Explore notable deaths.

Theodore Stark Wilkinson

1888–1946

military officer

Official cause

drowning

Cristino García Granda

1913–1946

trade unionist, partisan

Official cause

gunshot wound

Maliq Bushati

1880–1946

politician, journalist

Official cause

gunshot wound

Anton Harapi

1888–1946

writer, politician, poet

Official cause

gunshot wound

Johann-Georg Richert

1890–1946

military officer, lieutenant general, Commander

Official cause

hanging to death

Kan Abe

1894–1946

politician

Official cause

Heart attack

Eberhard Herf

1887–1946

police officer

Official cause

hanging to death

Gottfried von Erdmannsdorff

1893–1946

military officer, Holocaust perpetrator

Official cause

hanging to death

Harry Hopkins

1890–1946

politician, diplomat, non-fiction writer

Official cause

stomach cancer

Dmitrii Sintsov

1867–1946

mathematician, university teacher

Official cause

disease

Otto Brower

1895–1946

film director, film actor, director

Official cause

myocardial infarction

Paul Völckers

1891–1946

military officer

Official cause

cerebral hemorrhage

Harry Bateman

1882–1946

mathematician, university teacher, non-fiction writer

Official cause

thrombosis

Aimitsu

1907–1946

painter, artist

Official cause

malaria

George Woolf

1910–1946

jockey

Official cause

horse fall

Gumbay Piang

1905–1946

politician

Official cause

asthma

Bill Dwyer

1883–1946

Official cause

myocardial infarction

Jean-Pierre Brunet

1927–1946

figure skater

Official cause

traffic collision

Eustachius Kugler

1867–1946

friar, regular priest

Official cause

cancer

Adolf Hamann

1885–1945

soldier

Official cause

hanging to death

Glenn Hunter

1894–1945

actor, stage actor, film actor

Official cause

cancer

James Gralton

1886–1945

trade unionist, politician

Official cause

stomach cancer

Vasiliy Averin

1884–1945

statesperson, politician

Official cause

choking

John H. Corcoran

1897–1945

politician

Official cause

pneumonia