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1946 (''' MCMXLVI ''') was a Common Year Starting On Tuesday . (the link is to a full 1946 calendar)
Events
January
- January 2 - Unable to resume his rule over Albania after World War II , King Zog Abdicated but retained his claim to the Throne .
- January 4 - Theodore Schurch becomes the last person to be executed for offences committed under the Treachery Act Of 1940
- January 7 - Allies recognize Austria n republic with 1937 borders - the country is divided into four occupation zones
- January 10 - First meeting of the United Nations
- January 10 - Project Diana bounces Radar waves off the Moon , measuring the exact distance between the Earth and the moon and proving that the communication was possible between the earth and outerspace, effectively opening the Space Age .
- January 11 - Enver Hoxha declares the People's Republic of Albania with himself as Prime Minister .
- January 11 - Porfirio Barba-Jacob 's ashes go back to Colombia .
- January 16 - Charles De Gaulle resigns as a head of a French Provisional Government
- January 17
- --- The UN Security Council holds its first session
- --- Senator Dennis Chavez (D-NM) calls for a vote on an FEPC bill which called for the end to Discrimination in the work place. A Filibuster prevents it from passing.
- January 20 - Charles De Gaulle resigns as President Of France
- declares the independent people's Republic Of Mahabad at the Chuwarchira Square in the Kurdish city of Mahabad . He is the new president, Hadschi Baba Scheich is the Prime Minister .
- January 25 - The United Mine Workers rejoins the American Federation Of Labor
- January 28 - '' Bluenose '' founders on a Haitian reef
- January 29 - Central Intelligence Group established, CIA established in 1947
- January 31 - Yugoslavia 's New Constitution , modeling the Soviet Union , establishes six constituent republics ( Bosnia-Herzegovina , Croatia , Macedonia , Montenegro , Serbia and Slovenia ).
February
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March
April
May
June
July-September
October
November
December
Unknown dates
Births
January
- January 3 - John Paul Jones , English bassist ( Led Zeppelin )
- January 3 - Cissy King , American dancer and singer ( The Lawrence Welk Show )
- January 5 - Diane Keaton , American actress
- January 6 - Syd Barrett , English guitarist and singer
- January 8 - Stanton Peele , American psychologist
- January 8 - Robby Krieger , American musician ( The Doors )
- January 11 - Naomi Judd , American singer
- January 11 - John Piper , American theologian
- January 12 - George Duke , American musician
- January 14 - Harold Shipman , British serial killer
- January 16 - Kabir Bedi , Indian actor
- January 16 - Katia Ricciarelli , Italian singer
- January 18 - Joseph Deiss , Swiss Federal Councillor
- January 19 - Dolly Parton , American singer and actress
- January 20 - David Lynch , American film director
- January 21 - Johnny Oates , baseball player and manager (d. 2004 )
- January 22 - Serge Savard , Canadian hockey player and executive
- January 24 - Michael Ontkean , Canadian actor
- January 26 - Gene Siskel , American film critic (d. 1999 )
- January 27 - Nedra Talley , American singer ( Ronettes )
- January 27 - Andrija Hebrang , Croatian Radiologist and Politician
- January 31 - Terry Kath , American musician (d. 1978 )
- January 31 - Mike Carlton , Australian journalist and Radio 2UE broadcaster
February
- February 6 - Jim Turner , American politician
- February 9 - Séan Neeson , Northern Irish politician
- February 13 - Colin Matthews , British composer
- February 14 - Bernard Dowiyogo , President Of Nauru (d. 2003 )
- February 14 - Gregory Hines , American dancer and actor (d. 2003 )
- February 19 - Karen Silkwood , American activist (d. 1974 )
- February 20 - Brenda Blethyn , English actress
- February 21 - Tyne Daly , American actress
- February 21 - Alan Rickman , English actor
- February 24 - Barry Bostwick , American actor
- February 25 - Franz Xaver Kroetz , German dramatist
- February 26 - Ahmed H. Zewail , Egyptian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
- February 28 - Robin Cook , British politician (d. 2005 )
March-April
- March 4 - Haile Gerima , Ethiopian filmmaker, Professor of Film at Howard University, Washington, DC
- March 6 - David Gilmour , English musician ( Pink Floyd )
- March 7 - Peter Wolf , American musician ( J Geils Band )
- March 8 - Linda Kelliher Samets , American entrepreneur
- March 12 - Liza Minnelli , American singer and actress
- March 15 - Bobby Bonds , baseball player and manager (d. 2003 )
- March 17 - Georges J.F. Kohler , German biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine (d. 1995 )
- March 21 - Timothy Dalton , Welsh actor
- March 31 - Gonzalo Márquez , Venezuelan Major League Baseball player (d. 1984 )
- April 4 - Dave Hill , English guitarist ( Slade )
- April 7 - Colette Besson , French runner
- April 7 - John Loder , co founder of CRASS a Anarcho Punk band
- April 12 - Ed O'Neill , American actor
- April 16 - Margot Adler , American journalist
- April 19 - Tim Curry , British actor, vocalist, and composer
- April 25 - John Fox , British statistician
- April 25 - Talia Shire , American actress
- April 30 - King Carl XVI Gustav Of Sweden
May
- May 4 - John Watson , Northern Irish racecar driver
- May 7 - Thelma Houston , American singer
- May 9 - Candice Bergen , American actress
- May 10 - Donovan Leitch , Scottish musician
- May 10 - Dave Mason , English musician ( Traffic )
- May 11 - Robert Jarvik , American physicist and inventor
- May 16 - Robert Fripp , British musician
- May 17 - Udo Lindenberg , German musician
- May 18 - Reggie Jackson , baseball player
- May 19 - André The Giant , French professional wrestling (d. 1993 )
- May 19 - Claude Lelièvre , Belgian Commissioner for Children Rights
- May 20 - Cher , American actress and singer
- May 22 - George Best , Northern Irish footballer (d. 2005 )
- May 23 - Frederik De Groot , Dutch actor
- May 24 - John Miner , Australian Photographer
- May 26 - Mick Ronson , American guitarist (d. 1993 )
- May 28 - K. Satchidanandan Malayalam poet
- May 29 - Fernando Buesa , Basque politician (d. 2000 )
- May 30 - Candy Lightner , American founder of Mothers Against Drunk Driving
June
July
- July 2 - Richard Axel , American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine
- July 4 - Ed O'Ross , American actor
- July 6 - George W. Bush , 43rd President Of The United States
- July 6 - Sylvester Stallone , American actor
- July 9 - Bon Scott , Australian singer ( AC/DC ) (d. 1980 )
- July 13 - Cheech Marin , American actor and comedian
- July 13 - Marilyn Bird , Scheme Manager, Greenways Court, Anchor Retirement Housing
- July 14 - John Wood , Australian actor
- July 15 - Linda Ronstadt , American singer and songwriter
- July 16 - Ron Yary , American football player
- July 22 - Danny Glover , American actor
- July 22 - Mireille Mathieu , French singer
- July 23 - Sally Flynn , American singer ( The Lawrence Welk Show )
- July 25 - Rita Marley , Jamaican singer
- July 30 - Neil Bonnett , American race car driver (d. 1994 )
August
- August 1 - Sandi Griffiths , American singer ( The Lawrence Welk Show )
- August 3 - Jack Straw , British politician
- August 19 - Bill Clinton , 42nd President Of The United States
- August 19 - Beat Raaflaub , Swiss conductor
- August 20 - Ralf Hütter , German singer and musician ( Kraftwerk )
- August 20 - N.R. Narayana Murthy , Indian businessman
- August 23 - Keith Moon , English drummer ( The Who ) (d. 1978 )
- August 25 - Rollie Fingers , baseball player
- August 26 - Valerie Simpson , American singer
- August 26 - Mark Snow , American composer
- August 26 - Tom Ridge , first United States Secretary Of Homeland Security
- August 26 - Zhou Ji , education minister of the People's Republic of China
- August 29 - Bob Beamon , American athlete
September
- September 1 - Roh Moo-hyun , President Of South Korea
- September 4 - Gary Duncan , American guitarist ( Quicksilver Messenger Service )
- September 4 - Greg Elmore , American drummer ( Quicksilver Messenger Service )
- September 5 - Freddie Mercury , Zanzibar-born singer ( Queen ) (d. 1991 )
- September 7 - Willie Crawford , baseball player (d. 2004 )
- September 7 - Francisco Varela , Chilean biologist (d. 2001 )
- September 9 - Bruce Palmer , Canadian musician ( Buffalo Springfield ) (d. 2004 )
- September 10 - Jim Hines , American athlete
- September 10 - Don Powell , English drummer
- September 15 - Tommy Lee Jones , American actor
- September 15 - Oliver Stone , American film director
- September 21 - Moritz Leuenberger , Swiss Federal Councilor
- September 23 - Franz Fischler , Austrian politician
- September 24 - Lars Emil Johansen , Prime Minister Of Greenland
- September 26 - Christine Todd Whitman , American politician
- September 30 - Héctor Lavoe , Puerto Rican singer (d. 1993 )
- September 30 - Claude Vorilhon , French-born Messenger
October
- October 1 - Tim O'Brien , American author
- October 3 - P.P. Arnold
- October 6 - Lloyd Doggett , American politician
- October 6 - Renate Holub , German philosopher
- October 7 - Xue Jinghua , Chinese ballerina
- October 7 - Catharine MacKinnon , American feminist
- October 8 - Hanan Ashrawi , Palestinian scholar
- October 8 - John T. Walton , son of Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton (d. 2005 )
- October 9 - Tansu Ciller , Turkish politician
- October 10 - Anne Boyd , Australian musician
- October 10 - Naoto Kan , Japanese politician
- October 11 - Leona Gom , Canadian writer
- October 13 - Edwina Currie , English politician
- October 13 - Dorothy Moore , American singer
- October 14 - Justin Hayward , English singer and songwriter ( Moody Blues )
- October 14 - Elizabeth Power , British actress
- October 15 - Marsha Hunt , American singer and novelist
- October 16 - Suzanne Somers , American actress
- October 16 - Elizabeth Witmer , Dutch-born politician
- October 17 - Vicki Hodge , English actress
- October 17 - Bob Seagren , American athlete and actor
- October 18 - Howard Shore , Canadian film composer
- October 18 - Andrea Zsadon , Hungarian soprano
- October 20 - Elfriede Jelinek , Austrian writer, Nobel Prize laureate
- October 21 - Lyn Allison , Australian politician
- October 22 - Eileen Gordon , British politician
- October 23 - Sophie Tatischeff , French actress
- October 24 - Gwyneth Powell , British actress
- October 25 - Edith Leyrer , Austrian actress
- October 26 - Pat Sajak , American game show host
- October 27 - Leslie L. Byrne , American politician
- October 27 - Ivan Reitman , Slovakian-born film director and producer
- October 27 - Carrie Snodgress , American actress (d. 2004 )
- October 28 - Sharon Thesen , Canadian poet
- October 29 - Kathryn J. Whitmire , Mayor of Houston, Texas
- October 30 - Lynne Marta , American actress
- October 30 - Andrea Mitchell , American journalist
- October 31 - Caroline Jackson , British politician
- October 31 - Stephen Rea , Northern Irish actor
November
- November 1 - Marina Abramovic , Yugoslavian performance artist
- November 1 - Lynne Russell , American newsreader
- November 2 - Giuseppe Sinopoli , Italian conductor and composer (d. 2001 )
- November 4 - Laura Bush , First Lady Of The United States
- November 5 - Herman Brood , Dutch artist (d. 2001 )
- November 5 - Loleatta Holloway , American singer
- November 5 - Gram Parsons , American musician
- November 6 - Sally Field , American actress
- November 7 - Diane Francis , Canadian journalist
- November 7 - Martin Barre , Musician ( Jethro Tull )
- November 8 - Stella Chiweshe , Zimbabwe musician
- November 10 - Alaina Reed Hall , American actress
- November 11 - Corrine Brown , American politician
- November 12 - P.P. Arnold , English singer
- November 13 - Ohara Reiko , Japanese actess
- November 14 - Carola Dunn , English writer
- November 15 - Gwyneth Powell , Britsh actress
- November 15 - Sandy Skoglund , American photographer
- Novembe
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