* 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 – Joe Spano, American actor

* 1946 – Joe Dante, American film director and producer

* 1946 – Joe Klein, American journalist and novelist

* 1946 – Joe Greene, American football player

In Herman Melville's Moby-Dick ( 1956 ), Ishmael ( Richard Basehart ) narrates the story and sometimes comments on the action in voice-over, as does Joe Gillis ( William Holden ) in Sunset Boulevard ( 1950 ) and Eric Erickson ( William Holden ) in The Counterfeit Traitor ( 1962 ); adult Pip ( John Mills ) in Great Expectations ( 1946 ) and Michael York in a television remake ( 1974 ).

* Joe Birmingham ( 1884 — 1946 ), American baseball player

Led by early scoring sensation Joe Fulks, they won the championship in the league's inaugural 1946 – 47 season by defeating the Chicago Stags, four games to one.

* Joe C. Paul ( 1946 – 1965 ), United States Marine and Medal of Honor Recipient

* Joe Lis ( born 1946 ), Major League Baseball player who played for Philadelphia, Minnesota, Cleveland and Seattle.

Written by Burke and Charles Merenstein, the vice-president of Apollo Records, co-writing credit for this song was also assigned to ex-heavyweight champion Joe Louis, who had used the saying to refer to challenger Billy Conn in 1946.

* Joe Tinker ( 1946 )

La Follette Jr. returned to the Republican Party in 1946, where he was defeated in the primary by Republican Joe McCarthy.

Joe " Tricky Sam " Nanton ( February 1, 1904 – July 20, 1946 ) was a famous trombonist with the Duke Ellington Orchestra.

No tournaments were organised during the remaining years of World War II and it only resumed in 1946 when Joe Davis won again for the 15th time, a record that still stands.

Joseph Eugene " Joe " Kernan ( born April 8, 1946 ) is an American politician who became the 48th Governor of Indiana on September 13, 2003 upon the death of Frank O ' Bannon.

In November 1946, Mills fought another heavyweight, American Joe Baksi.

On October 11, 1946, Reynolds was traded to the New York Yankees for second baseman Joe Gordon.

She also played the same dignified, poised dowager in other movies, with W. C. Fields ( Never Give a Sucker an Even Break, 1941 ) and ( Tales of Manhattan, 1942 ), Abbott and Costello ( Little Giant, 1946 ), Laurel and Hardy ( The Dancing Masters, 1943 ), Red Skelton ( Bathing Beauty, 1944 ), Jack Benny ( The Horn Blows at Midnight, 1945 ), Wheeler and Woolsey and George " Spanky " McFarland ( Kentucky Kernels, 1934 ) and ( High Flyers, 1937, with Lupe Vélez thrown in for good measure ), radio comedian Joe Penner ( The Life of the Party, 1937 ), George " Gabby " Hayes ( Sunset in El Dorado ), and Danny Kaye ( Up In Arms, 1944 ), and on television with Martin and Lewis ( The Colgate Comedy Hour, December 1951 ).

Those working on the syndicated newspaper panel after Ripley included Joe Campbell ( 1946 – 1956 ), Art Sloggatt ( 1917 – 1975 ), Clem Gretter ( 1941 – 1949 ), Carl Dorese, Bob Clarke ( 1943 – 1944 ), Stan Randall, Paul Frehm ( 1938 – 1978 ; he became the full time artist in 1949 ) and his brother Walter Frehm ( 1948 – 1989 ); Walter worked part time with his brother Paul and became a full time Ripley artist from 1978 – 1989.

Klein at the 2011 Time 100 Gala. Joe Klein ( born September 7, 1946 ) is a longtime Washington, D. C. and New York journalist and columnist, known for his novel Primary Colors, an anonymously written roman à clef portraying Bill Clinton's first presidential campaign.

# Below the Deadline ( 1946 ) aka Jumping Joe ( TV title )

Joseph Patrick " Joe " Kinnear ( born 27 December 1946 ) is an Irish football manager and former player.

He attended Brooklyn Preparatory, a Jesuit school, on scholarship at a time when Joe Paterno was the football team's quarterback, graduated as class valedictorian in 1946, and then attended Georgetown University on a scholarship.

With Gordon-ally Joe McCarthy resigning from the Yankees club in May 1946 and following his worst season in baseball, Gordon was in trouble.