page_title: 1946
section_title: October
hierarchical_section_title: 1946 / Births / October
caption_attribution_description: English: John Hewson speaking on a panel discussion as part of the Australian National University's "The Vote: 2016 Federal Election Series".
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: October 1 – Tim O'Brien, American author
  October 2
  General Sonthi Boonyaratglin, President of the Council for National Security, Commander-in-Chief of the Royal Thai Army
  Marie-Georges Pascal, French actress
  October 3 – P. P. Arnold, American singer
  October 4
  Susan Sarandon, American actress (The Rocky Horror Picture Show)
  Rhie Won-bok, South Korean artist
  Chuck Hagel, American politician, 24 United States Secretary of Defense
  October 5 - Robin Lane Fox, British historian
  October 6
  Lloyd Doggett, American politician
  Renate Holub, German philosopher
  Vinod Khanna, Indian actor, producer and politician (d. 2017)
  October 7
  Nader Al-Dahabi, Prime Minister of Jordan
  Catharine MacKinnon, American feminist
  Xue Jinghua, Chinese ballerina
  October 8
  Hanan Ashrawi, Palestinian scholar, legislator
  John T. Walton, American son of Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton (d. 2005)
  October 9 – Tansu Çiller, Turkish politician
  October 10
  Anne Boyd, Australian musician
  Mildred Grieveson, British writer
  Naoto Kan, 61st Prime Minister of Japan
  Charles Dance, English actor, screenwriter and film director
  John Prine, American country folk singer-songwriter (d. 2020)
  Chris Tarrant, British radio, TV personality
  October 11
  Daryl Hall, American rock musician (Hall & Oates)
  Sawao Kato, Japanese gymnast
  October 12 – Drew Edmondson, American politician
  October 13
  Edwina Currie, English politician
  Dorothy Moore, American singer
  Demond Wilson, African-American actor, minister (Sanford and Son)
  October 14
  Craig Venter, American biotechnologist
  François Bozizé, President of the Central African Republic
  Joey de Leon, Filipino actor, host
  Justin Hayward, English rock singer, songwriter (The Moody Blues)
  October 15
  Richard Carpenter, American pop musician, composer (The Carpenters)
  John Getz, American actor
  October 16
  Suzanne Somers, American actress, singer (Three's Company)
  Elizabeth Witmer, Dutch-born politician
  October 17
  Vicki Hodge, English actress, model
  Bob Seagren, American athlete, actor
  October 18
  James Robert Baker, American novelist, screenwriter
  Howard Shore, Canadian film composer
  Andrea Zsadon, Hungarian soprano
  October 19 – Philip Pullman, English author
  October 20
  Marty Gervais, Canadian writer
  Elfriede Jelinek, Austrian writer, Nobel Prize laureate
  October 21 – Lyn Allison, Australian politician
  October 22
  Eileen Gordon, British politician
  Richard McGonagle, American actor
  October 25 – Edith Leyrer, Austrian actress
  October 26 – Pat Sajak, American game-show host (Wheel of Fortune)
  October 27
  Leslie L. Byrne, American politician
  Steven R. Nagel, American astronaut (d. 2014)
  Ivan Reitman, Slovakian-born film director, producer
  October 28
  John Hewson, Australian politician, economist
  Sharon Thesen, Canadian poet
  October 29
  Peter Green, British musician (d. 2020)
  Kathryn J. Whitmire, Texas politician; Mayor of Houston, Texas
  October 30
  Lynne Marta, American actress
  Andrea Mitchell, American journalist
  October 31 – Stephen Rea, Northern Irish actor
caption: John Hewson
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