* 1886 – Walter Edward Dandy, American neurosurgeon and scientist ( d. 1946 )

* 1946 – Ed O ' Neill, American actor

* 1946 – George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen, English politician

* 1893 – Joachim von Ribbentrop, German Nazi foreign minister ( d. 1946 )

* 1946 – Lee Bollinger, American lawyer and educator

* 1946 – Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden

* 1946 – Don Schollander, American swimmer

* 1946 – Bill Plympton, American animator

* 1946 – Tony Howard, Barbadian cricketer

* 1946 – Allan Holdsworth, English guitarist and composer ( UK, The Tony Williams Lifetime, HoBoLeMa, and Tempest )

* 1946 – Masaaki Sakai, Japanese comedian, actor, and musician ( The Spiders )

* 1946 – Jim Kiick, American football player

* 1888 – John Logie Baird, Scottish engineer and inventor ( d. 1946 )

The Ashes resumed after the war when England toured in 1946 – 47, and as in 1920 – 21, found that Australia had made the best post-war recovery.

* 1872 – George E. Stewart, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient ( d. 1946 )

* Party of Labour of Albania, the sole legal political party in Albania during communist rule ( 1946 – 1991 )

* 1946 – Noah Beery, Sr., American actor ( b. 1882 )

* 1991 – Jaime Guzmán, Chilean politician ( b. 1946 )

* 2004 – Paul Atkinson, British guitarist ( The Zombies ) ( b. 1946 )

* 2004 – Carrie Snodgress, American actress ( b. 1946 )

* 1946 – Boz Burrell, English singer-songwriter and guitarist ( King Crimson and Bad Company ) ( d. 2006 )

* 1946 – Rick Coonce, American drummer ( The Grass Roots ) ( d. 2011 )

* 1946 – Richard O.

* 1946 – Fiona Stanley, Australian epidemiologist

* 1946 – Sarel van der Merwe, South African rally driver

Other successes followed, including To Have and Have Not ( 1944 ); The Big Sleep ( 1946 ); Dark Passage ( 1947 ) and Key Largo ( 1948 ), with his wife Lauren Bacall ; The Treasure of the Sierra Madre ( 1948 ); In a Lonely Place ( 1950 ); The African Queen ( 1951 ), for which he won his only Academy Award ; Sabrina ( 1954 ); and The Caine Mutiny ( 1954 ).

In 1944 Thuku founded and was first chairman of the multi-tribal Kenya African Study Union ( KASU ), which in 1946 became the Kenya African Union ( KAU ).

* 1946 – Silvino Francisco, South African snooker player

* 1946 – The Los Angeles Rams sign Kenny Washington, making him the first African American player in the American football since 1933.

On October 24, 1946 three Frenchmen, Jean Sauvy, Pierre Ponty and moviemaker Jean Rouch, former civil servants in the African French colonies, set out to travel the entire length of the river, as no one else seemed to have done it previously.

* 1876 – Bert Vogler, South African cricketer ( d. 1946 )

This in turn led to the new French constitution of the Fourth Republic approved on 27 October 1946 and the election of the first African members of Parliament in Paris.

* Diop, Cheikh Anta, Modum, Egbuna P., " Towards the African renaissance: essays in African culture & development ", 1946 – 1960, p 28, Karnak House ( 1996 ).

* 1946 – Mike Procter, South African cricketer, coach, and referee

* The South African fossil ape-man: the Australopithecinae ( 1946 )

The Brazzaville conference in 1944, the first Constituent Assembly of the Fourth Republic in 1946, and France's gratitude for African loyalty during World War II led to far-reaching governmental reforms in 1946.

Until Jackie Robinson was hired by the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1946, a gentlemen's agreement also ensured that African American players were excluded from organized baseball.

* Tegonni, An African Antigone by Femi Osofisan ( b. 1946 )

Amin joined the British colonial regiment, the King's African Rifles in 1946, serving in Somalia and Kenya.

In particular, he served as a Middle East specialist from 1945 to 1946 ; on the Bureau for Near East, South Asian, and African Affairs from 1946 to 1947 ; as an advisor on UN affairs from 1947 to 1950, and as an advisor on intelligence from 1950 to 1955.

In 1942 he joined the South African army, and served as an army psychiatrist with the rank of captain, until 1946.

In 1946, the CPSA along with the African National Congress took part in the general strike that was started by the African Mine Workers ' Strike in 1946.