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1946 .
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 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.
Date unknown
Births
January
John Paul Jones
Diane Keaton
Dolly Parton
David Lynch
Arnoldo Alemán
Gene Siskel
January 1
January 3
January 4 –
Diana Ewing , American actress
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 18
January 19
January 20 –
David Lynch , American film director
January 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 director
January 26
January 27 –
Nedra Talley , African-American singer (
The Ronettes )
January 29 –
Bettye LaVette , African-American soul singer, songwriter
January 31 –
Terry Kath , American rock musician (
Chicago ) (d.
1978 )
February
Blake Clark
Charlotte Rampling
Tyne Daly
Anthony Daniels
Alan Rickman
March
David Gilmour
Frank Welker
Liza Minnelli
Timothy Dalton
Alejandro Toledo
March 1
March 2 –
Morari Bapu , Hindu Kathakaar
March 4
March 5
March 6
March 7
March 10 –
Mike Hollands , Australian animator
March 12
March 13 –
Yonatan Netanyahu , American-born Israeli Army officer (d. in
Operation Entebbe ) (d.
1976 )
March 14
March 15 –
Bobby Bonds , American baseball player, manager (d.
2003 )
March 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 –
Steve Halliwell , English actor (d.
2023 )
March 21 –
Timothy Dalton , Welsh actor
March 25 –
Cliff Balsom , English footballer
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 –
Hamengkubuwono X ,
Sultan of the historic
Yogyakarta Sultanate in
Indonesia , the current Governor of
Yogyakarta Special Region
April 3 –
Hanna Suchocka ,
Prime Minister of Poland
[21]
April 4 –
Dave Hill , English guitarist (
Slade )
April 5
April 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 producer
April 15 –
Marsha Hunt , American actress, singer and novelist
April 16 –
Margot Adler , American journalist
April 18 –
Hayley Mills , English actress
April 19 –
Tim Curry , British actor, voice artist and singer (
The Rocky Horror Picture Show )
April 20
April 22
April 24 –
Phil Robertson , American businessman and reality television personality
April 25
April 26
April 28 –
Nour El-Sherif , Egyptian actor (d.
2015 )
April 29 –
Franc Roddam , English film director, businessman, screenwriter, television producer and publisher
April 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, author
May 2
May 3 –
Mohammed Ibrahim , businessman and philanthropist
May 4 –
John Watson , Northern Irish racecar driver
May 5
May 6 –
Daouda Malam Wanké , 6th President of Niger (d.
2004 )
May 7
May 9 –
Candice Bergen , American actress
May 10
Donovan , Scottish rock musician ("
Sunshine Superman ")
Birutė Galdikas , Canadian anthropologist, primatologist, conservationist, ethologist and author
Graham Gouldman , English songwriter, musician (
10cc ,
Wax )
Dave Mason , English rock musician (
Traffic )
Murade Isaac Murargy , Mozambican diplomat, politician
May 11 –
Robert Jarvik , American physicist, artificial heart inventor
May 12 –
Richard Bruce Silverman , John Evans Professor of Chemistry at
Northwestern University
May 13 –
Tim Pigott-Smith , English actor, author (d.
2017 )
May 14 –
Claudia Goldin , American economic historian, recipient of the
Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
[24]
May 16 –
Robert Fripp , British musician
May 17 –
Udo Lindenberg , German musician
[25]
May 18
May 19
May 20
Craig Patrick , American-Canadian hockey player, coach and manager
Cher , American actress, rock singer
May 22
May 23 –
Frederik de Groot , Dutch actor
May 24
May 26 –
Mick Ronson , English guitarist (d.
1993 )
May 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 actor
June 2
June 3 –
Michael Clarke , American musician (d.
1993 )
June 5 –
Stefania Sandrelli , Italian actress
June 7
June 8 –
Pearlette Louisy , Governor-General of St. Lucia
June 10 –
Fernando Balzaretti , Mexican actor (d.
1998 )
June 11 –
Biancamaria Frabotta , Italian writer (d.
2022 )
[29]
June 13 –
Paul L. Modrich , American biochemist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Chemistry
June 14 –
Donald Trump , American businessman, television personality, 45th
President of the United States
June 15
June 17 –
Marcy Kaptur , U.S. Representative for the Ninth Congressional District of Ohio
June 18
June 21
June 22
June 23 –
Ted Shackelford , American actor
June 24
June 25
June 26
June 27 –
Russ Critchfield , American basketball player
June 28
June 29
June 30 –
Allan Hunter , Irish footballer, manager
July
Mireya Moscoso
Leszek Miller
George W. Bush
Peter Singer
Sylvester Stallone
Cheech Marin
Hassanal Bolkiah
Linda Ronstadt
Danny Glover
July 1
July 2 –
Richard Axel , American scientist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
July 3 –
Leszek Miller ,
Prime Minister of Poland
July 4
July 5
July 6
July 7 –
Tadeusz Nowicki , Polish tennis player
July 8
July 9
July 10
July 11
July 12 –
Ernesto Mahieux , Italian actor
July 13
July 14
July 15
July 16
July 17
July 18 –
Kanat Saudabayev , Kazakhstani politician
July 19 –
Ilie Năstase , Romanian tennis player
July 20 –
Htin Kyaw , 9th President of Myanmar
July 21 –
Domingo Cavallo , Argentine economist, politician
July 22
July 23 –
Sally Flynn , American singer
July 25 –
Rita Marley , Cuban-Jamaican singer
July 27
July 28 –
Jonathan Edwards , American singer, songwriter and guitarist
July 29 –
Ximena Armas , Chilean painter
July 30
August
Ralph Gonsalves
Óscar Berger
Lesley Ann Warren
Bill Clinton
Keith Moon
Queen Anne-Marie of Greece
Peggy Lipton
September
Sir
Barry Gibb
Roh Moo-hyun
Freddie Mercury
Jim Hines
Tommy Lee Jones
Oliver Stone
Mart Siimann
María Teresa Ruiz
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
November 1
November 2
November 4
November 5
November 6 –
Sally Field , American actress, singer (
The Flying Nun )
November 7 –
Diane Francis , Canadian journalist
November 8
November 10 –
Alaina Reed Hall , American actress (d.
2009 )
November 12 –
P. P. Arnold , English singer
November 13 –
Ohara Reiko , Japanese actress
November 15
November 16
November 17 –
Petra Burka , Canadian figure skater
November 18
November 20
November 21
November 22
November 23
November 24 –
Ted Bundy , American serial killer (d.
1989 )
November 25
November 26 –
Ottilia Borbáth , Romanian-born Hungarian actress
November 27
November 28 –
Regina Braga , Brazilian actress
November 29
November 30
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
Date unknown
Deaths
January
Georg, Prince of Saxe-Meiningen
László Bárdossy
February
Felix Hoffmann
Rafael Erich
Béla Imrédy
February 2 –
Rondo Hatton , American actor (b.
1894 )
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 – George Dumas, French doctor, psychologist (b.
1866 )
February 15
February 17
February 19 –
Rafael Erich , Finnish politician, professor, diplomat and 6th
Prime Minister of Finland (b.
1879 )
February 21 –
Theodore Stark Wilkinson , American admiral (b.
1888 )
February 23 –
Tomoyuki Yamashita , Japanese general (executed) (b.
1885 )
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 3 –
Viktor Axmann , Yugoslav architect (b.
1883 )
March 4
March 6 –
Antonio Caso Andrade , Mexican philosopher (b.
1878 )
March 9 –
Adolfo Ferrata , Italian pathologist, hematologist (b.
1880 )
March 12
March 13 –
Werner von Blomberg , German field marshal (b.
1878 )
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 –
Frederick M. Smith , American religious leader and author (b.
1874 )
[45]
March 22 –
Clemens August Graf von Galen , German Catholic Cardinal, Bishop of Münster (b.
1878 )
March 23
March 24
March 26 –
Ezequiel Fernández , acting
President of Panama (b.
1886 )
March 29 –
László Baky , Hungarian Nazi leader (executed) (b.
1898 )
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 5
April 6
April 7 –
Padmanath Gohain Baruah , Indian novelist, poet and dramatist (b.
1871 )
April 8
April 11 –
Andor Jaross , ethnic Hungarian politician (executed) (b.
1896 )
April 13 –
William Henry Bell , English-born South African composer, conductor and lecturer (b.
1873 )
[47]
April 14 –
Otto Dowling ,
United States Navy
Captain , 25th
Governor of American Samoa (b.
1881 )
April 15
April 17
April 20 –
Mae Busch , American actress (b.
1891 )
April 21 –
John Maynard Keynes , British economist (b.
1883 )
April 22
April 28 –
Robert Bartlett , American explorer, and navigator (b.
1875 )
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 9 –
Léon Guillet , French metallurgist (b.
1873 )
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 19
May 20
May 22 –
Karl Hermann Frank , German Nazi official, war criminal (executed) (b.
1898 )
May 26
May 27
May 28 –
Claus Schilling , German medical researcher and war criminal (executed) (b.
1871 )
May 29 –
Cagnaccio di San Pietro , Italian painter (b.
1897 )
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 9 –
Ananda Mahidol (Rama VIII),
King of
Thailand (assassinated) (b.
1925 )
June 10 –
Jack Johnson , American boxer (b.
1878 )
June 11 –
Juanita Breckenridge Bates , American minister (b.
1860 )
June 12 –
Hisaichi Terauchi , Marshal of the Imperial Japanese Army (b.
1879 )
June 13 –
Charles Butterworth , American actor (b.
1896 )
June 14
June 15
June 18 – Eugen Hirschfield, Australian practitioner (b.
1866 )
June 19 –
Theodor Wulf , German physicist,
Jesuit priest (b.
1868 )
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 27
June 28 –
Antoinette Perry , American actress, director (b.
1888 )
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 –
Orrick Glenday Johns , American writer (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 26 –
Alexander Vvedensky , Soviet
Orthodox religious leader and blessed (b.
1889 )
July 25 –
Harry Davis , Canadian gangster (b.
1898 )
July 27
July 28 – Saint
Anna Muttathupadathu , Indian
Syro-Malabar Catholic and
Eastern Catholic religious sister and saint (b.
1910 )
July 31 –
Solomon Dias Bandaranaike , Ceylonese politician,
Governor-General of Ceylon (b.
1862 )
August
Wilhelm Marx
King
Inayatullah Khan
H. G. Wells
August 1 –
Andrey Vlasov , Soviet general, commander of the
Russian Liberation Army (executed) (b.
1901 )
August 2 –
Karl, Prince of Leiningen , German prince (b.
1898 )
August 5
August 6
August 8 –
Maria Barrientos , Spanish opera singer (b.
1884 )
August 10 –
Léon Gaumont , French film pioneer (b.
1864 )
August 11 –
Giuseppe Pietri , Italian composer (b.
1886 )
August 12
August 13
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 –
"Rags" Ragland , American comedian, actor (b.
1905 )
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 )
September
Blessed
Francesco Bonifacio
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 –
William Watt , Australian politician,
Premier of Victoria (b.
1871 )
September 16
September 24 –
Gustav Globočnik Edler von Vojka , Austro-Hungarian nobleman and field marshal (b.
1859 )
September 25 –
Heinrich George , German actor (b.
1893 )
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 12 –
Joseph Stilwell , American World War II general (b.
1883 )
October 15 –
Hermann Göring , German Nazi Reichsmarschall (suicide) (b.
1893 )
October 16
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 20 –
Igor Demidov , Soviet politician (b.
1873 )
October 23 –
Francesco Carandini , Italian poet (b.
1858 )
October 24 –
Kurt Daluege , German Nazi officer, SS general and police official, war criminal (executed) (b.
1897 )
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 –
Rüdiger von der Goltz , German general (b.
1865 )
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 –
Donald Meek , British actor (b.
1878 )
November 24 –
László Moholy-Nagy , Hungarian painter, photographer (b.
1895 )
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 )
December
Walter Johnson
W. C. Fields
December 5 –
Louis Dewis , Belgian
Post-Impressionist
painter (b.
1872 )
December 6 –
Charles Stewart , Canadian politician,
Premier of Alberta (b.
1868 )
December 7
December 10
December 12
December 14 –
Tom Dowse , Irish major league baseball player in the 1890s (b.
1866 )
December 16 –
Salman al-Murshid , Syrian religious leader, political figure (b.
1907 )
December 20 –
Einosuke Harada , Japanese ophthalmologist (b.
1892 )
December 22 –
Pierre Bénard , French journalist (b.
1898 )
December 23 –
John A. Sampson , American gynecologist (b.
1873 )
December 25
December 26 –
Franjo Bučar , Yugoslav writer (b.
1866 )
December 27 – Pedro Mata Dominguez, Spanish novelist, playwright and poet (b.
1875 )
December 28
December 29 –
John Babington Macaulay Baxter , Canadian politician, 19th
Premier of New Brunswick (b.
1858 )
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 detaied 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
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