List of Famous people who died in 1946
Paul Huyn
Pavel hrabě Huyn was a Moravian-German Roman Catholic clergyman. He was bishop of Brno from 1904 to 1916 and archbishop of Prague from 1916 to 1919.
Paul Schmohl
Percy Douglas Fitton
Percy Douglas Fitton (1881–1946), was a male badminton player from England.
Augustyn Józef Czartoryski
Prince Augustyn Józef Czartoryski was a Polish noble (szlachcic). He was the son of Prince Adam Ludwik Czartoryski and Countess Maria Ludwika Krasińska.
Constance Garnett
Constance Clara Garnett was an English translator of nineteenth-century Russian literature. She was the first English translator to render numerous volumes of Anton Chekhov's work into English and the first to translate almost all of Fyodor Dostoevsky's fiction into English. She also rendered works by Ivan Turgenev, Leo Tolstoy, Nikolai Gogol, Ivan Goncharov, Alexander Ostrovsky, and Alexander Herzen into English. Altogether, she translated 71 volumes of Russian literature, many of which are still in print today.
Paul Langevin
Paul Langevin was a French physicist who developed Langevin dynamics and the Langevin equation. He was one of the founders of the Comité de vigilance des intellectuels antifascistes, an anti-fascist organization created after the 6 February 1934 far right riots. Being a public opponent of fascism in the 1930s resulted in his arrest and being held under house arrest by the Vichy government for most of World War II. Langevin was also president of the Human Rights League (LDH) from 1944 to 1946, having recently joined the French Communist Party.
Egill Reimers
Egill Reimers was a Norwegian architect. He also competed in the 1920 Summer Olympics.
Ignacy Mościcki
Ignacy Mościcki was a Polish chemist, politician, and President of Poland from 1926 to 1939. He was the longest serving President in Poland's history. He was serving as the president of Poland when Germany invaded the country on 1 September 1939, starting World War II.
Charles Waldron
Charles Waldron was an American stage and film actor, sometimes credited as Charles Waldron Sr., Chas. Waldron Sr., Charles D. Waldron or Mr. Waldron.
Cecil Raikes
Vice-Admiral Cecil Dacre Staveley Raikes, CBE was a Royal Navy officer.