* 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

Robert Penn Warren's 1946 American novel All the King's Men, the story of populist politician Willie Stark's rise to the position of governor and eventual fall, based on the career of the corrupt Louisiana Senator Huey Long, won the 1947 Pulitzer Prize.

One of the few musical instruments invented entirely in the United States is the Zydeco Frottoir ( Zydeco Rubboard ), a distillation of the washboard into essential elements ( percussive surface with shoulder straps ) designed by Clifton Chenier and built by Willie Landry in 1946.

It was designed in 1946 by Clifton " King of Zydeco " Chenier, and fashioned by Willie Landry, a friend and metalworker at the Texaco refinery in Port Arthur, Texas.

There were also a very limited number of specialist fetish magazines which featured images of bondage, such as the famous Bizarre magazine published from 1946 to 1959 by the pioneering fetish photographer John Willie, and ENEG's Exotique magazine, published 1956-1959.

With a lineup of alto saxophone, tenor sax, piano, and string bass ( Willie Dixon played the instrument on the first session ), he signed with the Miracle label in the fall of 1946.

* Willie Fotheringham ( 1946 – 1948 )

These include the 1948 film Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House ( sung by both Cary Grant and Myrna Loy ), the 1967 off-Broadway musical You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown ( sung by the cast as a glee club rehearsal number ), the 1980 film Where the Buffalo Roam ( sung by Neil Young over the opening credits ), the 2009 film The Messenger ( sung by Willie Nelson over the closing credits ), and in the 1946 western film Colorado Serenade ( sung by actor Roscoe Ates ).

* Willie Crawford ( 1946 – 2004 ), American baseball player

Francis v. Resweber,, is a case in which the U. S. Supreme Court was asked whether imposing capital punishment ( the electric chair ) a second time, after it failed in an attempt to execute Willie Francis in 1946, constituted a violation of the United States Constitution.

Willie Murphy Crawford ( September 7, 1946 in Los Angeles, California – August 27, 2004 in Los Angeles, California ) was a Major League Baseball outfielder who played with Los Angeles Dodgers ( 1964 – 1975 ), St. Louis Cardinals ( 1976 ), Houston Astros ( 1977 ) and Oakland Athletics ( 1977 ).

During the execution of the 18-year old, black teenager Willie Francis — on May 3, 1946 — the electric chair had been improperly set up by a drunken prison guard, causing Francis to scream " Take it off!

On May 3, 1946, the electric chair failed to kill Willie Francis.

* Willie Stark in the 1946 novel All the King's Men, who often uses the word hick in his speeches to describe the poor voters and himself, for being fooled by the elite.

They adopted another boy, whom they named Phillip Terry, Jr. After the marriage ended in 1946, Crawford changed the child's name to Christopher Crawford.

From 1945 to 1952, Crawford reigned as a top star and respected actress, appearing in such roles as Helen Wright in Humoresque ( 1946 ), Louise Howell Graham in Possessed ( 1947, for which she was nominated for a second Oscar for Best Actress ) and the title role in Daisy Kenyon ( also 1947 ).

After the war Garfield starred in a series of successful films such as The Postman Always Rings Twice ( 1946 ) with Lana Turner, Humoresque ( 1946 ) with Joan Crawford, and the Oscar-winning Best Picture Gentleman's Agreement ( 1947 ).

In the 1940s, Robinson demonstrated his ability to succeed in comedic and film noir roles, including Raoul Walsh's Manpower ( 1941 ) with Marlene Dietrich and George Raft, Larceny, Inc. ( 1942 ) with Jane Wyman and Broderick Crawford, Billy Wilder's Double Indemnity ( 1944 ) with Fred MacMurray and Barbara Stanwyck, Fritz Lang's The Woman in the Window ( 1945 ) with Joan Bennett and Raymond Massey, Fritz Lang's Scarlet Street ( 1945 ) with Joan Bennett and Dan Duryea, and Orson Welles ' The Stranger ( 1946 ) with Orson Welles and Loretta Young.

From 1941, when the first units were produced, the speaker went by several names, including " Brittain Speakers ", " Hollywood Speakers " and " Crawford Speakers ", before returning to the name " Leslie Vibratone " in 1946.

Crawford learned about the letter in 1946 and accused Cobb of being a “ cheapskate ” who never helped his teammates.

Hobbled by injuries and with his skills eroded, Clapper originally retired before the start of the 1946 – 47 season, but returned to play in November of 1946 to replace the injured Jack Crawford in the Bruins ' lineup.

* Johnny Crawford ( born 1946 ), American actor and musician

John Ernest " Johnny " Crawford ( born March 26, 1946 ) is a prolific American character actor, singer and musician.

The video was also influenced by the 1946 Joan Crawford film Humoresque, recreating the beach scenes where Crawford roams the ocean shore and passes a man walking his dog.

She, Webster, and producer Cheryl Crawford later co-founded the American Repertory Theater, which operated from 1946 to 1948.

Goulding is best remembered for directing cultured dramas and such as Love ( 1927 ), Grand Hotel ( 1932 ) with Greta Garbo and Joan Crawford, Dark Victory ( 1939 ) with Bette Davis, and The Razor's Edge ( 1946 ) with Gene Tierney and Tyrone Power.