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In the year 1946

1,764 Notable birthdays

Don Chaney

American basketball player and coach.

Born March 22nd, 1946 (age 80 years) in Baton Rouge.

Yasuaki Kurata

Japanese actor.

Born March 20th, 1946 (age 80 years) in Ibaraki.

Stig Blomqvist

Swedish rally driver, winner of the 1984 world rally championship for drivers.

Born July 29th, 1946 (age 79 years) in Örebro.

Neil MacGregor

British art historian (born 1946).

Born June 16th, 1946 (age 79 years) in Glasgow.

Klaus Dinger

German musician (1946–2008).

Born March 24th, 1946 in Warburg.

Died March 21st, 2008 at 61 years old in Düsseldorf (heart failure).

André Watts

American pianist (1946–2023).

Born June 20th, 1946 in Nuremberg.

Died July 12th, 2023 at 77 years old in Bloomington (cancer). [ref]

Toshio Furukawa

Japanese actor, voice actor and narrator.

Born July 16th, 1946 (age 79 years) in Ōhira.

Bruce Bueno de Mesquita

Political scientist.

Born November 24th, 1946 (age 79 years) in United States.

Louise Simonson

American comic book writer and editor (born 1946).

Born September 26th, 1946 (age 79 years) in Atlanta.

Rhoma Irama

Indonesian actor and musician.

Born December 11th, 1946 (age 79 years) in Tasikmalaya.

Barbara Kopple

American film/documentary director.

Born July 30th, 1946 (age 79 years) in New York City.

Richard LeParmentier

American actor (1946-2013).

Born July 16th, 1946 in Pittsburgh.

Died April 15th, 2013 at 66 years old in Austin (myocardial infarction). [ref]

Shirley M. Tilghman

Canadian molecular biologist, scholar and academic administrator.

Born September 17th, 1946 (age 79 years) in Toronto.

Rudy Rucker

American mathematician, computer scientist, science fiction author and philosopher (born 1946).

Born March 22nd, 1946 (age 80 years) in Louisville.

Joel Mokyr

American-israeli economic historian.

Born July 26th, 1946 (age 79 years) in Leiden.

Jack Thibeau

American actor.

Born June 12th, 1946 (age 79 years) in Perth.

Andrew Yao

Computer scientist and computational theorist.

Born December 24th, 1946 (age 79 years) in Shanghai. [ref]

Robert Asprin

American science fiction and fantasy author (1946–2008).

Born June 28th, 1946 in St. Johns.

Died May 22nd, 2008 at 61 years old in New Orleans (myocardial infarction). [ref]

Catherine Allégret

French actress.

Born April 16th, 1946 (age 80 years) in 16th arrondissement of Paris.

Julie Garwood

American writer.

Born December 26th, 1946 in Kansas City. [ref]

Died June 8th, 2023 at 76 years old in Leawood. [ref]

Vuk Drašković

Serbian politician and writer.

Born November 29th, 1946 (age 79 years) in Međa.

Nour El-Sherif

Egyptian actor (1946–2015).

Born April 28th, 1946 in Cairo.

Died August 11th, 2015 at 69 years old in Cairo (lung cancer).

Anita Shreve

American writer (1946–2018).

Born October 7th, 1946 in Dedham.

Died March 29th, 2018 at 71 years old in Newfields (cancer). [ref]

Richard Drew

American photographer (born 1946).

Born December 6th, 1946 (age 79 years).

Mack McLarty

American politician.

Born June 14th, 1946 (age 79 years) in Hope.

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