* 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 – 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 )

* Aleksandr Leonidovich Zaitsev ( born 1945 ), Russian scientist in radar astronomy and SETI

In 1945, Parajanov traveled to Moscow, enrolled in the directing department at the VGIK, one of the oldest and highly respected film schools of Europe, and studied under the tutelage of directors Igor Savchenko and Aleksandr Dovzhenko.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn also served in East Prussia in 1945 and was arrested for criticizing Joseph Stalin and Soviet crimes in private correspondence with a friend.

Aleksandr Aleksejevich Khanzhonkov (; 8 August 1877 in modern day Donetsk Oblast-26 September 1945 in Yalta ) was Russia's first cinema entrepreneur.

A reminder of these nameless battles is the poem by Aleksandr Tvardovsky which contains the evocative phrase I was killed near Rzhev ... ( Я убит подо Ржевом, ( 1945 – 1946 )).

* Aleksandr Shcherbakov ( 1901 – 1945 ), a Soviet statesman and politician.

It mainly published prose that approved of the general line of the Communist Party, though a small controversy occurred in 1945, when Novy Mir published an essay by Aleksandr Bek that mentioned six different slang terms for " perineum ".

In August 1945, the Soviet Union declared war on Japan, and the Soviet Far East Front attacked into Japanese-occupied Manchuria led by Marshal of the Soviet Union Aleksandr Vasilevsky.

Aleksandr Sergueyevich Shcherbakov (; 1901 – 10 May 1945 ), was a founding member of the Soviet Writers ' Union, along with Maxim Gorky.

The symphony's second performance took place at the Moscow Conservatory on October 17, 1945, conducted by Aleksandr Gauk.

Aleksandr Gauk, who would conduct the triumphant revival of the symphony in 1945, surmised as much, suggesting the work failed initially " because it was a modern composition, far ahead of its time, so it did not satisfy the tastes of the contemporary critics.

The second performance of the piece, considered a success, took place at the Moscow Conservatory on October 17, 1945, conducted by Aleksandr Gauk.

* 1863 – Aleksey Krylov, Russian engineer and mathematician ( d. 1945 )

When the war ended in May 1945, as many as two million former Russian citizens were forcefully repatriated into the USSR.

At the end of May 1945, Stalin proposed a victory toast to the Soviet people, and to the virtues of the Russian majority in particular:

* 1888 – Osip Brik, Russian writer ( d. 1945 )

* 1883 – Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy, Russian writer ( d. 1945 )

* 2004 – Mikhail Voronin, Russian gymnast ( b. 1945 )

* 1869 – Zinaida Gippius, Russian woman-poet in exile in France ( d. 1945 )

It was also used as a political tool by both the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union, which gained political-military influence and control over all Slavic-majority nations between 1945 and 1948.

In his novels, Semyonov covered much Soviet intelligence history, ranging from the Russian Civil War ( 1917 – 1923 ), through the Great Patriotic War ( 1941 – 45 ), to the Russo – American Cold War ( 1945 – 91 ).

* 1945 – Igor Ivanov, Russian politician

Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky (, ; – 6 January 1945 ) was a Russian and Soviet mineralogist and geochemist who is considered one of the founders of geochemistry, biogeochemistry, and of radiogeology.

* April 1 – Nikolai Berzarin, Russian Red Army General ( d. 1945 )

** Aleksei Nikolaevich Tolstoi, Russian writer ( d. 1945 )

* March 4 – Boris Galerkin, Russian mathematician ( d. 1945 )

The Russian army destroyed the division during the Battle of Berlin in April 1945.

In the Allied occupation of Berlin in 1945, the Reichsfilmarchiv by chance was in the Russian zone and consequently shipped along with many other films back to be the basis of the Soviet Gosfilmofond film archive in Moscow.

Following Nazi Germany's defeat in World War II in 1945, war-torn East Prussia was divided at Joseph Stalin's insistence between the Soviet Union ( the Kaliningrad Oblast in the Russian SFSR and the constituent counties of the Klaipėda Region in the Lithuanian SSR ) and the People's Republic of Poland ( the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship ).

Although the 1945 – 1949 expulsion of Germans from the northern part of former East Prussia was often conducted in a violent and aggressive way by Soviet officials seeking revenge for Nazi crimes committed in the Soviet Union, the present Russian inhabitants of the Kaliningrad Oblast have much less animosity towards Germans.

It entered into force on 24 October 1945, after being ratified by the five permanent members of the Security Council — the Republic of China ( later replaced by the People's Republic of China ), France, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics ( later replaced by the Russian Federation ), the United Kingdom, and the United States — and a majority of the other signatories.

Berndt Baader served in the German Wehrmacht, was captured on the Russian Front in 1945, and never returned.

From 1941 to 1945 almost 20, 000 Russian prisoners of war and a further 50, 000 inmates died there, with up to 35, 000 of them dying of typhus in the first few months of 1945, shortly before and after the liberation.

The site of Friedland, in the Russian Kaliningrad Oblast since 1945, received the new name of Pravdinsk in that year.

He was honoured in his own country by being made an academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences ( 1953 ), Colonel-General ( 1968 ), and three times a Hero of Socialist Labor ( 1945, 1957, 1972 ).