Curated category
1946 births
- Donald TrumpDonald Trump was born on the 14th of June 1946 at Jamaica Hospital in Queens, New York, the fourth child of a family that was already wealthy.
- Steven SpielbergSteven Spielberg was born on the 18th of December 1946, in Cincinnati, Ohio, and by the time he was twelve years old, he had already staged and filmed a…
- David LynchDavid Lynch was born on the 20th of January 1946 at St. Patrick's Hospital in Missoula, Montana, the son of a USDA research scientist and an English-language…
- Bill ClintonBill Clinton was born William Jefferson Blythe III on the 19th of August 1946, in Hope, Arkansas, three months after his father died in an automobile…
- John LindowJohn Frederick Lindow was born in Washington, D.C., on the 23rd of July 1946, the son of a banker and a schoolteacher. He would go on to spend decades at the…
- Howard Marks (investor)Howard Stanley Marks, born in 1946, has spent decades doing something most investors consider impossible: consistently making money while worrying more about…
- John Baines (Egyptologist)John Robert Baines was born on the 17th of March 1946, and by the time he was thirty years old, he had already become one of the youngest professors at the…
- Dolly PartonDolly Rebecca Parton was born on the 19th of January 1946 in a one-room cabin on the banks of the Little Pigeon River in Pittman Center, Tennessee.
- Anthony DanielsAnthony Daniels turned down his invitation to meet George Lucas. In November 1975, he was working at the Young Vic in a stage production.
- Antony BeevorAntony Beevor was born in Kensington, London, on the 14th of December 1946, into a family with writing in its blood going back generations.
- Alan RickmanAlan Sidney Patrick Rickman was born on the 21st of February 1946 in Brentford, London, and he spent his early years in the shadow of Wormwood Scrubs Prison…
- Janet YellenJanet Yellen grew up in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, in a row house where her father Julius, a family physician, ran his practice out of the ground floor.
- Terry WinogradTerry Allen Winograd was born on the 24th of February 1946, and he would go on to become one of computing's most quietly influential figures.
- Leon BotsteinLeon Botstein has spent more than fifty years running Bard College. On the 1st of May 2026, he announced he would step down.
- David Christian (historian)David Gilbert Christian was born on the 30th of June, 1946, in Brooklyn, New York, to British and American parents. He grew up between Nigeria and England…
- Wendell WallachWendell Wallach was born on the 21st of April 1946 in Torrington, Connecticut. His mother Gerda Wilhelmina Lewenz had been born in Berlin during World War I…
- Billy PrestonBilly Preston was the only artist to receive a co-performer credit on a Beatles recording after the band began recording as independent artists.
- Keith MoonKeith John Moon was born on the 23rd of August 1946, and dead by the 7th of September 1978 - a span of just 32 years that somehow contained enough chaos…
- Robert GreenfieldRobert Greenfield, born in 1946, sat across from Keith Richards in the summer of 1971 at Villa Nellcôte, a grand villa in Villefranche-sur-Mer on the French…
- Deepak ChopraDeepak Chopra was born on the 22nd of October 1946 in New Delhi, British India. His father Krishan Lal Chopra served as a prominent cardiologist and held a…
- Toshio FurukawaToshio Furukawa began his voice acting career in 1975 with a role as Soldier B in Brave Raideen. This debut marked the start of a journey that would span…
- Claudia GoldinClaudia Dale Goldin was born in the Bronx, New York City on the 14th of May 1946. Her father Leon Goldin worked as a data processing manager at Burlington…
- Robert J. ShillerRobert James Shiller was born on the 29th of March, 1946, in Detroit, Michigan, and he would grow up to be one of the few economists who actually warned the…
- Alan Dean FosterAlan Dean Foster, born on the 18th of November 1946, is the kind of writer whose name you might not immediately recognize, but whose words you have almost…
- Joel MokyrJoel Mokyr was born on the 26th of July 1946 in Leiden, Netherlands, into a family of Dutch Jews who had survived the Holocaust.
- Roy PorterRoy Porter died on the 3rd of March 2002 while cycling, five months into a retirement he had barely started. He had moved to St Leonards-on-Sea with plans to…