People who died in the 1940s

728 notable people documented at Resting Places cemeteries died in the 1940s, according to Wikidata's death-date records. Listed by death year.

• A. H. Tammsaare (1878–1940), essayist, translator, playwright · buried at Metsakalmistu
• Agnes Ayres (1891–1940), film actor, actor · buried at Hollywood Forever Cemetery
• Albert Demangeon (1872–1940), professeur des universités, university teacher, geographer · buried at Montparnasse Cemetery
• Ali bey Huseynzade (1864–1940), philosopher, journalist, university teacher · buried at Karacaahmet Cemetery
• Andrey Arkhangelsky (1879–1940), botanist, university teacher, geologist · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• Arthur De Greef (1862–1940), music educator, musicologist, musician · buried at Ixelles Cemetery
• Augustus Edward Hough Love (1863–1940), mathematician · buried at Wolvercote Cemetery
• Ben Turpin (1869–1940), film actor, comedian · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale, California)
• Berton Churchill (1876–1940), film actor, stage actor, actor · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale, California)
• Birger Wasenius (1911–1940), speed skater · buried at Hietaniemi Cemetery
• Charles Stanton Ogle (1865–1940), film actor, stage actor, character actor · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale, California)
• Charley Chase (1893–1940), film actor, director, film producer · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale, California)
• Dmitry Filosofov (1872–1940), opinion journalist, literary critic, journalist · buried at Orthodox Cemetery, Warsaw
• Édouard Branly (1844–1940), university teacher, physicist, physician · buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery
• Édouard Vuillard (1868–1940), lithographer, draftsperson, printmaker · buried at Batignolles Cemetery
• Edwin Markham (1852–1940), teacher of literature, social reformer, essayist · buried at Calvary Cemetery (Los Angeles)
• Ervin Mészáros (1877–1940), fencer, military officer · buried at Fiume Road Graveyard
• Ferdo Šišić (1869–1940), historian · buried at Mirogoj Cemetery
• Filipp Malyavin (1869–1940), draftsperson, visual artist, graphic artist · buried at Russian Orthodox Cemetery, Nice
• Flora Finch (1867–1940), film actor, actor · buried at Hollywood Forever Cemetery
• Frederick Cook (1865–1940), expedition medicine, polar explorer, explorer · buried at Forest Lawn Cemetery (Buffalo, New York)
• Gabriele Possanner (1860–1940), physician · buried at Vienna Central Cemetery
• George Fitzmaurice (1885–1940), director, film producer, film director · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale, California)
• Gunnar Höckert (1910–1940), athletics competitor, long-distance runner, athlete · buried at Hietaniemi Cemetery
• Harry Stafford (1869–1940), association football player · buried at Mount Royal Cemetery
• Henri Lavedan (1859–1940), journalist, playwright, writer · buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery
• Isaak Babel (1894–1940), prose writer, short story writer, film director · buried at Donskoye Cemetery
• István Énekes (1911–1940), railway worker, boxer · buried at Fiume Road Graveyard
• István Thomán (1862–1940), classical pianist, music educator, music teacher · buried at Fiume Road Graveyard
• J. C. W. Beckham (1869–1940), politician, lawyer · buried at Frankfort Cemetery
• Jan Kubelík (1880–1940), collector, violinist, composer · buried at Vyšehrad Cemetery
• John Taliaferro Thompson (1860–1940), inventor, military personnel · buried at West Point Cemetery
• Johnny Dodds (1892–1940), jazz musician, saxophonist, musician · buried at Lincoln Cemetery (Cook County)
• Joseph Meister (1876–1940), concierge · buried at Cimetière parisien de Bagneux
• Julius Wagner-Jauregg (1857–1940), university teacher, neurologist, psychiatrist · buried at Vienna Central Cemetery
• Kalliroi Parren (1861–1940), feminist, journalist, writer · buried at First Cemetery of Athens
• La Jana (1905–1940), film actor, dancer, actor · buried at Waldfriedhof Dahlem
• Lillian Wald (1867–1940), social reformer, peace activist, pacifist · buried at Mount Hope Cemetery (Rochester)
• Madeleine Astor (1893–1940), socialite · buried at Trinity Church Cemetery
• Marguerite Clark (1883–1940), film actor, stage actor, actor · buried at Metairie Cemetery
• Mehmet Vehip Kaçı (1875–1940), military officer · buried at Karacaahmet Cemetery
• Mikhail Bulgakov (1891–1940), playwright, physician, writer · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• Mikhail Koltsov (1898–1940), opinion journalist, journalist, writer · buried at Donskoye Cemetery
• Nathanael West (1903–1940), prose writer, novelist, playwright · buried at Mount Zion Cemetery (New York City)
• Nikolai Koltsov (1872–1940), geneticist, university teacher, biologist · buried at Vvedenskoye Cemetery
• Nikolai Vissarionovich Nekrasov (1879–1940), governor, politician, engineer · buried at Donskoye Cemetery
• Nikolai Yezhov (1895–1940), politician, military personnel · buried at Donskoye Cemetery
• Otto Toeplitz (1881–1940), historian of mathematics, university teacher, mathematician · buried at Mount of Olives Jewish Cemetery
• Q1038450 (1866–1940), graphic artist, university teacher, painter · buried at Powązki Cemetery
• Q2474042 (1892–1940), actor · buried at Calvary Cemetery (Evanston, Illinois)
• Q725475 (1856–1940), science fiction writer, novelist, philosopher · buried at Cimetière parisien de Bagneux
• Smedley Butler (1881–1940), activist, lecturer, official · buried at Oaklands Cemetery
• Tom Mix (1880–1940), film actor, director, film director · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale, California)
• Vsevolod Meyerhold (1874–1940), theatre director, theatrologist, director · buried at Donskoye Cemetery
• W. H. Davies (1871–1940), poet, writer · buried at Bouncer's Lane Cemetery, Cheltenham
• Wacław Berent (1873–1940), linguist, biologist, translator · buried at Powązki Cemetery
• Walter Connolly (1887–1940), stage actor, film actor, actor · buried at New St. Joseph Cemetery
• Walter Percy Chrysler Sr. (1875–1940), business executive, industrialist, machinist · buried at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery
• Wilfred Lucas (1871–1940), film actor, director, film director · buried at Chapel of the Pines Crematory
• Ze'ev Jabotinsky (1880–1940), translator, jurist, activist · buried at New Montefiore Cemetery
• Agdanbuugyn Amar (1886–1941), politician · buried at Kommunarka shooting ground
• Al Bowlly (1898–1941), jazz musician, bandleader, songwriter · buried at City of Westminster Cemetery, Hanwell
• Aleksander Prystor (1874–1941), soldier, military officer, colonel · buried at Powązki Cemetery
• Alexander Afinogenov (1904–1941), theatre director, dramaturge, playwright · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• Antoni Łyko (1907–1941), association football player · buried at Rakowicki Cemetery
• Bohdan Lepky (1872–1941), literary scholar, literary historian, opinion journalist · buried at Rakowicki Cemetery
• Charles Émile Picard (1856–1941), university teacher, mathematician · buried at Montparnasse Cemetery
• Charles Huntziger (1880–1941), politician, military personnel · buried at Passy Cemetery
• Dayton Miller (1866–1941), collector, musician, physicist · buried at Lake View Cemetery
• Dmitry Merezhkovsky (1865–1941), literary scholar, prose writer, novelist · buried at Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois Russian Cemetery
• Dmitry Pavlov (1897–1941), soldier, politician, military personnel · buried at Kommunarka shooting ground
• Dorothy Wilde (1895–1941), socialite, translator, poet · buried at Kensal Green Cemetery
• Eduardo Schaerer (1873–1941), journalist, entrepreneur, politician · buried at Recoleta Cemetery, Asuncion
• Edward Rydz-Śmigły (1886–1941), painter, military officer, marshal · buried at Powązki Cemetery
• Edwin Stanton Porter (1870–1941), film producer, film director, camera operator · buried at Kensico Cemetery
• El Lissitzky (1890–1941), draftsperson, visual artist, designer · buried at Donskoye Cemetery
• Elliott Dexter (1870–1941), film actor, stage actor, actor · buried at Kensico Cemetery
• Emanuel Lasker (1868–1941), bridge player, chess player, chess composer · buried at Beth Olam Cemetery
• Émile Nelligan (1879–1941), poet · buried at Notre Dame des Neiges Cemetery
• Ernst Lindemann (1894–1941), Marineoffizier · buried at Dahlem Cemetery
• Ernst Udet (1896–1941), aerobatics pilot, aircraft pilot, fighter pilot · buried at Invalids' Cemetery
• Foxhall Keene (1867–1941), racing automobile driver, polo player, golfer · buried at Woodlawn Cemetery (Bronx, New York)
• František Křižík (1847–1941), railway engineer, industrialist, technician · buried at Vyšehrad Cemetery
• Frederick Banting (1891–1941), pharmacologist, physiologist, researcher · buried at Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Toronto
• Grigori Shtern (1900–1941), military advisor, politician, military personnel · buried at Rogozhskoye Cemetery
• Guido Adler (1855–1941), musicologist, university teacher, editing staff · buried at Vienna Central Cemetery
• Gus Kahn (1886–1941), librettist, film score composer, songwriter · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale, California)
• Gutzon Borglum (1867–1941), sculptor, painter · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale, California)
• Hanns Kerrl (1887–1941), Huissier de justice, politician · buried at Waldfriedhof Dahlem
• Harry Micajah Daugherty (1860–1941), jurist, politician, lawyer · buried at Washington Cemetery (Washington Court House, Ohio)
• Helen Morgan (1900–1941), jazz singer, film actor, Ziegfeld girl · buried at Holy Sepulchre Cemetery (Alsip, Illinois)
• Ignacy Jan Paderewski (1860–1941), classical composer, music educator, musicologist · buried at Arlington National Cemetery
• Igor Severyanin (1887–1941), translator of Adam Mickiewicz, translator, poet · buried at Alexander Nevsky Cemetery, Tallinn
• Ira Davenport (1887–1941), athletics competitor, baseball player · buried at Linwood Cemetery (Dubuque)
• Issai Schur (1876–1941), university teacher, mathematician · buried at Trumpeldor Cemetery
• Ivan Panfilov (1893–1941), military officer · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• J. Stuart Blackton (1875–1941), director, film editor, film producer · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale, California)
• James George Frazer (1854–1941), mythographer, linguist, ethnographer · buried at Ascension Parish Burial Ground
• James Stephenson (1889–1941), film actor, stage actor, actor · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale, California)
• Jelly Roll Morton (1890–1941), jazz pianist, jazz musician, bandleader · buried at Calvary Cemetery (Los Angeles)
• John Lavery (1856–1941), visual artist, painter · buried at Putney Vale Cemetery
• Károly Huszár (1882–1941), head of government, politician · buried at Fiume Road Graveyard
• Leo Deutsch (1855–1941), journalist, politician · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• Leonid Leonidov (1873–1941), film actor, director, theatre director · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• Lev Dovator (1903–1941), military leader · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• Lothar von Arnauld de la Perière (1886–1941), submariner, military officer · buried at Invalids' Cemetery
• Lou Gehrig (1903–1941), baseball player · buried at Kensico Cemetery
• Ludwik Krzywicki (1859–1941), archaeologist, anthropologist, sociologist · buried at Evangelical Augsburg Cemetery, Warsaw
• Maurice Leblanc (1864–1941), novelist, journalist, writer · buried at Montparnasse Cemetery
• Mihály Babits (1883–1941), literary historian, Esperantist, translator · buried at Fiume Road Graveyard
• Miina Härma (1864–1941), music educator, music teacher, choir director · buried at Raadi cemetery
• Milka Ternina (1863–1941), vocalist, opera singer, university teacher · buried at Mirogoj Cemetery
• Nicolae Titulescu (1882–1941), foreign minister, university teacher, diplomat · buried at Cimetière du Grand Jas
• Paul Hymans (1865–1941), university teacher, diplomat, jurist · buried at Ixelles Cemetery
• Pavel Blonsky (1884–1941), pedagogue, psychologist · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• Pavel Filonov (1883–1941), art theorist, draftsperson, designer · buried at Serafimovskoe Cemetery
• Pedro Aguirre Cerda (1879–1941), politician, lawyer · buried at Santiago General Cemetery
• Peggy Shannon (1907–1941), film actor, dancer, stage actor · buried at Hollywood Forever Cemetery
• Q959431 (1879–1941), flautist, music educator, choreographer · buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery
• Ruth Stonehouse (1892–1941), film actor, film director, actor · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale, California)
• Simon Guggenheim (1867–1941), entrepreneur, politician · buried at Woodlawn Cemetery (Bronx, New York)
• Victor Schertzinger (1888–1941), director, film producer, film director · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale, California)
• Viktor Talalikhin (1918–1941), fighter pilot, military officer · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• Vilmos Aba-Novák (1894–1941), printmaker, painter, artist · buried at Farkasréti Cemetery
• Werner Mölders (1913–1941), aircraft pilot, fighter pilot, military officer · buried at Invalids' Cemetery
• Werner Sombart (1863–1941), sociologist, political economist, university teacher · buried at Waldfriedhof Dahlem
• Wilhelm Kienzl (1857–1941), musicographer, musicologist, editor · buried at Vienna Central Cemetery
• William Gibbs McAdoo (1863–1941), finance minister, jurist, politician · buried at Arlington National Cemetery
• William Worthington (1872–1941), film actor, film director, actor · buried at Hollywood Forever Cemetery
• Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya (1923–1941), resistance fighter, partisan, military personnel · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• Adam Czerniaków (1880–1942), social activist, political activist, opinion journalist · buried at Jewish Cemetery, Warsaw
• Albert Kahn (1869–1942), architect · buried at White Chapel Memorial Cemetery
• Alexander von Zemlinsky (1871–1942), classical composer, music arranger, musician · buried at Vienna Central Cemetery
• Anna Elizabeth Klumpke (1856–1942), painter, artist · buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery
• Anton Schmid (1900–1942), soldier, military personnel · buried at Antakalnis Cemetery
• Avraham Stern (1907–1942), terrorist, poet, writer · buried at Nahalat Yitzhak Cemetery
• Bolesław Wieniawa-Długoszowski (1881–1942), journalist, translator, diplomat · buried at Rakowicki Cemetery
• Bronisław Malinowski (1884–1942), social anthropologist, ethnographer, anthropologist · buried at Evergreen Cemetery (New Haven, Connecticut)
• Carl Sternheim (1878–1942), theatre critic, art collector, art critic · buried at Ixelles Cemetery
• Carole Lombard (1908–1942), film actor · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale, California)
• Cecilia Beaux (1855–1942), painter, artist · buried at West Laurel Hill Cemetery
• Charlotte Burton (1881–1942), film actor, actor · buried at Santa Barbara Cemetery
• Edna May Oliver (1883–1942), film actor, stage actor, character actor · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale, California)
• Emanuel Feuermann (1902–1942), music educator, cellist, musician · buried at Kensico Cemetery
• Flinders Petrie (1853–1942), archaeologist, Egyptologist, translator · buried at Mount Zion Cemetery, Jerusalem
• Frank Churchill (1901–1942), film score composer, pianist, composer · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale, California)
• Franz Boas (1858–1942), ethnographer, linguist, philosopher · buried at Dale Cemetery
• Frederick Stock (1872–1942), fiddler, violist, conductor · buried at Rosehill Cemetery
• Fritz Todt (1891–1942), Holocaust perpetrator, civil engineer, functionary · buried at Invalids' Cemetery
• George M. Cohan (1878–1942), director, manufacturer, librettist · buried at Woodlawn Cemetery (Bronx, New York)
• Georges Politzer (1903–1942), French resistance fighter, philosopher, psychologist · buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery
• Germaine Dulac (1882–1942), film theorist, film critic, film director · buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery
• Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney (1875–1942), art collector, sculptor, socialite · buried at Woodlawn Cemetery (Bronx, New York)
• Hector Guimard (1867–1942), designer, sculptor, architect · buried at Gate of Heaven Cemetery (Hawthorne, New York)
• Helen Westley (1875–1942), film actor, stage actor, actor · buried at Cypress Hills Cemetery
• Hugh Samuel Johnson (1882–1942), administrator, journalist, military officer · buried at Arlington National Cemetery
• Ivan Bilibin (1876–1942), graphic artist, painter, illustrator · buried at Smolensky Cemetery
• Ivande Kaija (1876–1942), feminist, social activist, writer · buried at Forest Cemetery, Riga
• Jacques-Émile Blanche (1861–1942), lithographer, printmaker, art collector · buried at Passy Cemetery
• James Cruze (1884–1942), film actor, director, film producer · buried at Hollywood Forever Cemetery
• James W. Horne (1881–1942), film screenwriter, film actor, director · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale, California)
• John Barrymore (1882–1942), film actor, stage actor, actor · buried at Mount Vernon Cemetery (Philadelphia)
• John R. Brinkley (1885–1942), radio personality, charlatan, politician · buried at Forest Hill Cemetery (Memphis, Tennessee)
• Jonas Vileišis (1872–1942), journalist, university teacher, diplomat · buried at Rasos Cemetery
• Kārlis Zāle (1888–1942), sculptor · buried at Brothers' Cemetery
• Laura Hope Crews (1879–1942), film actor, stage actor, actor · buried at Cypress Lawn Memorial Park
• Lauri Kristian Relander (1883–1942), agronomist, politician · buried at Hietaniemi Cemetery
• Leonetto Cappiello (1875–1942), lithographer, draftsperson, advertising person · buried at Cimetière du Grand Jas
• Lucy Parsons (1851–1942), communist, trade unionist, anarchist · buried at Forest Home Cemetery (Forest Park)
• Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear (1868–1942), sport shooter, politician, lawyer · buried at La Recoleta Cemetery
• Marcus Ward Lyon, Jr. (1875–1942), ophthalmologist, bacteriologist, parasitologist · buried at Arlington National Cemetery
• May Robson (1858–1942), film actor, stage actor, actor · buried at Flushing Cemetery
• Michel Fokine (1880–1942), librettist, dancer, choreographer · buried at Ferncliff Cemetery
• Mikhail Nesterov (1862–1942), memoirist, philosopher, painter · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• Mohammad Ali Foroughi (1877–1942), literary scholar, journalist, university teacher · buried at Ibn Babawayh Cemetery
• Neel Doff (1858–1942), novelist, writer · buried at Ixelles Cemetery
• Odo Bujwid (1857–1942), bacteriologist, microbiologist, university teacher · buried at Rakowicki Cemetery
• Phillips Holmes (1907–1942), film actor, stage actor, actor · buried at Gate of Heaven Cemetery (Hawthorne, New York)
• Pinhas Rutenberg (1879–1942), civil engineer, engineer, writer · buried at Mount of Olives Jewish Cemetery
• Pranas Dovydaitis (1886–1942), philosopher, journalist, university teacher · buried at Rasos Cemetery
• Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn (1850–1942), aristocrat, politician, military personnel · buried at Royal Burial Ground, Frogmore
• Prince George, Duke of Kent (1902–1942), aristocrat, civil servant, military officer · buried at Royal Burial Ground, Frogmore
• Q152441 (1878–1942), opinion journalist, philosopher, children's writer · buried at Jewish Cemetery, Warsaw
• Q533042 (1874–1942), feminist, ghostwriter, poet · buried at Evergreen Cemetery (Morristown, New Jersey)
• Refik Saydam (1881–1942), medical officer, military physician, head of government · buried at Cebeci Asri Cemetery
• Reinhard Heydrich (1904–1942), Holocaust perpetrator · buried at Invalids' Cemetery
• Richard Tucker (1884–1942), silent film actor, film actor, composer · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale, California)
• Stanisław Zaremba (1863–1942), university teacher, mathematician, engineer · buried at Rakowicki Cemetery
• Tamon Yamaguchi (1892–1942), soldier, military officer · buried at Aoyama Cemetery
• Tina Modotti (1896–1942), activist, film actor, model · buried at Panteón de Dolores
• Vera Figner (1852–1942), political activist, memoirist, revolutionary · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• Violet Hunt (1862–1942), novelist, writer · buried at Brookwood Cemetery
• Virginia Lee Corbin (1910–1942), film actor, actor · buried at Westlawn Cemetery
• Vladimir Burtsev (1862–1942), opinion journalist, revolutionary, publisher · buried at Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois Russian Cemetery
• Vladimir Petlyakov (1891–1942), military flight engineer, aircraft pilot, design engineer · buried at Arskoe Cemetery
• Vladislav Vančura (1891–1942), prose writer, critic, opinion journalist · buried at Vyšehrad Cemetery
• Walter von Reichenau (1884–1942), general field marshal, military officer · buried at Invalids' Cemetery
• Wlodimir Ledóchowski (1866–1942), Catholic theologian, Catholic priest · buried at Campo Verano
• Wojciech Kossak (1856–1942), graphic artist, typographer, painter · buried at Rakowicki Cemetery
• Yakov Perelman (1882–1942), science communicator, journalist, mathematician · buried at Piskaryovskoye Memorial Cemetery
• Zsigmond Móricz (1879–1942), children's writer, journalist, editing staff · buried at Fiume Road Graveyard
• Abbott Lawrence Lowell (1856–1943), university teacher, political scientist, jurist · buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery
• Agustín Pedro Justo (1876–1943), politician, military personnel · buried at La Recoleta Cemetery
• Alexandre Millerand (1859–1943), socialist, head of government, jurist · buried at Passy Cemetery
• Ali Fethi Okyar (1880–1943), diplomat, politician · buried at Zincirlikuyu Cemetery
• Aristarkh Lentulov (1882–1943), scenographer, graphic artist, painter · buried at Vagankovo Cemetery
• Attila Petschauer (1904–1943), fencer, journalist · buried at Farkasréti Cemetery
• Azim Azimzade (1880–1943), draftsperson, opinion journalist, caricaturist · buried at Alley of Honor
• Bertha Lamme (1864–1943), engineer · buried at Homewood Cemetery
• Chaïm Soutine (1893–1943), architectural drafter, painter, artist · buried at Montparnasse Cemetery
• Charley Paddock (1900–1943), film actor, athletics competitor, sprinter · buried at Sitka National Cemetery
• Cornelia Fort (1919–1943), aircraft pilot · buried at Mount Olivet Cemetery (Nashville)
• Curt Haase (1881–1943), military officer, military personnel · buried at Invalids' Cemetery
• Dmitry Ulyanov (1874–1943), memoirist, revolutionary, journalist · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• Dwight Frye (1899–1943), film actor, stage actor, actor · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale, California)
• Edsel Bryant Ford (1893–1943), art collector, entrepreneur · buried at Woodlawn Cemetery (Detroit)
• Else Ury (1877–1943), young adult author, novelist, children's writer · buried at Weißensee cemetery
• Eugeniusz Bodo (1899–1943), film actor, dancer, film producer · buried at Powązki Cemetery
• Frank Calder (1877–1943), sports journalist, ice hockey player, journalist · buried at Mount Royal Cemetery
• Frank Campeau (1864–1943), film actor, stage actor, actor · buried at Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery
• Frank Nitti (1886–1943), criminal · buried at Mount Carmel Cemetery (Hillside, Illinois)
• Fujishima Takeji (1867–1943), university teacher, painter · buried at Aoyama Cemetery
• Gregoria de Jesús (1875–1943), autobiographer, politician · buried at Manila North Cemetery
• Gustav von Seyffertitz (1862–1943), film actor, theatre director, director · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale, California)
• Gyula Peidl (1873–1943), trade unionist, typesetter, journalist · buried at Fiume Road Graveyard
• Harry Baur (1880–1943), film actor · buried at Saint-Vincent Cemetery
• Helen Herron Taft (1861–1943), university teacher, politician · buried at Arlington National Cemetery
• Henri La Fontaine (1854–1943), women's rights activist, pacifist, socialist · buried at Brussels Cemetery
• Hobart Bosworth (1867–1943), film actor, film producer, film director · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale, California)
• Itamar Ben-Avi (1882–1943), zionist, journalist, Esperantist · buried at Mount of Olives Jewish Cemetery
• Jane Avril (1868–1943), dancer, art model · buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery
• John Pierpont Morgan, Jr. (1867–1943), banker · buried at Cedar Hill Cemetery (Hartford, Connecticut)
• Joseph Achron (1886–1943), music educator, music arranger, violinist · buried at Hollywood Forever Cemetery
• Kate Price (1872–1943), film actor, stage actor, actor · buried at Calvary Cemetery (Los Angeles)
• Khosrov bey Sultanov (1879–1943), politician · buried at Feriköy Cemetery
• Kostis Palamas (1859–1943), literary critic, journalist, playwright · buried at First Cemetery of Athens
• Kristjan Raud (1865–1943), draftsperson, exlibrist, painter · buried at Rahumäe Cemetery
• Lajos Werkner (1883–1943), fencer · buried at Kozma Street Cemetery
• Lorenz Hart (1895–1943), librettist, lyricist, songwriter · buried at Mount Zion Cemetery (New York City)
• Maria Jotuni (1880–1943), playwright, writer · buried at Hietaniemi Cemetery
• Marina Raskova (1912–1943), aircraft pilot, Major, navigator · buried at Kremlin Wall Necropolis
• Mary J. Rathbun (1860–1943), scientific collector, carcinologist, curator · buried at Forest Lawn Cemetery (Buffalo, New York)
• Max Eitingon (1881–1943), psychoanalyst, physician · buried at Mount of Olives Jewish Cemetery
• Max Reinhardt (1873–1943), Theaterintendant, theatre director, director · buried at Westchester Hills Cemetery
• Montagu Love (1877–1943), film actor, stage actor, actor · buried at Chapel of the Pines Crematory
• Pavel Milyukov (1859–1943), foreign minister, journalist, party leader · buried at Batignolles Cemetery
• Pedro Peña (1864–1943), diplomat, politician · buried at Recoleta Cemetery, Asuncion
• Radclyffe Hall (1880–1943), novelist, poet, writer · buried at Highgate Cemetery
• Raoul Heinrich Francé (1874–1943), natural philosopher, botanist, journalist · buried at Farkasréti Cemetery
• Richard T. Ely (1854–1943), social reformer, historian, economist · buried at Forest Hill Cemetery (Madison, Wisconsin)
• Rihard Jakopič (1869–1943), art theorist, painter · buried at Žale
• Rodger Young (1918–1943), military personnel · buried at McPherson Cemetery
• Rupert Julian (1879–1943), film actor, director, film producer · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale, California)
• Ruth Belville (1854–1943), horologist, merchant, businessperson · buried at Streatham Park Cemetery
• Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873–1943), musicologist, virtuoso, pianist · buried at Kensico Cemetery
• Shaul Tchernichovsky (1875–1943), Iliad's translator, translator, poet · buried at Trumpeldor Cemetery
• Stefan Bryła (1886–1943), technician, civil engineer, pedagogue · buried at Powązki Cemetery
• Tully Marshall (1864–1943), film actor, theatre director, stage actor · buried at Hollywood Forever Cemetery
• Vladimir Kokovtsov (1853–1943), finance minister, head of government, banker · buried at Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois Russian Cemetery
• Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko (1858–1943), opera director, theatre critic, librettist · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• W. S. Van Dyke (1889–1943), film actor, director, film producer · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale, California)
• William Fogg Osgood (1864–1943), mathematician · buried at Forest Hills Cemetery
• Yemelyan Yaroslavsky (1878–1943), revolutionary, politician · buried at Kremlin Wall Necropolis
• Yury Tynyanov (1894–1943), film screenwriter, literary scholar, novelist · buried at Vagankovo Cemetery
• Abdülmecid II (1868–1944), painter · buried at Al-Baqi Cemetery
• Agustín Pío Barrios (1885–1944), classical guitarist, guitarist, composer · buried at Cemetery of Distinguished Citizens
• Aimee Semple McPherson (1890–1944), radio personality, evangelist, missionary · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale, California)
• Aino Ackté (1876–1944), librettist, opera singer · buried at Hietaniemi Cemetery
• Al Smith (1873–1944), politician · buried at Calvary Cemetery (Queens)
• Albert Ray (1897–1944), film actor, director, film director · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale, California)
• Alberts Kviesis (1881–1944), jurist, politician, lawyer · buried at Forest Cemetery, Riga
• Albrecht Mertz von Quirnheim (1905–1944), resistance fighter, colonel, military personnel · buried at Alter St.-Matthäus-Kirchhof
• Alejandro Villanueva (1908–1944), association football player, association football coach · buried at Cementerio Presbítero Matías Maestro
• Alexey Novikov-Priboy (1877–1944), military personnel, writer · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• Amy Beach (1867–1944), pianist, composer · buried at Forest Hills Cemetery
• Arthur Eddington (1882–1944), philosopher, astrophysicist, physicist · buried at Ascension Parish Burial Ground
• Bud Jamison (1894–1944), film actor, film director, stage actor · buried at Inglewood Park Cemetery
• Carl Mayer (1894–1944), director, dramaturge, actor · buried at Highgate Cemetery
• Cécile Chaminade (1857–1944), flautist, pianist, composer · buried at Passy Cemetery
• Chaim Rumkowski (1877–1944), Judenrat, entrepreneur, politician · buried at Jewish Cemetery, Łódź
• Charles Dana Gibson (1867–1944), draftsperson, designer, caricaturist · buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery
• Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg (1907–1944), military officer · buried at Alter St.-Matthäus-Kirchhof
• Dénes Berinkey (1871–1944), Idist, diplomat, politician · buried at Farkasréti Cemetery
• Dénes Kőnig (1884–1944), university teacher, mathematician · buried at Fiume Road Graveyard
• Dezső Wein (1873–1944), artistic gymnast, dentist · buried at Farkasréti Cemetery
• Edmund Mortimer (1874–1944), film director, actor · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills)
• Endre Kabos (1906–1944), fencer · buried at Farkasréti Cemetery
• Eoin O'Duffy (1892–1944), civil engineer, military officer, politician · buried at Glasnevin Cemetery
• Ernst Thälmann (1886–1944), laborer, trade unionist, revolutionary · buried at Zentralfriedhof Friedrichsfelde
• Ethel Lina White (1876–1944), writer, screenwriter · buried at Mortlake Crematorium
• Frank Knox (1874–1944), newspaper proprietor, journalist, minister · buried at Arlington National Cemetery
• Friedrich Olbricht (1888–1944), resistance fighter, military officer, military personnel · buried at Alter St.-Matthäus-Kirchhof
• Gabriel Hanotaux (1853–1944), journalist, historian, diplomat · buried at Passy Cemetery
• Georg Dascher (1911–1944), handball player · buried at Lommel German war cemetery
• George B. Seitz (1888–1944), film actor, director, film producer · buried at Forest Hills Cemetery
• George David Birkhoff (1884–1944), topologist, university teacher, mathematician · buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery
• Georges Mandel (1885–1944), art collector, journalist, resistance fighter · buried at Passy Cemetery
• Hans-Valentin Hube (1890–1944), Generaloberst, military officer, military personnel · buried at Invalids' Cemetery
• Harry Langdon (1884–1944), silent film actor, film actor, film producer · buried at Grand View Memorial Park Cemetery
• Haviva Reik (1914–1944), SOE agent, resistance fighter, paratrooper · buried at Mount Herzl
• Ilya Mashkov (1881–1944), painter, illustrator, teacher · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• James E. Ferguson (1871–1944), banker, jurist, governor · buried at Texas State Cemetery
• James McKeen Cattell (1860–1944), university teacher, psychologist · buried at Easton Cemetery
• Jędrzej Moraczewski (1870–1944), railway engineer, union member, socialist · buried at Powązki Military Cemetery
• John Dill (1881–1944), general field marshal, diplomat, military officer · buried at Arlington National Cemetery
• John Walter Christie (1865–1944), inventor, engineer · buried at Maple Grove Park Cemetery (Hackensack, New Jersey)
• Josef Lhévinne (1874–1944), piano teacher, music educator, musicologist · buried at Maple Grove Cemetery (Queens)
• Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. (1915–1944), aircraft pilot, military officer · buried at Arlington National Cemetery
• Józef Beck (1894–1944), diplomat, military officer, politician · buried at Powązki Military Cemetery
• Juhan Kikas (1892–1944), weightlifter, sport cyclist · buried at Liiva Cemetery
• Juliusz Kaden-Bandrowski (1885–1944), prose writer, opinion journalist, journalist · buried at Evangelical Reformed Cemetery, Warsaw
• Karol Irzykowski (1873–1944), literary critic, chess player, translator · buried at Rakowicki Cemetery
• Kenesaw Mountain Landis (1866–1944), baseball player, lawyer, judge · buried at Oak Woods Cemetery
• Konstantin Leselidze (1903–1944), military personnel · buried at Didube Pantheon
• Laird Cregar (1913–1944), film actor, stage actor, actor · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale, California)
• Leo Baekeland (1863–1944), chemist, inventor · buried at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery
• Leon Chwistek (1884–1944), aesthetician, art theorist, logician · buried at Donskoye Cemetery
• Leon Kozłowski (1892–1944), prehistorian, archaeologist, anthropologist · buried at Powązki Cemetery
• Leone Ginzburg (1909–1944), journalist, translator, partisan · buried at Campo Verano
• Leonid Mandelstam (1879–1944), university teacher, physicist · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• Lesley J. McNair (1883–1944), military commander, soldier, military officer · buried at Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial
• Lev Shcherba (1880–1944), linguist, writer · buried at Vagankovo Cemetery
• Lina Cavalieri (1874–1944), film actor, opera singer · buried at Campo Verano
• Louis Buchalter (1897–1944), gangster · buried at Mount Hebron Cemetery (New York City)
• Ludwig Beck (1880–1944), army officer, Generaloberst, resistance fighter · buried at Alter St.-Matthäus-Kirchhof
• Lupe Vélez (1906–1944), television actor, film actor, stage actor · buried at Panteón de Dolores
• Manuel L. Quezon (1878–1944), politician, lawyer · buried at Arlington National Cemetery
• Maria Jacobini (1892–1944), actor · buried at Campo Verano
• Marion Harris (1896–1944), recording artist, jazz musician, Ziegfeld girl · buried at Kensico Cemetery
• Maurice Paléologue (1859–1944), essayist, historian, diplomat · buried at Passy Cemetery
• Mehmet Emin Yurdakul (1869–1944), politician, poet, writer · buried at Zincirlikuyu Cemetery
• Merna Kennedy (1908–1944), film actor, actor · buried at Inglewood Park Cemetery
• Miklós Radnóti (1909–1944), translator, poet, teacher · buried at Fiume Road Graveyard
• Milan Hodža (1878–1944), opinion journalist, philosopher, journalist · buried at National Cemetery in Martin
• Mildred Harris (1901–1944), film actor · buried at Hollywood Forever Cemetery
• Nikolai Polikarpov (1892–1944), aerospace engineer, military flight engineer, aircraft pilot · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• Nikolai Roslavets (1881–1944), music theorist, musicologist, university teacher · buried at Vagankovo Cemetery
• Orde Wingate (1903–1944), army officer · buried at Arlington National Cemetery
• Oszkár Gerde (1883–1944), fencer, lawyer · buried at Farkasréti Cemetery
• Paul Poiret (1879–1944), theatre designer, art collector, designer · buried at Montmartre Cemetery
• Peter Struve (1870–1944), philosopher, journalist, economist · buried at Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois Russian Cemetery
• Piet Mondrian (1872–1944), exlibrist, draftsperson, furniture designer · buried at Cypress Hills Cemetery
• Princess Der Ling (1881–1944), lady-in-waiting, historian, politician · buried at Oakland Cemetery (Sag Harbor, New York)
• Q558722 (1921–1944), draftsperson, prose writer, soldier · buried at Powązki Military Cemetery
• Q731717 (1872–1944), theatre designer, cartoonist, comics artist · buried at East Finchley Cemetery
• René Daumal (1908–1944), literary critic, novelist, dramaturge · buried at Cimetière parisien de Pantin
• Robert Frazer (1891–1944), film actor, actor · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale, California)
• Rudolf Schmundt (1896–1944), soldier, military officer, military personnel · buried at Invalids' Cemetery
• Sergei Bulgakov (1871–1944), Orthodox theologian, philosopher of religion, philosopher · buried at Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois Russian Cemetery
• Sergei Prokudin-Gorskii (1863–1944), traveler, publisher, pedagogue · buried at Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois Russian Cemetery
• Stefan Rowecki (1895–1944), journalist, military officer · buried at Powązki Cemetery
• Tadeusz Gajcy (1922–1944), poet · buried at Powązki Military Cemetery
• Theodore Roosevelt Jr. (1887–1944), army officer, governor, politician · buried at Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial
• Thomas Curtis (1873–1944), athletics competitor, sprinter, photographer · buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery
• Thomas Midgley (1889–1944), chemist, inventor, engineer · buried at Green Lawn Cemetery (Columbus, Ohio)
• Thomas W. Hardwick (1872–1944), jurist, governor, politician · buried at City Cemetery (Sandersville, Georgia)
• Ulrich Wilhelm Graf Schwerin von Schwanenfeld (1902–1944), resistance fighter, military officer, farmer · buried at Waldfriedhof Dahlem
• Vera Obolenskaya (1911–1944), French resistance fighter, model, resistance fighter · buried at Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois Russian Cemetery
• Walter Nowotny (1920–1944), aircraft pilot, military personnel · buried at Vienna Central Cemetery
• Walter Oesau (1913–1944), aircraft pilot, military personnel · buried at Invalids' Cemetery
• Wendell Willkie (1892–1944), jurist, businessperson, politician · buried at East Hill Cemetery (Rushville, Indiana)
• Werner von Haeften (1908–1944), soldier, resistance fighter, jurist · buried at Alter St.-Matthäus-Kirchhof
• William Dickey (1874–1944), competitive diver · buried at Arlington National Cemetery
• Władysław Kotwicz (1872–1944), linguist, scientist · buried at Rasos Cemetery
• Yvette Guilbert (1865–1944), chansonnier, cabaret performer, film actor · buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery
• Al Dubin (1891–1945), film score composer, lyricist, songwriter · buried at Holy Cross Cemetery (Culver City, California)
• Albert Tyler (1872–1945), pole vaulter, athletics competitor · buried at Oaklands Cemetery
• Aleksei Chichibabin (1871–1945), chemist · buried at Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois Russian Cemetery
• Aleksey Tolstoy (1883–1945), science fiction writer, novelist, children's writer · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• Alexander Fersman (1883–1945), mineralogist, geochemist, explorer · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• Alexander Granach (1890–1945), Theaterintendant, film actor, stage actor · buried at Montefiore Cemetery
• Alexander Khatisian (1874–1945), political scientist, public figure, official · buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery
• Alexander M. Patch (1889–1945), military officer · buried at West Point Cemetery
• Alexander Shcherbakov (1901–1945), statesperson, politician, military personnel · buried at Kremlin Wall Necropolis
• Alexey Favorsky (1860–1945), chemist, inventor · buried at Volkovo Cemetery
• Alla Nazimova (1879–1945), actor · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale, California)
• André Tardieu (1876–1945), journalist, politician, teacher · buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery
• Antal Szerb (1901–1945), literary historian, literary scholar, literary critic · buried at Fiume Road Graveyard
• Archduchess Carolina Maria of Austria (1869–1945), nun · buried at Farkasréti Cemetery
• Archibald James Murray (1860–1945), military officer · buried at Highgate Cemetery
• Augusto Tasso Fragoso (1867–1945), politician, military personnel · buried at Cemitério de São João Batista
• Béla Bartók (1881–1945), classical pianist, collector of folk music, ethnomusicologist · buried at Ferncliff Cemetery
• Boris Shaposhnikov (1882–1945), politician, military personnel · buried at Kremlin Wall Necropolis
• Bruno Frank (1887–1945), television writer, film screenwriter, editor · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale, California)
• Charles W. Gilmore (1874–1945), paleontologist, curator, geologist · buried at Arlington National Cemetery
• Clara Petacci (1912–1945), politician · buried at Campo Verano
• Demyan Bedny (1883–1945), opinion journalist, journalist, public figure · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906–1945), Protestant theologian, philosopher, resistance fighter · buried at Dorotheenstadt Cemetery
• Dwight Filley Davis Sr. (1879–1945), tennis player, politician · buried at Arlington National Cemetery
• Eduard Bloch (1872–1945), physician · buried at Beth David Cemetery
• Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale (1872–1945), visual artist, botanical illustrator, cartoonist · buried at Brompton Cemetery
• Ellen Glasgow (1873–1945), essayist, novelist, suffragette · buried at Hollywood Cemetery (Richmond, Virginia)
• Else Lasker-Schüler (1869–1945), librettist, salonnière, artist · buried at Mount of Olives Jewish Cemetery
• Emily Carr (1871–1945), autobiographer, ceramicist, painter · buried at Ross Bay Cemetery
• Emmanuel Bove (1898–1945), novelist, journalist, writer · buried at Montparnasse Cemetery
• Ernie Pyle (1900–1945), journalist, war correspondent, writer · buried at National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific
• Ernst Cassirer (1874–1945), philosopher, art historian, university teacher · buried at Cedar Park Cemetery, New Jersey
• Frank Craven (1881–1945), playwright, film actor, librettist · buried at Kensico Cemetery
• Frank M. Chapman (1864–1945), scientific collector, editor, botanical collector · buried at Brookside Cemetery (Englewood, New Jersey)
• Franz Werfel (1890–1945), science fiction writer, librettist, speaker · buried at Vienna Central Cemetery
• Gabriel El-Registan (1899–1945), journalist, war correspondent, poet · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• Gloria Dickson (1917–1945), film actor, actor · buried at Hollywood Forever Cemetery
• Hans Oster (1887–1945), soldier, resistance fighter, major general · buried at Nordfriedhof (Dresden)
• Hans von Dohnányi (1902–1945), Oberregierungsrat, resistance fighter, jurist · buried at Dorotheenstadt Cemetery
• Harry K. Daghlian, Jr. (1921–1945), nuclear physicist, physicist · buried at Cedar Grove Cemetery (New London, Connecticut)
• Heber J. Grant (1856–1945), President of the Church, politician, prophet · buried at Salt Lake City Cemetery
• Henrietta Szold (1860–1945), social worker, editor, author · buried at Mount of Olives Jewish Cemetery
• Henry Armetta (1888–1945), film actor, stage actor, actor · buried at Holy Cross Cemetery (Culver City, California)
• Hiram Johnson (1866–1945), prosecutor, jurist, governor · buried at Cypress Lawn Memorial Park
• István Tóth (1891–1945), association football player, association football coach · buried at Fiume Road Graveyard
• Italo Santelli (1866–1945), fencer · buried at Fiume Road Graveyard
• Ivan Chernyakhovsky (1906–1945), soldier, military officer · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• Janko Jesenský (1874–1945), linguist, poet lawyer, translator · buried at National Cemetery in Martin
• János Garay (1889–1945), fencer · buried at Farkasréti Cemetery
• Jerome Kern (1885–1945), coin collecting, film score composer, songwriter · buried at Ferncliff Cemetery
• John Basilone (1916–1945), boxer, military personnel · buried at Arlington National Cemetery
• John Curtin (1885–1945), Australian rules football player, head of government, politician · buried at Karrakatta Cemetery
• John R. Commons (1862–1945), labor historian, educator, university teacher · buried at Forest Hill Cemetery (Madison, Wisconsin)
• Josef Čapek (1887–1945), art theorist, exlibrist, art critic · buried at Vyšehrad Cemetery
• Josef Gočár (1880–1945), designer, pedagogue, typographer · buried at Vyšehrad Cemetery
• Josef Hora (1891–1945), linguist, critic, opinion journalist · buried at Vyšehrad Cemetery
• Joseph Darnand (1897–1945), politician, military personnel · buried at Batignolles Cemetery
• Julius Leber (1891–1945), journalist, resistance fighter, editor-in-chief · buried at Waldfriedhof Zehlendorf
• Käthe Kollwitz (1867–1945), autobiographer, exlibrist, lithographer · buried at Zentralfriedhof Friedrichsfelde
• Klaus Bonhoeffer (1901–1945), resistance fighter, jurist, lawyer · buried at Dorotheenstadt Cemetery
• Leonid Pasternak (1862–1945), printmaker, visual artist, painter · buried at Wolvercote Cemetery
• Lucille La Verne (1872–1945), film actor, voice actor, stage actor · buried at Inglewood Park Cemetery
• Maria Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska (1891–1945), draftsperson, playwright, poet · buried at Southern Cemetery, Manchester
• Mark Sandrich (1900–1945), trade unionist, director, film producer · buried at Home of Peace Cemetery (Los Angeles)
• Max Ehrmann (1872–1945), philosopher, jurist, poet · buried at Highland Lawn Cemetery
• Michael Strank (1919–1945), military personnel · buried at Arlington National Cemetery
• Milena Pavlović-Barili (1909–1945), painter, poet, writer · buried at Protestant Cemetery, Rome
• Nikolai Berzarin (1904–1945), military officer · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• Nikolai Tcherepnin (1873–1945), music educator, choreographer, music arranger · buried at Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois Russian Cemetery
• Nikolay Khmelyov (1901–1945), theatre director, actor · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• Óscar R. Benavides (1876–1945), diplomat, military officer, politician · buried at Cementerio Presbítero Matías Maestro
• Paul Daimler (1869–1945), industrialist, design engineer, inventor · buried at Waldfriedhof Dahlem
• Pierre Drieu La Rochelle (1893–1945), writer · buried at Neuilly-sur-Seine Old Communal Cemetery
• Pierre Laval (1883–1945), jurist, politician, lawyer · buried at Montparnasse Cemetery
• René Lalique (1860–1945), perfume bottle designer, decorative artist, draftsperson · buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery
• Richárd Weisz (1879–1945), amateur wrestler · buried at Kozma Street Cemetery
• Robert Desnos (1900–1945), French resistance fighter, draftsperson, journalist · buried at Montparnasse Cemetery
• Robert H. Goddard (1882–1945), military flight engineer, inventor, mathematician · buried at Hope Cemetery (Worcester, Massachusetts)
• Robert Mallet-Stevens (1886–1945), designer, visual artist, production designer · buried at Passy Cemetery
• Roland Freisler (1893–1945), jurist, politician, lawyer · buried at Waldfriedhof Dahlem
• Salomėja Nėris (1904–1945), translator, poet, politician · buried at Petrašiūnai Cemetery
• Sara Josephine Baker (1873–1945), physician · buried at Poughkeepsie Rural Cemetery
• Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr. (1886–1945), soldier, military personnel · buried at Frankfort Cemetery
• Stacia Napierkowska (1891–1945), film actor, film director, stage actor · buried at Batignolles Cemetery
• Stefan Jaracz (1883–1945), theatre director, director, journalist · buried at Powązki Cemetery
• Stefan Mazurkiewicz (1888–1945), topologist, university teacher, mathematician · buried at Powązki Cemetery
• Takeichi Nishi (1902–1945), event rider, show jumper, military personnel · buried at Aoyama Cemetery
• Theodore Dreiser (1871–1945), autobiographer, essayist, novelist · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale, California)
• Vikenty Veresaev (1867–1945), short story writer, linguist, prose writer · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• Vilhelms Purvītis (1872–1945), painter, pedagogue, professor · buried at Forest Cemetery, Riga
• Vladimir Leontyevich Komarov (1869–1945), pteridologist, scientific collector, phycologist · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• Vladimir Vernadsky (1863–1945), biogeochemist, ecologist, geochemist · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• Wacław Sieroszewski (1858–1945), ethnographer, traveler, independence activist · buried at Powązki Cemetery
• William Trelease (1857–1945), explorer, scientific collector, entomologist · buried at Bellefontaine Cemetery
• Willis Augustus Lee (1888–1945), sport shooter, aircraft pilot, military officer · buried at Arlington National Cemetery
• Yakov Protazanov (1881–1945), director, film director, actor · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• Zinaida Gippius (1869–1945), prose writer, literary critic, playwright · buried at Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois Russian Cemetery
• Albert Bond Lambert (1875–1946), golfer, aircraft pilot, businessperson · buried at Bellefontaine Cemetery
• Aleksei Sudaev (1912–1946), firearms designer, design engineer, military officer · buried at Vagankovo Cemetery
• Alexander Alekhine (1892–1946), chess theoretician, chess player, translator · buried at Montparnasse Cemetery
• Alexander Alexandrov (1883–1946), music educator, choir director, conductor · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• Annie Morrill Smith (1856–1946), bryologist, scientific collector, genealogist · buried at Green-Wood Cemetery
• Antti Hackzell (1881–1946), foreign minister, head of government, diplomat · buried at Hietaniemi Cemetery
• Barney Oldfield (1878–1946), racing automobile driver, actor · buried at Holy Cross Cemetery (Culver City, California)
• Béla Imrédy (1891–1946), non-fiction writer, banker, diplomat · buried at Fiume Road Graveyard
• Booth Tarkington (1869–1946), children's writer, novelist, playwright · buried at Crown Hill Cemetery
• Boris Lisunov (1898–1946), aerospace engineer, statesperson, military officer · buried at Donskoye Cemetery
• Carl Schuhmann (1869–1946), weightlifter, artistic gymnast, athletics competitor · buried at Friedhof Heerstraße
• Countee Cullen (1903–1946), children's writer, novelist, poet · buried at Woodlawn Cemetery (Bronx, New York)
• Damon Runyon (1880–1946), film producer, journalist, writer · buried at Woodlawn Cemetery (Bronx, New York)
• Eduard Bass (1888–1946), reciter, science fiction writer, cabaret performer · buried at Vyšehrad Cemetery
• Ernst Leonard Lindelöf (1870–1946), topologist, non-fiction writer, university teacher · buried at Hietaniemi Cemetery
• Erwin Rösener (1902–1946), Obergruppenführer, politician, military personnel · buried at Žale
• Eugene Lanceray (1875–1946), visual artist, scenographer, graphic artist · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• Florence Turner (1885–1946), film actor, film producer, film director · buried at Chapel of the Pines Crematory
• Gabriela Preissová (1862–1946), prose writer, children's writer, editing staff · buried at Vyšehrad Cemetery
• Georgios Kafantaris (1873–1946), head of government, politician, lawyer · buried at First Cemetery of Athens
• Gertrude Stein (1874–1946), autobiographer, art collector, librettist · buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery
• Harlan F. Stone (1872–1946), university teacher, jurist, politician · buried at Rock Creek Cemetery
• Helene Schjerfbeck (1862–1946), exlibrist, painter · buried at Hietaniemi Cemetery
• Henry Bergman (1868–1946), non-fiction writer, film actor, film producer · buried at Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery
• Henry Lehrman (1886–1946), film actor, director, film producer · buried at Hollywood Forever Cemetery
• István Bethlen (1874–1946), non-fiction writer, diplomat, economist · buried at Fiume Road Graveyard
• Ivan Moskvin (1874–1946), theatre director, film director, politician · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• Jack Johnson (1878–1946), boxer · buried at Graceland Cemetery
• Jeanie MacPherson (1886–1946), film actor, film director, actor · buried at Hollywood Forever Cemetery
• Joe Keaton (1867–1946), acrobat, film actor, actor · buried at Inglewood Park Cemetery
• Johannes Vares (1890–1946), military physician, gynecologist, poet · buried at Metsakalmistu
• Jorge Ubico (1878–1946), military officer, politician · buried at Guatemala City General Cemetery
• Joseph Stella (1877–1946), collagist, draftsperson, architectural drafter · buried at Woodlawn Cemetery (Bronx, New York)
• Joseph Stilwell (1883–1946), basketball coach, military personnel · buried at West Point Cemetery
• Juan Antonio Rios (1888–1946), diplomat, politician, lawyer · buried at Santiago General Cemetery
• Jules-Albert de Dion (1856–1946), automotive engineer, racing automobile driver, industrialist · buried at Montparnasse Cemetery
• Julian Nowak (1865–1946), non-fiction writer, bacteriologist, microbiologist · buried at Rakowicki Cemetery
• Kate Bruce (1860–1946), film actor, actor · buried at Calvary Cemetery (Queens)
• László Moholy-Nagy (1895–1946), collagist, object artist, theatre designer · buried at Graceland Cemetery
• Leon Rupnik (1880–1946), politician, military personnel · buried at Žale
• Lionel Atwill (1885–1946), film actor, stage actor, character actor · buried at Chapel of the Pines Crematory
• Lucina Hagman (1853–1946), women's rights activist, politician, teacher · buried at Hietaniemi Cemetery
• Mae Busch (1891–1946), film actor, stage actor, actor · buried at Chapel of the Pines Crematory
• Mamie Smith (1891–1946), jazz musician, stage actor, bandleader · buried at Frederick Douglass Memorial Park
• Mary Alden (1883–1946), film actor, stage actor, actor · buried at Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery
• Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin (1875–1946), politician, engineer, teacher · buried at Kremlin Wall Necropolis
• Moisei Ginzburg (1892–1946), non-fiction writer, university teacher, urban planner · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• Nikolai Burdenko (1876–1946), neurosurgeon, university teacher, surgeon · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• Noah Beery, Sr. (1882–1946), film actor, stage actor, character actor · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills)
• Pauline Whittier (1876–1946), golfer · buried at Woodlawn Cemetery (Bronx, New York)
• Q1354695 (1869–1946), decorator, graphic artist, stained-glass artist · buried at Rakowicki Cemetery
• Renée Jeanne Falconetti (1892–1946), film actor, stage actor, biographer · buried at Montmartre Cemetery
• Sándor Simonyi-Semadam (1864–1946), diplomat, politician, lawyer · buried at Farkasréti Cemetery
• Shefqet Vërlaci (1877–1946), politician · buried at Protestant Cemetery, Rome
• Slim Summerville (1892–1946), film actor, film director, actor · buried at Inglewood Park Cemetery
• W. C. Fields (1880–1946), cabaret performer, circus performer, film actor · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale, California)
• Walter Johnson (1887–1946), baseball player, politician · buried at Rockville Cemetery (Maryland)
• Wen Yiduo (1899–1946), poet, writer · buried at Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery
• William S. Hart (1864–1946), film actor, director, film producer · buried at Green-Wood Cemetery
• Adrienne Ames (1907–1947), radio personality, film actor · buried at Oakwood Cemetery (Fort Worth, Texas)
• Al Capone (1899–1947), gangster · buried at Mount Carmel Cemetery (Hillside, Illinois)
• Alfredo Casella (1883–1947), musicologist, pianist, conductor · buried at Campo Verano
• Alphonzo Bell (1875–1947), tennis player · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale, California)
• Anton Denikin (1872–1947), military officer, lieutenant general, politician · buried at Donskoye Cemetery
• Attilio Ferraris (1904–1947), association football player · buried at Campo Verano
• Aung San (1915–1947), national hero, military personnel, politician · buried at Martyrs' Mausoleum
• Balys Sruoga (1896–1947), theatre critic, literary critic, poet · buried at Rasos Cemetery
• Benny Leonard (1896–1947), boxer, athlete, actor · buried at Mount Carmel Cemetery (Queens)
• Black Dahlia (1924–1947), waiter, domestic worker · buried at Mountain View Cemetery (Oakland, California)
• Bugsy Siegel (1906–1947), rum-runner, contract killer, gangster · buried at Hollywood Forever Cemetery
• Carrie Chapman Catt (1859–1947), feminist, women's rights activist, peace activist · buried at Woodlawn Cemetery (Bronx, New York)
• Charles Gondouin (1875–1947), rugby union player, rugby union match official, association football referee · buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery
• Embrik Strand (1876–1947), zoological collector, scientific collector, arachnologist · buried at Forest Cemetery, Riga
• Ernst Lubitsch (1892–1947), film screenwriter, producer, film actor · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale, California)
• Ettore Bugatti (1881–1947), racing automobile driver, industrialist, inventor · buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery
• Fiorello H. La Guardia (1882–1947), politician · buried at Woodlawn Cemetery (Bronx, New York)
• Frances Cleveland (1864–1947) · buried at Princeton Cemetery
• Frederick Hopkins (1861–1947), biochemist, university teacher, chemist · buried at Ascension Parish Burial Ground
• Fritz Schumacher (1869–1947), exlibrist, university teacher, architect · buried at Ohlsdorf Cemetery
• Georg Kolbe (1877–1947), draftsperson, etcher, graphic artist · buried at Friedhof Heerstraße
• Georg Schnéevoigt (1872–1947), general music director, music educator, cellist · buried at Hietaniemi Cemetery
• Giuseppe Volpi (1877–1947), art collector, entrepreneur, politician · buried at San Michele Cemetery, Venice
• Gusztáv Jány (1883–1947), military personnel · buried at Farkasréti Cemetery
• Harry Carey (1878–1947), film actor, director, stage actor · buried at Woodlawn Cemetery (Bronx, New York)
• Henry Kolker (1870–1947), film actor, film director, stage actor · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale, California)
• Herman Bing (1889–1947), film actor, comedian · buried at Hollywood Forever Cemetery
• Irving Fisher (1867–1947), statistician, inventor, economist · buried at Evergreen Cemetery (New Haven, Connecticut)
• J. Warren Kerrigan (1879–1947), film actor, film director, writer · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale, California)
• Ja'far Pishevari (1892–1947), revolutionary, journalist, politician · buried at Alley of Honor
• James Larkin (1876–1947), union member, trade unionist, stevedore · buried at Glasnevin Cemetery
• Jean-Richard Bloch (1884–1947), prose writer, novelist, literary critic · buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery
• Jimmie Lunceford (1902–1947), jazz musician, saxophonist, bandleader · buried at Elmwood Cemetery (Memphis, Tennessee)
• John Henry Patterson (1867–1947), railway engineer, soldier, hunter · buried at Angelus-Rosedale Cemetery
• José Pardo y Barreda (1864–1947), diplomat, politician, lawyer · buried at Cementerio Presbítero Matías Maestro
• Josh Gibson (1911–1947), baseball player · buried at Allegheny Cemetery
• Kálmán Tihanyi (1897–1947), electrotechnician, electrical engineer, inventor · buried at Fiume Road Graveyard
• Karol Świerczewski (1897–1947), military officer · buried at Powązki Military Cemetery
• Leevi Madetoja (1887–1947), musicologist, librettist, choreographer · buried at Hietaniemi Cemetery
• Léon-Paul Fargue (1876–1947), painter, poet, writer · buried at Montparnasse Cemetery
• Lucjan Żeligowski (1865–1947), military officer, politician · buried at Powązki Military Cemetery
• Mabel Van Buren (1878–1947), film actor, stage actor, actor · buried at Holy Cross Cemetery (Culver City, California)
• Marc Mitscher (1887–1947), aircraft pilot, military officer · buried at Arlington National Cemetery
• Mari Gerekmezyan (1913–1947), sculptor · buried at Şişli Armenian Cemetery
• Meredith Colket (1878–1947), pole vaulter, tennis player · buried at Laurel Hill Cemetery
• Miguel Abadía Méndez (1867–1947), diplomat, politician, lawyer · buried at Central Cemetery of Bogotá
• Moshe Barazani (1926–1947), military personnel · buried at Mount of Olives Jewish Cemetery
• Nicholas Murray Butler (1862–1947), pacifist, opinion journalist, philosopher · buried at Cedar Lawn Cemetery
• Nikolai Chebotaryov (1894–1947), scientist, university teacher, executive · buried at Arskoe Cemetery
• Olive Borden (1906–1947), film actor, stage actor, actor · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale, California)
• Petras Cvirka (1909–1947), children's writer, opinion journalist, poet · buried at Rasos Cemetery
• Reynaldo Hahn (1874–1947), choreographer, music critic, pianist · buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery
• Rosa Smith Eigenmann (1858–1947), scientific collector, ichthyologist, botanical collector · buried at Greenwood Memorial Park (San Diego)
• Rosalia Zemlyachka (1876–1947), revolutionary, politician · buried at Kremlin Wall Necropolis
• Simon Janashia (1900–1947), university teacher, historian · buried at Mtatsminda Pantheon
• Tadeusz Kutrzeba (1886–1947), opinion journalist, military historian, historian · buried at Powązki Military Cemetery
• Tristan Bernard (1866–1947), crossword creator, novelist, poet lawyer · buried at Passy Cemetery
• Victor Horta (1861–1947), designer, general contractor, urban planner · buried at Ixelles Cemetery
• Victor Potel (1889–1947), film actor, actor · buried at Rosehill Cemetery
• Vladimir Golenishchev (1856–1947), linguist, archaeologist, Egyptologist · buried at Russian Orthodox Cemetery, Nice
• Walter Donaldson (1893–1947), film score composer, songwriter, lyricist · buried at Holy Cross Cemetery, Brooklyn
• Wilfred Hudson Osgood (1875–1947), scientific collector, ornithologist, zoologist · buried at Oak Woods Cemetery
• Wilhelm Uhde (1874–1947), fresco painter, gallerist, collector · buried at Montparnasse Cemetery
• William Crapo Durant (1861–1947), industrialist, entrepreneur · buried at Woodlawn Cemetery (Bronx, New York)
• William Isaac Thomas (1863–1947), sociologist, psychologist, writer · buried at Old Gray Cemetery
• William Moulton Marston (1893–1947), comics writer, psychologist, writer · buried at Ferncliff Cemetery
• Wolfgang Borchert (1921–1947), short story writer, cabaret performer, resistance fighter · buried at Ohlsdorf Cemetery
• Aldo Leopold (1887–1948), forestry scientist, conservationist, ecologist · buried at Aspen Grove Cemetery (Burlington, Iowa)
• Alfred Kerr (1867–1948), theatre critic, librettist, literary critic · buried at Ohlsdorf Cemetery
• Andrei Zhdanov (1896–1948), politician, military personnel · buried at Kremlin Wall Necropolis
• Anna Jarvis (1864–1948), activist, founder · buried at West Laurel Hill Cemetery
• Antoine Lacroix (1863–1948), petrographer, mineralogist, earth scientist · buried at Montparnasse Cemetery
• Antonin Artaud (1896–1948), prose writer, comedy writer, essayist · buried at Cimetière Saint-Pierre (Marseille)
• Avedis Aharonyan (1866–1948), politician, teacher, writer · buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery
• Babe Ruth (1895–1948), baseball player · buried at Gate of Heaven Cemetery (Hawthorne, New York)
• Béla Miklós (1890–1948), diplomat, military officer, politician · buried at Fiume Road Graveyard
• Carole Landis (1919–1948), film actor, dancer, stage actor · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale, California)
• Caroline Lacroix (1883–1948), aristocrat · buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery
• Charles A. Beard (1874–1948), historian of Modern Age, peace activist, opinion journalist · buried at Ferncliff Cemetery
• Charles Evans Hughes (1862–1948), foreign minister, diplomat, jurist · buried at Woodlawn Cemetery (Bronx, New York)
• Claude McKay (1889–1948), novelist, poet, writer · buried at Calvary Cemetery (Queens)
• Dale Fuller (1885–1948), film actor, actor · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale, California)
• Edgar de Wahl (1867–1948), Idist, linguist, Esperantist · buried at Alexander Nevsky Cemetery, Tallinn
• Edgar Kennedy (1890–1948), boxer, film actor, film director · buried at Holy Cross Cemetery (Culver City, California)
• Edith Roosevelt (1861–1948), politician · buried at Youngs Memorial Cemetery
• Edythe Chapman (1863–1948), film actor, stage actor, actor · buried at Bonaventure Cemetery
• Elaine Hammerstein (1897–1948), film actor, actor · buried at Calvary Cemetery (Los Angeles)
• Elizabeth Magie (1866–1948), stenographer, game designer, writer · buried at Columbia Gardens Cemetery
• Emery Roth (1871–1948), architect · buried at Ferncliff Cemetery
• Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari (1876–1948), musicologist, director, teacher · buried at San Michele Cemetery, Venice
• Fred Niblo (1874–1948), film actor, director, film producer · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale, California)
• Gennaro Granito Pignatelli di Belmonte (1851–1948), Catholic bishop, Catholic priest · buried at Campo Verano
• Gerardo Matos Rodríguez (1897–1948), journalist, musician, pianist · buried at Central Cemetery of Montevideo
• Gertrude Atherton (1857–1948), non-fiction writer, novelist, writer · buried at Cypress Lawn Memorial Park
• Giulio Gaudini (1904–1948), fencer · buried at Campo Verano
• Gregg Toland (1904–1948), film director, cinematographer · buried at Hollywood Forever Cemetery
• Heitarō Kimura (1888–1948), military personnel · buried at Aoyama Cemetery
• Hideki Tojo (1884–1948), diplomat, military officer, politician · buried at Zōshigaya Cemetery
• Isaac Isaacs (1855–1948), author, governor-general, barrister · buried at Melbourne General Cemetery
• István Barta (1895–1948), water polo player, swimmer · buried at Farkasréti Cemetery
• Jacques Feyder (1885–1948), film actor, film editor, director · buried at Brussels Cemetery
• James Baskett (1904–1948), film actor, stage actor, musician · buried at Crown Hill Cemetery
• James Young (1872–1948), film director, film actor, director · buried at Green Mount Cemetery
• Jāzeps Vītols (1863–1948), music teacher, music arranger, university teacher · buried at Forest Cemetery, Riga
• John J. Pershing (1860–1948), military officer, lawyer · buried at Arlington National Cemetery
• John Lomax (1867–1948), music historian, ethnomusicologist, musicologist · buried at Oakwood Cemetery (Austin, Texas)
• Josephus Daniels (1862–1948), newspaper proprietor, publisher, diplomat · buried at Historic Oakwood Cemetery
• Kâzım Karabekir (1882–1948), memoirist, politician, military personnel · buried at Turkish State Cemetery
• King Baggot (1879–1948), film actor, director, film producer · buried at Calvary Cemetery (Los Angeles)
• Konstantin Igumnov (1873–1948), music educator, opinion journalist, university teacher · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• Manuel Ponce (1882–1948), pianist, composer · buried at Panteón de Dolores
• Manuel Roxas (1892–1948), autobiographer, university teacher, politician · buried at Manila North Cemetery
• Mary Eaton (1901–1948), film actor, dancer, model · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale, California)
• Mary Nolan (1902–1948), film actor, dancer, model · buried at Hollywood Forever Cemetery
• Mickey Marcus (1901–1948), military officer, colonel, military personnel · buried at West Point Cemetery
• Milan Begović (1876–1948), Theaterintendant, dramaturge, playwright · buried at Mirogoj Cemetery
• Nándor Dáni (1871–1948), middle-distance runner, athletics competitor · buried at Farkasréti Cemetery
• Nigel De Brulier (1877–1948), film actor, stage actor, actor · buried at Grand View Memorial Park Cemetery
• Nikolai Podvoisky (1880–1948), historian, politician · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• Oerip Soemohardjo (1893–1948), military officer, military personnel · buried at Kusumanegara Heroes' Cemetery
• Ömer Fahreddin Türkkan (1868–1948), diplomat, politician, military personnel · buried at Aşiyan Asri Cemetery
• Orville Wright (1871–1948), aircraft pilot, inventor, businessperson · buried at Woodland Cemetery and Arboretum
• Paul Wegener (1874–1948), film actor, stage actor, film producer · buried at Friedhof Heerstraße
• Pavel Rybalko (1894–1948), military leader, politician, military personnel · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• Princess Helena Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein (1870–1948), aristocrat · buried at Royal Burial Ground, Frogmore
• Q2506718 (1866–1948), fossil collector, arachnologist, scientific collector · buried at Columbia Cemetery (Columbia, Missouri)
• René Benjamin (1885–1948), journalist, writer · buried at Montmartre Cemetery
• Richard Tauber (1891–1948), film producer, opera singer, singer · buried at Brompton Cemetery
• Rosika Schwimmer (1877–1948), feminist, peace activist, suffragist · buried at Ferncliff Cemetery
• Samuel P. Bush (1863–1948), entrepreneur, businessperson · buried at Green Lawn Cemetery (Columbus, Ohio)
• Samuel S. Hinds (1875–1948), film actor, actor · buried at Inglewood Park Cemetery
• Sergei Eisenstein (1898–1948), draftsperson, theatre designer, film editor · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• Solomon Mikhoels (1890–1948), director, drama teacher, theatre director · buried at Donskoye Cemetery
• Solomon R. Guggenheim (1861–1948), art collector, industrialist, entrepreneur · buried at Salem Fields Cemetery
• Uzeyir Hajibeyov (1885–1948), music educator, ethnomusicologist, musicologist · buried at Alley of Honor
• Vasily Kachalov (1875–1948), film actor, drama teacher, pedagogue · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• Viola Allen (1867–1948), stage actor, actor · buried at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery
• Warren Hymer (1906–1948), composer, actor · buried at Chapel of the Pines Crematory
• Warren William (1894–1948), film actor, stage actor, actor · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale, California)
• William Nicholas Selig (1864–1948), film producer, film director, screenwriter · buried at Chapel of the Pines Crematory
• Witold Pilecki (1901–1948), soldier, resistance fighter, military officer · buried at Powązki Cemetery
• Yevgeniy Abalakov (1907–1948), explorer, mountaineer, athlete · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• Aino Aalto (1894–1949), designer, glass artist, architect · buried at Hietaniemi Cemetery
• Albert Ammons (1907–1949), jazz musician, musician, pianist · buried at Lincoln Cemetery (Cook County)
• Alexander Serafimovich (1863–1949), short story writer, prose writer, poet · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• Alexey Shchusev (1873–1949), art theorist, restorer, art historian · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• Amadeo Giannini (1870–1949), banker, entrepreneur · buried at Holy Cross Cemetery (Colma, California)
• Antoni Ponikowski (1878–1949), university teacher, surveyor, politician · buried at Powązki Cemetery
• Archbishop Damaskinos Papandreou (1891–1949), Eastern Orthodox priest, Eastern Orthodox bishop, head of government · buried at First Cemetery of Athens
• Axel Munthe (1857–1949), personal physician, physician writer, psychiatrist · buried at Protestant Cemetery, Rome
• Béla Balázs (1884–1949), film theorist, aesthetician, librettist · buried at Fiume Road Graveyard
• Bill Robinson (1878–1949), dancer, film actor, stage actor · buried at Cemetery of the Evergreens
• Boris Asafyev (1884–1949), music theorist, music educator, musicologist · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• Charles Hutchison (1879–1949), film actor, director, film director · buried at Hollywood Forever Cemetery
• Charles Middleton (1874–1949), film actor, stage actor, actor · buried at Hollywood Forever Cemetery
• Edward Reilly Stettinius, Jr. (1900–1949), diplomat, politician, businessperson · buried at Locust Valley Cemetery
• Ellery Harding Clark (1874–1949), athletics competitor, screenwriter · buried at Forest Hills Cemetery
• Elmer Clifton (1890–1949), film actor, director, film director · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale, California)
• Fedor Ozep (1895–1949), film editor, director, film director · buried at Hollywood Forever Cemetery
• Felix Bressart (1895–1949), film actor, healer, stage actor · buried at Hollywood Forever Cemetery
• Francesco Marmaggi (1876–1949), theologian, Catholic bishop, Catholic priest · buried at Campo Verano
• Frank Fetter (1863–1949), university teacher, economist, writer · buried at Princeton Cemetery
• Frank Morgan (1890–1949), film actor, stage actor, character actor · buried at Green-Wood Cemetery
• Fritz Leiber (1882–1949), film actor, theatre director, stage actor · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale, California)
• Fyodor Ivanovich Tolbukhin (1894–1949), politician, soldier, military officer · buried at Kremlin Wall Necropolis
• Ginette Neveu (1919–1949), violinist, musician · buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery
• Hans Pfitzner (1869–1949), musicographer, general music director, director · buried at Vienna Central Cemetery
• Harry Davenport (1866–1949), film actor, film director, stage actor · buried at Kensico Cemetery
• Harry Rapf (1880–1949), producer, production manager, film producer · buried at Home of Peace Cemetery (Los Angeles)
• Harry Stack Sullivan (1892–1949), psychoanalyst, psychiatrist · buried at Arlington National Cemetery
• Herbert Stothart (1885–1949), film score composer, bandleader, songwriter · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale, California)
• Hervey Allen (1889–1949), novelist, literary critic, pedagogue · buried at Arlington National Cemetery
• Howard Hickman (1880–1949), film actor, film director, stage actor · buried at Mount Tamalpais Cemetery
• Ivie Anderson (1905–1949), jazz singer, musician, singer · buried at Angelus-Rosedale Cemetery
• James Forrestal (1892–1949), diarist, investment banker, banker · buried at Arlington National Cemetery
• James Truslow Adams (1878–1949), historian of Modern Age, biographer, historian · buried at Green-Wood Cemetery
• Jean-Pierre Wimille (1908–1949), SOE agent, French resistance fighter, racing automobile driver · buried at Passy Cemetery
• Kim Jong-suk (1917–1949), partisan, diplomat, politician · buried at Revolutionary Martyrs' Cemetery
• Klaus Mann (1906–1949), autobiographer, theatre critic, literary critic · buried at Cimetière du Grand Jas
• László Rajk (1909–1949), diplomat, politician · buried at Fiume Road Graveyard
• Leon Schlesinger (1884–1949), film producer, television producer, actor · buried at Hollywood Forever Cemetery
• Linda Arvidson (1884–1949), film actor, screenwriter, actor · buried at Cypress Lawn Memorial Park
• Margaret Mitchell (1900–1949), novelist, prose writer, journalist · buried at Oakland Cemetery (Atlanta)
• Maria Ouspenskaya (1876–1949), film actor, stage actor, character actor · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale, California)
• Mariano Fortuny (1871–1949), draftsperson, printmaker, designer · buried at Campo Verano
• Nikolai Semashko (1874–1949), revolutionary, statesperson, physician · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• Nikolay Gamaleya (1859–1949), virologist, epidemiologist, biologist · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• Nikos Skalkottas (1904–1949), violinist, composer · buried at First Cemetery of Athens
• Nuri Killigil (1889–1949), politician, military personnel, businessperson · buried at Edirnekapı Martyr's Cemetery
• Oscar Polk (1899–1949), stage actor, actor · buried at Mount Olivet Cemetery (Queens)
• Othon Friesz (1879–1949), printmaker, painter, teacher · buried at Montparnasse Cemetery
• Oton Župančič (1878–1949), linguist, essayist, literary critic · buried at Žale
• Otto Wächter (1901–1949), military officer, jurist, politician · buried at Campo Verano
• Richard Dix (1893–1949), film actor, film producer, stage actor · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale, California)
• Sam Wood (1883–1949), film actor, director, film producer · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale, California)
• Stephen Samuel Wise (1874–1949), zionist, Zionist activist, community leader · buried at Westchester Hills Cemetery
• Vasily Lebedev-Kumach (1898–1949), satirist, Liedermacher, lyricist · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• Victor Fleming (1889–1949), film director, cinematographer, director · buried at Hollywood Forever Cemetery
• Vida Goldstein (1869–1949), women's rights activist, journalist, suffragette · buried at Springvale Botanical Cemetery
• Vladimir Nazor (1876–1949), translator, political commissar, politician · buried at Mirogoj Cemetery
• Vyacheslav Ivanov (1866–1949), philologist, essayist, librettist · buried at Protestant Cemetery, Rome
• Wallace Beery (1885–1949), film actor, film director, stage actor · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale, California)
• Walter Short (1880–1949), soldier · buried at Arlington National Cemetery
• Wheeler Vivian Oakman (1890–1949), film actor, actor, screenwriter · buried at Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery
• Will Hay (1888–1949), stand-up comedian, film director, film actor · buried at Streatham Park Cemetery
• William Desmond (1878–1949), stage actor, actor · buried at Chapel of the Pines Crematory
• Yoshijirō Umezu (1882–1949), soldier, military personnel · buried at Aoyama Cemetery