List of Famous people who died in 1946

Arthur Seyss-Inquart was an Austrian Nazi politician who served as Chancellor of Austria in 1938 for two days, before the annexation of Austria by Nazi Germany.

Georg, Prince of Saxe-Meiningen was the head of the house of Saxe-Meiningen from 1941 until his death.

Sir Louis William Dane was an administrator during the time of the British Raj.

Max Moritz Warburg was a German-Jewish banker and scion of the wealthy Warburg family based in Hamburg, Germany.

Hans Bethge was a German poet whose reputation abroad rests above all on the versions of the Tang dynasty poetry set in Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde. The Max Eyth House in Kirchheim unter Teck houses a permanent exhibit of Hans Bethge's books, photographs and other artifacts, while his manuscripts are preserved at the Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach.

Martin Gottfried Weiss, alternatively spelled Weiß, was the commandant of the Dachau concentration camp in 1945 at the time of his arrest. He also served from April 1940 until September 1942 as the commandant of Neuengamme concentration camp, and later, from November 1943 until May 1944, as the fourth commandant of Majdanek concentration camp. He was executed for war crimes.

Chen Gongbo was a Chinese politician, noted for his role as second President of the collaborationist Wang Jingwei regime during World War II.

Ioannis Rallis was the third and last collaborationist prime minister of Greece during the Axis occupation of Greece during World War II, holding office from 7 April 1943 to 12 October 1944, succeeding Konstantinos Logothetopoulos in the Nazi-controlled Greek puppet government in Athens.

Gustav Adolf Joachim Rüdiger Graf von der Goltz was a German army general during the First World War. He commanded the Baltic Sea Division, which successfully intervened in the Finnish Civil War in the spring of 1918. Goltz stayed with his troops in Finland until December 1918 representing German interests, and in practise ruled the country as a military dictator during this period. After the Armistice of 11 November 1918, Goltz commanded the army of the Baltic German-established Government of Latvia, which in 1919 was instrumental in the defeat of the Russian Bolsheviks and their local allies in Latvia, but suffered a defeat against Estonia and was eventually unsuccessful in retaining German control over the Baltic region after the War.

John Edward Deane Browne, 5th Baron Kilmaine was an Anglo-Irish politician and landowner. He sat in the House of Lords, within the Imperial British Parliament, as an Irish representative peer (1911–1946).