List of Famous people who died in 1946

Pantelis Karasevdas was a Greek shooter. He was a member of Panachaikos Gymnastikos Syllogos, that merged in 1923 with Gymnastiki Etaireia Patron to become Panachaiki Gymnastiki Enosi. Karasevdas competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens, where he won a gold medal for the host country.

Marcel Bucard was a French Fascist politician.

Gerhart Johann Robert Hauptmann was a German dramatist and novelist. He is counted among the most important promoters of literary naturalism, though he integrated other styles into his work as well. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1912.

William Welsh was an American actor of the silent era. He appeared in 153 films between 1912 and 1936. He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and died in Los Angeles, California.

Alexander Alexandrovich Baykov was a Soviet university professor, scientist specializing in the fields of metallurgy and chemistry and an academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences.

Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Abu al-Hasan al-Musawi al-Isfahani was an Iranian-Iraqi Shia marja'.

Philip Merivale was an English film and stage actor and screenwriter.