* 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

* " How Your Dial Phone Works ", August 1946, Popular Science detailed article on subject with illustrations

They were still primarily a home-built proposition ; a 1946 Popular Science article details a slingshot builder and hunter using home-built slingshots made from forked dogwood sticks to take small game at ranges of up to 30 ' with No. 0 lead buckshot (. 32 in., 8 mm diameter ).

" Popular Science, July 1946, pp. 74-75.

*" Making 125, 000 Matches An Hour ", August 1946, Popular Science article on the modern mass production of wooden stem matches

* Popular Science, May 1946, How Your Car Turns Corners large article with numerous illustrations on how differentials work

* Books. google. com, " What Makes A Rug Good ", February 1946, Popular Science

When the war was over, following de Gaulle's entourage's advice and the approbation of the archbishop of Paris, Abbé Pierre was elected deputy for Meurthe-et-Moselle department in both National Constituent Assemblies in 1945 – 1946 as an independent close to the Popular Republican Movement ( MRP ), mainly consisting of Christian democratic members of the Resistance.

In the election of November 1946, the PCF received the most votes of any party, finishing narrowly ahead of the French Section of the Workers ' International ( SFIO ) and the Christian democratic Popular Republican Movement ( MRP ).

* Popular Science, November 1946 How Your Home Lock Works

* Vietnamese National Popular League ( Hội Liên hiệp Quốc dân Việt Nam or Liên Việt ), founded in 29 May 1946.

* " Decoy Army Fooled Nazi Masterminds ", February 1946, Popular Mechanics

In 1946 a faction of the movement loyal to deposed leader Manuel Torres Bueno regrouped as the Popular Force Party ( Partido Fuerza Popular ).

In 1946 members of Janamangal Samiti ( People ’ s Welfare Association ), Janasiksha Samiti ( People ’ s Educational Association ), the local cell of the Communist Party and individual leftwingers got together to form the Tripura Rajya Prajamandal ( Tripura State Popular Assembly ).

( Popular Science magazine would note in 1946 that " Cap screws and setscrews with heads recessed to take hexagonal-bar wrenches are coming into increasing use.

1946 saw the birth of the Ultralight Aircraft Association which in 1952 became the Popular Flying Association in the United Kingdom, followed in 1953 by the Experimental Aircraft Association in the United States and the Sport Aircraft Association in Australia.

A member of the Christian Democratic Popular Republican Movement ( MRP ), he was Member of the two National Constituent Assemblies ( 1945-46 ) and then of the National Assembly from 1946 to 1958 representing the Seine Department.

* " 50 Miles Up This Summer ", May 1946, Popular Science

Roselyne Bachelot-Narquin, generally known as Roselyne Bachelot ( born 24 December 1946 in Nevers, Nièvre ), is a French politician, former Minister of Solidarity and Social Cohesion, and a member of the Union for a Popular Movement, which is part of the European People's Party

Michèle Jeanne Honorine Alliot-Marie (), born 10 September 1946 and nicknamed MAM, is a French politician of the Union for a Popular Movement ( UMP ).