Editing 1946 (section)

===December===
[[File:Walter_Johnson_1924.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Walter Johnson]]]]
[[File:W. C. Fields 1938.jpg|thumb|110px|[[W. C. Fields]]]]
* [[December 5]] – [[Louis Dewis]], Belgian [[Post-Impressionist]] [[Painting|painter]] (b. [[1872]])
* [[December 6]] 
** [[Charles Stewart (premier)|Charles Stewart]], Canadian politician, [[Premier of Alberta]] (b. [[1868]])
** [[Elma Yerburgh]], member of the Thwaites family who was owner of [[Thwaites Brewery]] (b. [[1864]])
** [[Charles Stanton]], British politician (b. [[1873]])
** [[Maximilian Steinberg]], ussian composer( b. [[1883]])
* [[December 7]]
** [[Laurette Taylor]], American actress (b. [[1884]])
** [[Sada Yacco]], Japanese stage actress (b. [[1871]])
* [[December 9]] – [[Maurice Dior]], French industrialist, and father of [[Christian Dior]] (b. [[1872]])
* [[December 10]]
** [[Walter Johnson]], American baseball player ([[Washington Senators (1901–60)|Washington Senators]]), [[MLB Hall of Fame]]r (b. [[1887]])
** [[Damon Runyon]], American writer (b. [[1880]])
* [[December 12]] 
** [[Ben Carter (actor)|Ben Carter]], American actor (b. [[1910]])
** [[Renée Falconetti]], French actress (b. [[1892]])
* [[December 14]]
** [[Tom Dowse]], Irish major league baseball player in the 1890s (b. [[1866]])
** [[Ioan Alexandru Brătescu-Voinești]], Romanian short story writer and politician (b. [[1868]])
* [[December 16]] – [[Salman al-Murshid]], Syrian religious leader, political figure (b. [[1907]])
* [[December 17]] – [[Constance Garnett]], English translator of nineteenth-century Russian literature (b. [[1861]])
* [[December 18]] – [[Moses Russell]], Welsh international footballer (b. [[1888]])
* [[December 20]] – [[Einosuke Harada]], Japanese ophthalmologist (b. [[1892]])
* [[December 21]] – [[Eugene Talmadge]], American politician (b. [[1884]])
* [[December 22]] – [[Pierre Bénard]], French journalist (b. [[1898]])
* [[December 23]] 
** [[John A. Sampson]], American gynecologist (b. [[1873]])
** [[Virginia Walker]], American model and film actress (b. [[1908]])
* [[December 25]]
** [[W. C. Fields]], American actor, comedian (b. [[1880]])
** [[Henri Le Fauconnier]], French painter (b. [[1881]])
* [[December 26]] – [[Franjo Bučar]], Yugoslav writer (b. [[1866]])
* [[December 27]] 
** [[Pedro Mata y Domínguez|Pedro Mata Dominguez]], Spanish novelist, playwright and poet (b. [[1875]])
** [[Dick Condon]], [[Australian rules football]]er (b. [[1876]])
* [[December 28]] 
** [[Carrie Jacobs-Bond]], American singer, songwriter (b. [[1862]])
** [[Francis Salabert]], French publisher (b. [[1884]])
* [[December 29]] 
** [[John Babington Macaulay Baxter]], Canadian politician, 19th [[Premier of New Brunswick]] (b. [[1858]])
** [[Georg Thomas]], German general during World War II (b. [[1890]])
* [[December 30]] – [[Charles Wakefield Cadman]], American composer (b. [[1881]])