Editing 1946 (section)

===August===
[[File:Reichskanzler Wilhelm Marx.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Wilhelm Marx]]]]
[[File:King Inayatullah Khan of Afghanistan.jpg|thumb|110px|King [[Inayatullah Khan]]]]
[[File:H.G. Wells by Beresford.jpg|thumb|110px|[[H. G. Wells]]]]
* [[August 1]]
** [[Andrey Vlasov]], Soviet general, commander of the [[Russian Liberation Army]] (executed) (b. [[1901]])
** [[Sergei Bunyachenko]], Soviet Red Army defector (b. [[1902]])
** [[Fyodor Truhin]], [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] major general and defector during WWII (b. [[1896]])
* [[August 2]] – [[Karl, Prince of Leiningen]], German prince (b. [[1898]])
* [[August 5]]
** [[Otto Franke (sinologist)|Otto Franke]], German sinologist (b. [[1863]])
** [[Wilhelm Marx]], German lawyer, politician and 17th [[Chancellor of Germany (German Reich)|Chancellor of Germany]] (b. [[1863]])
* [[August 6]] 
** [[Blanche Bingley]], English tennis champion (b. [[1863]])
** [[Tony Lazzeri]], American baseball player ([[New York Yankees]]), [[MLB Hall of Fame]]r (b. [[1903]])
* [[August 8]]
** [[Maria Barrientos]], Spanish opera singer (b. [[1884]])
** [[Vulcana]], Welsh strongwoman (b. [[1874]])
* [[August 9]] – [[Bert Vogler]], South African cricketer (b. [[1876]])
* [[August 10]] – [[Léon Gaumont]], French film pioneer (b. [[1864]])
* [[August 11]] – [[Giuseppe Pietri]], Italian composer (b. [[1886]])
* [[August 12]]
** [[Inayatullah Khan]], King of Afghanistan (b. [[1888]])
** [[Alfred Stock]], German chemist (b. [[1876]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/science/dictionaries-thesauruses-pictures-and-press-releases/stock-alfred|title=Stock, Alfred &#124; Encyclopedia.com|website=encyclopedia.com}}</ref>
** [[Egon Brecher]], [[Austria-Hungary]]-born actor and director (b. [[1880]])
* [[August 13]] 
** [[H. G. Wells]], British science fiction writer, historian (''[[The Time Machine]]'') (b. [[1866]])
** [[Émile Berlia]], French politician (b. [[1878]])
* [[August 14]] – [[Robert Heinrich Wagner]], Nazi Party official and politician (b. [[1895]])
* [[August 16]] – [[Prince Fushimi Hiroyasu]] (b. [[1875]])
* [[August 17]] – [[Channing Pollock (writer)|Channing Pollock]], American playwright (b. [[1880]])
* [[August 18]]
** [[Che Yaoxian]], Chinese communist (b. [[1894]])<ref name="Annals">{{Cite web
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  |script-title=zh:罗世文
 |trans-title=Luo Shiwen
 |language=Chinese
 |work=Sichuan Annals
 |date=7 December 2017
|publisher=Sichuan Provincial Government
 |accessdate=18 October 2024
|archiveurl=https://archive.today/20241018114343/http://scdfz.sc.gov.cn/scyx/scrw/scszrwz/content_8060
 |archivedate=18 October 2024
}}</ref>
** [[Luo Shiwen]], Chinese communist (b. [[1904]])<ref name="Annals"/>
* [[August 19]] – [[Jules-Albert de Dion]], French automobile pioneer (b. [[1856]])
* [[August 20]]
** [["Rags" Ragland]], American comedian, actor (b. [[1905]])
** [[Vojtech Tuka]], Slovak politician and WWII war criminal (b. [[1880]])
** [[Fielding H. Yost]], American college football player, coach and athletics administrator (b. [[1871]])
* [[August 22]] – [[Döme Sztójay]], 35th [[Prime Minister of Hungary]] (b. [[1883]])
* [[August 23]] – [[Fulco Ruffo di Calabria|Prince Fulco Ruffo di Calabria]] (b. [[1884]])
* [[August 24]] – [[James Clark McReynolds]], American jurist (b. [[1862]])
* [[August 26]] – [[Jeanie MacPherson]], American actress (b. [[1887]])
* [[August 28]]
** [[Georgios Kafantaris]], Prime Minister of Greece (b. [[1873]])
** [[Rudolph Lambart, 10th Earl of Cavan]], British field marshal (b. [[1865]])
** [[Florence Turner]], American actress (b. [[1885]])
* [[August 29]] – [[John Steuart Curry]], American painter (b. [[1897]])
* [[August 31]] – [[Harley Granville-Barker]], English actor, director, playwright, manager, critic, and theorist (b. [[1877]])