October 19, 1946

1946Bob Holland, Australian cricketer and surveyor (died 2017)^[†]

Robert George Holland was a New South Wales and Australian cricketer. He was, because of his surname, nicknamed "Dutchy".

1946Philip Pullman, English author and academic^[†]

Sir Philip Nicholas Outram Pullman is an English writer. He is best known for the fantasy trilogy His Dark Materials. The first volume, Northern Lights (1995), won the Carnegie Medal and later the "Carnegie of Carnegies". The third volume, The Amber Spyglass (2000), won the Whitbread Award. In 2003, His Dark Materials ranked third in the BBC's The Big Read, a poll of 200 top novels voted by the British public. In 2017, he started a companion trilogy, The Book of Dust. As of 2025, the books in the two trilogies plus related short stories have sold more than 49 million copies in total.