* 1939 – 1945, the Second Battle of the Atlantic.

* 1945 – World War II: Sarajevo is liberated from German and Croatian forces by the Yugoslav Partisans.

* 1945 – World War II: the Battle of Slater's Knoll on Bougainville comes to an end.

* 1945 – Neal Boortz, American radio personality

* 1945 – U. S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt dies while in office ; vice-president Harry Truman is sworn in as the 33rd President.

* 1945 – Lee Jong-wook, Korean Director-General of the World Health Organization ( d. 2006 )

* 1945 – World War II: Führerbunker: Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun commit suicide after being married for one day.

* 1945 – Annie Dillard, American writer

* 1945 – Mimi Fariña, American singer-songwriter, musician, and activist ( d. 2001 )

* 1945 – Michael J. Smith, American astronaut ( d. 1986 )

* 1871 – Theodore Dreiser, American author ( d. 1945 )

* 1905 – Aris Velouchiotis, Greek military leader ( d. 1945 )

* 1945 – Jan Sloot, Dutch inventor ( d. 1999 )

* 1945 – World War II: Hiroshima, Japan is devastated when the atomic bomb " Little Boy " is dropped by the United States B-29 Enola Gay.

* 1945 – Ron Jones, English director ( d. 1993 )

* 1945 – Andy Messersmith, American baseball player

* 1945 – World War II: Nagasaki, Japan is devastated when an atomic bomb, Fat Man, is dropped by the United States B-29 Bockscar.

* 1945 – World War II: The Soviet Union declares war on Japan and begins the Manchurian Strategic Offensive Operation.

* 1945 – Barbara Delinsky, American author

* 1945 – Aleksandr Gorelik, Russian figure skater ( d. 2012 )

* 1945 – Posy Simmonds, English cartoonist

* 1866 – Giovanni Agnelli, Italian businessman, founded Fiat S. p. A ( d. 1945 )

* 1945 – Lars Engqvist, Swedish politician

* 1945 – Robin Jackman, English cricketer

* 1897 – Karl-Otto Koch, German SS officer ( d. 1945 )

His many plays included Nobody's Widow ( 1910 ), starring Blanche Bates ; Fair and Warmer ( 1915 ), starring Madge Kennedy ( filmed in 1919 ); The Gold Diggers ( 1919 ), starring Ina Claire ( filmed in 1923 as The Gold Diggers, in 1928 as Gold Diggers of Broadway and also as Gold Diggers of 1933 ); Ladies ' Night, 1920, starring Charlie Ruggles ( filmed in 1928 ); the famous mystery play The Bat ( with Mary Roberts Rinehart ), 1920 ( filmed in 1926, 1930 and 1959 ); Getting Gertie's Garter ( with Wilson Collison ), 1921, starring Hazel Dawn ( filmed in 1927 and 1945 ); The Demi-Virgin, 1921, also starring Hazel Dawn ; The Alarm Clock, 1923 ; The Best People ( with David Gray ), 1924 ( filmed in 1925 and as Fast and Loose in 1930 ), the song-farce Naughty Cinderella, 1925, starring Irene Bordoni and The Garden of Eden in 1927 ( filmed in as 1928 ).

Her many memorable screen roles include a supporting role as Joan Crawford's wise-cracking friend in Mildred Pierce ( 1945 ) for which she received an Academy Award nomination as Best Supporting Actress, and James Stewart's wistful secretary in Otto Preminger's then-explicit murder mystery, Anatomy of a Murder ( 1959 ).

Moving to London in 1945, following the repeal of the Witchcraft Act of 1736 he became intent on propagating this religion, attracting media attention and writing about it in High Magic's Aid ( 1949 ), Witchcraft Today ( 1954 ) and The Meaning of Witchcraft ( 1959 ).

* Dziuban, Stanley W. Military Relations between the United States and Canada, 1939 – 1945 ( 1959 ) online edition.

He was appointed by President Charles de Gaulle as Minister of Information ( 1945 – 1946 ) and subsequently as France's first Minister of Cultural Affairs during de Gaulle's presidency ( 1959 – 1969 ).

The team went on to create four more hits that are among the most popular of all musicals and were each made into successful films: Carousel ( 1945 ), South Pacific ( 1949, winner of the 1950 Pulitzer Prize for Drama ), The King and I ( 1951 ), and The Sound of Music ( 1959 ).

Michael Foot and Ian Mikardo also remained of the 1945 intake, but Michael Foot had been out of the House from 1955 to 1960 and Mikardo from 1959 to 1964.

( 1945 / 1959 ).

Among his other films were Spellbound ( 1945 ), The Paradine Case ( 1947 ), The Gunfighter ( 1950 ), Moby Dick ( 1956 ), On the Beach ( 1959 ), which brought to life the terrors of global nuclear war, The Guns of Navarone ( 1961 ), and Roman Holiday ( 1953 ), with Audrey Hepburn in her Oscar-winning role.

The Romanian branch acquired the name Babeş ; a Hungarian university, Bolyai, was established in 1945, and the two were merged in 1959.

Inaugurations of subsequent presidents took place there in 1945, 1952, 1959, 1966, 1973, 1974, 1976, 1983, 1990, 1997 and 2011.

The fact that the nearest stop, Strickerhäuser ( after 1945 Tkacze, after 1959 Mýtiny ), was on the other side of the Austro-Hungarian border in German Silesia was not a major obstacle at that time.

Seán Thomas O ' Kelly (; 25 August 1882 – 23 November 1966 ) was the second President of Ireland ( 1945 – 1959 ).

Seán Tomás Ó Ceallaigh ; 25 August 1882 – 23 November 1966, was the second President of Ireland ( 1945 – 1959 )

Gielgud quickly rose to the status of being one of the top directors for Binkie Beaumont's H. M. Tennent, Ltd. production company in London's West End Theatre and later on Broadway, his productions including Lady Windermere's Fan ( 1945 ), The Glass Menagerie ( 1948 ), The Heiress ( 1949 ), his own adaptation of The Cherry Orchard ( 1954 ), The Potting Shed ( 1958 ), Five Finger Exercise ( 1959 ), Peter Ustinov's comedy Half Way Up a Tree ( 1967 ), and Private Lives ( 1972 ).

But many believed that his greatest successes were in Shakespearean productions in which he both directed and starred, especially Romeo and Juliet ( 1935 ), Richard II ( 1937, 1953 ), King Lear ( 1950, 1955 ), Much Ado About Nothing ( 1952, 1955, 1959 ) and his signature role of Hamlet ( 1934, 1939, 1945 ).

From 1945 to 1959, the orchestra's principal conductor was Eduard van Beinum, who had debuted with the orchestra in 1929.

During 1945 he wrote his world-famous book titled Trotzdem Ja Zum Leben Sagen: Ein Psychologe Erlebt das Konzentrationslager ( translated: "... Saying Yes to Life in Spite of Everything: A Psychologist Experiences the Concentration Camp ", known in English by the title Man's Search for Meaning ( 1959 ).

:: 1931, 1933, 1934, 1936, 1938 ( 1 ), 1940, 1944, 1945, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1952, 1954, 1956, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1967, 1970, 1971, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1991, 1993, 1994, 1998, 1999 ( 2 ), 2001, 2012

* The third was a landing ship commissioned in 1945 and decommissioned in 1959

*, an aircraft carrier commissioned in 1945, serving in the Korean War and Vietnam War, reclassified LPH-5 in 1959, decommissioned 1970

Prince Phetsarath Rattanavongsa ( Somdej Chao Maha Oupahat Pethsarath Rattanavongsa lit: His Highness ( the ) Vice-King Phetsarath Rattanavongsa ) ( 19 January 1890 – 14 October 1959 ) was prime minister of Laos from 1942 to 1945, and was the first and last vice-king of the Kingdom of Laos.

Souvanna Phouma, together with his brother, Prince Phetsarath Rattanavongsa ( 1891 – 1959 ) and his half-brother, Prince Souphanouvong ( 1909 – 1995 ), at around the end of World War II, joined Lao Issara ( Free Laos ) movement established to counter the French occupation and its provisional Vientiane government ( 1945 – 46 ).

* Nathan Abrams, Commentary Magazine 1945 – 1959: ' A Journal of Significant Thought and Opinion.