Heschel married Sylvia Straus, a concert pianist, on December 10, 1946, in Los Angeles.

Göran Bror Benny Andersson () ( born 16 December 1946 ), known professionally as Benny Andersson, is a Swedish musician, composer, former member of the Swedish musical group ABBA ( 1972 – 1983 ), and co-composer of the musicals Chess, Kristina från Duvemåla, and Mamma Mia !.

* Walter Orange ( vocals, drums ) – born December 10, 1946, Florida.

* Camillo Caccia-Dominioni ( 16 December 1935 – 12 November 1946 )

Their daughter, Dena, was born on 17 December 1946.

Alfred Damon Runyon ( October 4, 1880 – December 10, 1946 ) was an American newspaperman and author.

His body was cremated, and his ashes were scattered from an airplane over Broadway in Manhattan by Captain Eddie Rickenbacker on December 18, 1946.

The Constitution of the International Refugee Organization, adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on December 15, 1946, specified the agency's field of operations.

* Ruanda-Urundi ( Belgium ), from 20 July 1922 to 13 December 1946.

After 13 December 1946, it became a United Nations Trust Territory, remaining under Belgian administration until the separate nations of Rwanda and Burundi gained independence on 1 July 1962.

* Tanganyika ( United Kingdom ), from 20 July 1922 to 11 December 1946.

It became a United Nations Trust Territory on 11 December 1946, and was granted internal self-rule on 1 May 1961.

* Kamerun was split on 20 July 1922 into British Cameroons ( under a Resident ) and French Cameroun ( under a Commissioner until 27 August 1940, then under a Governor ), on 13 December 1946 transformed into United Nations Trust Territories, again a British ( successively under senior district officers officiating as Resident, a Special Resident and Commissioners ) and a French Trust ( under a Haut Commissaire )

* Togoland was split into British Togoland ( under an Administrator, a post filled by the colonial Governor of the British Gold Coast ( present Ghana ) except 30 September 1920 – 11 October 1923 Francis Walter Fillon Jackson ) and French Togoland ( under a Commissioner ) ( United Kingdom and France ), 20 July 1922 separate Mandates, transformed on 13 December 1946 into United Nations trust territories, French Togo Associated Territory ( under a Commissioner till 30 August 1956, then under a High Commissioner as Autonomous Republic of Togo ) and British Togoland ( as before ; on 13 December 1956 it ceased to exist as it became part of Ghana )

* former German New Guinea became the Territory of New Guinea ( Australia / United Kingdom ) from 17 December 1920 under a ( at first Military ) Administrator ; after ( wartime ) Japanese / U. S. military commands from 8 December 1946 under UN mandate as North East New Guinea ( under Australia, as administrative unit ), until it became part of present Papua New Guinea at independence in 1975

Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria (; ; 29 March 1899 – 23 December 1953 ) was a Soviet politician, Marshal of the Soviet Union and state security administrator, chief of the Soviet security and secret police apparatus ( NKVD ) under Joseph Stalin during World War II, and Deputy Premier in the postwar years ( 1946 – 1953 ).

The result was a failed coup d ' état in December 1946 and full-scale civil war in March 1947.

** 8 June 1946 – 20 December 1947: Erwin Müller ( b. 1906 – d. 1968 ), Non-party

Stephen Bantu Biko ( 18 December 1946 – 12 September 1977 ) was an anti-apartheid activist in South Africa in the 1960s and 1970s.

The administration of the Territory continued to be carried out under the terms of the mandate until its transfer to the Trusteeship System under the Charter of the United Nations by the Trusteeship Agreement of December 13, 1946.

After two prototypes " Ambrož " ( December 1946 ) and " Josef " ( March 1947 ), the T600 went into mass production in 1948.

He was succeeded by Fiorello La Guardia ( 1 April to 31 December 1946 ), former mayor of New York-who later learned that that his sister, Gemma LaGuardia Gluck, and other relatives had been imprisoned in Nazi concentration camps.

Szabo was the second woman to be awarded the George Cross, bestowed posthumously on 17 December 1946.

On December 6, 2006, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and First Lady Maria Shriver inducted Walt Disney into the California Hall of Fame located at The California Museum for History, Women, and the Arts.

Edward Arnold " Eddie " Chapman ( 16 November 1914 – 11 December 1997 ) was an English pre-war criminal and wartime spy.

* December 13 – Arnold Brown, Salvation Army general ( d. 2002 )

* December 21 – Arnold Friberg, American artist ( d. 2010 )

* December 24 – Matthew Arnold, English poet ( d. 1888 )

* December 31 – American Revolution: British forces repulse an attack by Continental Army generals Richard Montgomery and Benedict Arnold at Quebec.

In December 1975, Dick Whipple and John Arnold created an interpreter for the language that required only 3K of RAM.

On December 30, 1958, Jack Jr. was informed, by Jack Sr .' s lawyer Arnold Grant, that the elder Warner had released him from the company.

On December 6, 2006, California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and First Lady Maria Shriver inducted Ho into the California Hall of Fame located at The California Museum for History, Women, and the Arts.

On December 20, 1780, Benedict Arnold sailed from New York with 1, 500 troops to Portsmouth, Virginia.

Arnold wrote on 1 December 1941, " We must get every B-17 to the Philippines as soon as possible.

* December 6 – Arnold Schoenberg's Violin Concerto is premièred.

Arnold arrived in Manila on December 7, 1907.

On December 1, Arnold took a staff assignment as assistant to the new head of the Aeronautical Division in the Office of the Chief Signal Officer in Washington, D. C.

Between October and December 1916, encouraged by former associates, Arnold overcame his fear of flying by going up fifteen to twenty minutes a day.

After Mitchell was convicted on December 17, 1925, Arnold and other officers continued to use the Information Division to mail pro-Mitchell information to airpower-friendly congressmen and Air Service reservists.

On December 23, 1935, new Army Chief of Staff Gen. Malin Craig summoned Arnold to Washington.

When Congress repealed the Neutrality Act in November 1939 to permit the selling of aircraft to the belligerents, Arnold became concerned that shipments of planes to the Allies slowed delivery to the Air Corps, particularly since control of the allotment of aircraft production had been given to the Procurement Division of the Treasury Department in December 1938, and by extension, to Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau, Jr., a White House favorite.

Soon after U. S. entry in the war, Arnold was promoted to lieutenant general on December 15, 1941.

On March 19, 1943, Arnold was promoted ( wartime ) to full General, and on December 21, 1944, appointed a five-star General of the Army under Public Law 282-78, placing him fourth in Army rank seniority behind Marshall, MacArthur, and Eisenhower.

* December 24-Matthew Arnold, poet ( died 1888 )

On December 6, 2006, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and First Lady Maria Shriver inducted John Muir into the California Hall of Fame located at The California Museum for History, Women, and the Arts.

John Arnold Austin ( 30 August 1905 – 7 December 1941 ) was a United States Navy sailor in World War II, who received the Navy Cross ( awarded posthumously ) for his actions during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

On radio, Sessions guested in December 1997 on the regular BBC Radio 3 show Private Passions, presented by Michael Berkeley, not as himself but as a 112-year-old Viennese percussionist called Manfred Sturmer, who told anecdotes ( about Brahms, Clara Schumann, Richard Strauss, Arnold Schoenberg and others ) so realistically that some listeners did not realise that the whole thing was a hoax.

Peter Warlock was the pseudonym of Philip Arnold Heseltine ( 30 October 1894 – 17 December 1930 ), an Anglo-Welsh composer and music critic.