* 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 – The International Military Tribunal for the Far East convenes and indicts former Prime Minister of Japan Hideki Tojo and 28 former Japanese leaders for war crimes.

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 – Hiroshi Fujioka, Japanese actor

* 1946 – Masaharu Satō, Japanese voice actor

* 1946 – Toshio Furukawa, Japanese voice actor

* 1946 – General Douglas MacArthur establishes the International Military Tribunal for the Far East in Tokyo to try Japanese war criminals.

* 1871 – Sada Yacco, Japanese actress ( d. 1946 )

* former German New Guinea became the Territory of New Guinea ( Australia / United Kingdom ) from 17 December 1920 under a ( at first Military ) Administrator ; after ( wartime ) Japanese / U. S. military commands from 8 December 1946 under UN mandate as North East New Guinea ( under Australia, as administrative unit ), until it became part of present Papua New Guinea at independence in 1975

* 1946 – The International Military Tribunal for the Far East begins in Tokyo with twenty-eight Japanese military and government officials accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity.

* 1946 – Hiroshi Fushida, Japanese racing driver

* 1885 – Tomoyuki Yamashita, Japanese general ( d. 1946 )

* 1946 – Wataru Takeshita, Japanese politician

* 1946 – Naoto Kan, Japanese politician

* 1946 – Sawao Kato, Japanese gymnast

In 1946, the North implemented land reforms by confiscating private property, Japanese and pro-Japanese owned facilities and factories, and placed them under state ownership.

* 1946 – Joe Yamanaka, Japanese singer and actor ( Flower Travellin ' Band and The Wailers Band ) ( d. 2011 )

** Mansaku Itami, Japanese film director, tuberculosis ( d. 1946 )

** Tomoyuki Yamashita, Japanese general ( d. 1946 )

* July 18 – Sada Yacco, Japanese stage actress ( d. 1946 )

* November 27 – Masaharu Homma, Japanese general ( d. 1946 )

* Naohisa Hara ( 原 直久, born 1946 ), a renowned Japanese photographer

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.

Taiwanese aborigines first encountered the Nationalist government in 1946, when the Japanese village schools were replaced by schools of the KMT.