* 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 – 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 )

The third-born of five children, Gibb had one older sister, Lesley Evans ( born 1945 ), and three brothers: Barry ( born 1946 ), twin Maurice ( 1949 – 2003 ), and Andy ( 1958 – 1988 ).

The fourth-born of five children, he had one older sister, Lesley Evans ( b. 1945 ), and three brothers, Barry ( b. 1946 ), twin Robin ( 1949 – 2012 ), and Andy ( 1958 – 1988 ).

He has an older sister, Lesley Evans ( b. 1945 ), and had three younger brothers, fraternal twins Robin ( 1949 – 2012 ) and Maurice ( 1949 – 2003 ), and Andy ( 1958 – 1988 ).

* Andy Tommy – player ( FW / HB ), 1989 ( Ottawa Rough Riders 1933 – 41, 1946 – 47 ; Toronto Argonauts 1945 ).

These players include Andy Pafko ( who, coincidentally, played in the 1945 World Series as a Cub ), Gene Baker, Smoky Burgess, Don Hoak, Dale Long, Lou Brock ( whose first title was in after a mid-season trade to the St. Louis Cardinals ), Lou Johnson, Jim Brewer, Moe Drabowsky, Don Cardwell, Ken Holtzman, Billy North, Fred Norman, Bill Madlock, Manny Trillo, Greg Gross, Rick Monday, Burt Hooton, Bruce Sutter, Willie Hernández, Joe Niekro, Dennis Eckersley, Joe Carter, Greg Maddux, Joe Girardi ( as both a player and a manager ), José Vizcaíno, Glenallen Hill ( after his second stint with the Cubs ; his title came in after a mid-season trade ), Luis Gonzalez, Mike Morgan, Mark Grace, Mark Bellhorn, Bill Mueller, Scott Eyre ( whose title came in after he been traded from the Cubs during the season ), Tom Gordon, Matt Stairs, Jamie Moyer, in, Mark DeRosa and Mike Fontenot — the former of whom had been traded the offseason before, the latter having been traded that midseason, and in, Ryan Theriot who was traded the previous season.

Andy Poe ( February 12, 1945 – September 5, 1995 ) was a Filipino actor.

* Andy Young – Made 621 appearances from 1945 until 1960

Gary Sandy ( born December 25, 1945 ) is an American actor, who starred as program director Andy Travis on the television sitcom WKRP in Cincinnati.

However, if Andy did indeed see France, he couldn't have seen action on a battlefield because he graduated Mayberry Union High in late spring 1945 and the war in Europe was over in May 1945.

John Alexander " Andy " Messersmith ( born August 6, 1945 in Toms River, New Jersey ) is a former Major League Baseball right-handed pitcher.

( observed by Stars and Stripes newspaper reporter Andy Rooney ), and on 17 March 1945, eleven V-2 rockets were launched at the bridge from the Hellendoorn area of the Netherlands, about north of Remagen, destroying a number of nearby buildings and killing at least six American soldiers.

In 1945, probably almost every American not only knew who Sam Spade was, but had some kind of emotional feeling about him.

And I suggest further that the main cause of the trouble we are in has been the failure of American policy-makers, ever since we assumed free world leadership in 1945, to deal with this problem realistically and seriously.

In 1945, Arturo Toscanini and the NBC Symphony Orchestra recorded the music in Carnegie Hall, one of the few commercial recordings Toscanini made of music by an American composer.

Seaborg leaked the synthesis of the elements 95 and 96 on the U. S. radio show for children, the Quiz Kids, five days before the official presentation at an American Chemical Society meeting on 11 November 1945, when one of the listeners asked whether any new transuranium element beside plutonium and neptunium had been discovered during the war.

Ski troops were trained for the war, and battles were waged in mountainous areas such as the battle at Riva Ridge in Italy, where the American 10th Mountain Division encountered heavy resistance in February 1945.

* 1945 – Joanna Cassidy, American actress

* 1945 – Sandi Griffiths, American singer

* 1945 – Douglas Osheroff, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate

* 1900 – Ernie Pyle, American journalist ( d. 1945 )

* 2006 – Arthur Lee, American singer-songwriter, musician, and producer ( Love ) ( b. 1945 )

* 2011 – Bubba Smith, American football player and actor ( b. 1945 )

* 1945 – World War II: Filipino troops of the 66th Infantry Regiment, Philippine Commonwealth Army, USAFIP-NL and the American troops of the 33rd and 37th Infantry Division, United States Army was liberated in Baguio City and they fought against the Japanese forces under by General Tomoyuki Yamashita.

* 1945 – Tom Allen, American politician

* 1945 – Steve Martin, American actor, singer, writer, and producer

* 1945 – Duffy Dyer, American baseball player

* 1945 – Gene Upshaw, American football player ( d. 2008 )

* 1945 – Suzanne Farrell, American ballerina

* 1945 – Ron Mael, American keyboard player and songwriter ( Sparks )