Editing 1946 (section)

===January===
[[File:GEORGSaxeMeiningen.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Georg, Prince of Saxe-Meiningen]]]]
[[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 146-1984-018-35A, Laszlo von Bardossy.jpg|thumb|110px|[[László Bárdossy]]]]
* [[January 1]] – [[Georgina Sweet]], Australian zoologist and women's rights activist (b. [[1875]])
* [[January 2]] 
** [[Fabijan Abrantovich]], Soviet civic, religious leader (b. [[1884]])
** [[Joe Darling]], Australian cricketer (b. [[1870]])
** [[Eleanor Rathbone]], British politician and long-term campaigner for [[family allowance]] and for women's rights (d. [[1872]])
* [[January 3]] – [[William Joyce]], Irish-born American World War II Nazi propaganda broadcaster known as "[[Lord Haw-Haw]]" (executed) (b. [[1906]])
* [[January 4]] 
** [[George Woolf]], Canadian jockey (b. [[1910]])
** [[Friedrich von Bodelschwingh]], German pastor, theologian and public health advocate (b. [[1877]])
* [[January 5]]
** [[Kitty Cheatham]], American singer (b. [[1864]])
** [[Einar af Wirsén]], Swedish Army officer, diplomat and writer (b. [[1875]])
** [[Slim Summerville]], American film actor and director (b. [[1892]])
* [[January 6]]
**[[Dion Fortune]], British writer (b. [[1890]])<ref>{{cite book |title=Dion Fortune and the Inner Light |last=Knight |first=Gareth |year=2000 |publisher=Thoth Publications |location=Loughborough |isbn=978-1-870450-45-4 |page=293}}</ref>
** [[Georg, Prince of Saxe-Meiningen]] (b. [[1892]])
** [[Slim Summerville]], American actor (b. [[1892]])
** [[Ferenc Szálasi]], Hungarian military officer, politician and leader of the fascist [[Arrow Cross Party]] (b. [[1897]])
* [[January 8]] 
** [[Harold Cole]], petty criminal, British soldier, operative of [[Pat O'Leary Line|Pat O'Leary escape line]], and agent of Nazi Germany (b. [[1906]])
** [[Thomas Barbour]], American herpetologist (b. [[1884]])
** [[Guy Carleton (United States Army officer)|Guy Carleton]], career officer in the United States Army (b. [[1857]])
* [[January 9]]
** [[Countee Cullen]], American poet (b. [[1903]])
** [[Nevil Macready|Sir Nevil Macready]], British army general, police commissioner (b. [[1862]])
* [[January 10]]
** [[László Bárdossy]], Hungarian diplomat, politician and 33rd [[Prime Minister of Hungary]] (executed) (b. [[1890]])
** [[Matti Turkia]], Finnish politician (b. [[1871]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Kansanedustajat: Matti Turkia |url=https://www.eduskunta.fi/FI/kansanedustajat/Sivut/911650.aspx |publisher=[[Parliament of Finland]] |access-date=27 December 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200725145056/https://www.eduskunta.fi/FI/kansanedustajat/Sivut/911650.aspx |archive-date=25 July 2020 |location=Helsinki, Finland |language=fi}}</ref>
** [[Harry Von Tilzer]], American songwriter (b. [[1872]])
* [[January 13]] – [[Wilhelm Souchon]], German admiral (b. [[1864]])
* [[January 14]] 
** [[Theodore M. Stuart]], American football player and coach (b. [[1883]])
** [[Maurice Koechlin]], Franco-Swiss structural engineer from the [[Koechlin family]]. (b. [[1856]])
* [[January 15]] – [[Karl Nabersberg]], German youth leader (b. [[1908]])
* [[January 18]] – [[Wilhelm von Brincken]], German diplomat and spy during World War I (b. [[1881]])
* [[January 21]] – [[Harry Bateman]], British-American mathematician (b. [[1882]])
* [[January 23]]
** [[Matteo Bartoli]], Italian linguist (b. [[1873]])
** [[Helene Schjerfbeck]], Finnish painter (b. [[1862]])
* [[January 24]] – [[Morris Alexander]], South African politician (b. [[1877]])<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |last=Abrahams |first=Israel |author-link=Israel Abrahams |editor-last=De Kock |editor-first=W. J. |encyclopedia=Dictionary of South African Biography |title=Alexander, Morris|edition=1st |date=1968 |volume=1 |oclc=85921202 |url=https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofsout0000unse_p0x9/page/10/mode/2up |page=10}}</ref>
* [[January 25]] – [[Orishatukeh Faduma]], American missionary (b. [[1855]])
* [[January 26]] – [[Katharine Bushnell]], doctor, Christian writer, Bible scholar, social activist, and a pioneer of [[feminist theology]] (b. [[1855]])
* [[January 29]] 
** [[Hideo Hatoyama]], Japanese jurist (b. [[1884]])
** [[Harry Hopkins]], American politician (b. [[1890]])
** [[Adriaan van Maanen]], Dutch–born American astronomer (b. [[1884]])
* [[January 31]] 
** [[Pietro Boetto]], Italian [[Roman Catholic]] cardinal and eminence (b. [[1871]])
** [[Luis Orgaz Yoldi]], Spanish general (b. [[1881]])
** [[Franz Ritter von Epp]], German general and politician (b. [[1868]])