* 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 – Manuel Roxas is elected the last President of the Commonwealth of the Philippines.

The Cardinals have enjoyed an overwhelming advantage over their Chicago rivals in the regular season standings since the Cubs last participated in a World Series ( 1945 ): in the 66 seasons from 1946 through 2011 the Cardinals have finished ahead of the Cubs 49 times.

It hosted the FA Cup Final from 1920 to 1922, has held ten FA Cup semi-finals ( most recently in 1978 ), ten FA Charity Shield matches ( the last in 1970 ), and three England international matches, the last in 1932 ; it was also the venue for an unofficial Victory International in 1946.

The last burial was at the SMERSH facility in Magdeburg on 21 February 1946.

The last French troops withdrew in 1946.

On 19 April 1946, the President of the Assembly, Carl J. Hambro of Norway, declared " the twenty-first and last session of the General Assembly of the League of Nations closed.

The equipment was duly delivered to the Soviets in June 1946, and that was the last Opel was to see of it – but not of the Kadett.

The first sinking took place on 17 November 1945 and the last on 11 February 1946.

The last Prime Minister who was a peer was Baron Kijuro Shidehara, who served as Prime Minister from October 1945 to May 1946.

In April 1946, the last French officers were forced to leave Syria due to sustained resistance offensives ; the Levantine Forces then became the regular armed forces of the newly independent state and grew rapidly to about 12, 000 by the time of the 1948 Arab − Israeli War, the first of four Arab − Israeli wars between 1948 and 1986.

In Thrones, Dominations, the last, unfinished novel by Sayers, completed by Jill Paton Walsh, the Author's Note states that Harriet Vane published a monograph on Sheridan Le Fanu in 1946, drawing on this research.

This term had been used during World War II by German Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels and later Count Lutz Schwerin von Krosigk in the last days of the war ; however, its use was hugely popularised by Winston Churchill, who used it in his famous " Sinews of Peace " address March 5, 1946 at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri:

* July 24 – At New York City's Copacabana Club, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis perform their last comedy show together ( their act started on July 25, 1946 ).

Picasso spent each summer from 1919 to 1939 on the Côte d ' Azur, and moved there permanently in 1946, first at Vallauris, then at Mougins, where he spent his last years.

The book was not a success ( and was the last Moomin book to be translated into English ), but the next two installments in the Moomin series, Comet in Moominland ( 1946 ) and Finn Family Moomintroll ( 1948 ), brought Jansson some fame.

A new definitive series, featuring local scenery and people, was issued in 1946, and another twenty-odd stamps came out during the 1950s, with the last being the omnibus Human Rights issue on 10 December 1958.

Falling under papal influence, Sardinia becomes the focus of the rivalry of Genoa and Pisa, comuni and Signorie, the Giudicati and the Crown of Aragon, which subsumed the island as the Kingdom of Sardinia in 1324, which was to last until 1718 when it was acquired by the House of Savoy, which later, in 1861, became the Kingdom of Italy and finally in 1946 the Italian Republic.

Although newer knowledge in biology has more sharply defined what the text in these 1946 boxes labels " electro-colloidal ," the diagram remains, as Korzybski wrote in his last published paper in 1950, " satisfactory for our purpose of explaining briefly the most general and important points.

The last British troops left Indonesia in November 1946, but by this time 55, 000 Dutch troops had landed in Java.

Umberto II, born Umberto Nicola Tommaso Giovanni Maria di Savoia, occasionally anglicized as Humbert II ( 15 September 190418 March 1983 ), was the last King of Italy for slightly over a month, from 9 May 1946 to 12 June 1946.

In the Museum of Modern Art retrospective ( 2010 ), it was suggested that the pieces of the mirror falling into the ocean waves set up At Land ( 1944 ) as a direct sequel, while Deren's last scene in the latter film ( running with her hands up with a chess piece in one of them ) is then echoed by a scene in Ritual in Transfigured Time ( 1946 ), with that character still running.

Bradman declined a tour of New Zealand and spent the winter of 1946 wondering whether he had played his last match.