* 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

On August 3, 1946, retired industrialist Louis J. Koch opened Santa Claus Land, which is claimed to be the world's first theme park.

Despite many older parks adding themed rides and areas, qualifying the park as a theme park, the first park built with the original intension of promoting a specific theme, Santa Claus Land located in Santa Claus, Indiana, did not open until 1946.

" He wrote " Here Comes Santa Claus " after being the Grand Marshall of the 1946 Santa Claus Lane Parade ( Now the Hollywood Christmas Parade ).

The availability of a portion of the land used as Marine Corps Air Station Santa Barbara until 1946 on another seaside mesa in Goleta, which the Regents could acquire for free from the federal government, led to that site becoming the Santa Barbara campus in 1949.

* In the Christmas Eve 1946 show of The Abbott and Costello Show, Santa lists one of the reasons that Costello shouldn't get a present as him having a certain book under his bed.

He also commissioned renowned architect Richard Neutra to design the iconic desert Kaufmann House ( 1946 ) in Palm Springs, California. Kaufmann's started several holiday traditions that were carried on after it was taken over such as animated Christmas windows and Santa Land.

* Santa Fe Uprising ( 1946 )

Halmos taught at Syracuse University, the University of Chicago ( 1946 – 60 ), the University of Michigan, the University of California at Santa Barbara ( about 1977 ), the University of Hawaii, and Indiana University.

Warren won the Academy Award for Best Song three times, collaborating with three different lyricists: " Lullaby of Broadway " with Al Dubin in 1935, " You'll Never Know " with Mack Gordon in 1943, and " On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe " with Johnny Mercer in 1946.

Scott catalog number 970, printed in 1948, commemorates Fort Kearny, and number 944, issued in 1946, the capture of Santa Fe.

In late 1946 Forrestal withdrew the plan, in the face of public opposition and the disapproval of the House Naval Affairs Committee, but Barr and Scott Buchanan were already committed to leaving St. John's and launching Liberal Arts, Inc., a new, similar college in Stockbridge, Massachusetts ; that project eventually failed — but thinking about other sites for the college eventually led to the opening of St. John's second campus, in Santa Fe, in 1964.

The 1 / 4th Battalion served through North Africa and Italy to Santa Severa, north of Rome eventually reaching Austria, as part of the Army of Occupation, where it was eventually disbanded in 1946.

* Santa Claus: A Morality, a 1946 play by E. E. Cummings

Also in 1946, Dave Barham opened the first location of Hot Dog on a Stick at Muscle Beach, Santa Monica, California.

" Pope Pius XII created him Cardinal Priest of Santa Susanna in the consistory of February 18, 1946.

Jenny Eugenia Nyström ( born June 13 or June 15, 1854 in Kalmar, Sweden ; died January 17, 1946 in Stockholm ) was a painter and illustrator who is mainly known as the person who created the Swedish image of the jultomte on numerous Christmas cards and magazine covers, thus linking the Swedish version of Santa Claus to the gnomes of Scandinavian folklore.

* Santa Clause of Christmas Creek in Australian Radio Plays ( 1946 )

Switching residency to the city of Santa Marta in 1946, the Reichel-Dolmatoffs created and headed the Instituto Etnologico del Magdalena which included a small museum about the anthropology and archeology of the Sierra Nevada region.

*" On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe "-Judy Garland, Ray Bolger, Virginia O ' Brien, Cyd Charisse, Marjorie Main, and Ensemble from The Harvey Girls ( 1946 )

By the end of the Second World War in 1945, the Murrays were living in Santa Monica in a Monterrey-style five-bedroom house that, after she and her husband separated, Eunice sold to psychiatrist Ralph Greenson in 1946.