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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.
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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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. 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. 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)
- 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
- 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
- May 16 – Robert Fripp, British musician
- May 17 – Udo Lindenberg, German musician
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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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