In the year 1946, Project Diana opens the Space Age (Jan 10), Trygve Lie is selected as the first UN Secretary-General (Feb 1), Juan Perón is elected president of Argentina (Feb 24) and Ho Chi Minh of North Vietnam (Mar 2), women vote for the first time in Japan (Apr 10), Italy is declared a republic (Jun 10), the bikini is first modeled in Paris (Jul 5), the U.S. detonates nuclear bomb near Bikini Atoll, and the last mass lynching in the U.S. occurs in Georgia (Jul 25), the SAS is founded (Aug 1), Mensa is founded (Oct 1),  ISO is founded (Oct 14), UNICEF is founded (Dec 11), It’s a Wonderful Life is released in New York (Dec 20) - and all these fine people were born:

1946-xxxx Paul Alexander* paralytic polio survivor/lawyer/writer - USA 1946-0101 Matin A.** - Dacca, Bangladesh 1946-0102 1946-0103 Peter Farquhar* teacher/ lecturer/homicide victim - Edinburgh, Scotland (2015/69) 1946-0103 John Paul Jones* (b John Baldwin) musician (Led Zeppelin)/ record producer - Sidcup, London, England 1946-0104 Ramsey Campbell* author/editor/critic - Liverpool, Merseyside, England 1946-0105 Diane Keaton* actress - Los Angeles, CA USA 1946-0109 Nihal Nelson* Sri Lankan singer/songwriter/composer - Moratuwa, British Ceylon (2022/76) 1946-0110 Joseph McMoneagle* psychic - Miami, FL USA 1946-0111 Naomi Judd* actress - Ashland, KY USA (2022/76) 1946-0113 Wolfgang Boos* hockey player - Füssen, West Germany 1946-0114 Tarja Markus* actress - Riihimäki, Finland 1946-0116 Kabir Bedi* actor/television presenter - Lahore, Punjab, British India 1946-0117 Frank Bey* (b Bass) blues singer - Millen, GA USA (2020/74) 1946-0119 Dolly Parton* singer/actress - Sevierville, TN USA 1946-0120 David Lynch* film director - Missoula, MT USA (2025/78) 1946-0122 Serge Savard* hockey player (NHL 100)/executive/businessman - Landrienne, QC Canada 1946-0124 Michael Ontkean* actor - Vancouver, BC Canada 1946-0125 Melita Tulikoura* journalist/therapist - Porvoo, Finland 1946-0131 1946-0201 1946-0205 Charlotte Rampling* actress - Sturmer, Essex, England 1946-0207 Anita Hirvonen* singer - Äänekoski, Finland 1946-0207 Pete Postlethwaite* actor - Warrington, Lancashire, England (2011/64) 1946-0208 Yossi Maiman* Israeli Businessman - Landsberg am Lech, Allied occupied Germany (2021/75) 1946-0211 Refaat El-Sayed* businessman/to Sweden at age 20 - Egypt 1946-0214 Pam McConnell* British-Canadian municipal politician - Carlisle, Cumbria, England (2017/71) 1946-0218 Angéla Németh* athlete (javelin/OG) - Budapest, Hungary (2014/68) 1946-0220 Brenda Blethyn* (b Bottle) actress - Ramsgate, Kent, England 1946-0221 Tyne Daly* actress (Cagney & La__cey) - Madison, WI USA 1946-0221 Anthony Daniels* actor(C-3PO) - Salisbury, Wiltshire, England 1946-0221 Alan Rickman* actor - Hammersmith, London, England (2016/69) 1946-0225 Rick Hummel* author/ sports columnist - Quincy, IL USA (2023/77) 1946-0226 Colin Bell* football player - Hesleden, England (2021/74) 1946-0301 1946-0302 Paul-Henri Nargeolet* deep sea explorer/Titanic expert/passenger of Titan - Chamonix-Mont-Blanc, France (2023/77) 1946-0304 Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal* (b Achs) screenwriter/ director/mother of Jake and Maggie Gyllenhaal – New York City, NY USA 1946-0307 Michael Chaplin* actor/ son of Charlie Chaplin - Santa Monica, CA USA 1946-0307 John Heard* actor - Washington, D.C. USA (2017/71) 1946-0307 Okko Kamu* conductor - Helsinki, Finland 1946-0310 Jim Valvano* college basketball player/coach/broadcaster - Queens, NY USA (1993/47) 1946-0312 Liza Minelli* actress - Los Angeles, CA USA 1946-0314 Steve Kanaly* actor - Burbank, CA USA 1946-0320 1946-0321 Timothy Dalton* actor - Colwyn Bay, Denbighshire,Wales 1946-0324 Rolf Holmgren* actor/scriptwriter - Ystad, Sweden 1946-0330 Pekka Loiri* graphic designer/brother of Vesa-Matti Loiri - Helsinki, Finland 1946-0331 Klaus Wolfermann* athlete/javelin/OG - Altdorf bei Nürnberg, Allied occupied Germany 1946-0401 1946-0405 Jane Asher* actress - Willesden, Middlesex, England 1946-0405 Antero Kekkonen* journalist/politician - Kotka, Finland 1946-0408 Heikki Kinnunen* actor - Raahe, Finland 1946-0410 Virpi Miettinen* model/ actress/painter - Lappeenranta, Finland 1946-0412 Ed O´Neill* actor - Youngstown, OH USA 1946-0413 Antti Heikkilä* physician/ortoped - Helsinki, Finland 1946-0415 Don L. Davis* cameraman (Dr. Phil) - USA (2016/) 1946-0416 Mordechai Geldman* Israeli poet/artist//psychologist - Munich, Allied occupied Germany (2021/75) 1946-0419 Tim Curry* actor/comedian/singer - Grappenhall, Cheshire, England 1946-0420 1946-0425 Talia Shire* actress - Lake Success, Long Island, NY USA 1946-0425 Vladimir Zhirinovsky* ultranationalist politician - Almaty, Kazachstan, Soviet Union (2022/75) 1946-0428 1946-0430 Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden* - Haga Palace, Solna, Sweden 1946-0501 Joanna Lumley* actress/author/activist - Srinagar, British India 1946-0501 John Woo* Hong Kong film director/ writer/producer - Guangzhou, China 1946-0502 Lesley Gore* (b Goldstein) singer-songwriter/actress/activist - New York City, NY USA (2015/68) 1946-0503 Greg Gumbel* television sportscaster - New Orleans, LA USA (2024/78) 1946-0508 Leena Brusiin* beauty pageant winner/model/actress - Turku, Finland (2019/72) 1946-0509 Candice Bergen* actress - Beverly Hills, CA USA 1946-0509 Clint Holmes* British-American singer-songwriter/entertainer/TV announcer - Bournemouth, England 1946-0510 Maureen Lipman* actress/ writer/comedian - Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, England 1946-0512 L. Neil Smith* science fiction writer/ activist - Denver, CO USA 1946-0514 Claudia Goldin* economic historian/labor economist/N - New York City, NY USA 1946-0515 1946-0519 John D. Waihe’e III* politician/governor of Hawaii - Honokaa, Hawaii, HI USA 1946-0520 Cher Sarkisian* singer/actress - El Centro, CA USA 1946-0522 George Best* football player - Belfast, Northern Ireland (2005/59) 1946-0524 Irena Szewinska* Polish sprinter - Leningrad, Russia, Soviet Union (2018/72) 1946-0531 Krista Kilvet* (b Kanter) radio journalist/politician/diplomat - Tallinn, Estonia, Soviet Union (2009/62) 1946-0601 Brian Cox* actor - Dundee, Scotland 1946-0602 Lasse Hallström* film director - Stockholm, Sweden 1946-0602 Peter Sutcliffe* serial killer (the Yorkshire Ripper) - Bingley, West Riding of Yorkshire, England (2020/74) 1946-0603 1946-0604 S. P. Balasubrahmanyam* musician/actor/film producer - Nellore, Madras, British India (2020/74) 1946-0604 Arja Mustakallio* athlete (javelin) - Pyhäjoki, Finland 1946-0612 Madeline Hartog-Bel Houghton* Miss World 1967 - Camaná, Arequipa, Peru 1946-0614 Donald Trump* entrepreneur/45usp - Queens, NY USA 1946-0626 Brenda Holloway* singer/songwriter - Atascadero, CA USA 1946-0626 David Montgomery* businessman/ baseball executive - Philadelphia, PA USA (2019/72) 1946-0630 William J. Boarman* labor union leader/the 26th Public Printer of the United States - Hyattsville, MD USA (2021/75) 1946-0701 Kojo Laing* Ghanaian novelist/poet - Kumasi, Gold Coast, British Crown Colony (2017/70) 1946-0701 Erkki Tuomioja* politician/married to Tarja Halonen - Helsinki, Finland 1946-0702 Ricky Bruch* athlete (discus/OB)/actor - Örgryte, Sweden (2011/64) 1946-0705 Gwyneth Powell* actress - Levenshulme, Manchester, England (2022/76) 1946-0706 George W Bush* politician/43usp - New Haven, CT USA 1946-0706 Sylvester Stallone* actor - New York, NY USA 1946-0708 Stella Chiweshe* Zimbabwean musician - Mujumi Village, Mhondoro, Southern Rhodesia (2023/76) 1946-0710 1946-0713 Ignaz Kirchner* actor - Wuppertal, Allied occupied Germany (2018/72) 1946-0715 Linda Ronstadt* singer - Tucson, AZ USA 1946-0716 Lucinda Franks* journalist/ novelist/memoirist - Chicago, IL USA (2021/74) 1946-0719 Ilie Nastase* tennis player - Bucharest, Kingdom of Romania 1946-0720 1946-0721 Ken Starr* lawyer/ judge - Vernon, TX USA (2022/76) 1946-0722 Danny Glover* actor/ director/activist - San Francisco, CA USA 1946-0722 Mireille Mathieu* singer - Avignon, France 1946-0722 Johnson Toribiong* attorney/ politician/P of Palau - Airai, South Pacific Mandate 1946-0724 Mirja Pyykkö* journalist - Oulu, Finland 1946-0725 Anders Wiklöf* entrepreneur/ philantropist - Mariehamn, Finland 1946-0729 Robert LuPone* actor/ artistic director - New York City, NY USA (2022/76) 1946-0731 1946-0801 1946-0805 Loni Anderson* actress - St.Paul, MN USA 1946-0811 Milan Gutović* actor/television personality - Umka, Serbia, Yugoslavia (2021/75) 1946-0816 Lesley Ann Warren* actress - New York, NY USA 1946-0819 Bill Clinton* politician/42usp - Hope, AR USA 1946-0820 Connie Chung* news presenter/reporter/wife of Maury Povich - Washington D.C. USA 1946-0823 Keith Moon* drummer (The Who) - Westminster, London, England (1978/32) 1946-0826 Mark Snow* film composer (The X-Files) - New York City, NY USA 1946-0827 Peter Tobin* convicted serial killer - Johnstone, Renfrewshire, Scotland (2022/76) 1946-0828 Anders Gärderud* long-distance runner - Degerfors, Sweden 1938-0829 Lauri Tarkiainen* theater director/poet/grandson of Maria Jotuni - Helsinki, Finland (2003/56) 1946-0830 Francis Davis* journalist/ author - Philadephia, PA USA (2025/78) 1946-0830 Peggy Lipton* model/actress/singer - New York City, NY USA (2019/72) 1946-0901 Barry Gibb* British singer/songwriter/producer (Bee Gees) - Douglas, Isle of Man 1946-0902 Paavo Väyrynen* politician - Kemi, Finland 1946-0903 Minoru Arakawa* 荒川 實  businessman/founder of Nintendo of America, and the co-founder of Tetris Online, Inc. - Kyoto, Japan 1946-0905 Freddie Mercury* singer (Queen) - Stone Town, Zanzibar (1991/45) - Bohemian Rhapsody 1946-0908 Cyndee Peters* singer - Granite Falls, NC USA 1946-0910 Jim Hines* athlete (sprinter/OG) - Dumas, AR USA 1946-0915 Tommy Lee Jones* actor - San Saba, TX USA 1946-0915 Tetsu Nakamura* 中村 哲 physician/ humanitarian - Fukuoka, Japan (2019/73) 1946-0915 Oliver Stone* film director - New York, NY USA 1946-0919 Dag Viljen Poleszynski* researcher - Norway 1946-0922 Johnny Liebkind* singer - Helsinki, Finland 1946-0925 Johannes Brost* actor - Stockholm, Sweden (2018/71) 1946-0929 Neil Cherry* environmental scientist - Christchurch, New Zealand (2003/56) 1946-0930 1946-1001 Tim O’Brien* author/novelist - Austin, MN USA 1946-1004 Susan Sarandon* actress - New York, NY USA 1946-1006 Nina Škottová* Czech politician - Prostějov, Czechoslovakia (2018/71) 1946-1007 Georg Danzer* singer-songwriter - Vienna, Austria (2007/60) 1946-1008 Jean-Jacques Beineix* film director - Paris, France (2022/75) 1946-1010 Charles Dance* actor - Redditch, Worcestershire, England 1946-1010 John Prine* country folk singer/ songwriter - Maywood, IL USA (2020/73) 1946-1012 1946-1014 Craig Venter* biotechnologist/ entrepreneur - Salt Lake City, UT USA 1946-1016 Suzanne Summers* (b Mahoney) actress/ author/businesswoman - San Bruno, CA USA (2023/76) 1946-1018 Dafydd Elis-Thomas* politician - Carmarthen, Carmarthenshire, Wales (2025/78) 1946-1019 1946-1020 Elfriede Jelinek* playwright/novelist//N - Mürzzuschlag, Styria, Austria 1946-1023 Miklós Németh* athlete (javelin)/OG - Budapest, Hungary 1946-1026 Pat Sajak* television host (Wheel of Fortune) - Chicago, IL USA 1946-1027 Ehrling Wahlgren* weightlifter/ bodybuilder/coach - Ystad, Sweden 1946-1029 Peter Green* musician (Fleetwood Mac) - Bethnal Green, London, England (2020/73) 1946-1030 Myrna Manzanares* writer/activist/considered an ambassador of Belizean Creole culture - Gales Point, Belize District, British Hondruras (2021/75) 1946-1102 Alan Jones* racing driver/WG - Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 1946-1104 Laura Bush* teacher/First Lady - Midland, TX USA 1946-1106 Sally Field* actress/director - Pasadena, CA USA 1946-1107 John Aylward* actor - Seattle, WA USA (2022/75) 1946-1110 Jack Ketchum* horror fiction author - Livingston, NJ USA (2018/71) 1946-1112 Krister Henriksson* actor (Wallander) - Grisslehamn, Sweden 1946-1112 Edward Soriano* American military officer/to U.S. at age 6 - Alcala, Philippines 1946-1113 1946-1114 Sacheen Littlefeather* (b Marie Cruz) model/actress/Native American civil rights activist - Salinas, CA USA (2022/75) 1946-1123 Diana Quick* actress/ has a child with Bill Nighy - London, England 1946-1124 Ted Bundy* (b Cowell) serial killer - Burlington, VT USA (1989/42) 1946-1127 Jerome Clark* writer/ufo researcher - Canby, MN USA 1946-1129 Seppo Hovi* pianist/TV-host - Finland 1946-1130 1946-1201 1946-1202 Gianni Versace* fashion designer/socialite/businessman - Reggio Calabria, Italy (1997/50) 1946-1203 Thubten Zopa Rinpoche* Tibetan Buddhist lama - Thangme, Nepal (2023/76) 1946-1205 José Carreras* opera singer - Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain 1946-1207 Sulevi Peltola* actor - Viljakkala, Finland (2025/78) 1946-1209 Stephen G. Bassett* lobbyist/ ufologist - Vallejo, CA USA 1946-1209 Sonia Gandhi* (b Maino) wife of Rajiv Gandhi/president of the Indian National Congress - Luciana, Veneto, Italy 1946-1210 1946-1211 Sanjay Gandhi* politician/amateur aviator/son of Indira Gandhi - New Delhi, British India (1980/33) 1946-1211 Stewart Murray Wilson* abuse victim/convicted sex offender - Timaru, New Zealand (2021/74) 1946-1212 Emerson Fittipaldi* racing driver/WG - São Paulo, Brazil 1946-1214 Jane Birkin* singer/ actress - Marylebone, London, England (2023/76) 1946-1214 Patty Duke* actress - Elmhurst, NY USA (2016/69) 1946-1214 Ruth Fuchs* (b Gamm) athlete (javelin/OG)/politician - Egeln, Allied occupied Germany (2023/76) 1946-1214 Stan Smith* tennis player - Hilton Head Island, SC USA 1946-1216 Benny Andersson* musician/composer (ABBA) - Stockholm, Sweden 1946-1217 Eugene Levy* actor/ producer/director - Hamilton, ON Canada 1946-1217 Pepe Willberg* (b Kaukonen) singer/songwriter - Turku, Finland 1946-1218 Steve Biko* South African anti-apartheid activist/a leader of the Black Consciousness Movement - Tarkastad, Eastern Cape, South Africa (1977/30) 1946-1218 Steven Spielberg* film director/ producer/screenwriter - Cincinnati, OH USA 1946-1219 Robert Urich* actor/television producer - Toronto, OH USA (2002/55) 1946-1220 Uri Geller* mystifier/ illusionist - Tel Aviv, Israel 1946-1220 Dick Wolf* television producer - New York, NY USA 1946-1221 Carl Wilson* singer - Hawthorne, CA USA (1998/51) 1946-1223 Edita Gruberová* Slovak opera singer - Bratislava, Czechoslovakia (2021/74) 1946-1223 Susan Lucci* actress (All My Children)/television host/ entrepreneur - Scarsdale, NY USA 1946-1224 Jeff Sessions* lawyer/politician - Selma, AL USA 1946-1228 Barbara Judge* (b Singer) American-British lawyer / businesswoman - New York City, NY USA (2020/73) 1946-1229 Marianne Faithfull* singer/ songwriter/ actress - Hampstead, London, England 1946-1230 Heikki Salmela* entrepreneur/founder of the fastfood chain Hesburger - Turku, Finland 1946-1230 Patti Smith* singer-songwriter/poet - Chicago, IL USA 1946-1231 Margaret Travolta* actress/ sister of John Travolta - Englewood, NJ USA 1946-0 1946-0 1946-0 Updated 2025-0422 Helsinki-Stockholm Search for another year here