* 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

* 2005 – Dhabihu ' llah Mahrami, executed Iranian Bahá ' í ( b. 1946 )

The Iranian government regained control over Iranian Azerbaijan by the end of 1946 and Democratic Party leaders took refuge in Soviet Azerbaijan.

Iranian armed forces, kept away from the provinces of Azerbaijan and Kurdistan by the Red Army presence since 1942, entered these provinces in November 1946.

By December 1946, both Azarbaijan and Kurdistan were evacuated by the Soviet forces and the Iranian government re-established control over the USSR-occupied territories.

The Russian ( Tsarist ) army occupied Iranian Azerbaijan in 1909, and again in 1912-1914 and 1915-1918 period, the Ottoman forces occupied her in 1914-1915 and 1918-1919 periods, the Bolshevik forces occupied Iranian Azerbaijan and other parts of Iran in 1920-1921, and the Soviet forces occupied Iranian Azerbaijan in 1941, createing a very short-lived autonomous, Soviet-supported state in May 1946, which was dissolved after reunification of Iranian Azerbaijan with Iran in November of the same year.

* Robert Fisk ( born 1946 ); covered the Lebanese Civil War, the Iranian Revolution, Iran – Iraq War, the 1991 Persian Gulf War, the Algerian Civil War, Kosovo War and the 2003 Iraq War.

Under pressure by the Western powers, the Soviet Union reneged its support of the newly created state and the Iranian military succeeded in re-establishing Iranian rule in November 1946.

After Soviet withdrawal, Iranian troops entered the region in December 1946 and Pishevari and his cabinet fled to Soviet Union.

By mid-December 1946, the Iranian army reentered Tabriz, thus putting an end to Azerbaijan People's Government after a full year of its existence.

Mohammad Reyshahri ( Mohammad Mohammadi-Nik ) ( born 1946 ), best known as Reyshahri, is an Iranian politician and cleric who was first Iranian Minister of Intelligence of Islamic Republic of Iran from 1984 to 1989 in cabinet of Prime Minister Mir Hossein Mousavi.

His mission was hampered again by internal political rivalries in Iran, the entrenched vested interests of the Iranian political elite ( economic, military, political, and tribal ), and frequent cabinet reshuffles in Tehran with seesawing political orientations ( with 11 prime ministers between 1941 and 1946 ).

Ahmad Kasravi ( 29 September 1890-March 11, 1946 ;, ), was a notable Iranian linguist, historian, and reformer.

In 1946, Hossein Gol-e-Golab published the nationalist song Ey Iran ; it was reportedly inspired by an incident during the war in which Golab witnessed an American GI beating up a native Iranian greengrocer in a marketplace dispute.

Prior to the coup, the National Front was made up of four main parties ; the Iran Party, which was founded in 1946 as a platform for Iranian liberals, including figures such as Karim Sanjâbi, Gholam Hossein Sadighi, Ahmad Zirakzadeh and Allahyar Saleh ); the Toilers Party of the Iranian Nation ( a left-wing party that advocated a non-communist socialist Iran, led by Mozzafar Baghai and Khalil Maleki ); and the Mojâhedine Eslâm ( an Islamic party led by Âyatollâh Âbol-Ghâsem Kâšâni ).

* 1946 – Soviet troops leave the island of Bornholm, Denmark after an 11 month occupation.

After the war, 200, 000 Chinese troops under General Lu Han were sent by Chiang Kai-shek to northern Indochina ( north of the 16th parallel ) to accept the surrender of Japanese occupying forces there, and remained in Indochina until 1946, when the French returned.

In February 1946 he also forced the French to surrender all of their concessions in China and to renounce their extraterritorial privileges in exchange for the Chinese withdrawing from northern Indochina and allowing French troops to reoccupy the region.

Following France's agreement to these demands, the withdrawal of Chinese troops began in March 1946.

When Japan surrendered, Lao nationalists declared Laos independent, but by early 1946, French troops had reoccupied the country and conferred limited autonomy on Laos.

French troops withdrew from Lebanon in 1946.

The last French troops withdrew in 1946.

* 1946 – Rudolf Höss, the first commandant of Auschwitz concentration camp, is captured by British troops.

The Society was born in 1946 when groups of cartoonists got together to entertain the troops.

He was captured by French troops at the end of the war and released in February 1946.

Continuing pressure from Syrian nationalist groups and British pressure forced the French to evacuate their troops in April 1946, leaving the country in the hands of a republican government that had been formed during the mandate.

After the war, 200, 000 Chinese troops under General Lu Han sent by Chiang Kai-shek invaded northern Indochina north of the 16th parallel to accept the surrender of Japanese occupying forces, and remained there until 1946.

Chiang Kai-shek threatened the French with war in response to manoeuvering by the French and Ho Chi Minh against each other, forcing them to come to a peace agreement, and in February 1946 he also forced the French to surrender all of their concessions in China and renounce their extraterritorial privileges in exchange for withdrawing from northern Indochina and allowing French troops to reoccupy the region starting in March 1946.

On 20 July 1946, Chiang Kai-shek launched a large-scale assault on Communist territory with 113 brigades ( 1. 6 million troops ).

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

On 21 March 1946, Souphanouvong and his largely Vietnamese force fought the French Union troops at Savannakhet, to no avail ; the attackers mustered paratroopers, artillery, armored cars, and Spitfire fighter-bombers.

Suharto led his Division X troops to halt an advance by the Dutch T (" Tiger ") Brigade on 17 May 1946.

The Jewish Agency was raided by British troops in 1946 under Operation Agatha in retaliation for a number of attacks against British forces, however the Haganah did not attack British forces directly.

In 1946 occupying Soviet troops, perhaps hoping to loot it of jewels, dislodged the granite plate covering the grave and broke into Vetsera's coffin at the Heiligenkreuz Abbey.

French troops, who had invaded Lebanon in 1941 to rid Beirut of the Vichy forces, left the country in 1946.

The USSR withdrew its troops in May 1946, but tensions continued for several months.