The year1946 (MCMXLVI) predates the launch of theTransformers brand by thirty-eight years.

For further information, see:Transformers timeline

Fiction

Beast Wars: Uprising

• Humans build theirfirst computer.Micro-Aggressions

Non-Fiction

Events

• Tonka is founded in Mound,Minnesota.

Births

•  ???? —Robert Buckley,Héctor Cantolla

January

• January 17 —John Braden
• January 20 —Willi Röbke

February

• February 9 —Danny Bulanadi

March

• March 6 —Katsunori Ishida
• March 7 —Bert Franzke
• March 12 —Frank Welker,Gérard Surugue
• March 15 —Guy Chapellier
• March 23 —Gabriel Chávez
• March 26 —Gabriel Pingarrón
• March 28 —Margaret Loesch
• March 31 —Gunnar Ernblad

April

• April 11 —Laurie Faso
• April 19 —Tim Curry

May

• May 13 —Marv Wolfman
• May 16 —Philippe Dumond

June

• June 2 —Tomomichi Nishimura
• June 10 —Daoiz Cabezudo
• June 11 —Héctor Cantolla
• June 18 —Floro Dery
• June 27 —Mario Brusa

July

• July 1 —Masaharu Satō
• July 4 —Ed O'Ross
• July 6 —Fred Dryer
• July 12 —Peter Zilles
• July 17 —Sae-han Kim

August

• August 9 —Alain Dorval
• August 22 —Raimund Krone
• August 24 —Bernd Simon
• August 27 —Jeong Dong-yeol
• August 31 —Rick Parker

September

• September 24 —Joo In Kim
• September 28 —Reinaldo Pimenta

October

• October 6 —John Hostetter
• October 11 —Antônio Moreno
• October 30 —Pat Agnasin,Katsuhisa Hōki

November

• November 2 —Richard Newman
• November 15 —Marc Bellier
• November 18 —Alan Dean Foster

December

• December 18 —Steven Spielberg
• December 21 —André Filho
• December 24 —Arlene Banas