* 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

Fritz and Laura Perls left South Africa in 1946 and ended up in New York, where Fritz Perls worked briefly with Karen Horney, and Wilhelm Reich.

But Not Goodbye, Seaton's 1944 Broadway debut as a playwright, closed after only 23 performances, although it later was adapted for the 1946 film The Cockeyed Miracle by Karen DeWolf.

Karen Gay Silkwood ( February 19, 1946 – November 13, 1974 ) was an American labor union activist and chemical technician at the Kerr-McGee Cimarron Fuel Fabrication Site plant near Crescent, Oklahoma, United States.

Karen Elva Zerby ( born in Camden, New Jersey, United States on 31 July 1946 ) is the current leader of the group formerly called the Children of God, a cult.

U Saw had attended, with Thakin Nu ( the Socialist leader who became the first Prime Minister of independent Burma as a direct consequence of the untimely death of Aung San and the earlier expulsion of the Communists from the AFPFL ), the first Panglong Conference in March 1946, convened by the Yawnghwe Sawbwa Sao Shwe Thaik to discuss the future of the Shan States ; the Kachin, Chin and Karen representatives were also invited.

Dame Karen Hope Dunnell, DCB ( born 16 June 1946 ) was National Statistician and Chief Executive of the Office for National Statistics of the United Kingdom and head of the Government Statistical Service from 1 September 2005 until retiring on 28 August 2009.

* Sir San Crombie Po ( 1870 – 1946 ), a Karen nationalist who devoted himself to improving the situation of the Karen people of Burma in the early 20th century.

* 1946 – Syreeta Wright, American singer-songwriter ( d. 2004 )

* 1946 – John York, American bass player, songwriter, and producer ( The Byrds )

* 1946 – Francis Newton, American golfer ( b. 1874 )

* 1946 – Margot Adler, American journalist

* 1946 – Antonio Fargas, American actor

* 1946 – Larry Graham, American singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer ( Sly and the Family Stone and Graham Central Station )

* 1946 – Susan Saint James, American actress

* 1946 – Jimmy Webb, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and composer

* 1946 – Lesley Ann Warren, American actress and singer

* 1946 – Dick Murdoch, American wrestler ( d. 1996 )

* 1946 – Deborah Howe, American author

* 1946 – Charles F. Bolden, Jr., American general and astronaut

* 1946 – Bill Clinton, American politician, 42nd President of the United States

* 1946 – Dawn Steel, American film producer ( d. 1997 )

* 1946 – Rollie Fingers, American baseball player