1946

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	19th century – 20th century – 21st century
Decades:	1910s  1920s  1930s  – 1940s –  1950s  1960s  1970s
Years:	1943 1944 1945 – 1946 – 1947 1948 1949

Events

• January 10 – First meeting of the United Nations.
• AIESEC started

Births

• January 19 – Dolly Parton, American country singer
• January 22 – Malcolm McLaren, music manager
• March 12 – Frank Welker, American actor
• May 10- Donovan, Scottish musician
• July 6 – George W. Bush, American politician, 43rd President of the United States
• August 19 – Bill Clinton, American politician 42nd President of the United States
• September 1 – Barry Gibb, Singer/Songwriter
• November 4 – Laura Bush, 45th First Lady of the United States
• December 28 – Edgar Winter, Albino pop musician
• December 30 – Patti Smith, American singer and poet

Deaths

• December 25 – WC Fields
• August 13 – H.G. Wells

New books

• All the King's Men – Robert Penn Warren
• Bridge on the Drina – Ivo Andric
• The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care – Benjamin Spock
• Delta Wedding – Eudora Welty
• I Spit On Your Grave – Boris Vian
• Jule – George Wylie Henderson
• The Littlest Angel – Charles Tazewell
• The Miracle of the Rose – Jean Genet
• Mr. President – Miguel Angel Asturias
• Mister Roberts – Thomas Heggen
• The Story Of Dorothy Stanfield – Oscar Micheaux
• Strawberry Girl – Lois Lenski
• The Street – Ann Lane Petty
• Then and Now – W. Somerset Maugham
• The Adventures of Tintin