1946 deaths

British economist (1883–1946)

English writer (1866–1946)

German dramatist who received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1912 (1862-1946)

Hermann Wilhelm Göring was a German politician, aviator, military commander, and convicted war criminal. He was one of the most powerful figures in the Nazi Party, which controlled Germany from 1933 to 1945. He also served as Oberbefehlshaber der Luftwaffe, a position he held until the final days of the regime.

German Foreign Minister of Nazi Germany (1893–1946)

Russian-French chess player (1892–1946)

American author (1874–1946)

Scottish inventor, demonstrating the world's first working television (1888–1946)

Soviet politician (1875–1946)

German field marshal (1882–1946)

Baltic German architect, Nazi politician and ideologue (1893-1946)

German general and convicted war criminal (1890–1946)

prime minister of Romania during World War II, executed for war crimes (1882–1946)

American physical chemist

German lawyer, Nazi politician, General Governor of Nazi occupied Poland and convicted war criminal (1900-1946)

Austrian Nazi politician, and Nazi ruler of occupied Netherlands, convicted of crimes against humanity and sentenced to death (1892–1946)

Austrian SS official, a major perpetrator of the Holocaust and convicted war criminal (1903-1946)

eighth monarch of Siam from the Chakri dynasty as Rama VIII

French physicist, philosopher of science and pedagogue (1872-1946)

British mathematician and astronomer (1877 – 1946)

German publisher, Nazi politician and convicted war criminal (1885-1946)

German Nazi Party politician (1877–1946)

Spanish composer (1876–1946)

German politician (1863–1946)

English actor, author, playwright and filmmaker (1868–1946)

Japanese association football player (1908-1946)

German Nazi politician and convicted war criminal (1894-1946)

American photographer (1864–1946)

Hungarian artist (1895–1946)

Russian lieutenant general (1901–1946)

Russian Soviet composer

Spanish politician (1869-1946)

American comedian, actor, juggler and writer (1880–1946)

President of Poland from 1926 to 1939

German philosopher (1869-1946)

Hungarian fascist politician, executed for war crimes (1897-1946)

German Army field marshal and Military Chief of the Wehrmacht Military Forces (Heer,Luftwaffe,Kriegsmarine) (1878-1946)

Japanese general and war criminal (1885–1946)

Swedish politician, Prime Minister of Sweden between 1932–1936 and 1936–1946 (1885–1946)

Finnish painter (1862–1946)

John Arthur Johnson, nicknamed the "Galveston Giant", was an American boxer who, at the height of the Jim Crow era, became the first black world heavyweight boxing champion (1908–1915). His 1910 fight against James J. Jeffries was dubbed the "fight of the century". Johnson defeated Jeffries, who was white, triggering dozens of race riots across the U.S. According to filmmaker Ken Burns, "for more than thirteen years, Jack Johnson was the most famous and the most notorious African American on Earth". He is widely regarded as one of the most influential boxers in history.

Austrian botanist, paleontologist and evolutionary biologist (1875–1946)

German count, Bishop of Münster, and cardinal, important figure in Catholic resistance to Nazism (1878–1946)

British/American author, artist and naturalist, and one of the founders of the scouting movement (1860–1946)

Yugoslav general (1893-1946)

German athlete (1869-1946)

Czechoslovak member of Czechoslovak national parliament and Nazi Germany politician (1898-1946)

Serbian general and politician (1878-1946)

Austrian SS functionary, commandant of Plaszow concentration camp and convicted war criminal (1908-1946)

German politician (1868-1946)

Dutch fascist (1894-1946)

American politician, 8th United States Secretary of Commerce, assistant to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1890-1946)

German chemist (1868-1946)

American diplomat (1856–1946)

American novelist (1869–1946)

King of Afghanistan in 1929

German SS general and Deputy Reich Protector of Bohemia and Moravia (1897-1946)

Hungarian-Serb politician executed for war crimes (1883-1946)

British fascist and propaganda broadcaster (1906-1946)

Baltic German philosopher (1880–1946)