occupied a
big room. ·
February 15 – Canada indicts 22
communist agents. ·
February 20 – An explosion kills more
than 400 coal miners in West Germany. ·
February 24 – Juan Perón is elected president of
Argentina. ·
February 28 – In Philadelphia, General Electric strikers and police
clash. March[edit] Main article: March 1946 ·
March 2 ·
British
troops withdraw from Iran according to
treaty; the Soviets do not. ·
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 7 – The 18th Academy Awards ceremony
is held. Best
Picture goes to The Lost Weekend. ·
March 9 ·
Juho Kusti Paasikivi becomes
7th President of Finland. ·
Bolton Wanderers stadium disaster at Burnden Park, Bolton, England, 33 killed and hundreds
amongst the injured ·
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. ·
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.[2] ·
March 29 – The Gold Coast has
an African majority in its parliament. April[edit] Main article: April 1946 ·
April 1 ·
The
8.6 Mw Aleutian
Islands earthquake shakes the Aleutian Islands with a maximum Mercalli
intensity of VI (Strong). A destructive tsunami reaches the Hawaiian Islands resulting in many
deaths, mostly in Hilo. Between 165
and 173 were killed. ·
The Malayan Union is formed. ·
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 14 – A member of Nakam, the "Jewish Avengers",
poisons with arsenic the bread of SS prisoners of war held at Stalag XIII-D by the Americans. ·
April 17 – Syria's independence from France is
officially recognized. ·
April 18 ·
The
inaugural session of the International
Court of Justice (ICJ) occurs. ·
The
United States recognizes Josip Broz Tito's government in Yugoslavia. ·
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 27 – FA Cup: Derby County beat Charlton Athletic
in the first FA Cup final since 1939. ·
April 28 – Pestalozzi
Children's Village (Kinderdorf Pestalozzi) established
at Trogen in Switzerland to accommodate
and educate orphans of World War II according
to Pestalozzian principles.[3] ·
April 29 – Trial against war criminals begin in Tokyo; the
accused include Hideki Tōjō, Shigenori
Tōgō and Hiroshi Ōshima. May[edit] Main article: May 1946 ·
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.
A riot occurs, the "Battle of Alcatraz". ·
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 Umberto II. ·
May 10 ·
Jawaharlal Nehru is elected leader of
the Congress Party in
India. ·
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 Hashemite
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 communists take power. ·
May 31 – A Greek referendum supports the return of
the monarchy. June[edit] Main article: June 1946 ·
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. ·
D'Argenlieu,
French High Commissioner for Indo-China recognizes an autonomous
"Republic of Cochin-China" in violation of the March 6 Ho–Sainteny
agreement, opening the way for conflict between the Viet Minh and France.[4] ·
June 2 – In a referendum,
Italians decide to turn Italy from a monarchy into a republic. Women vote for the first time. ·
June 3 – The Interpol organization re-founded, telegraphic address "Interpol"
adopted. ·
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 death of his elder brother, King Ananda Mahidol (Rama VIII). He will
reign until his death on October, 13th 2016. ·
June 10 – Italy is declared a republic. ·
June 13 – Umberto II of Italy leaves
the country and goes into exile in Portugal; Alcide De Gasperi becomes head of state. ·
June 14 – The Baruch Plan is proposed to the United
Nations. ·
June 17 ·
A tornado on
the Detroit River kills
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
7.5 Mw Vancouver
Island earthquake affected the island with a maximum Mercalli
intensity of VIII (Severe). Two people were killed. ·
The National
Democratic Front wins a landslide victory in the municipal
elections in French India. ·
June 25 – International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD)
(World Bank) begins operations. ·
June 30 – The War Relocation
Authority is abolished. July[edit] Main article: July 1946 ·
July 1 – Nuclear testing: Operation Crossroads,
a series of nuclear weapon tests
conducted by the United
States at Bikini Atoll in Micronesia, is initiated by detonation
of Able at an altitude of 520 feet (158 m). July 25: Undersea Atomic Test Baker ·
July 4 ·
Ankara University is
founded in Turkey. ·
After
more than 48 years of American dominance, the Philippines attains full independence
as 3rd Republic, Manuel A. Roxas is
5th President of
the Philippines. ·
The Kielce Pogrom takes place in Poland. ·
July 5 – The bikini is first modeled in Paris. ·
July 7 ·
Mother Frances Xavier
Cabrini becomes the first American saint to be canonized. ·
Howard Hughes nearly dies in a test
flight of the Hughes XF-11,
which crashes in a Beverly Hills neighborhood
due to a propeller malfunction. ·
July 16 – Bureau of Land
Management (BLM) within Department of
the Interior (formed by merger of Grazing Service and General Land Office). ·
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. ·
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. ·
At
Club 500 in Atlantic City, New Jersey, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis stage their first show as
a comedy team. ·
In
the last mass lynching in the United States, a mob of white men shoot and kill two African-American couples near Moore's
Ford Bridge in Georgia. August[edit] Main article: August 1946 ·
August 1 ·
The United
States Atomic Energy Commission is established. ·
The Fulbright Program,
a system of U.S. international educational exchange scholarships, is
established. ·
The Hungarian forint is introduced in
Hungary by the government, ending the world's biggest hyperinflation in the country. ·
The Scandinavian
Airlines System is founded as a consortium of the flag carriers of Sweden, Denmark and
Norway. ·
August 3 – Santa Claus Land (now Holiday World),
opens to the public at Santa Claus, Indiana.
It becomes the first themed park, preceding Disneyland by 9 years. ·
August 4 – The 1946
Dominican Republic earthquake (magnitude 8.0) hits the
northern Dominican Republic, killing 100 and leaving 20,000 homeless. ·
Direct Action Day:
Violence between Muslims and Hindus in Calcutta begins "The Week of the
Long Knives" which leaves 3,000 dead. ·
The All
Hyderabad Trade Union Congress is founded in Secunderabad. ·
The Kurdistan
Democratic Party is founded in South Kurdistan. ·
August 18 – The Vergarola explosion in Croatia kills 70. ·
August 25 – American golfer Ben Hogan wins the PGA Championship. September[edit] Main article: September 1946 ·
September 1 – 1946 Turin Grand
Prix, the first official Formula One Grand Prix is
held in Italy.[5] ·
September 2 – The Interim
Government of India takes charge, with Jawaharlal Nehru as Vice President, as
part of the transition from the British Raj to full independence
for India and Pakistan. ·
September 4 – Street violence between
Muslims and Hindus erupts in Bombay. ·
September 5 – Freddie Mercury is born. ·
September 8 – Bulgaria is declared a People's Republic after
a referendum; King Simeon II leaves. ·
September 19 – The Council of Europe is
founded following a speech by Winston Churchill at the University of Zurich. ·
September 24 – Cathay Pacific Airways is founded
in Hong Kong by American Roy Farrell and Australian Sydney de Kantzow. ·
Australian
federal election, 1946: Ben Chifley's Labor Government is
re-elected with a reduced majority, defeating the Liberal/Country Coalition led
by former Prime
Minister Robert Menzies. This is the first occasion
where a Labor government successfully won two elections in a row on a federal
level, albeit with a swing against them; among the casualties include former
Prime Minister Frank Forde. This
is also the first election contested by the newly formed Liberal Party, which
replaced the United Australia
Party as the main centre-right political party in Australia. ·
George II of Greece returns
to Athens. October[edit] Main article: October 1946 ·
October 1 – Mensa, an
international organization for people with a high intelligence
quotient (IQ), is founded by Roland Berrill, an Australian-born lawyer,
and Dr Lancelot Ware,
an English biochemist and lawyer, in Oxford. ·
October 2 – Communists take over
in Bulgaria. ·
October 6 – Sweden's Prime
Minister Per Albin Hansson dies
in office of a heart attack. ·
October 10 – Commencement of the Noakhali genocide of
Hindus in Bengal at the hands of Muslim mobs. ·
October 11 – After a few days of
vacancy, the Swedish premiership is taken over by Tage Erlander. ·
October 13 – France adopts the
constitution of the Fourth Republic. ·
October 14 – International Organization for Standardization (ISO)
founded. ·
October 15 – Nuremberg trials: Hermann Göring,
founder of the Gestapo and
recently convicted Nazi war criminal,
poisons himself two hours before his scheduled execution. ·
The
remaining ten Nazi war criminals sentenced to death at the Nuremberg trials are executed by
hanging in a gymnasium in the Palace of
Justice, Nuremberg. ·
The United Nations' first meeting in Long Island is held. ·
October 23 – The United Nations General
Assembly convenes for the first time, at an auditorium in Flushing, Queens,
New York City. ·
October 24–November 11 – 1946 Bihar riots, in which Hindu mobs target
Muslim families in the Indian state of Bihar, resulting in anywhere between 2,000
and 30,000 deaths. November[edit] Main article: November 1946 ·
November 1 – In the first Basketball
Association of America game, the New York Knicks defeat the Toronto Huskies 68–66 at
Toronto's Maple Leaf Gardens. Flag of UNESCO ·
November 4 – UNESCO established as a specialized
agency of the United Nations. ·
At
least 1,400 people are killed in an earthquake measuring 7.4 on the Richter magnitude
scale, in the Ancash Region and Quiches District in Peru. ·
The Slimbridge
Wetland Reserve opens in England. ·
A
truce is declared between Indonesian nationalist troops and the Dutch army
in Indonesia. ·
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. ·
Afghanistan, Iceland and Sweden join the United Nations. ·
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. ·
Vietnamese
riot in Haiphong and clash with French troops.
The French cruiser Suffren opens fire, killing 6,000
Vietnamese. ·
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." ·
November 29 – The All Indonesia Centre of Labour Organizations (SOBSI)
is founded in Jakarta. December[edit] Main article: December 1946 ·
December 1 – Miguel Alemán Valdés takes
office as President of Mexico. ·
December 2 – The International
Whaling Commission was 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". ·
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. ·
The United Nations severs relations
with Franco's
Spain and recommends that member countries sever diplomatic relations. ·
Léon Blum founds a government of
socialist parties in France. ·
Iran crisis of 1946:
Iranian troops recapture the Azerbaijan province. ·
December 14 – The International
Labour Organization becomes a specialized agency of the United Nations. ·
First French India Representative Assembly election held. ·
Iran
crisis of 1946: Iranian troops recapture the Kurdish Republic of Mahabad. ·
December 16 – Siam joins the United Nations (changes name to Thailand in 1949). ·
December 19 – Viet Minh forces begin a war against French
occupying forces in Vietnam, succeeding in 1954 with France's
surrender at the Battle of Dien
Bien Phu. ·
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. ·
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 25 – The first artificial,
self-sustaining nuclear chain
reaction in Europe was initiated within the Soviet (Russian) nuclear reactor F-1. ·
The Flamingo Hotel opens
on the Las Vegas Strip. ·
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 the UK. ·
December 31 – President Harry S. Truman delivers Proclamation 2714,
which officially ends hostilities in World War II. Date unknown[edit] ·
The
20 mm M61 Vulcan Gatling gun contract is released. ·
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. ·
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
NFL team San Francisco 49ers is
formed. ·
The Casio company is founded by engineer
Tadao Kashio. ·
Binghamton
University is founded. Births[edit] January[edit] ·
Roberto Rivelino, Brazilian football player ·
Alain Voss, Brazilian-French comics artist
(d. 2011) ·
John Paul Jones,
English rock bassist (Led Zeppelin, Them Crooked
Vultures) ·
Cissy King, American dancer and singer ·
January 5 – Diane Keaton, American actress and film
director ·
January 6 – Syd Barrett, English rock guitarist and
singer-songwriter in Pink Floyd (d. 2006) ·
Robby Krieger, American rock musician (The Doors) ·
Stanton Peele, American psychologist ·
Levon Ter-Petrosyan, President of Armenia ·
Mogens Lykketoft, Danish politician ·
Kalidas Karmakar, Bangladeshi artist ·
Naomi Judd, American country singer ·
John Piper,
American theologian ·
Ha Yu, Hong Kong actor ·
January 12 – George Duke, American musician (d. 2013) ·
Feró Nagy, Hungarian singer ·
Harold Shipman, British serial killer
(d. 2004) ·
Kabir Bedi, Indian actor ·
Katia Ricciarelli,
Italian singer ·
Michael Coats, American astronaut ·
Paul Shmyr, Canadian former National Hockey
League (d. 2004) ·
Joseph Deiss, Swiss Federal Councillor ·
Julian Barnes, English novelist ·
Dolly Parton, American singer-songwriter,
actress, businesswoman and philanthropist ·
January 20 – David Lynch, American film director ·
January 21 – Johnny Oates, American baseball player and
manager (d. 2004) ·
Malcolm McLaren, British music manager
(d. 2010) ·
Serge Savard, Canadian hockey player and
executive ·
January 23 – Arnoldo Alemán, President of
Nicaragua ·
January 24 – Michael Ontkean, Canadian actor ·
Géza Bereményi,
Hungarian writer, screenwriter and film director ·
Pete Price, Merseyside radio disc jockey ·
Gene Siskel, American film critic (d. 1999) ·
Michel Delpech, French singer-songwriter and
actor (d. 2016) ·
January 27 – Nedra Talley, American singer (The Ronettes) ·
January 29 – Bettye LaVette, American soul
singer-songwriter ·
January 31 – Terry Kath, American rock musician (d. 1978) February[edit] ·
February 1 – Elisabeth Sladen, English actress (d. 2011) ·
Isaias Afwerki, President of Eritrea ·
Blake Clark, American actor and comedian ·
February 5 – Charlotte Rampling,
British actress ·
Kate McGarrigle, Canadian singer-songwriter
(d. 2010) ·
Jim Turner,
American politician ·
Sammy Johns, American country music
singer-songwriter (d. 2013) ·
Pete Postlethwaite,
English character actor (d. 2011) ·
February 9 – Seán Neeson, Northern Irish politician ·
Joe Estevez, American actor ·
Colin Matthews, British composer ·
Bernard Dowiyogo, 7-time President of Nauru (d. 2003) ·
Gregory Hines, American dancer and actor
(d. 2003) ·
February 19 – Karen Silkwood, American activist (d. 1974) ·
Brenda Blethyn, British actress ·
J. Geils, lead guitarist of American rock
group, The J. Geils Band (d. 2017) ·
Monica Johnson, American screenwriter
(d. 2010) ·
Tyne Daly, American actress ·
Anthony Daniels, English actor ·
Alan Rickman, English actor and film
director (d. 2016) ·
February 26 – Jiří
Bělohlávek, Czech orchestral conductor (d. 2017) ·
Andrew Ang, judge of the Supreme Court
of Singapore ·
Franz Xaver Kroetz,
German dramatist ·
Jean Todt, French motorsport manager ·
February 26 – Ahmed Zewail, Egyptian-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 2016) ·
Robin Cook, British politician (d. 2005) ·
Don
Francisco, American Christian musician March[edit] ·
March 1 ·
Jan Kodeš, Czech tennis player ·
Lana Wood, American actress and producer ·
March 4 ·
Michael Ashcroft, English entrepreneur ·
Haile Gerima, Ethiopian filmmaker ·
Harvey Goldsmith, British impresario ·
March 5 ·
Murray Head, English singer and actor ·
Lova Moor, French singer and dancer ·
March 6 ·
Larry Huber, American television producer
and animator ·
David Gilmour, English rock musician (Pink Floyd) ·
March 7 ·
John Heard,
American actor (d. 2017) ·
Okko Kamu, Finnish conductor and violinist ·
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 and
singer ·
Liza Minnelli, American singer and actress ·
March 13 – Yonatan Netanyahu,
American-born Israeli Army officer, killed in Operation Entebbe (d. 1976) ·
March 14 – Álvaro Arzú, 32nd President of Guatemala
(d. 2018) ·
March 15 – Bobby Bonds, American baseball player and
manager (d. 2003) ·
March 17 – Georges J. F. Köhler,
German biologist, recipient of the Nobel
Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1995) ·
March 21 – Timothy Dalton, Welsh actor ·
March 25 – Cliff Balsom, English footballer ·
March 26 – Johnny Crawford, American child actor and
musician ·
March 27 ·
Olaf Malolepski, German musician (Die Flippers) ·
Mike
Jackson, former MLB pitcher. ·
March 28 – Alejandro Toledo, former President of Peru ·
March 29 ·
Segun Bucknor, Nigerian musician and
journalist (d. 2017) ·
Billy Thorpe, English-born Australian
singer-songwriter (d. 2007) ·
March 30 – Carolyn Simpson, judge of the Supreme
Court of New South Wales ·
March 31 ·
Gonzalo Márquez,
Venezuelan Major League
Baseball player (d. 1984) ·
F'Murr, French comics artist (d. 2018) April[edit] ·
April 1 – Ronnie Lane, English musician (Small Faces, Faces) (d. 1997) ·
April 2 - Hamengkubuwono X, Sultan of the historic Yogyakarta Sultanate in Indonesia, the current Governor of Yogyakarta
Special Region ·
April 3 – Hanna Suchocka, Prime Minister
of Poland ·
April 4 – Dave Hill, English guitarist (Slade) ·
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) ·
Tim Thomerson, American actor and comedian ·
April 10 – David Angell, American television producer
(d. 2001) ·
April 11 – Chris Burden, American artist (d. 2015) ·
April 12 – Ed O'Neill, American actor ·
April 15 – Marsha
Hunt, American actress, singer and novelist ·
April 16 – Margot Adler, American journalist ·
April 18 – Hayley Mills, English actress ·
April 19 – Tim Curry, British actor, singer and
composer ·
April 20 ·
Julien Poulin, Canadian actor ·
Ricardo Maduro, President of Honduras ·
April 22 ·
John Waters, American film director ·
Paul Davies, English physicist ·
April 25 ·
John Fox,
British statistician ·
Talia Shire, American actress ·
Strobe Talbott, American journalist ·
Vladimir Zhirinovsky,
Russian politician ·
April 26 ·
Jennie Stoller, British actress (d. 2018) ·
Richard S. Fuld Jr.,
American banker ·
April 28 – Larissa Grunig, American public relations
theorist and feminist ·
April 29 – Franc Roddam, English film director,
businessman, screenwriter, television producer and publisher ·
April 30 ·
King Carl XVI Gustaf
of Sweden ·
Bill Plympton, American animator, graphic
designer, cartoonist, and filmmaker May[edit] ·
May 1 – Joanna Lumley, English actress and author ·
May 2 ·
Lesley Gore, American rock singer (d. 2015) ·
Ralf Gothóni, Finnish pianist, conductor and
composer ·
May 4 – John Watson,
Northern Irish racecar driver ·
May 5 ·
Jim Kelly,
American actor, martial artist and tennis player (d. 2013) ·
Kebby Musokotwane,
Prime Minister of Zambia (d. 1996) ·
May 6 – Daouda Malam Wanké,
6th President of Niger (d. 2004) ·
May 7 ·
Thelma Houston, American singer ·
Michael Rosen, British novelist and poet ·
May 9 ·
Candice Bergen, American actress ·
Drafi Deutscher, German Schlager singer
(d. 2006) ·
May 10 ·
Murade Isaac Murargy,
Mozambican diplomat and politician ·
Graham Gouldman, English songwriter and
musician (10cc, Wax) ·
Donovan, Scottish rock musician ·
Dave Mason, English rock musician (Traffic) ·
Birutė Galdikas,
Canadian anthropologist, primatologist, conservationist, ethologist, and
author ·
May 11 – Robert Jarvik, American physicist and
artificial heart inventor ·
May 12 – Richard Bruce
Silverman, John Evans Professor of Chemistry at Northwestern
University ·
May 13 – Tim Pigott-Smith, English actor and author
(d. 2017) ·
May 15 – Klaus-Peter Siegloch,
German journalist ·
May 16 – Robert Fripp, British musician ·
May 17 – Udo Lindenberg, German musician ·
May 18 – Reggie Jackson, American baseball player ·
May 19 ·
André the Giant,
French professional wrestler (d. 1993) ·
Claude Leličvre,
Belgian Commissioner for Children Rights ·
Roger Sloman, English actor ·
May 20 – Cher,
American actress and rock singer ·
May 22 ·
George Best, Northern Irish footballer
(d. 2005) ·
Howard Kendall, English footballer (d. 2015) ·
May 23 – Frederik de Groot,
Dutch actor ·
May 24 – 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,
English actor ·
K. Satchidanandan,
Malayalam poet ·
May 29 – Fernando Buesa, Basque politician (d. 2000) ·
May 30 – Candy Lightner, American founder of Mothers
Against Drunk Driving ·
May 31 – Adriana Bittel, Romanian writer June[edit] ·
June 1 – Brian Cox,
Scottish actor ·
June 2 ·
Peter Sutcliffe, English serial killer ·
Tomomichi Nishimura,
Japanese voice actor ·
June 4 – Suzanne Ciani, American pianist and
electronic composer ·
June 5 – Stefania Sandrelli,
Italian actress ·
June 7 ·
Jenny Jones,
Palestinian-Canadian comedian and talk show hostess ·
Robert Tilton, American televangelist and
author ·
June 8 – Pearlette Louisy, Governor-General of St.
Lucia ·
June 10 – Fernando Balzaretti,
Mexican actor (d. 1998) ·
June 13 – Paul L. Modrich, American biochemist,
recipient of the Nobel Prize in
Chemistry ·
June 14 – Donald Trump, 45th President
of the United States, American television personality and real
estate magnate ·
June 15 ·
Noddy Holder, English rock singer (Slade) ·
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 ·
Bruiser Brody, American professional
wrestler (d. 1988) ·
Russell Ash, British author (d. 2010) ·
Fabio Capello, Italian football player and
manager ·
June 20 – Xanana Gusmăo, 1st President of East
Timor ·
June 21 ·
Vincenzo Camporini,
Chief of the Defence General Staff ·
Kiril Ivkov, Bulgarian football defender ·
June 22 ·
Kay Redfield Jamison,
American psychiatrist ·
Fabio Enzo, Italian football player ·
Józef Oleksy, 7th Prime Minister
of Poland (d. 2015) ·
June 23 – Ted Shackelford, American actor ·
June 24 ·
Nguyễn
Đức Soát, Vietnamese general ·
Ellison Onizuka, American astronaut
(d. 1986) ·
Robert Reich, 22nd United States Secretary
of Labor ·
June 25 ·
Pete
Vanderwaal, Dutch engineer ·
Henk van Kessel, Dutch road racer ·
June 26 ·
Maria von Welser, German TV journalist and
President of UNICEF Germany ·
Anthony
John Valentine Obinna, Nigerian priest ·
Leo Rossi, American actor ·
June 27 – Russ Critchfield, American basketball player ·
June 28 ·
David Duckham, English rugby union player ·
Gilda Radner, American comedian and actress
(d. 1989) ·
June 29 ·
Egon von Fürstenberg,
Swiss fashion designer (d. 2004) ·
Gitte Hćnning, Danish singer ·
Ram Gopal Yadav, Indian politician ·
Ernesto Pérez
Balladares, President of Panama ·
June 30 – Allan Hunter,
Irish footballer and manager July[edit] ·
July 1 ·
Alceu Valença, Brazilian composer, writer,
performer, actor, and poet ·
Stefan Aust, German journalist and
editor-in-chief of the weekly news magazine Der Spiegel from
1994 to 2008 ·
Mireya Moscoso, President of Panama ·
July 2 – Richard Axel, American scientist, recipient
of the Nobel
Prize in Physiology or Medicine ·
July 3 – Leszek Miller, Prime Minister
of Poland ·
July 4 ·
Sam Hunt, New Zealand poet ·
Michael Milken, American financier ·
Ed O'Ross, American actor ·
Roy Cimatu, Filipino general ·
July 5 – Ram Vilas Paswan, Indian politician ·
July 6 ·
George W. Bush, 43rd President
of the United States ·
Sylvester Stallone,
American actor, screenwriter and film director ·
Fred Dryer, American defensive end and actor
(for best known star in Hunter) ·
Tiemen Groen, Dutch cyclist ·
July 7 – Tadeusz Nowicki, Polish tennis player ·
July 8 ·
Massimo Vanni, Italian actor ·
Daniela Beneck, Italian freestyle swimmer ·
July 9 ·
Mitch Mitchell, English drummer (The Jimi
Hendrix Experience) (d. 2008) ·
Bon Scott, Australian rock singer (AC/DC) (d. 1980) ·
July 10 ·
Oliver Martin,
American cyclist ·
Sue Lyon, American actress ·
July 11 ·
Jean-Pierre Coopman,
Belgian boxer ·
Jack Wrangler, American porn star (d. 2009) ·
July 12 – Ernesto Mahieux, Italian actor ·
July 13 ·
Joăo Bosco, Brazilian singer-songwriter ·
Cheech Marin, American actor and comedian ·
July 14 ·
Vincent Pastore, American actor ·
John Wood,
Australian actor ·
July 15 ·
Hassanal Bolkiah, Sultan of Brunei ·
Linda Ronstadt, American singer and
songwriter ·
July 16 ·
Toshio Furukawa, Japanese voice actor ·
Dave Goelz, American puppeteer ·
Monica Aspelund, Finnish singer ·
Ron Yary, American football player ·
July 17 ·
Claudia Islas, Mexican actress ·
Alun Armstrong, English actor ·
July 18 – Kanat Saudabayev, Kazakhstani politician ·
July 19 – Ilie Năstase, Romanian tennis player ·
July 20 – Htin Kyaw, 9th President of Myanmar ·
July 21 – Domingo Cavallo, Argentine economist and
politician ·
July 22 ·
Danny Glover, American actor and film
director ·
Mireille Mathieu, French singer ·
Petre Roman, 53rd Prime Minister of Romania ·
Johnson Toribiong,
8th President of Palau ·
July 23 – Sally Flynn, American singer ·
July 25 – Rita Marley, Jamaican singer ·
July 27 ·
Gwynne Gilford, American actress ·
Jacques Sylla, 12th Prime
Minister of Madagascar (d. 2009) ·
July 28 – Jonathan
Edwards, American singer-songwriter and guitarist ·
July 29 – Ximena Armas, Chilean painter ·
July 30 – Neil Bonnett, American race car driver
(d. 1994) August[edit] ·
August 1 ·
Mike Emrick, American sportscaster ·
Sandi Griffiths, American singer ·
August 3 – Jack Straw, English politician ·
August 5 ·
Reinhard Tritscher,
Austrian alpine skier (d. 2018) ·
Ron Silliman, American poet ·
Loni Anderson, American actress ·
Shirley Ann Jackson,
President of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the Chair of the
President's Intelligence Advisory Board ·
August 8 – Ralph Gonsalves, 4th Prime Minister of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines ·
August 9 – Jim Kiick, American football player ·
August 11 – Óscar Berger, 34th President of
Guatemala ·
August 12 – Terry Nutkins, English naturalist (d. 2012) ·
August 13 – Janet Yellen, American Chair of the
Federal Reserve ·
August 14 – Dennis Hof, American brothel owner (d. 2018) ·
August 16 – Lesley Ann Warren,
American actress and singer ·
August 17 – Drake Levin, American rock guitarist (Paul Revere
& the Raiders) (d. 2009) ·
Charles Bolden, American astronaut ·
Bill Clinton, 42nd President
of the United States ·
Beat Raaflaub, Swiss conductor ·
Connie Chung, American reporter ·
Ralf Hütter, German techno singer and
musician (Kraftwerk) ·
N. R. Narayana
Murthy, Indian businessman ·
August 23 – Keith Moon, English rock drummer (The Who) (d. 1978) ·
August 24 – John Grahl, British economist ·
Nancy
Blomberg, American art curator (d. 2018) ·
Rollie Fingers, American baseball player ·
Charles Ghigna, American poet and children's
author ·
Valerie Simpson, American singer ·
Mark Snow, American composer ·
Zhou Ji, education minister of the People's
Republic of China ·
Swede Savage, American race car driver
(d. 1973) ·
Jean-Baptiste Bagaza,
2nd President of Burundi (d. 2016) ·
Bob Beamon, American athlete ·
Demetris Christofias,
6th President of Cyprus ·
Leona Gom, Canadian novelist and poet September[edit] ·
Barry Gibb, English-born Australian singer (Bee Gees) ·
Roh Moo-hyun, President of
South Korea (d. 2009) ·
Luis Ávalos, Cuban-born American character
actor ·
Billy Preston, American soul musician
(d. 2006) ·
Dan White, American politician and murderer
(d. 1985) ·
John N. Abrams, American military officer
(d. 2018) ·
Francisco Trois, Brazilian chess player ·
Gary Duncan, American rock guitarist (Quicksilver
Messenger Service) ·
Greg Elmore, American rock drummer (Quicksilver
Messenger Service) ·
Dennis Dugan, American actor and director ·
Freddie Mercury, Lead singer and pianist of
British rock group Queen (d. 1991) ·
Loudon Wainwright
III, American songwriter, folk singer, humorist, and actor ·
Willie Crawford, American baseball player
(d. 2004) ·
Francisco Varela, Chilean biologist
(d. 2001) ·
September 8 – Aziz Sancar, Turkish biochemist, recipient
of the Nobel Prize in
Chemistry ·
Doug Ingle, American rock vocalist (Iron Butterfly) ·
Bruce Palmer, Canadian musician (Buffalo Springfield)
(d. 2004) ·
Jim Hines, American athlete ·
Don Powell, English rock drummer (Slade) ·
September 12 – Neil Lyndon, British journalist and writer[6] ·
Henri Kuprashvili,
Georgian Swimmer ·
Tommy Lee Jones, American actor ·
Emmerson Mnangagwa,
Zimbabwean politician; 3rd President of Zimbabwe ·
Oliver Stone, American film director and
producer ·
Peter Alsop, American musician ·
Akira Kamiya, Japanese voice actor ·
September 19 – Connie Kreski, American model (d. 1995) ·
September 20 – Dorothy Hukill, American politician
(d. 2018) ·
Mikhail Kovalchuk,
Russian physicist and official ·
Moritz Leuenberger,
Swiss Federal Councilor ·
Richard St. Clair,
American musician and composer ·
Mart Siimann, Prime Minister
of Estonia ·
September 23 – Franz Fischler, Austrian politician ·
Lars Emil Johansen, Prime
Minister of Greenland ·
María Teresa Ruiz,
Chilean astronomer ·
Morari Bapu, Hindu Kathakaar ·
Felicity Kendal, British actress ·
Jerry Penrod, American bass player ·
Andrea Dworkin, American feminist and writer
(d. 2005) ·
Topo
Igawa, Japanese actor ·
Radha Krishna
Mainali, Nepalese politician ·
Christine Todd
Whitman, American politician ·
September 28 – Jeffrey Jones, American actor ·
Héctor Lavoe, Puerto Rican singer (d. 1993) ·
Claude Vorilhon, French-born 'messenger'
of Raëlism October[edit] ·
October 1 – Tim O'Brien,
American author ·
Gen. Sonthi Boonyaratglin,
President of the Council for
National Security and Commander-in-Chief of the Royal Thai Army ·
Marie-Georges Pascal,
French actress ·
October 3 – P. P. Arnold, American singer ·
Susan Sarandon, American actress ·
Rhie Won-bok, South Korean artist ·
Lloyd Doggett, American politician ·
Renate Holub, German philosopher ·
Vinod Khanna, Indian actor, producer and
politician (d. 2017) ·
Nader Al-Dahabi, Prime Minister of Jordan ·
Catharine MacKinnon,
American feminist ·
Xue Jinghua, Chinese ballerina ·
Hanan Ashrawi, Palestinian scholar and
legislator ·
John T. Walton, son of Wal-Mart
founder Sam Walton (d. 2005) ·
October 9 – Tansu Çiller, Turkish politician ·
Anne Boyd, Australian musician ·
Mildred Grieveson,
British writer ·
Naoto Kan, 61st Prime Minister of
Japan ·
Charles Dance, English actor, screenwriter
and film director ·
Chris Tarrant, British radio and TV
personality ·
Amitabh Bachchan, Indian actor ·
Daryl Hall, American rock musician (Hall & Oates) ·
Sawao Kato, Japanese gymnast ·
Drew Edmondson, American politician ·
Edwina Currie, English politician ·
Dorothy Moore, American singer ·
Demond Wilson, American actor and minister ·
Craig Venter, American biotechnologist ·
François Bozizé, President
of the Central African Republic ·
Joey de Leon, Filipino actor and host ·
Justin Hayward, English rock singer and
songwriter (The Moody Blues) ·
Richard
Carpenter, American pop musician and composer (The Carpenters) ·
John Getz, American actor ·
Suzanne Somers, American actress and singer ·
Elizabeth Witmer, Dutch-born politician ·
Vicki Hodge, English actress and model ·
Bob Seagren, American athlete and actor ·
James Robert Baker,
American novelist, screenwriter ·
Howard Shore, Canadian film composer ·
Andrea Zsadon, Hungarian soprano ·
October 19 – Philip Pullman, English author ·
Marty Gervais, Canadian writer ·
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 ·
Leslie L. Byrne, American politician ·
Ivan Reitman, Slovakian-born film director
and producer ·
John Hewson, Australian politician,
economist ·
Sharon Thesen, Canadian poet ·
Peter Green,
British musician ·
Kathryn J. Whitmire,
Texas politician; Mayor of Houston, Texas ·
Lynne Marta, American actress ·
Andrea Mitchell, American journalist ·
October 31 – Stephen Rea, Northern Irish actor November[edit] ·
Ric Grech, British rock bassist (d. 1990) ·
Lynne Russell, American newsreader ·
Giuseppe Sinopoli,
Italian conductor and composer (d. 2001) ·
Marieta Severo, Brazilian actress ·
Laura Bush, former First
Lady of the United States ·
Les Lannom, American actor and musician ·
Robert Mapplethorpe,
American photographer (d. 1989) ·
Herman Brood, Dutch artist (d. 2001) ·
Loleatta Holloway,
American singer (d. 2011) ·
Gram Parsons, American musician (d. 1973) ·
November 6 – Sally Field, American actress and singer ·
November 7 – Diane Francis, Canadian journalist ·
Stefan Weber,
Austrian singer (d. 2018) ·
Stella Chiweshe, Zimbabwean musician ·
John Farrar, Australian guitarist, singer
and songwriter (The Shadows & Marvin, Welch
& Farrar) ·
Guus Hiddink, Dutch football player and
manager ·
November 10 – Alaina Reed Hall, American actress (d. 2009) ·
November 11 – Corrine Brown, American politician and
fraudster ·
November 12 – P. P. Arnold, English singer ·
November 13 – Ohara Reiko, Japanese actress ·
November 14 – Carola Dunn, English writer ·
Gwyneth Powell, British actress ·
Sandy Skoglund, American photographer ·
Mahasti, Iranian singer (d. 2007) ·
Terence McKenna, American writer,
philosopher, ethnobotanist and shaman (d. 2000) ·
November 17 – Petra Burka, Canadian figure skater ·
Andrea Allan, Scottish actress ·
Alan Dean Foster, American novelist ·
Greg Cook, American football player
(d, 2012) ·
Judy Woodruff, American television reporter ·
Duane Allman, American rock guitarist,
co-founder and leader of the Allman Brothers Band (d. 1971) ·
Emma Cohen, Spanish actress ·
Chaviva Hošek, Czech-born feminist ·
Ulla Jessen, Danish actress ·
Jacky Lafon, Belgian actress ·
Marina Warner, English writer ·
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 Lindström,
Swedish actress ·
November 26 – Ottilia Borbáth,
Romanian-born Hungarian actress ·
Richard Codey, American politician,
53rd Governor of New
Jersey ·
Ismaďl Omar Guelleh,
2nd President of
Djibouti ·
Nina Maslova, Russian actress ·
November 28 – Regina Braga, Brazilian actress ·
Brian Cadd, Australian singer-songwriter ·
Suzy Chaffee, American singer and actress ·
Marina
Abramović, Yugoslavian performance artist ·
Barbara Cubin, U.S. Congresswoman from
Wyoming December[edit] ·
December 1 – Jonathan Katz, American comedian, actor and
voice actor ·
December 2 – Gianni Versace, Italian fashion designer
(d. 1997) ·
Marjana Lipovšek,
Slovenian singer and actress ·
Joop Zoetemelk, Dutch cyclist ·
Sherry Alberoni, American actress and voice
artist ·
Yō Inoue, Japanese voice actress
(d. 2003) ·
José Carreras, Spanish tenor ·
Eva-Britt Svensson,
Swedish politician ·
Roger Hoy, English footballer (d. 2018) ·
Nancy Brinker, American health activist and
diplomat ·
Jacques Bourboulon,
French photographer ·
John Rubinstein, American actor ·
Sharmila Tagore, Indian actress ·
December 9 – Sonia Gandhi, Indian politician ·
Chrystos, American poet ·
Thomas Lux, American poet ·
Rhoma Irama, Indonesian dangdut musician,
actor and politician ·
Susan Kyle, American writer ·
Ellen Meloy, American writer (d. 2004) ·
Emerson Fittipaldi,
Brazilian racing car driver ·
Gloria Loring, American singer ·
Don Gummer, American sculptor ·
Nicholas Kollerstrom,
British writer ·
Heather North, American television and voice
actress (d. 2017) ·
Antony Beevor, English historian ·
Jane Birkin, English actress and singer ·
Patty Duke, American actress (d. 2016) ·
Lynne Marie Stewart,
American actress ·
Benny Andersson, Swedish rock singer and
songwriter ·
Alice Aycock, American sculptor ·
Trevor Pinnock, English harpsichordist and
conductor ·
Eugene Levy, Canadian actor, comedian and
director ·
Bel Mooney, English broadcast journalist ·
Jayne Eastwood, Canadian actress and voice
actress ·
Steve Biko, South African anti-apartheid
activist (d. 1977) ·
Nina Škottová,
Czech politician and member of the European Parliament ·
Steven Spielberg, American film director ·
Candace Pert, American neuroscientist ·
Robert Urich, American actor (d. 2002) ·
Lesley Judd, English television presenter ·
John Spencer,
American actor (d. 2005) ·
Dick Wolf, American television producer ·
Uri Geller, Israeli illusionist ·
Brian Davison,
Rhodesian cricketer and Tasmanian politician ·
Carl Wilson, American musician (d. 1998) ·
Edita Gruberová,
Slovakian soprano ·
Susan Lucci, American actress ·
John Sullivan,
English television scriptwriter (d. 2011) ·
Jan Akkerman, Dutch rock guitarist (Focus) ·
Roselyne
Bachelot-Narquin, French politician and member of the European
Parliament ·
Brenda Howard, American bisexual activist
(d. 2005) ·
Jeff Sessions, American politician, United
States Attorney General ·
Jimmy Buffett, American rock singer and
songwriter ·
Larry Csonka, American football player ·
Gene Lamont, American baseball player and
manager ·
Lenny Kaye, American guitarist ·
Janet Street-Porter,
English broadcast journalist ·
Mike Beebe, American politician and attorney ·
Edgar Winter, American rock musician ·
Marianne Faithfull,
English singer and actress ·
Ruth Shady, Peruvian archaeologist ·
Patti Smith, American poet and singer ·
Berti Vogts, German football player and
manager ·
December 31 – Diane von
Fürstenberg, Belgian-American fashion designer Date Unknown[edit] ·
Ali Abu Al-Ragheb,
Prime Minister of Jordan ·
Tyler Burge, American philosopher ·
Jacques Hiron, French journalist and writer ·
Mohammed
Ibrahim, businessman and philanthropist ·
Jang Song-thaek, North Korean politician (d. 2013) ·
Ada Mee, German artist ·
Afsaneh Najmabadi,
Iranian historian and gender theorist ·
Raul Bragança Neto,
8th Prime Minister of Săo Tomé and Príncipe (d. 2014) ·
Omar Al-Shammaa, Lebanese actor and voice
actor ·
Daouda Malam Wanké,
6th President of Niger (d. 2004) Deaths[edit] January[edit] Georg,
Prince of Saxe-Meiningen ·
January 3 – William Joyce, Irish-born American World War
II Nazi propaganda broadcaster known as "Lord Haw-Haw" (executed) (b. 1906) ·
January 4 – George Woolf, Canadian jockey (b. 1910) ·
January 5 – Kitty Cheatham, American singer (b. 1864) ·
Georg,
Prince of Saxe-Meiningen (b. 1892) ·
Slim Summerville, American actor (b. 1892) ·
January 8 – Dion Fortune, British writer (b. 1890) ·
January 9 – Countee Cullen, American poet (b. 1903) ·
László Bárdossy,
Hungarian diplomat and politician, 33rd Prime Minister
of Hungary (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 23 -- Matteo Bartoli, Italian linguist (b. 1873) ·
January 25 – Orishatukeh Faduma,
American missionary (b. 1855) ·
Hideo Hatoyama, Japanese jurist (b. 1884) ·
Harry Hopkins, American politician (b. 1890) ·
Adriaan van Maanen,
Dutch–born American astronomer (b. 1884) ·
Pietro Boetto, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal and eminence
(b. 1871) ·
Luis
Orgaz Yodi, Spanish general (b. 1881) February[edit] ·
February 2 – Rondo Hatton, American actor (b. 1894) ·
February 5 – George Arliss, British actor (b. 1868) ·
Upendranath
Brahmachari, Indian scientist (b. 1873) ·
Oswald Kabasta, Austrian conductor (suicide)
(b. 1896) ·
Felix Hoffmann, German chemist (b. 1868) ·
Miles Mander, British actor (b. 1888) ·
February 11 – Ludovic-Oscar
Frossard, French socialist and communist politician (b. 1889) ·
February 12 – George
Dumas, French doctor and psychologist (b. 1866) ·
Maliq Bushati, Albanian collaborator and
18th Prime Minister
of Albania (b. 1880) ·
Cornelius
Johnson, American athlete (b. 1913) ·
Dorothy Gibson, American actress (b. 1889) ·
Benjamin I, Ecumenical
Patriarch of Constantinople (b. 1871) ·
February 19 – Rafael Erich, Finnish politician, professor
and diplomat, 6th Prime Minister
of Finland (b. 1879) ·
February 21 – Theodore Stark
Wilkinson, American admiral (b. 1888) ·
February 23 – Tomoyuki Yamashita,
Japanese general (executed) (b. 1885) ·
February 25 – René Le Grčves,
French cyclist (b. 1910) ·
February 27 – James Cecil Parke,
Irish rugby player, tennis player and golfer (b. 1910) ·
Béla Imrédy, Hungarian economist and
politician, 32nd Prime Minister
of Hungary (b. 1891) ·
Giuseppe Salvago
Raggi, Italian diplomat (b. 1866) March[edit] ·
March 2 – George E. Stewart,
American Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1872) ·
March 3 – Viktor Axmann, Yugoslav architect (b. 1883) ·
March 4 ·
Bror von
Blixen-Finecke, Danish big-game hunter (b. 1886) ·
Martyrs of Albania,
Catholics (executed) ·
Mark
Çuni, seminarian (b. 1919) ·
Daniel
Dajani, Jesuit priest (b. 1906) ·
Giovanni
Fausti, Italian Jesuit priest (b. 1899) ·
Gjelosh
Lulashi (b. 1925) ·
Qerim Sadiku (b. 1919) ·
Kolë
Shllaku, friar (b. 1906) ·
March 6 – Antonio Caso Andrade,
Mexican philosopher (b. 1883) ·
March 9 – Adolfo Ferrata, Italian pathologist and
hematologist (b. 1880) ·
March 12 ·
Ferenc Szálasi,
Hungarian military officer and Fascist politician, 37th Prime Minister
of Hungary (executed) (b. 1897) ·
Leonida Tonelli, Italian mathematician
(b. 1885) ·
March 14 – Werner von Blomberg,
German field marshal (b. 1878) ·
March 16 ·
José Júlio da Costa,
Portuguese activist (b. 1893) ·
Alladiya Khan, Indian singer (b. 1855) ·
March 17 ·
James Berry,
British surgeon (b. 1860) ·
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 and trade unionist, 66th Prime Minister of
Spain (b. 1869) ·
Gilbert N. Lewis, American chemist (b. 1875) ·
March 24 ·
Alexander Alekhine,
Russian chess player (b. 1892) ·
Carl Schuhmann, German athlete (b. 1869) ·
Barbu Știrbey, 30th Prime Minister
of Romania (b. 1872) ·
March 26 – Ezequiel Fernández,
acting President of Panama (b. 1886) ·
March 29 – László Endre,
Hungarian politician (b. 1895) ·
March 31 – John
Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort, British field marshal (b. 1886) April[edit] Patriarch Eulogius ·
April 1 ·
Noah Beery, Sr., American actor (b. 1882) ·
Edward Sheldon, American playwright
(b. 1886) ·
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) ·
Masaharu Homma, Japanese general (executed)
(b. 1887) ·
April 5 – Vincent Youmans, American composer (b. 1898) ·
April 7 – Padmanath Gohain
Baruah, Indian novelist, poet and dramatist (b. 1871) ·
April 8 ·
Bo Gu, 3rd General Secretary of the Communist Party of China (accident)
(b. 1907) ·
Patriarch Eulogius (b. 1868) ·
April 14 – Otto Dowling, United States Navy Captain and the 25th Governor of
American Samoa (b. 1881) ·
April 15 -- Infanta
Adelgundes, Duchess of Guimarăes (b. 1858) ·
April 17 ·
Guido Calza, Italian archaeologist (b. 1888) ·
Juan Bautista Sacasa,
20th President of
Nicaragua (b. 1874) ·
April 20 – Mae Busch, American actress (b. 1891) ·
April 21 – John Maynard Keynes,
British economist (b. 1883) ·
April 22 ·
Lionel Atwill, British actor (b. 1885) ·
Harlan F. Stone, Chief
Justice of the United States (b. 1872) ·
April 28 – Robert
Bartlett, American explorer and navigator (b. 1875) ·
April 30 -- Sava Athanasiu, Romanian geologist and
paentologist (b. 1861) May[edit] Friedrich,
Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont ·
May 1 ·
Bill Johnston,
American tennis champion (b. 1894) ·
Israfil Mammadov, Soviet WWII heroine
(b. 1919) ·
May 9 – Léon Guillet, French metallurgist (b. 1873) ·
May 10 – Emile de
Cartier de Marchienne, Belgian diplomat (b. 1871) ·
May 11 – Pedro Henríquez
Ureńa, Dominican essayist, philosopher, humanist and philologist
(b. 1884) ·
May 13 -- Alexei
Nikolaevich Bach, Soviet biochemist and revolutionary leader
(b. 1857) ·
May 16 ·
Bruno Tesch, German chemist and Nazi war
criminal (executed) (b. 1890) ·
Karl Weinbacher, German manager and war
criminal (executed) (b. 1898) ·
May 19 ·
Francesco Camero
Medici, Italian diplomat (b. 1886) ·
Ángel Ossorio y
Gallardo, Spanish lawyer and statesman (b. 1873) ·
Booth Tarkington, American novelist
(b. 1869) ·
May 20 ·
Jacob Ellehammer, Danish inventor (b. 1871) ·
Enrico Gasparri, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal and archbishop
(b. 1871) ·
May 22 – Karl Hermann Frank,
German Nazi official and war criminal (executed) (b. 1898) ·
May 23 – Billy Sullivan,
American actor (b. 1891) ·
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 29 – Cagnaccio di San
Pietro, Italian painter (b. 1897) ·
May 30 ·
Marcela Agoncillo,
Filipino who sewed the first Filipino flag (b. 1860) ·
Louis Slotin, Canadian physicist and chemist
(b. 1910) ·
May 31 – Picoğlu Osman, Turkish kemenche player
(b. 1901) June[edit] King Ananda Mahidol (Rama VIII) ·
June 1 ·
Ion Antonescu, Romanian soldier and
politician, 43rd Prime Minister
of Romania and Romanian dictator (executed) (b. 1882) ·
Leo Slezak, German tenor (b. 1873) ·
June 3 – Chen Gongbo, 2nd President
of Republic of China during Nanjing regime (executed)
(b. 1892) ·
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) ·
June 6 ·
Isidro Ancheta, Filipino painter (d. 1882) ·
Gerhart Hauptmann,
German writer, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1862) ·
June 7 -- Fabijan Abrantovich,
Soviet civic and religious leader (b. 1884) ·
June 9 – Ananda Mahidol (Rama VIII), King of Thailand, leader of the World War II (assassinated) (b. 1925) ·
June 10 – Jack Johnson,
American boxer (b. 1878) ·
June 11 -- Juanita
Breckenridge Bates, American minister (b. 1860) ·
June 12 – Hisaichi Terauchi,
Marshal of the Imperial Japanese Army (b. 1879) ·
June 13 – Charles
Butterworth, American actor (b. 1896) ·
June 14 ·
Jorge Ubico, Guatemalan army general, 21st President of
Guatemala (b. 1878) ·
John Logie Baird, British television pioneer
(b. 1888) ·
Edward Bowes, American radio personality
(b. 1874) ·
June 15 -- Joăo Batista Becker,
German-born Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate and archbishop
(b. 1870) ·
June 18 – Eugen
Hirschfield, Australian practitioner (b. 1866) ·
June 19 – Theodor Wulf, German physicist and Jesuit priest (b. 1868) ·
June 20 – Empress Wanrong of China (b. 1906) ·
June 23 – William S. Hart, American stage actor and
silent film 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,
leader of World War II (b. 1888) ·
Wanda Gág, American artist, author,
translator and illustrator (b. 1893) ·
June 28 – Antoinette Perry, American actress and
director (b. 1888) ·
June 30 – Jelica
Belović-Bernardzikowska, Yugoslav journalist, writer and
journalist (b. 1870) July[edit] Blessed Alexander
Vvedensky ·
July
– Howard Hyde Russell,
American temperance advocate, founder of the Anti-Saloon League (b. 1855) ·
July 1 – Augustyn Józef
Czartoryski, Polish nobleman (b. 1907) ·
July 2 ·
Mary Alden, American stage and screen
actress (b. 1883) ·
Albert Sechehaye, Swiss linguist (b. 1870) ·
July 3 -- Edoardo Bianchi, Italian entrepreneur and
inventor (b. 1865 ·
July 4 ·
Jenny-Wanda Barkmann,
German Nazi overseer at Stutthof
concentration camp (executed) (b. 1922) ·
Elisabeth Becker, German Nazi overseer at
Stutthof concentration camp (executed) (b. 1923) ·
Wanda Klaff, German Nazi overseer at
Stutthof concentration camp (executed) (b. 1922) ·
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 8 – Orrick Glenday Johns,
American writer (b. 1887) ·
July 12 ·
Ray Stannard Baker,
American journalist and author (b. 1870) ·
Teresa
Janina Kierocińska, Polish Discalced Carmelite nun
and venerable (b. 1885) ·
July 13 – Alfred Stieglitz, American photographer
(b. 1864) ·
July 15 – Razor Smith, English cricketer (b. 1877) ·
July 16 – Raffaele Conflenti,
Italian engineer and aircraft designer (b. 1889) ·
July 17 ·
Consolata Betrone,
Italian Franciscan mystic
and servant of God (b. 1903) ·
Kosta Mušicki, Yugoslav general (b. 1897) ·
Campbell Tait, Governor of Southern Rhodesia
(b. 1886) ·
July 18 – 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) ·
July 21 ·
Shefqet Vërlaci,
Albanian politician, 12th Prime Minister
of Albania (b. 1877) ·
Gualberto Villarroel,
46th President of Bolivia (assassinated)
(b. 1908) ·
July 22 – Edward Sperling, Russian-American-Jewish
writer and Zionist (assassinated) (b. 1889) ·
July 26 – Alexander
Vvedensky, Soviet Orthodox religious
leader and blessed (b. 1889) ·
July 25 – Harry Davis,
Canadian gangster (b. 1898) ·
July 27 ·
Franz Anton Basch,
German politician (b. 1901) ·
Gertrude Stein, American writer (b. 1874) ·
July 28 – Saint Anna Muttathupadathu, Indian Syro-Malabar
Catholic and Eastern Catholic religious sister and
saint (b. 1910) ·
July 31 -- Solomon Dias
Bandaranaike, Ceylonese politician, Governor-General
of Ceylon (b. 1862) August[edit] King Inayatullah Khan ·
August 2 – Karl, Prince of
Leiningen (b. 1898) ·
August 5 ·
Otto Franke,
German sinologist (b. 1863) ·
Wilhelm Marx, German lawyer and politician,
17th Chancellor
of Germany (b. 1863) ·
August 6 ·
Blanche Bingley Hillyard, English tennis
champion (b. 1863) ·
Tony Lazzeri, American baseball player (New York Yankees) and MLB Hall of Famer (b. 1903) ·
August 8 – Maria Barrientos, Spanish opera singer
(b. 1883) ·
August 9 – Léon Gaumont, French film pioneer (b. 1864) ·
August 11 – Giuseppe Pietri, Italian composer (b. 1886) ·
August 12 – Inayatullah Khan, King of Afghanistan
(b. 1888) ·
H. G. Wells, British science fiction writer
and historian (b. 1866) ·
Émile Berlia, French politician (b. 1878) ·
August 16 – Prince Fushimi
Hiroyasu (b. 1875) ·
August 17 - Channing
Pollock, playwright (b. 1880) ·
August 20 – "Rags" Ragland, American comedian
and actor (b. 1905) ·
August 22 – Döme Sztójay,
35th Prime Minister
of Hungary (b. 1883) ·
August 23 – Prince Fulco
Ruffo di Calabria (b. 1884) ·
August 26 – Jeanie MacPherson,
American actress (b. 1887) ·
Georgios Kafantaris,
Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1873) ·
Florence Turner, American actress (b. 1885) ·
August 29 – John Steuart Curry,
American painter (b. 1897) September[edit] 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 13 – William
Watt, Australian politician, Premier of Victoria (b. 1871) ·
Henri Gouraud,
French general (b. 1867) ·
James Hopwood Jeans,
English physicist, astronomer and mathematician (b. 1877) ·
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[edit] Blessed Alberto Marvelli ·
October 1 – Hiroshi Kawabuchi,
Japanese politician (b. 1883) ·
October 2 – Ignacy Mościcki,
Polish chemist and politician, 4th President of Poland (b. 1867) ·
October 4 – Barney Oldfield, American race car driver
and automobile pioneer (b. 1878) ·
István Bethlen,
Hungarian aristocrat and statesman, 28th Prime Minister
of Hungary (b. 1874) ·
Alberto Marvelli, Italian member of
the Roman Catholic action
and blessed (b. 1918) ·
Per Albin Hansson,
Swedish politician and 23rd Prime Minister
of Sweden (b. 1885) ·
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) ·
Hans Frank, German Nazi Governor General of
Poland (executed) (b. 1900) ·
Wilhelm Frick, German Nazi Minister of the
Interior (executed) (b. 1877) ·
Alfred Jodl, German general and World War II
Chief of the German armed forces (executed) (b. 1890) ·
Ernst Kaltenbrunner,
German Nazi police general (executed) (b. 1903) ·
Wilhelm Keitel, German field marshal
(executed) (b. 1882) ·
Joachim von
Ribbentrop, German Nazi foreign minister (executed) (b. 1893) ·
Alfred Rosenberg, German Nazi ideologist
(executed) (b. 1893) ·
Fritz Sauckel, German Nazi general
plenipotentiary (executed) (b. 1892) ·
Arthur Seyss-Inquart,
Austrian Nazi leader (executed) (b. 1892) ·
Julius Streicher, German Nazi propaganda
publisher (executed) (b. 1885) ·
October 20 – Igor Demidov, Soviet politician (b. 1873) ·
October 23 – Francesco Carandini,
Italian poet (b. 1858) ·
October 24 – Kurt Daluege, German Nazi officer and war
criminal (executed) (b. 1897) November[edit] Saint Maria
Izabela Wiłucka-Kowalska ·
November 2 – 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 7 – Henry Lehrman, American actor (b. 1886) ·
November 10 – Baldassare
Forestiere, Italian immigration (b. 1879) ·
November 11 – Nikolay Burdenko, Soviet surgeon, founder of
Soviet neurosurgery (b. 1876) ·
November 12 – Camillo Caccia
Dominioni, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal and eminence
(b. 1877) ·
November 14 – Manuel de Falla, Spanish composer (b. 1876) ·
November 18 – Donald Meek, British actor (b. 1878) ·
November 24 – László Moholy-Nagy,
Hungarian painter and photographer (b. 1895) ·
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 and
saint (b. 1890) December[edit] Blessed Francis Xavier
Lasance ·
December 5 – Louis Dewis, Belgian Post-Impressionist painter (b. 1872) ·
Laurette Taylor, American actress (b. 1884) ·
Sada Yacco, Japanese stage actress (b. 1871) ·
Walter Johnson, American baseball player (Washington
Senators) and MLB Hall of Famer (b. 1887) ·
Damon Runyon, American writer (b. 1880) ·
December 11 – Francis Xavier
Lasance, American Roman Catholic priest and blessed
(b. 1860) ·
Ben Carter,
American actor (b. 1910) ·
Renée Falconetti,
French actress (b. 1892) ·
December 13 – Curtis Hidden Page,
American politician (b. 1870) ·
December 14 – Tom Dowse, Irish major league baseball
player in the 1890s (b. 1866) ·
December 16 – Salman al-Murshid,
Syrian religious leader and political figure (b. 1907) ·
December 20 – Einosuke Harada, Japanese ophthamologist
(b. 1892) ·
December 22 – Pierre Bénard, French journalist (b. 1898) ·
December 23 – John A. Sampson, American gynecologist
(b. 1873) ·
W. C. Fields, American actor and comedian
(b. 1880) ·
Henri Le Fauconnier,
French painter (b. 1881) ·
December 26 – Franjo Bučar, Yugoslav writer (b. 1866) ·
December 27 – Pedro
Mata Dominguez, Spanish novelist, playwright and poet (b. 1875) ·
Carrie Jacobs-Bond,
American singer and songwriter (b. 1862) ·
Francis Salabert, French publisher (b. 1884) ·
December 29 – John
Babington Macaulay Baxter, Canadian politician, 19th Premier of New
Brunswick (b. 1858) Nobel Prizes[edit] ·
Physics – Percy Williams
Bridgman ·
Chemistry – James B. Sumner, John Howard Northrop, Wendell Meredith
Stanley ·
Physiology
or Medicine – Hermann Joseph
Muller ·
Peace – Emily Greene Balch, John Mott References[edit] 1.
^ Leary, William M., ed. (1984). The
Central Intelligence Agency: History and Documents. University of Alabama
Press. pp. 20–21. 2.
^ "Year by Year 1946" – History
Channel International 3.
^ Wezel, Fritz (1948-10-01). "Pestalozzi Children Village at Trogen" (PDF). UNESCO. Retrieved 2010-11-23. 4.
^ Logevall, Fredrik (2013). Embers of War. Random House. p. 136. ISBN 978-0375756474. 5.
^ "1946 Grands Prix". 2017-07-08.
Retrieved 2018-01-30. 6.
^ Lyndon, Neil (May 10, 2016). "From Trump to Ranieri: is this the era of the
older man?" – via www.telegraph.co.uk. Further reading[edit] ·
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. ·
Kynaston,
David. Austerity Britain, 1945–1951 (2008) excerpt
and text search, a detaied social history. ·
Sebestyen,
Victor. 1946: The Making of the Modern World (2015) excerpt ·
Weisbrode,
Kenneth. The Year of Indecision, 1946: A Tour Through the Crucible of
Harry Truman's America (2016) excerpt External links[edit] ·
Newsreel May 23, 1946: Rail strike paralyzes the United
States ·
Newsreel May 29, 1946: End of U.S. coal strike |
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