List of Famous people who died in 1946

Sir Joseph Amable Thomas Chapais was a French Canadian author, editor, historian, journalist, professor, and politician.

Yōsuke Matsuoka was a Japanese diplomat and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Empire of Japan during the early stages of World War II. He is best known for his defiant speech at the League of Nations in February 1933, ending Japan's participation in the organization. He was also one of the architects of the Tripartite Pact and the Soviet–Japanese Neutrality Pact in the years immediately prior to the outbreak of war.

Véra Sergine was a French actress. She was married to actor Pierre Renoir and was the mother of cinematographer Claude Renoir.

Louis Arnold Zutter was a Swiss gymnast. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.

Baron Adolph de Meyer was a photographer famed for his photographic portraits in the early 20th century, many of which depicted celebrities such as Mary Pickford, Rita Lydig, Luisa Casati, Billie Burke, Irene Castle, John Barrymore, Lillian Gish, Ruth St. Denis, King George V, and Queen Mary. He was also the first official fashion photographer for the American magazine Vogue, appointed to that position in 1913.

Albert George Schmedeman was a German American politician and diplomat. He was the 28th Governor of Wisconsin and was U.S. Minister to Norway during the presidency of Woodrow Wilson and during the negotiations ending World War I. He was Mayor of Madison, Wisconsin, for four terms, and, to date, is the only mayor of Madison to be elected Governor of Wisconsin. He was the solitary Democratic Governor of Wisconsin between 1895 and 1959, a period when Wisconsin was more often than not essentially a one-party Republican state where third parties often provided stronger opposition than did the Democratic Party.

William Dudley Ward PC was an English sportsman and Liberal politician.

Luis Orgaz Yoldi was a Spanish general who was a leading figure of the Nationalist faction in the Spanish Civil War. He later went on to become a critic of the regime of Francisco Franco and agitated for the restoration of the monarchy.

James Thomas Milton Anderson was the fifth premier of Saskatchewan and the first Conservative to hold the office.