* 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

Hawks re-teamed with the newlyweds in 1946 with The Big Sleep, based on the Philip Marlowe detective novel by Raymond Chandler.

In 1945, he auditioned for a bit part voicing one of the animals in the new Disney feature film Song of the South ( 1946 ), based on the Uncle Remus stories by Joel Chandler Harris.

The Blue Dahlia is a 1946 film noir, directed by George Marshall and written by Raymond Chandler.

Chandler further alienated the press by moving the commissioner's office to Cincinnati from Chicago in 1946.

Chandler deterred players from considering Mexican League offers by imposing a five-year ban from Major League Baseball to anyone who played in the Mexican League and did not return by April 1, 1946.

* June 5 – MLB Commissioner Happy Chandler lifts the ban on all players who jumped to the Mexican League, starting in 1946.

Raymond Chandler also wrote an original screenplay for The Blue Dahlia ( 1946 ) starring Alan Ladd.

However, Brown had alienated Chandler's supporters in the Democratic Party during a hotly contested senatorial primary between Brown and Chandler in 1942, and this group worked against his election in 1946.

In 1946, Monteagudo was one of the ballplayers blackballed by Commissioner Happy Chandler after leaving the majors to play in the Mexican League.

Chandler married actress Marjorie Hoshelle ( 1918 – 1989 ) in 1946.

He would have played many more years, but he was one of the players suspended by Commissioner Happy Chandler in 1946 for jumping to the outlaw Mexican League.

In Series from 1918 through 1946, four umpires were used in the infield, with two alternates available for emergencies ; however, no alternate had ever been needed, and Chandler believed they would be better used to make calls along the outfield lines.

William Chandler Bagley ( March 15, 1874, in Detroit – July 1, 1946, in New York City ), an American educator and editor, was born in Detroit, USA.

Leeds appeared in the Red Skelton film The Show-Off ( 1946 ); Lady in the Lake ( 1947 ), based on a Raymond Chandler story ; and in the Lana Turner vehicle Green Dolphin Street, where she played a Eurasian who drugs the leading man and rolls him for his money.

Band members include Americans Jimmy Helms ( who also had a successful solo career and sang radio jingles for Radio Hallam and Hereward Radio in the UK ) and George Chandler ( formerly a founding member and frontman of The Olympic Runners ); with Jimmy Chambers ( born 20 January 1946 ), from Trinidad, and multi-instrumentalist William Henshall, UK ( credited as Willy M ).

Patten made her first film appearance in Joel Chandler Harris's 1946 musical Song of the South with Bobby Driscoll.

Paul Chandler Hume ( December 13, 1915, in Chicago, Illinois – November 27, 2001 ) was the music editor for the Washington Post from 1946 to 1982.