Calendar year
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1946 (MCMXLVI ) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar , the 1946th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 946th year of the 2nd millennium , the 46th year of the 20th century , and the 7th year of the 1940s decade.
Calendar year
Events
January January 10 : First meeting of the UN. January 10 : Project Diana January 28 : Bluenose founders.
February
March
April April 1 April 3 – Japanese Lt. General Masaharu Homma is executed outside Manila in the Philippines , for leading the Bataan Death March .April 5 – A Fleet Air Arm Vickers Wellington crashes into a residential area in Rabat , Malta during a training exercise, killing all 4 crew members and 16 civilians on the ground.[6] [7] [8] April 10 – In Japan, women vote for the first time, during elections for the House of Representatives of the 90th Imperial Diet .April 14 – Sh'erit ha-Pletah members of Nakam , the "Jewish Avengers", use arsenic to poison bread baked for SS prisoners of war held at Stalag XIII-D by the Americans.[9] April 17 – Syria 's independence from France is officially recognized.April 18 April 28 – Kinderdorf Pestalozzi (Pestalozzi Children's Village) is established at Trogen , Switzerland to accommodate and educate orphans of World War II, according to Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi 's principles.[10] April 29 – Trials against war criminals begin in Tokyo; the accused include Hideki Tōjō , Shigenori Tōgō and Hiroshi Ōshima .
May
June Four DUKW amphibious vehicles taking part in the Victory Parade in London on 8 June 1946 June 1 June 2 – 1946 Italian institutional referendum : Italians vote to turn Italy from a monarchy into a republic .[12] In the simultaneous 1946 Italian general election , the first since the end of World War II and also the first in which women are allowed to vote, the Christian Democracy party, led by Prime Minister Alcide De Gasperi , wins most seats in the Constituent Assembly of Italy and forms a coalition government.[13] Christian Democracy leads the Italian government continuously until 1981.June 3 – Interpol is re-founded; the telegraphic address "Interpol" is adopted.June 8 – In Indonesia , Sukarno incites his supporters to fight Dutch colonial occupation.June 9 – In Thailand , King Bhumibol Adulyadej (Rama IX) accedes to the throne after the death of his elder brother, King Ananda Mahidol (Rama VIII). He will reign until his death on October 13 , 2016.June 10 – Italy is declared a republic .June 13 – Umberto II of Italy leaves the country and goes into exile in Portugal; Alcide De Gasperi becomes head of state .June 14 – The Baruch Plan is proposed to the United Nations.June 17 – Formal ratification of the Treaty of London grants independence to the Hashemite Kingdom of Transjordan .June 23 June 25 – The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) (World Bank) begins operations.June 30 – The War Relocation Authority , which has administered the internment of Japanese Americans , is abolished.
July
August
September
October October 1 – Mensa , an international organization for people with a high intelligence quotient (IQ), is founded by Roland Berrill , an Australian-born lawyer, and Dr Lancelot Ware , an English biochemist and lawyer, in Oxford .October 2 – Communists establish power in Bulgaria .October 6 – Sweden's Prime Minister Per Albin Hansson dies in office of a heart attack.October 10 – The Noakhali genocide of Hindus in Bengal begins, at the hands of Muslim mobs.October 11 – After a few days of vacancy, the Swedish premiership is taken over by Tage Erlander .October 13 – France adopts the constitution of the Fourth Republic .October 14 – The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) is founded.October 15 – Nuremberg trials : Hermann Göring , founder of the Gestapo and recently convicted Nazi war criminal, poisons himself two hours before his scheduled execution.October 16 October 23 – The United Nations General Assembly convenes for the first time, at an auditorium in Flushing, Queens, New York City.October 24 –November 11 – 1946 Bihar riots : Hindu mobs target Muslim families in the Indian state of Bihar , resulting in anywhere between 2,000 and 30,000 deaths.
November
December December 1 – Miguel Alemán Valdés takes office as President of Mexico .December 2 – The International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling is signed in Washington, D.C., to "provide for the proper conservation of whale stocks and thus make possible the orderly development of the whaling industry" through establishment of the International Whaling Commission .December 7 – The Winecoff Hotel fire in Atlanta , United States, kills 119.December 10 – John Peters Humphrey becomes director of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights December 11 – UNICEF (the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund) is founded.December 12 December 14 December 15 December 16 – Siam joins the United Nations (changes its name to Thailand in 1949).December 19 – Viet Minh forces begin a war against French occupying forces in Vietnam , succeeding in 1954 with France's surrender at the Battle of Dien Bien Phu .December 21 – 1946 Nankai earthquake ; At least 1,362 people are killed in an earthquake and associated tsunami in Japan.December 22 – The Havana Conference begins between U.S. organized crime bosses in Havana , Cuba.December 24 – The French Fourth Republic is founded.December 25 – The first artificial, self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction in Europe is initiated, within the Soviet (Russian) nuclear reactor F-1.December 31 – U.S. President Harry S. Truman delivers Proclamation 2714 , which officially ends hostilities in World War II.
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Births
January John Paul Jones Diane Keaton Dolly Parton David Lynch Arnoldo Alemán Gene Siskel January 1 January 3 January 4 January 5 – Diane Keaton , American actress, film director (Annie Hall )January 6 – Syd Barrett , English rock guitarist, singer and songwriter (Pink Floyd ) (d. 2006)January 8 – Robby Krieger , American rock musician (The Doors )January 9 January 10 January 12 – George Duke , African-American musician (d. 2013)January 14 January 16 January 17 – Frank Bey , American blues singer (d. 2020)January 18 January 19 January 20 – David Lynch , American film directorJanuary 22 January 23 – Arnoldo Alemán , President of Nicaragua January 24 – Michael Ontkean , Canadian actor (The Rookies )January 25 – Géza Bereményi , Hungarian writer, screenwriter and film directorJanuary 26 January 27 – Nedra Talley , African-American singer (The Ronettes )January 29 – Bettye LaVette , African-American soul singer, songwriterJanuary 30 – John Bird, Baron Bird , British social entrepreneur and life peer January 31 – Terry Kath , American rock musician (Chicago ) (d. 1978)
February Blake Clark Charlotte Rampling Tyne Daly Anthony Daniels Alan Rickman February 1 February 2 February 4 – Ron Anderson , American vocal coach and opera singer (d. 2021)February 5 – Charlotte Rampling , British actressFebruary 6 February 7 February 9 – Seán Neeson , Northern Irish politicianFebruary 10 – Dick Anderson , American former professional football playerFebruary 13 February 14 February 16 – Marvin Sease , American blues, and soul singer-songwriter (d. 2011)February 18 – Michael Buerk , British journalist and newsreaderFebruary 19 – Karen Silkwood , American activist (d. 1974)February 20 February 21 February 23 – Allan Boesak , South African Dutch Reformed Church cleric , politician and anti-apartheid activistFebruary 24 – Jiří Bělohlávek , Czech conductor (d. 2017)February 25 February 26 February 27 February 28
March David Gilmour Frank Welker Liza Minnelli Timothy Dalton Alejandro Toledo March 1 Jan Kodeš , Czech tennis playerLana Wood , American actress, producerTony Ashton , English rock pianist, keyboardist, singer, composer, producer and artist (d. 2001)March 2 – Morari Bapu , Hindu KathakaarMarch 3 – James C. Adamson , former NASA astronautMarch 4 March 5 March 6 March 7 March 9 Steve Ashley , English singer-songwriter, recording artist, multi-instrumentalist, writer and graphic designerAlexandra Bastedo , British actress (d. 2014)March 10 – Mike Hollands , Australian animatorMarch 12 March 13 March 14 March 15 – Bobby Bonds , American baseball player, manager (d. 2003)March 16 – Sigmund Groven , Norwegian classical harmonica playerMarch 17 – Georges J. F. Köhler , German biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1995)[19] March 18 – Larry Langford , American politician (d. 2019)March 19 March 21 – Timothy Dalton , Welsh actorMarch 23 – Qamaruzzaman Azmi , Indian Islamic scholar, philosopher, speaker, and president of the World Islamic Mission March 25 March 26 – Gil Carlos Rodríguez Iglesias , Spanish judge (d. 2019)March 27 March 28 – Alejandro Toledo , 63rd President of Peru March 29 March 30 – Carolyn Simpson , judge of the Supreme Court of New South Wales March 31
April Hanna Suchocka Ed O'Neill Tim Curry Carl XVI Gustaf Bill Plympton April 1 – Ronnie Lane , English musician (Small Faces , Faces ) (d. 1997)April 2 April 3 – Hanna Suchocka , Prime Minister of Poland [21] April 4 – Dave Hill , English guitarist (Slade )April 5 April 6 – Paul Beresford , British-New Zealander politicianApril 7 April 8 April 10 – David Angell , American television producer (d. 2001)April 11 – Chris Burden , American artist (d. 2015)April 12 – Ed O'Neill , American actor (Married... with Children )April 13 – Al Green , African-American singer, songwriter and record producerApril 15 – Marsha Hunt , American actress, singer and novelistApril 16 – Margot Adler , American journalistApril 18 – Hayley Mills , English actressApril 19 – Tim Curry , British actor, voice artist and singer (The Rocky Horror Picture Show )April 20 April 22 April 23 April 24 Phil Robertson , American businessman and reality television personalityKamla Bhasin , Indian developmental feminist activist, poet, author and social scientist (d. 2021)Ronnie Bird , French singerApril 25 April 26 April 28 April 29 Franc Roddam , English film director, businessman, screenwriter, television producer and publisherCliven Bundy , American cattle rancherApril 30
May Dame Joanna Lumley Michael Rosen Candice Bergen Donovan Udo Lindenberg André the Giant Cher George Best Irena Szewińska May 1 – Joanna Lumley , English actress, authorMay 2 May 3 – Mohammed Ibrahim , businessman and philanthropistMay 4 May 5 Jim Kelly , African-American actor, martial artist and tennis player (d. 2013)Kebby Musokotwane , Prime Minister of Zambia (d. 1996)Beth Carvalho , Brazilian samba singer, guitarist and composer (d. 2019)Eddie Aikau , Hawaiian lifeguard and surfer (d. 1978)May 6 May 7 May 9 May 10 Donovan , Scottish rock musician ("Sunshine Superman ")Birutė Galdikas , Canadian anthropologist, primatologist, conservationist, ethologist and authorGraham Gouldman , English songwriter, musician (10cc, Wax)Dave Mason , English rock musician (Traffic )Murade Isaac Murargy , Mozambican diplomat, politicianMay 11 Robert Jarvik , American physicist, artificial heart inventorAna Amado , Argentine journalist, filmmaker, academic and feminist (d. 2016)May 12 – Richard Bruce Silverman , John Evans Professor of Chemistry at Northwestern University May 13 May 14 May 15 – Aly Bain , Scottish fiddlerMay 16 May 17 – Udo Lindenberg , German musician[25] May 18 May 19 May 20 Craig Patrick , American-Canadian hockey player, coach and managerCher, American actress, rock singer May 22 May 23 May 24 May 26 – Mick Ronson , English guitarist (d. 1993)May 27 – Alma Adams , American politicianMay 28 May 29 – Fernando Buesa , Basque politician (d. 2000)May 30 May 31 – Adriana Bittel , Romanian writer
June Brian Cox Donald Trump Noddy Holder Ted Shackelford Ellison Onizuka Ricky Jay Gilda Radner June 1 – Brian Cox , Scottish actorJune 2 June 3 – Michael Clarke , American musician (d. 1993)June 4 June 5 – Stefania Sandrelli , Italian actressJune 7 June 8 – Pearlette Louisy , Governor-General of St. LuciaJune 9 – Kenneth Adelman , American diplomat, political writer, policy analyst and Shakespeare scholarJune 10 – Fernando Balzaretti , Mexican actor (d. 1998)June 11 – Biancamaria Frabotta , Italian writer (d. 2022)[29] June 13 June 14 – Donald Trump , American businessman, television personality, 45th President of the United States June 15 June 16 June 17 – Marcy Kaptur , U.S. Representative for the Ninth Congressional District of OhioJune 18 June 21 June 22 June 23 – Ted Shackelford , American actorJune 24 June 25 June 26 June 27 – Russ Critchfield , American basketball playerJune 28 June 29 June 30
July Mireya Moscoso Leszek Miller George W. Bush Peter Singer Sylvester Stallone Cheech Marin Hassanal Bolkiah Linda Ronstadt Danny Glover July 1 July 2 July 3 July 4 July 5 July 6 July 7 July 8 July 9 July 10 July 11 July 12 July 13 July 14 July 15 July 16 July 17 July 18 – Kanat Saudabayev , Kazakhstani politicianJuly 19 – Ilie Năstase , Romanian tennis playerJuly 20 – Htin Kyaw , 9th President of MyanmarJuly 21 – Domingo Cavallo , Argentine economist, politicianJuly 22 July 23 July 24 – Farouk Abdul-Aziz , Egyptian TV presenter, interviewer, writer, producer and directorJuly 25 – Rita Marley , Cuban-Jamaican singerJuly 27 July 28 – Jonathan Edwards , American singer, songwriter and guitaristJuly 29 July 30
August Ralph Gonsalves Óscar Berger Lesley Ann Warren Bill Clinton Keith Moon Queen Anne-Marie of Greece Peggy Lipton August 1 August 3 August 4 – Ramazan Abdulatipov , Russian politician and professorAugust 5 August 6 – Allan Holdsworth , British musician (d. 2017)August 8 – Ralph Gonsalves , 4th Prime Minister of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines August 9 – Jim Kiick , American football playerAugust 11 – Óscar Berger , 34th President of Guatemala August 12 – Terry Nutkins , English naturalist (d. 2012)August 13 August 14 August 16 August 17 – Drake Levin , American rock guitarist (Paul Revere & the Raiders ) (d. 2009)August 18 – William Brisson , American politicianAugust 19 August 20 August 22 – Wayne Brown , New Zealand politician and the mayor of Auckland August 23 August 24 – BP Fallon , Irish musician and broadcasterAugust 25 August 26 August 29 August 30 August 31
September Sir Barry Gibb Roh Moo-hyun Freddie Mercury Jim Hines Tommy Lee Jones Oliver Stone Mart Siimann María Teresa Ruiz September 1 September 2 September 3 September 4 September 5 September 6 – Ron Boone , American former professional basketball playerSeptember 7 September 8 September 9 September 10 September 11 – Anthony Browne , British writer and illustrator of children's booksSeptember 12 – Neil Lyndon , British journalist, writer[33] September 13 – Henri Kuprashvili , Georgian swimmerSeptember 15 September 16 – Camilo Sesto , Spanish singer-songwriter music producer and composer (d. 2019)September 17 – Billy Bonds , English former professional footballer and managerSeptember 18 September 19 September 20 September 21 September 22 September 23 – Franz Fischler , Austrian politicianSeptember 24 September 25 September 26 September 27 – Nicos Anastasiades , Cypriot businessperson and former president of CyprusSeptember 28 – Jeffrey Jones , American actorSeptember 29 September 30
October Susan Sarandon Vinod Khanna Naoto Kan Charles Dance Chris Tarrant Daryl Hall Richard Carpenter Suzanne Somers Peter Green
November Laura Bush Sally Field Petra Burka Duane Allman Ismaïl Omar Guelleh Marina Abramović
December José Carreras Rhoma Irama Patty Duke Benny Andersson Eugene Levy Steven Spielberg Carl Wilson Jeff Sessions Jimmy Buffett Mike Beebe Patti Smith Diane von Fürstenberg December 1 – Jonathan Katz , American comedian, actor and voice actorDecember 2 December 3 December 4 December 5 December 6 December 8 December 9 – Sonia Gandhi , Indian politicianDecember 10 December 11 December 12 December 13 December 14 Antony Beevor , English historianJane Birkin , English actress, singer (d. 2023)Patty Duke , American actress (d. 2016)Lynne Marie Stewart , American actressMichael Ovitz , American talent agent, co-founded Creative Artists Agency Leon Botstein , Swiss-born American conductor, educator, and scholarDecember 15 December 16 December 17 December 18 December 19 December 20 December 21 December 22 – Kuwasi Balagoon , American political activist, anarchist and member of the Black Panther Party and Black Liberation Army (d. 1986)December 23 December 24 December 25 – Jimmy Buffett , American rock singer-songwriter (d. 2023)December 26 – Jean-Noël Prade, French University PresidentDecember 27 – Janet Street-Porter , English broadcast journalistDecember 28 December 29 December 30 December 31
Date unknown Ali Abu Al-Ragheb , Prime Minister of JordanJang Song-thaek , North Korean politician (d. 2013)Miklós Lukáts , Hungarian politician (d. 2022)Afsaneh Najmabadi , Iranian historian, gender theoristRaul Bragança Neto , 8th Prime Minister of São Tomé and Príncipe (d. 2014)Daoud Abdel Sayed , Egyptian director and screenwriterMari Carmen Aponte , American attorney and diplomatTerence Anderson , Australian-born American sports shooterAlun Armstrong , English character actorDennis Ashbaugh , American painterEwart Brown , Bermudian politician and ninth Premier of BermudaTed Baehr , American media critic and chairman of the Christian Film and Television CommissionWilhelm Barthlott , German botanist and biomimetic materials scientistJean-Paul Béraudo , French lawyer, academic and author of legal worksSonia Berjman , Argentinian urban and landscape historian and researcher on the history of Buenos AiresOmar Blondin Diop , West-African anti-imperialist philosopher, artist, and revolutionary (d. 1973)Bob Bossin , Canadian folk singer (Stringband ), writer and activistDanièle Bourcier , French lawyer and essayistMartin Bresnick , American composerRobert Bringhurst , Canadian poet, typographer and authorNathaniel Burkett , American serial killer (d. 2021)
Deaths
January Georg, Prince of Saxe-Meiningen László Bárdossy January 1 – Georgina Sweet , Australian zoologist and women's rights activist (b. 1875)January 2 January 3 – William Joyce , Irish-born American World War II Nazi propaganda broadcaster known as "Lord Haw-Haw " (executed) (b. 1906)January 4 January 5 January 6 January 8 January 9 January 10 January 13 – Wilhelm Souchon , German admiral (b. 1864)January 14 January 15 – Karl Nabersberg , German youth leader (b. 1908)January 18 – Wilhelm von Brincken , German diplomat and spy during World War I (b. 1881)January 21 – Harry Bateman , British-American mathematician (b. 1882)January 23 January 25 – Orishatukeh Faduma , American missionary (b. 1855)January 26 – Katharine Bushnell , doctor, Christian writer, Bible scholar, social activist, and a pioneer of feminist theology (b. 1855)January 29 January 31
February Felix Hoffmann Rafael Erich Béla Imrédy February 2 – Rondo Hatton , American actor (b. 1894)February 3 February 4 – Herbert Baker , English architect (b. 1862)February 5 – George Arliss , British actor (b. 1868)February 6 February 8 February 11 – Ludovic-Oscar Frossard , French socialist, communist politician (b. 1889)February 12 February 15 February 17 February 19 February 21 – Theodore Stark Wilkinson , American admiral (b. 1888)February 23 – Tomoyuki Yamashita , Japanese general (executed) (b. 1885)February 24 February 25 – René Le Grèves , French cyclist (b. 1910)February 26 – Jackie , Nubian-born MGM lion (b. 1915)February 27 – James Cecil Parke , Irish rugby player, tennis player and golfer (b. 1910)February 28
March Ferenc Szálasi Francisco Largo Caballero Barbu Știrbey March 2 March 3 – Viktor Axmann , Yugoslav architect (b. 1883)March 4 Bror von Blixen-Finecke , Swedish big-game hunter (b. 1886)Charles Waldron , merican stage and film actor( b. 1874)Martyrs of Albania , Catholics (executed)Mark Çuni, seminarian (b. 1919) Daniel Dajani, Jesuit priest (b. 1906) Giovanni Fausti, Italian Jesuit priest (b. 1899) Gjelosh Lulashi (b. 1925) Qerim Sadiku (b. 1919)Kolë Shllaku, friar (b. 1906) March 6 – Antonio Caso Andrade , Mexican philosopher (b. 1878)March 8 – Frederick W. Lanchester , English polymath and engineer (b. 1868)March 9 – Adolfo Ferrata , Italian pathologist, hematologist (b. 1880)March 12 March 13 – Werner von Blomberg , German field marshal (b. 1878)March 14 – Hubert D. Stephens , American lawyer and politician (b. 1875)March 16 March 17 – Joseph de Pesquidoux , French writer (b. 1869)March 19 – Augusto Nicolás Martínez , Ecuadorian agronomist, economist, geologist, researcher, educator and mountaineer (b. 1860)March 20 March 21 – Howard L. Vickery , U.S. naval officer (b. 1892)March 22 March 23 March 24 March 26 – Ezequiel Fernández , acting President of Panama (b. 1886)March 29 March 31 – John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort , British field marshal (b. 1886)
April Patriarch Eulogius Juan Bautista Sacasa Robert Bartlett April 1 April 2 – Kate Bruce , American silent screen actress (b. 1858)April 3 April 4 – Hans Bothmann , last commandant of the Chełmno extermination camp (b. 1911)April 5 April 6 April 7 – Padmanath Gohain Baruah , Indian novelist, poet and dramatist (b. 1871)April 8 April 11 April 12 – Marian Zyndram-Kościałkowski , Polish politician, freemason and military officer (b. 1892)April 13 April 14 – Otto Dowling , United States Navy Captain , 25th Governor of American Samoa (b. 1881)April 15 April 17 April 19 – Harold Stiles , English surgeon (b. 1863)April 20 – Mae Busch , American actress (b. 1891)April 21 – John Maynard Keynes , British economist (b. 1883)April 22 April 23 – T. Tileston Wells , American attorney and the Romanian Consul General (b. 1865)April 26 April 27 April 28 April 30 – Sava Athanasiu , Romanian geologist, paleontologist (b. 1861)
May Alexei Nikolaevich Bach Friedrich, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont Marcela de Agoncillo May 1 May 3 – Charles Daniel-Vincent , French teacher and politician (b. 1874)May 9 May 10 – Emile de Cartier de Marchienne , Belgian diplomat (b. 1871)May 11 – Pedro Henríquez Ureña , Dominican essayist, philosopher, humanist and philologist (b. 1884)May 13 – Alexei Nikolaevich Bach , Soviet biochemist, revolutionary leader (b. 1857)May 16 May 17 – William Jefferson Blythe Jr. , American salesman and biological father of Bill Clinton (b. 1918)May 19 May 20 May 22 – Karl Hermann Frank , German Nazi official, war criminal (executed) (b. 1898)May 25 – Ernest Rhys , Welsh-English writer (b. 1859)May 26 May 27 May 28 May 29 May 30 May 31 – Picoğlu Osman , Turkish kemenche player (b. 1901)
June Ion Antonescu Sándor Simonyi-Semadam King Ananda Mahidol (Rama VIII) of Thailand Gerhart Hauptmann Jorge Ubico Juan Antonio Ríos June 1 June 3 – Mikhail Kalinin , 1st Head of State/President of the Soviet Union (b. 1875)June 4 – Sándor Simonyi-Semadam , Hungarian politician, 26th Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1864)June 5 – Maud Watson , British tennis player, first female Wimbledon champion (b. 1864)June 6 June 8 – John L. Bates , American politician (b. 1859)June 9 – Ananda Mahidol (Rama VIII), King of Thailand (assassinated) (b. 1925)June 10 June 11 June 12 June 13 – Charles Butterworth , American actor (b. 1896)June 14 June 15 June 16 – Ludwig Winder , Austrian-Czech German-language writer, journalist and literary critic (b. 1889)June 18 – Eugen Hirschfield, Australian practitioner (b. 1866)June 19 June 20 – Empress Wanrong of China (b. 1906)June 23 – William S. Hart , American stage actor, silent film Western star, film director and writer (b. 1864)June 24 – Marian Bernaciak , Polish World War II heroine (b. 1917)June 26 – Alma Bridwell White , founder and a bishop of the Pillar of Fire Church (b. 1862)June 27 June 28 – Antoinette Perry , American actress, director (b. 1888)June 29 – Miroslav Filipović , Bosnian-Croatian Franciscan friar and Ustashe military chaplain war criminal (b. 1915)June 30 – Jelica Belović-Bernardzikowska , Yugoslav journalist, writer and journalist (b. 1870)
July Federico Laredo Bru Shefqet Verlaci Blessed Alexander Vvedensky July 1 – Augustyn Józef Czartoryski , Polish nobleman (b. 1907)July 2 July 3 – Edoardo Bianchi , Italian entrepreneur, inventor (b. 1865)July 4 July 7 – Federico Laredo Brú , 8th President of Cuba (b. 1875)July 8 July 10 – Sidney Hillman , American labor leader (b. 1887)July 12 July 13 – Alfred Stieglitz , American photographer (b. 1864)July 15 – Benjamin W. Alpiner , American businessman and politician (b. 1867)July 16 – Raffaele Conflenti , Italian engineer, aircraft designer (b. 1889)July 17 July 18 July 19 – George Mackenzie Brown , Canadian-born British publisher (b. 1869)July 20 – Shiro Kawase , Japanese admiral (b. 1889)July 21 July 22 – Edward Sperling , Russian-American-Jewish writer, Zionist (assassinated) (b. 1889)July 23 – James Maxton , British pacifist, politician, and leader of the Independent Labour Party (b.1885)July 26 – Alexander Vvedensky , Soviet Orthodox religious leader and blessed (b. 1889)July 25 July 27 July 28 July 31
August Wilhelm Marx King Inayatullah Khan H. G. Wells August 1 August 2 – Karl, Prince of Leiningen , German prince (b. 1898)August 5 August 6 August 8 August 9 – Bert Vogler , South African cricketer (b. 1876)August 10 – Léon Gaumont , French film pioneer (b. 1864)August 11 – Giuseppe Pietri , Italian composer (b. 1886)August 12 August 13 August 14 – Robert Heinrich Wagner , Nazi Party official and politician (b. 1895)August 16 – Prince Fushimi Hiroyasu (b. 1875)August 17 – Channing Pollock , American playwright (b. 1880)August 19 – Jules-Albert de Dion , French automobile pioneer (b. 1856)August 20 August 22 – Döme Sztójay , 35th Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1883)August 23 – Prince Fulco Ruffo di Calabria (b. 1884)August 24 – James Clark McReynolds , American jurist (b. 1862)August 26 – Jeanie MacPherson , American actress (b. 1887)August 28 August 29 – John Steuart Curry , American painter (b. 1897)August 31 – Harley Granville-Barker , English actor, director, playwright, manager, critic, and theorist (b. 1877)
September Blessed Francesco Bonifacio September 2 – George Robson , American racing driver (b. 1909)September 3 – Paul Lincke , German composer (b. 1866)September 4 – Nobu Shirase , Japanese army officer and Antarctic explorer (b. 1861)September 10 – Olivér Halassy , Hungarian water polo player and freestyle swimmer (killed by Soviet soldier) (b. 1909)September 11 – Francesco Bonifacio , Italian Roman Catholic priest and blessed (killed in action) (b. 1912)September 13 September 16 September 18 – Hassan Suhrawardy , Bengali surgeon, military officer in the British Indian Army, politician, and public official (b. 1884)September 24 – Gustav Globočnik Edler von Vojka , Austro-Hungarian nobleman and field marshal (b. 1859)September 25 – Heinrich George , German actor (b. 1893)September 28 – Shivaji VII , Maharaja of Kolhapur (b. 1941)September 29 – Raimu , French actor (b. 1883)September 30 – Takashi Sakai , Japanese general (executed) (b. 1887)
October Ignacy Mościcki István Bethlen Blessed Alberto Marvelli Per Albin Hansson October 1 October 2 – Ignacy Mościcki , Polish chemist, politician and 4th President of Poland (b. 1867)October 4 – Barney Oldfield , American race car driver, automobile pioneer (b. 1878)October 5 October 6 October 8 – Agustín Parrado y García , Spanish Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1872)October 10 – Prince Vittorio Emanuele, Count of Turin , grandchild of King Victor Emmanuel II and member of the House of Savoy (b. 1870)October 12 – Joseph Stilwell , American World War II general (b. 1883)October 15 – Hermann Göring , German Nazi Reichsmarschall (suicide) (b. 1893)October 16 Granville Bantock , British composer (b. 1868)Nuremberg executions Hans Frank , German Nazi Governor General of Poland (b. 1900)Wilhelm Frick , German Nazi Minister of the Interior (b. 1877)Alfred Jodl , German general, World War II Chief of the German armed forces (b. 1890)Ernst Kaltenbrunner , German Nazi police general (b. 1903)Wilhelm Keitel , German field marshal (b. 1882)Joachim von Ribbentrop , German Nazi foreign minister (b. 1893)Alfred Rosenberg , German Nazi ideologist (b. 1893)Fritz Sauckel , German Nazi general plenipotentiary (b. 1894)Arthur Seyss-Inquart , Austrian Nazi leader (b. 1892)Julius Streicher , German Nazi propaganda publisher (b. 1885)October 17 October 18 – William H. Strayer , American attorney and politician (b. 1866)October 20 October 23 October 24 – Kurt Daluege , German Nazi officer, SS general and police official, war criminal (executed) (b. 1897)October 25 – Rudolf Walden , Finnish industrialist and a military leader (b. 1878)October 26 October 27 – Nathan Francis Mossell , African-American physician (b. 1856)
November November 2 – John Barrett , British clergyman, Roman Catholic bishop and reverend (b. 1878)November 4 November 5 – Joseph Stella , Italian-American painter (b. 1877)November 6 – Maria Innocentia Hummel , German Franciscan religious sister and blessed (b. 1909)November 7 – Henry Lehrman , American actor (b. 1886)November 10 – Baldassare Forestiere , Italian immigrant to America (b. 1879)November 11 – Nikolay Burdenko , Soviet surgeon, founder of Soviet neurosurgery (b. 1876)November 12 – Camillo Caccia Dominioni , Italian Roman Catholic cardinal, eminence (b. 1877)November 14 – Manuel de Falla , Spanish composer (b. 1876)November 18 November 23 – Léon Spilliaert , Belgian symbolist painter and graphic artist (b. 1881)November 24 November 25 – George Gandy , American entrepreneur (b. 1851)November 26 – Sultana Racho Petrova , Bulgarian memoirist (b. 1869)November 28 – Maria Izabela Wiłucka-Kowalska , Polish Roman Catholic religious leader, saint (b. 1890)November 30 – Gustav Noske , German politician (b. 1868)
December Walter Johnson W. C. Fields December 5 – Louis Dewis , Belgian Post-Impressionist painter (b. 1872)December 6 December 7 December 9 – Maurice Dior , French industrialist, and father of Christian Dior (b. 1872)December 10 December 12 December 14 December 16 – Salman al-Murshid , Syrian religious leader, political figure (b. 1907)December 17 – Constance Garnett , English translator of nineteenth-century Russian literature (b. 1861)December 18 – Moses Russell , Welsh international footballer (b. 1888)December 20 – Einosuke Harada , Japanese ophthalmologist (b. 1892)December 21 – Eugene Talmadge , American politician (b. 1884)December 22 – Pierre Bénard , French journalist (b. 1898)December 23 December 25 December 26 – Franjo Bučar , Yugoslav writer (b. 1866)December 27 December 28 December 29 December 30 – Charles Wakefield Cadman , American composer (b. 1881)
Date unknown Armanda Degli Abbati , Italian opera singer (b. 1879)Robert M. Washburn , American politician and writer (b. 1868)Jack White , Irish republican and libertarian socialist (b. 1879)Thiounn , Cambodian state official of the Khmer nobility during the French protectorate of Cambodia (b. 1864)Charles Trussell , British musician (b. 1860)Frona Eunice Wait , American writer and journalist (b. 1859)Charles W. Stage , American attorney, politician, professional baseball umpire and track athlete (b. 1868)Jessica Borthwick , British adventurer, sculptor and filmmaker (b. 1888)Charles Edgar Corea , Sri Lankan politician and freedom fighter (b. 1866)
Nobel Prizes
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Further reading Goulden, Joseph C. The Best Years: 1945–1950 (1976), popular social history of USA Hennessy, Peter. Never Again: Britain, 1945–1951 (1994), a scholarly survey. Kynaston, David. Austerity Britain, 1945–1951 (2008) excerpt and text search, a detailed social history. Sebestyen, Victor. 1946: The Making of the Modern World (2015) excerpt Weisbrode, Kenneth. The Year of Indecision, 1946: A Tour Through the Crucible of Harry Truman's America (2016) excerpt
External links Newsreel May 23, 1946: Rail strike paralyzes the United States Newsreel May 29, 1946: End of U.S. coal strike