List of Famous people who died in 1946

Anton Adriaan Mussert was a Dutch politician who co-founded the National Socialist Movement in the Netherlands (NSB) in 1931 and served as its leader until the party was banned in 1945. As such, he was the most prominent Dutch fascist before and during World War II. Mussert collaborated with the German occupation government, but was granted little actual power and held the nominal title of Leider van het Nederlandsche Volk from 1942 onwards. In May 1945, as the war came to an end in Europe, Mussert was captured and arrested by Allied forces. He was charged and convicted of treason, and was executed in 1946.

Sir Alexander Robert Loftus Tottenham CIE was a British civil servant and administrator who served as the Diwan of Pudukkottai state from 1934 to 1944.

Henry Morgenthau was an American lawyer and businessman, best known for his role as the ambassador to the Ottoman Empire during the First World War. Morgenthau was one of the most prominent Americans who spoke about the Armenian Genocide of which he stated, "I am firmly convinced that this is the greatest crime of the ages".

Guido Calza, born in Milan, Italy, was an Italian archaeologist whose work included excavations in Rome and at the port city of Ostia. Calza served as inspector of the Ostia excavations and as the director of excavations in the Forum Romanum and the Palatine Hill in Rome. He also oversaw the excavation of the Isola Sacra Necropolis.

Juliana Augusta "Guus" Preitinger was a German-born Dutch painter who lived most of her adult life in Paris. She married the painter Kees van Dongen, and they had a son, who died as an infant, and a daughter together. They divorced in 1921. She had a career as a modern painter.

Rev. Barclay Fowell Buxton was an English evangelical Christian missionary in Japan.

Harry Edwin Wood was an English astronomer, director of the Union Observatory in Johannesburg, and discoverer of minor planets.

Rao Bahadur Conjeevaram Hayavadana Rao was an Indian historian, museologist, anthropologist, economist and polyglot. He was a member of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Indian Historical Records Commission and a fellow of the Royal Society of Economics.

Joseph Medill Patterson was an American journalist, publisher and founder of the Daily News in New York. At the time of his death the Daily News maintained a Sunday circulation of 4.5 million copies, the largest circulation of any paper in the United States.