page_title: 1946
section_title: December
hierarchical_section_title: 1946 / Deaths / December
caption_attribution_description: Photo of W. C. Fields
context_page_description: 1946 was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1946th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 946th year of the 2nd millennium, the 46th year of the 20th century, and the 7th year of the 1940s decade.
context_section_description: December 5 – Louis Dewis, Belgian Post-Impressionist painter (b. 1872)
  December 6 – Charles Stewart, Canadian politician, Premier of Alberta (b. 1868)
  December 7
  Laurette Taylor, American actress (b. 1884)
  Sada Yacco, Japanese stage actress (b. 1871)
  December 10
  Walter Johnson, American baseball player (Washington Senators), MLB Hall of Famer (b. 1887)
  Damon Runyon, American writer (b. 1880)
  December 11 – Francis Xavier Lasance, American Roman Catholic priest and blessed (b. 1860)
  December 12
  Ben Carter, American actor (b. 1910)
  Renée Falconetti, French actress (b. 1892)
  December 13 – Curtis Hidden Page, American politician (b. 1870)
  December 14 – Tom Dowse, Irish major league baseball player in the 1890s (b. 1866)
  December 16 – Salman al-Murshid, Syrian religious leader, political figure (b. 1907)
  December 20 – Einosuke Harada, Japanese ophthamologist (b. 1892)
  December 22 – Pierre Bénard, French journalist (b. 1898)
  December 23 – John A. Sampson, American gynecologist (b. 1873)
  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 Dominguez, Spanish novelist, playwright and poet (b. 1875)
  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)
caption: W. C. Fields
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