* 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 – Esko Seppänen, Finnish politician

* 1946 – Eero Koivistoinen, Finnish musician

Representing the Finnish Party and the National Coalition Party, he also served as Prime Minister of Finland ( 1918 and 1944 – 1946 ), and was generally an influential figure in Finnish economics and politics for over fifty years.

Erkki Sakari Tuomioja ( born 1 July 1946 ) is the Finnish Minister for Foreign Affairs.

Oesch was condemned to 12 years of penal servitude by a Finnish military court on 19 July 1946, although the sentence was commuted to three years by the Highest Court on 2 February 1948.

In October 1946 Leningrad gained from the oblast some former Finnish territories along the northern coast of the Gulf of Finland divided into Sestroretsky District and Kurortny District, including the town of Terijoki.

He then studied under master Finnish architect Eero Saarinen at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, receiving his master's degree in architecture and urban design in 1946.

Jorma Räty ( 15 October 1946 – 29 September 2007 ) was a Finnish weightlifter who became a bodybuilder in the early 1960s.

Ernst Leonard Lindelöf, ( 7 March 1870, Helsinki ( in Swedish: Helsingfors ) – 4 June 1946, Helsinki ) was a Finnish topologist after whom Lindelöf spaces are named.

Helene Schjerfbeck ( July 10, 1862 – January 23, 1946 ) was a Finnish painter.

After the Finnish domination in 3000 m steeplechase before the World War II, the Swedes rose into the top competition during the war and were the dominant force just after the war as they took the top three places at the 1946 European Championships and at the London Olympics.

* Rudolf Walden ( 1878 – 1946 ), a Finnish independence man, industrialist and a general, Minister of War during World War II

* SS Ragnhild ( 1941 ), a Finnish cargo ship renamed Penelope from 1946 to 1972

A person could be aligned to the SKDL through its basic organisations or as member of the " community members " which were the Communist Party of Finland ( SKP ), the Democratic League of Finnish Women ( 1944 – 1990 ), Academic Socialist Society ( 1944 – 1965 ), Suomen Toverikuntien Liitto ( 1946 – 1952 ), the Socialist Unity Party ( SYP ) ( 1946 – 1955 ), the Socialist Student League ( 1965 –) and the Democratic Youth League of Finland ( 1967 – 1990 ).

The Swedish and Dutch commanderies separated from the direct oversight of the Bailiwick ( though continuing in loose association with it through the Alliance ) in 1946, and two years later the Bailiwick itself began to admit commoners to knighthood ( the Finnish commandery, however, remains a purely noble society, as do the now independent Swedish and Dutch commanderies ).

Henrik Lax ( born Rolf Henrik Richard Lax on 6 May 1946 in Helsinki ) is a Finnish politician and former

Esko Olavi Seppänen ( born on 15 February 1946 in Oulu ) is a Finnish politician representing Left Alliance.

Paavo Matti Väyrynen ( born 2 September 1946 ) is a Finnish veteran politician of the Centre Party.

James Francis ( Jim ) Pembroke ( born 27 January 1946 ) is the vocalist of Finnish progressive rock band Wigwam.