* 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 – Japanese Lt. General Masaharu Homma is executed in the Philippines for leading the Bataan Death March.

The 1946 Constitution already cited the creation of just one Ministry, that resulted in the institution of the E. M. F. A, at the time called General staff.

After the war, 200, 000 Chinese troops under General Lu Han were sent by Chiang Kai-shek to northern Indochina ( north of the 16th parallel ) to accept the surrender of Japanese occupying forces there, and remained in Indochina until 1946, when the French returned.

* 1946 – The United Nations General Assembly votes to establish its headquarters in New York City.

Kaye starred in 17 movies, notably The Kid from Brooklyn ( 1946 ), The Secret Life of Walter Mitty ( 1947 ), The Inspector General ( 1949 ), Hans Christian Andersen ( 1952 ), and – perhaps his most accomplished performance – The Court Jester ( 1956 ).

* 1946 – Trygve Lie of Norway is picked to be the first United Nations Secretary General.

The Constitution of the International Refugee Organization, adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on December 15, 1946, specified the agency's field of operations.

* 1946 – Enver Hoxha, Secretary General of the Communist Party of Albania, declares the People's Republic of Albania with himself as head of state.

* 1946 – The United Nations General Assembly passes its first resolution to establish the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission.

In 1946, U. S. Attorney General Tom C. Clark authorized Hoover to compile a list of potentially disloyal Americans who might be detained during a wartime national emergency.

* 1946 – The first General Assembly of the United Nations opens in London.

On 19 April 1946, the President of the Assembly, Carl J. Hambro of Norway, declared " the twenty-first and last session of the General Assembly of the League of Nations closed.

Overcoming these and other obstacles, Opel finally celebrated the completion of the first postwar Opel Blitz truck on 15 July 1946 in the presence of U. S. Army General Geoffrey Keyes and other local leaders and press reporters.

* 1946 – The United Nations General Assembly convenes for the first time, at an auditorium in Flushing, Queens, New York City.

Westminster Central Hall, the location of the first meeting of the United Nations General Assembly in 1946

* Stanisław Kutrzeba ( 1876 – 1946 ), rector, General Secretary of the Polish Academy of Learning

In September 1946, the General Electric Company assumed management of the Hanford Works under the supervision of the newly created Atomic Energy Commission.

He had been assigned to work with General Electric at Schenectady, New York State, to develop a nuclear propulsion plant for destroyers, but in May 1946, through the efforts of his wartime boss, Rear Admiral Earle Mills, who became the head of the Navy's Bureau of Ships that same year, Rickover was finally sent to Oak Ridge as the deputy manager of the entire project, granting him access to all facilities, projects and reports.

After the war, General Charles de Gaulle appointed Malraux as his Minister for Information ( 1945 – 1946 ).

On 17 January 1946 Ernest Bevin the British Foreign Secretary, in a speech at the General Assembly of the United Nations, announced that the British Government intended to take steps in the near future to establish Trans-Jordan as a fully independent and sovereign state.

In 1946 National City Lines ( NCL ), a General Motors holding company, acquired 64 % of Key System stock ; during the next several years NCL engaged in the conspiratorial dissolution of Oakland's electric streetcar system.

In 1946 Insterburg was renamed Chernyakhovsk in honor of the Soviet World War II General of the army Ivan Chernyakhovsky, who was killed in the Battle of Königsberg.

After the war, 200, 000 Chinese troops under General Lu Han sent by Chiang Kai-shek invaded northern Indochina north of the 16th parallel to accept the surrender of Japanese occupying forces, and remained there until 1946.

The same phrase found its way into the very first resolution adopted by the United Nations General assembly in January 1946 in London, which used the wording "... the elimination from national armaments of atomic weapons and of all other weapons adaptable to mass destruction.