* 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 – Dick Wolf, American television series creator

* Dick Doyle ( Richard Doyle, 1879 – 1946 ), Irish hurler

The Redskins had four different head coaches from 1946 to 1951, including former players Turk Edwards and Dick Todd as well as John Whelchel and Herman Ball, and none were successful.

On January 13, 1946, Gould changed Dick Tracy forever with the introduction of the 2-Way Wrist Radio, having drawn inspiration from a visit to inventor Al Gross.

* Dick van Dijk ( 1946 – 1997 ), famous football player.

Her husbands were John Young ( 1942 – 43 ), George Jenkins ( 1946 ), Robert Grayson ( 1947 ), Walter Buchanan ( 1950 ), saxophonist Eddie Chamblee ( 1957 ), Rafael Campos ( 1961 ), and pro football player Dick " Night Train " Lane ( 1963 ).

In 1946, Lantz hired Disney veteran Dick Lundy to take over the direction chores for Woody's cartoons.

Carl Buettner ( 1945 – 1946 ), Gil Turner ( 1948 – 1956 ), and Dick Matena ( 2005 – 2008 ) are generally regarded as the most notable Wolf creators featured in the title.

In 1944, Dick Powell played the part of the hard-boiled detective in a classic film noir which was alternatively entitled Murder, My Sweet and Farewell, My Lovely — two years before Humphrey Bogart was offered the role of Philip Marlowe in 1946 for The Big Sleep.

His 1946 recording of " That's My Desire " remains a landmark record signaling the end of both the dominance of the big bands and the crooning styles favored by contemporaries Dick Haymes and Frank Sinatra.

Richard Noel " Dick " Richards ( born August 24, 1946 ) is an American aviator, retired U. S. Navy officer, and a former NASA astronaut.

The college established the nation's first college jazz band in 1946, under the direction of Bud Young, who was succeeded by Dick Crest.

Prime examples include Ella Raines in Phantom Lady ( 1944 ), Lucille Ball in both The Dark Corner ( 1946 ) and Lured ( 1947 ), Alan Ladd in the aforementioned The Blue Dahlia, George Raft in Johnny Angel ( 1945 ), June Vincent and Dan Duryea in Black Angel ( 1946 ), Humphrey Bogart in Dead Reckoning ( 1947 ), and Dick Powell in Cry Danger ( 1951 ).

In 2008 the novel Kaas (" Cheese ", 1933 ) and the novella Het dwaallicht (" Will o ' the Wisp ", in Three Novels, 1946 ) were made into graphic novels by Dick Matena.

The first of these was the adventure series Dick Barton: Special Agent, which ran for 711 episodes between 1946 and 1951, following the adventures of a dashing secret agent.

Of the 20 players to make it to the floor for the Huskies, only five would go on to play 10 or more games in the BAA / NBA following the 1946 – 47 season: Sadowski, Mogus, Hermsen, Nostrand, and Dick Schulz.

* Dick Plumb ( born 1946 ), English footballer

Richard Anthony " Dick " Wolf ( born December 20, 1946 ) is an American producer, specializing in crime dramas such as Miami Vice and the Law & Order franchise.

* Edgar Award: from the Mystery Writers of America -- Best Motion Picture Screenplay, John Paxton ; Actor, Dick Powell ; 1946.

Jim and Dick switched names in 1946 so that his younger brother could enter a race while underage.

1 STORY 1: ' Dick Barton and the Secret Weapon ' ( AKA ' Dick Barton: Special Agent ) written by Edward J. Mason and originally broadcast 1946.

His works of non-fiction include We Dropped the A-Bomb ( 1946 ), a book he wrote in collaboration with Abe Spitzer, a radioman who was on the bomber, The Great Artiste, one of the three B-29s that dropped the first atom bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki ; The Judges and The Judged ( 1952 ); Only You Dick Daring ( 1964 ), Miller's scathing account of trying to make a show with CBS for the 1963-1964 television season ; and On Being Different.