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Hermann von Keyserling
Baltic German philosopher (1880–1946)
Vojtech Tuka
Slovak minister of foreign affairs of the Slovakia, prime minister of the Slovakia and war criminal (1880-1946)
Louis Slotin
Canadian physicist and chemist (1910-1946)
István Bethlen
Hungarian politician (1874–1946)
Grigory Neujmin
Russian astronomer (1885–1946)
Yōsuke Matsuoka
Japanese politician (1880-1946)
Empress Wanrong
Wanrong (; 13 November 1906 – 20 June 1946), of the Manchu Plain White Banner Gobulo clan, was the wife and empress consort of Puyi, the last emperor of China. She is sometimes anachronistically called Elizabeth, Xuantong Empress, referring to Puyi's era name. She was the titular empress consort of the former Qing dynasty from their marriage in 1922 until the exile of the imperial family in November 1924. She later became the empress consort of the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo in northeastern China from 1934 until the abolition of the monarchy in August 1945, at the conclusion of the Sec
László Bárdossy
Hungarian politician, Prime Minister of Hungary from April 1941 to March 1942.
Amir Hamzah
Indonesian poet (1911-1946)
John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort
Army officer (1886-1946)
William S. Hart
American actor, film director (1864–1946)
Ahmad Kasravi
Iranian academic (1890–1946)
Masahara Homma
Japanese general (1887–1946)
Friedrich Jeckeln
German politician (NSDAP), MdR, General of the Waffen-SS, perpetrator of the Holocaust, lGerman SS general, executed for war crimes including mass murder (1895-1946)
Henry Bergman
American actor (1868-1946)
Otto Georg Thierack
German politician (1889-1946)
Saint Alphonsa
Syro-Malabar Catholic Franciscan Religious Sister
Jorge Ubico
President of Guatemala (1878-1946)
Wen Yiduo
Chinese poet and scholar (1899–1946)
Olivér Halassy
Hungarian swimmer and water polo player (1909–1946)
Madan Mohan Malaviya
Indian educator and politician
Pantelis Karasevdas
Greek sport shooter (1877-1946)
Danuta Siedzikówna
Polish resistance fighter (1928–1946)
Nikolay Morozov
Russian revolutionary, scientist, writer
Heinrich George
German actor (1893–1946)
Dorothy Gibson
American silent film actress, singer, model (1889–1946)
Jeanne Lanvin
French fashion designer (1867–1946)
Hendrik Adamson
Estonian poet, writer, Esperantist and pedagogue (1891-1946)
Rüdiger von der Goltz
German militeary personnel (1865-1946)
Louis Zutter
Swiss artistic gymnast (1865-1946)
Dion Fortune
British occultist, ceremonial magician, and writer (1890-1946)
Béla Imrédy
Hungarian Prime Minister (1891-1946)
Marcel Petiot
sentenced to death in France
Damon Runyon
American writer (1880–1946)
Júlio Prestes
Brazilian politician, elected President of Brazil (1882-1946)
Johannes Vares
Estonian poet, doctor, and politician, first Soviet prime minister in Estonia (1890-1946)
Victor Loret
French egyptologist (1859-1946)
Nobu Shirase
Japanese explorer of the Antarctic (1861-1946)
Hisaichi Terauchi
Japanese general (1879-1946)
Safiya Zaghloul
Egyptian activist and leader
Mae Busch
American actress (1891-1946)
Federigo Enriques
Italian mathematician (1871-1946)
Grigory Semyonov
Russian white Cossack general (1890–1946)
Gualberto Villarroel
President of Bolivia (1908-1946)
Arthur Dove
American painter (1880-1946)
Infanta María de la Paz of Spain
Spanish and Bavarian Royal
Harlan F. Stone
chief justice of the United States from 1941 to 1946
Ernst Leonard Lindelöf
Finnish mathematician who made contributions in real/complex analysis and topology (1870–1946)
Nikolai Burdenko
Russian and Soviet surgeon, founder of Russian neurosurgery (1876-1946)
Jenny Nyström
Swedish artist (1854–1946)
Rafael Erich
Finnish politician (1879-1946)
Matteo Bartoli
Italian linguist (1873–1946)
Paul Lincke
German composer (1866–1946)
Carl Theodor Zahle
Prime Minister of Denmark (1866–1946)
Carl Gustav Witt
German astronomer (1866–1946)
Blanche Bingley
English tennis player (1863–1946)
Maud Watson
English tennis player
Jenny-Wanda Barkmann
Nazi concentration camp guard (1922–1946)
Wilhelm Souchon
German admiral (1864-1946)
Paul Nash
British painter and war artist (1889–1946)