1946 deaths

British painter and war artist (1889–1946)

Prime Minister of Denmark (1866–1946)

English tennis player

Chilean politician and President (1888-1946)

Queen Consort of Württemberg

actress (1883-1946)

Chinese KMT general (1897–1946)

Soviet-Ukrainian pathophysiologist (1881-1946)

German politician (NSDAP), MdR, Senate President of the Free City of Danzig, Reich Governor and Gauleiter of the NSDAP, Waffen-SS Officer and Holocaust perpetrator (1897–1946)

American high jumper (1913–1946)

Slovenian Nazi collaborator

Jules Auguste Muraire (18 December 1883 – 20 September 1946), whose stage name was Raimu, was a French actor. He is most famous for playing César in the 'Marseilles trilogy' (Marius, Fanny and César).

American actor, director, screenwriter and producer (1881–1946)

Greek politician and Axis collaborator (1878-1946)

French sculptor (1874-1946)

Albanian prime minister (1877-1946)

President of Nicaragua (1874-1946)

Russian artist (1875-1946)

British composer and conductor (1868-1946)

German chemist (1876–1946)

German prince (1865-1946)

Soviet weapon designer (1912-1946)

British military historian (1860-1946)

German duchess (1880–1946)

American tennis player (1894–1946)

French politician (1885-1946)

German historian, diplomat and archeologist (1860-1946)

Chinese politician (1907-1946)

Indonesian national hero (1917–1946)

American vaudeville singer (1891–1946)

Danish classical scholar (1878-1946)

Roman Catholic archbishop (1873-1946)

American Hall of Fame baseball player (1887-1946)

American author (1903–1946)

Italian writer and art critic (1871-1946)

English astronomer (1881-1946)

South African-born Australian artist (1867–1946)

British polymath (1868–1946)

Countess of Bardi (1858–1946)

Prime Minister of Hungary (1864-1946)

South African philosopher, educator, politician, publisher, editor, novelist, and poet (1871-1946)

French general (1867–1946)

American inventor and businessman of Anglo-Belgian origin (1871–1946)

Finnish politician (1881-1946)

Austrian officer, historian and politician (1882-1946)

British Liberal and later Labour politician and pacifist (1871-1946)

SS Sturmbannführer; commandant of Stutthof concentration camp (1907–1946)

Danish aviator (1871–1946)

American composer (1898-1946)

SS officer (1895-1946)

British American-born writer

British architect (1862-1946)

266th Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople

President of Cuba (1875-1946)

Swedish long and triple jumper (1893–1946)

Russian architect, Soviet writer (1892–1946)

German general, War criminal (1903-1946)

British novelist 1863-1946

Polish general (1898-1946)

American actress (1885-1946)