Famous Deaths for Year 1946

Months in Year 1946: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Deaths 1 - 150 of 157

Jan 2nd - Joe Darling, cricketer (Aussie captain 21 Tests, won 7 lost 4), dies
Jan 3rd - William Joyce, (Lord Haw Haw), hanged in Britain for treason
Jan 4th - Barney Oldfield, daredevil, dies at 67
Jan 5th - Kitty Cheatham, American singer (b. 1864)
Jan 7th - Adamo Didur, Polish tenor (b. 1874)
Jan 9th - Countee Cullen, US poet (Black Christ, One Way to Heaven), dies at 42
Jan 9th - Dimitrios Golemis, Greek athlete (b. 1874)
Jan 16th - Johanna HC Albregt, actress/wife of Henri Dons (Paradise), dies at 71
Jan 17th - Gottfried Rudinger, composer, dies at 59
Jan 23rd - Feliks Nowowiejski, composer, dies at 68
Jan 23rd - Matteo Giulio Bartoli, linguist, dies at 72
Jan 26th - Adriaan van Maanen, Dutch-American astronomer (b. 1884)
Jan 29th - Harry L Hopkins, US min of Business (Loan & Lease law), dies at 55
Jan 29th - Sidney James Jones, composer, dies at 84
Feb 1st - Hans Betghe, writer, dies at 70
Feb 4th - Margarete Boie, writer, dies
Feb 5th - George Arliss, actor/writer (Dr Syn, Voltaire), dies at 77
Feb 8th - Miles Mander, actor/director (Murder, 3 Musketeers), dies at 57
Feb 20th - Hugh Allen, musician, dies
Feb 21st - José Streel, Belgian World War II collaborator (b. 1911)
Feb 23rd - Tomoyuki Yamashita, Japanese general (hanged) (b. 1885)
Mar 2nd - Fidél Pálffy, Hungarian National socialist (b. 1895)
Mar 2nd - George E. Stewart, American Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1872)
Mar 4th - Bror von Blixen-Finecke, Danish big-game hunter (b. 1886)
Mar 12th - Philip Merivale, dies at 59
Mar 13th - Abraham Bredius, Dutch art historian (Rembrandt), dies at 90
Mar 13th - Thomas Frederick Dunhill, composer, dies at 69
Mar 13th - Werner von Blomberg, German minister of Reichswehr, dies at 67
Mar 16th - Marius HLW "Max" Blokzijl, Dutch Nazi propagandist, executed at 61
Mar 17th - Dai Li, Chinese spymaster (b. 1897)
Mar 19th - Amir Hamzah, Indonesian poet (Buah Rindu), dies at 35
Mar 22nd - Clemens A von Galen, bishop of Munster/anti fascist, dies at 68
Mar 23rd - Alexandru Zirra, composer, dies at 62
Mar 24th - Alexander A Aljechin, world chess champ (1927-35, 37-46), dies at 53
Mar 24th - Gustaf Heintze, composer, dies at 66
Mar 28th - Chick Fullis, baseball player (b. 1904)
Mar 30th - John S S P V Gort, viscount of Limerick/Hamsterley, dies at 59
Apr 1st - Noah Beery, actor (Beau Geste, Cimarron Kid, Mammy), dies at 62
Apr 3rd - Masaharu Homma, Lt Gen (responsible for Bataan Death March), executed
Apr 5th - Vincent Millie Youmans, US composer (Tea For Two), dies at 47
Apr 12th - August Borms, Flemish nazi collaborator, executed at 67
Apr 12th - F Guicciardi, writer, dies
Apr 13th - William Henry Bell, composer, dies at 72
Apr 16th - Arthur Chevrolet, Swiss-born race car driver and automobile designer (b. 1884)
Apr 17th - John Iddon, cricketer (car accident 5 Tests for Eng 1934-35), dies
Apr 21st - Robert Graham, cricketer (3 wkts for S Afr in 2 Tests 1898-99), dies
Apr 21st - John Maynard Keynes, English economist (b. 1883)
Apr 22nd - Harlan Fiske Stone, Chief Justice Supreme Court (1941-46), dies at 73
Apr 22nd - Lionel Atwill, actor (Capt Blood, Great Waltz), dies at 61
Apr 23rd - Jesus Castillo, composer, dies at 68
Apr 25th - Albert Knight, cricketer (3 Tests for England on 1903-04 tour), dies
Apr 25th - Joseph Vine, cricketer (batted in two Tests Eng v Aust 1911-12), dies
Apr 26th - Hermann Keyserling, count/philosopher (Unsterblichkeit), dies at 65
Apr 28th - Louis Bachelier, French mathematician (b. 1870)
May 1st - Edward Cuthbert Bairstow, composer, dies at 71
May 1st - Percy William Whitlock, composer, dies at 42
May 7th - Anton A Mussert, engineer/NSB leader, executed
May 7th - Joe Humphries, cricket wicket keeper (3 Tests for Engld 1907-08), dies
May 19th - Booth Tarkington, American novelist (b. 1869)
May 20th - Jacob Ellehammer, Danish inventor (b. 1871)
May 26th - Friedrich A H von Waldeck, monarch of Waldeck, dies
May 29th - Martin Gottfried Weiss, Commandant of Dachau concentration camp (b. 1905)
May 30th - Louis Slotin, Canadian Scientist at Los Alamos (b. 1910)
Jun 1st - Ion Antonescu, fascist premier/dictator of Romania, executed
Jun 3rd - Michail I Kalinin, Pres (Supreme Soviet), dies at 60
Author and Nobel Laureate Gerhart Hauptmann (Jun 6th) Jun 6th - Gerhart Hauptmann, writer, dies at 83
Jun 9th - Rama VIII, king of Siam (1935-46), dies at 21
Jun 10th - Ananda Mahidol, king of Siam, shot dead at 20
Jun 10th - Jack Johnson, 1st black heavyweight champion, dies in car accident
Jun 12th - Count Hisaichi Terauchi, Japanese fieldmarshal, dies
Jun 13th - Edward Bowes, radio host (Major Bowes Amateur Hour), dies at 71
Jun 14th - John Logie Baird, Scottish television pioneer (b. 1888)
Jun 16th - Ludwig Winder, writer, dies
Jun 16th - Miloje Milojevic, composer, dies at 61
Jun 21st - Heinrich Kaminski, composer, dies at 59
Jun 24th - Louise Whitfield Carnegie, American philanthropist (b. 1857)
Jun 26th - Max Kögel, SS officer (b. 1895)
Jun 26th - Yosuke Matsuoka, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Japan (b. 1880)
Jun 28th - Eduard Veterman, Dutch painter/playwright, dies in an auto accident
Jun 30th - Michael Zadora, composer, dies at 64
Jul 2nd - Anthony Overton, publisher/cosmetics manufacturer/banker, dies at 81
Jul 4th - Othenio Able, Austria paleontology, dies at 71
Jul 4th - Gerda Steinhoff, Nazi concentration camp overseer (b. 1922)
Jul 8th - Aleksander V Aleksandrov, Russian composer/conductor, dies at 63
Jul 13th - Alfred Stieglitz, US photographer/art dealer (Camera Work), dies at 82
Jul 15th - Razor Smith, English cricketer (b. 1877)
Jul 17th - Dragoljub "Draza" Mihailovic, Yugoslav gen (Nazi), executed at 53
Jul 21st - Gualberto Villarroel, President of Bolivia (b. 1908)
Jul 23rd - James Maxton, politician, dies
Jul 25th - Narziss Oh, German psychology, dies
Jul 26th - Morris Hirshfield, Polish/US painter, dies
Jul 27th - Gertrude Stein, US/Fren author/poet (Ida, Tender Buttons), dies at 72
Aug 1st - Andrei Vlasov, Russian general (Red Army, Wehrmacht) executed at 45
Aug 5th - Wilhelm Marx, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1863)
Aug 6th - Tony Lazzeri, American baseball player (b. 1903)
Aug 9th - A E E Vogler, cricketer (South Africa, 15 Tests, 64 wkts), dies
Aug 13th - H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, sci-fi author (Time Machine), dies at 79
Aug 13th - Valery Viktorovich Zhelobinsky, composer, dies at 33
Science Fiction Writer H. G. Wells (Aug 13th) Aug 13th - H. G. Wells, English writer, dies at 79
Aug 14th - Susan St James, [Susan Jane Miller], LA California, actress (Kate & Allie)
Aug 16th - Herman Harrell Horne, philosopher (idealism)
Aug 26th - Jeanie MacPherson, American actress and screenwriter (b. 1887)
Aug 29th - J E Feenstra, Nazi military police commandant, executed
Aug 29th - Milan Harasta, composer, dies at 26
Aug 30th - Grigory Semyonov, Russian counter-revolutionary (executed) (b. 1890)
Aug 31st - Paul August von Klenau, Danish opera composer/conductor, dies at 63
Sep 3rd - Carl Emil Paul Lincke, composer, dies at 79
Sep 4th - Paul Lincke, German composer/conductor (Lysistrata), dies at 79
Sep 7th - Paul Zech, writer, dies at 65
Sep 9th - Mynona, writer, dies at 74
Sep 11th - Arthur van Schendel, writer (Holland Drama), dies at 72)
Sep 13th - Eugene Lanceray, Russian painter (b. 1875)
Sep 16th - James Jeans, English physicist/mathematician/astronomer, dies at 69
Sep 17th - Frank Burke, American baseball player (b. 1880)
Sep 20th - Raimu, French actor (b. 1883)
Sep 21st - Leo Bittermieux, Flemish missionary (Congo), dies at 66
Sep 21st - Olga Engl, Austrian actress (b. 1971)
Sep 28th - Jean Van de Eeckhoudt, Belgian painter, dies
Oct 12th - Joseph W Stilwell, US general (China), dies
Oct 15th - Hermann Goering, Nazi Reichmarshal, poisons himself in prison
Oct 16th - Alfred G Jodl, Col-Gen/German staff chief weather authority, hanged
Oct 16th - Alfred Rosenberg, German war criminal, hanged
Oct 16th - Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Austrian chancellor (1930s), hanged at 54
Oct 16th - Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Austrian Nazi (SS), hanged
Oct 16th - Fritz Sauckel, German war criminal, hanged
Oct 16th - Granville Ransome Bantock, English composer/conductor, dies at 78
Oct 16th - Hans Franc, German war criminal, hanged
Oct 16th - Joachim von Ribbentrop, German war criminal, hanged
Oct 16th - Wilhelm Frick, German war criminal, hanged
Oct 16th - Wilhelm Keitel, German fieldmarshal, hanged
Oct 16th - Hermann Wilhelm Goering, German SA-leader, commits suicide at 53
Oct 16th - Nuremberg trial execut
Oct 29th - John S Curry, US painter (Baptism in Kansas), dies
Nov 5th - Sigismond Stojowski, composer, dies at 77
Nov 6th - Zygmunt Denis Antoni Stojowski, composer, dies at 76
Nov 14th - Herman de Man, [Salomon H Hamburger], author/Radio Orange, dies
Nov 14th - Manuel de Falla, Spanish composer (b. 1876)
Nov 18th - Donald Meek, Scotland, actor (Stage Fair, Stagecoach), dies at 86
Nov 18th - John King, cricketer (scored 60 & 4 in only Test Eng v Aus 1909), dies
Nov 22nd - Bertie Rose-Innes, cricketer (South Africa's Test), dies
Nov 22nd - Otto Georg Thierack, German jurist (b. 1889)
Nov 23rd - Fawzi Husseini, Arabic High Director for Palestine, murdered
Nov 24th - Alfonso Broqua, composer, dies at 70
Dec 6th - Maximilian Oseyevich Shteynberg, composer, dies at 63
Dec 7th - Sada Yacco, Japanese stage actress (b. 1871)
Journalist and Author Damon Runyon (Dec 10th) Dec 10th - Damon Runyon, US journalist/writer, dies at 66
Dec 10th - Walter Johnson, great pitcher (Washington Senators), dies at 59
Dec 15th - Conrad Haebler, historian (Hundert Kalenderinkunabeln), dies at 89
Dec 15th - Gordon Frederic Norton, composer, dies at 77
Dec 17th - Constance [Clara] Garnett, Russian-English translator, dies at 84