– The Rose and Crown (1946) 2 November – Kaleidoscope (1946–1953) 29 November – Pinwright's Progress (1946–1947) 1 December – Morning Departure (1946) 21 December – Alice (1946) 29 December – Toad of Toad Hall (1946) Unknown – Cookery (1946–1951) Television shows returning after the war 1920s BBC Wimbledon (1927–1939, 1946–2019, 2021–2024) 1930s Picture Page (1936–1939, 1946–1952) For the Children (1937–1939, 1946–1952) Telecrime (1938–1939, 1946) The Boat Race (1938–1939, 1946–2019) BBC Cricket (1939, 1946–1999, 2020–2024) Ending this year Telecrime (1938–1939, 1946) Births 1 February – Elisabeth Sladen, English actress, Doctor Who (died 2011) 5 February – Charlotte Rampling, English actress 7 February – Pete Postlethwaite, English actor (died 2011) 16 February – Ian Lavender, actor 18 February – Michael Buerk, journalist and news presenter 20 February – Brenda Blethyn, English actress 21 February – Alan Rickman, English actor (died 2016) 21 March – Timothy Dalton, Welsh actor 28 March – Tricia Ingrams, journalist and television presenter (died 1996) 5 April – Jane Asher, actress 11 April – Bob Harris, radio and television presenter 18 April – Hayley Mills, actress 19 April – Tim Curry, English actor, vocalist and composer May – Jock Brown, football commentator 1 May – Joanna Lumley, actress 10 May – Maureen Lipman, actress, columnist and comedian 13 May – Tim Pigott-Smith, actor (died 2017) 15 June – Noddy Holder, English singer (Slade) 5 July – Gwyneth Powell, English actress (died 2022) 14 July – Sue Lawley, broadcaster 26 August – Alison Steadman, actress 19 September – Michael Elphick, actor (died 2002) 25 September – Felicity Kendal, actress 28 September – Helen Shapiro, singer and actor 29 September – Patricia Hodge, English actress 10 October – Chris Tarrant, broadcaster and television presenter 14 October – Katy Manning, English actress 17 October – Vicki Hodge, English actress 22 October – Kelvin MacKenzie, media executive 31 October – Stephen Rea, Northern Irish actor 18 November – Andrea Allan, Scottish actress 20 December – Lesley Judd, English actress and television presenter 23 December – John Sullivan, English scriptwriter (died 2011) 27 December – Janet Street-Porter, English broadcast journalist Deaths 14 June – John Logie Baird, 57, engineer and inventor of the world's first working television system. See also 1946 in British music 1946 in the United Kingdom List of British films of 1946 References