Famous People Who Died In 1946
Discover the most famous people died who died in the year 1946. This list includes people like H. G. Wells, John Maynard Keynes, Gertrude Stein, Wilhelm Keitel, John Logie Baird and many more. This list of celebrities is loosely sorted by popularity. People featured on this list, include political leaders, non-fiction writers, soldiers and military leaders who died in 1946. This list includes people from Germany, United Kingdom, United States & Russia and many more countries.
H. G. Wells21 September 1866, British
Writer
John Maynard Keynes05 June 1883, British
Economist
Gertrude Stein03 February 1874, American
American novelist
Wilhelm Keitel22 September 1882, German
German Commanding Officer
Joachim von Ribbentrop30 April 1893, German
Nazi Minister
Alfred Jodl10 May 1890, German
Military Commander, Nazi War Criminal
W. C. Fields29 January 1880, American
John Logie Baird13 August 1888, British, Scottish
Engineer
Alfred Rosenberg12 January 1893, German
Nazi Party Ideologue, Author
Madan Mohan Malaviya25 December 1861, Indian
Politician & Educationist
Ernst Kaltenbrunner04 October 1903, Austrian
Nazi Leader
Julius Streicher12 February 1885, German
A Member of National Socialist German Workers'
Alfred Stieglitz01 January 1864, American
Photographer
Alexander Alekhine31 October 1892, Portuguese, Russian
French chess player
Marcel Petiot17 January 1897, French
Serial Killer
Manuel de Falla23 November 1876, Spanish
Classical music composer
Amon Goeth11 December 1908, Austrian
World War II Nazi Officer
Upendranath Brahmachari19 December 1873, Indian
Scientist
Hermann Goring12 January 1893, German
German Military Leader
Jack Johnson (Boxer)31 March 1878, American
Louis Slotin01 December 1910, Canadian
Physicist, Chemist, Non-fiction writer
Ananda Mahidol20 September 1925, German, Thai
King
Tomoyuki Yamashita08 November 1885, Japanese
Officer
William Joyce24 April 1906, German, British, American
Politician, Journalist, Radio personality
Hans Frank23 May 1900, German
Lawyer, Politician
Ion Antonescu02 June 1882, Romanian
Former Prime Minister of Romania
Arthur Seyss-Inquart22 July 1892, Austrian, Czech
Politician, Lawyer, Jurist
Masaharu Homma27 November 1887, Japanese
Military personnel
Joseph Stilwell19 March 1883, American
Basketball coach, Military personnel
Wilhelm Frick12 March 1877, German
Politician, Diplomat, Lawyer
Werner von Blomberg02 September 1878, German, Polish
Politician, Officer, Military personnel
Mikhail Kalinin19 November 1875, Russian
Revolutionary
Empress Wanrong13 November 1906
Karl Hermann Frank24 January 1898, German
Politician
Andrey Vlasov14 September 1901, Russian
officer
Continue Reading Below
Kurt Daluege15 September 1897, German
Officer, Politician
László Moholy-Nagy20 July 1895, Hungarian
Photographer
John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort10 July 1886, British
Military personnel
Friedrich Jeckeln02 February 1895, German
Officer, Politician, War criminal
Ferenc Szálasi06 January 1897, Armenian, Hungarian
Political leader, Prime Minister
Herbert Macaulay14 November 1864, Nigerian
Politician
Countee Cullen30 May 1903
American poet
Dorothy GibsonFilm Actress
Fritz Sauckel27 October 1894, German
Politician
Karl Haushofer27 August 1869, German
Geopolitician, Political scientist, Educationist,
Gilbert N. Lewis23 October 1875, American
Chemist, Physicist, University teacher,
Harlan F. Stone11 October 1872, American
Lawyer, Judge, University teacher
Paul Langevin23 January 1872, French
Physicist, Professor, Chemist, Philosopher of
Charlotte Mason01 January 1842, British
Philanthropist
Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov01 April 1883, Russian
composer, conductor, choir director, music
Anton Mussert11 May 1894
Civil engineer, Engineer, Non-fiction writer
Gerhart Hauptmann15 November 1862, German, Polish
Playwright, Poet, Writer, Novelist,
Herbert Baker09 June 1862, British
Architect, Screenwriter
George Arliss10 April 1868, British
Writer, Playwright, Film director, Autobiographer,
Bror von Blixen-Finecke25 July 1886, Swedish
Writer, Military personnel
Wilhelm Marx15 January 1863, German
Politician, Judge
Arthur Greiser22 January 1897, German
Politician
Jorge Ubico10 November 1878, Guatemalan
Politician, Officer
Felix Hoffmann21 January 1868, German
Chemist, Inventor, Pharmacist, Non-fiction writer
Karl Maria Wiligut10 December 1866, Austrian
Writer, Occultist
Jeanne Lanvin01 January 1867, French
Grand couturier
Louis Bachelier11 March 1870, French
Mathematician, Economist, Non-fiction writer
Claus Schilling05 July 1871, German
Military physician, Non-fiction writer
Christopher R. W. Nevinson13 August 1889, British
Paramedic, Painter
Ray Stannard Baker17 April 1870, American
James Hopwood Jeans11 September 1877, British
Mathematician, Physicist, Astronomer
Paul Nash11 May 1889, British
painter, illustrator, printmaker
Herbert George Wells21 September 1866, British
Journalist, Historian, Novelist
Alfred Damon Runyon04 October 1880, American
Ignacy Mościcki01 December 1867, Swiss, Polish
Polish chemist
Yōsuke Matsuoka04 March 1880, Japanese
politician, diplomat,