page_title: 1946
section_title: January
hierarchical_section_title: 1946 / Births / January
caption_attribution_description: English: John Paul Jones in 2010.
context_page_description: 1946 was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1946th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 946th year of the 2nd millennium, the 46th year of the 20th century, and the 7th year of the 1940s decade.
context_section_description: January 1
  Alfonso Caruana, Italian mobster
  Roberto Rivelino, Brazilian football player
  Alain Voss, Brazilian-French comics artist (d. 2011)
  January 3
  John Paul Jones, English rock bassist (Led Zeppelin, Them Crooked Vultures)
  Cissy King, American dancer, singer
  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)
  Stanton Peele, American psychologist
  January 9
  Levon Ter-Petrosyan, President of Armenia
  Mogens Lykketoft, Danish politician
  January 10 – Kalidas Karmakar, Bangladeshi artist
  January 11
  Naomi Judd, American country singer
  John Piper, American theologian
  Ha Yu, Hong Kong actor
  January 12 – George Duke, African-American musician (d. 2013)
  January 14
  Feró Nagy, Hungarian singer
  Harold Shipman, British serial killer (d. 2004)
  January 16
  Kabir Bedi, Indian actor
  Michael Coats, American astronaut
  Katia Ricciarelli, Italian singer
  January 18
  Paul Shmyr, Canadian former National Hockey League player (d. 2004)
  Joseph Deiss, Swiss Federal Councillor
  January 19
  Julian Barnes, English novelist
  Dolly Parton, American singer-songwriter, actress, businesswoman and philanthropist
  January 20 – David Lynch, American film director
  January 21 – Johnny Oates, American baseball player, manager (d. 2004)
  January 22
  Malcolm McLaren, English singer, songwriter, musician and music manager (d. 2010)
  Serge Savard, Canadian hockey player, executive
  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
  Pete Price, Merseyside radio disc jockey
  January 26
  Gene Siskel, American film critic (Sneak Previews) (d. 1999)
  Michel Delpech, French singer, songwriter and actor (d. 2016)
  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)
caption: John Paul Jones
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