* 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 )

The Foreign Ministers: Vyacheslav Molotov, James F. Byrnes, and Anthony Eden, July 1945

British Foreign Minister Anthony Eden called for Arab unity during the 1940s, and this was followed by specific proposals from pro-British leaders, including King Abdullah of Transjordan and Prime Minister Nuri al-Said of Iraq, but Egyptian proposals for a broader grouping of independent Arab states prevailed with the establishment of the League of Arab States, a regional international organization, in 1945.

* Tony Thorpe ( born Anthony John Thorpe, 20 July 1945, St Bartholomew Hospital, Smithfields, London )-lead guitar, vocals

Anthony Tillmon " Tony " Williams ( December 12, 1945 – February 23, 1997 ) was an American jazz drummer.

They had two children, Elizabeth Charlotte Lucy ( later Princess Antoine Bibesco ) ( 1897 – 1945 ) and the film director Anthony ( 1902 – 1968 ).

Her first husband was Anthony Forwood ( 1942 – 1948 ), with whom she had her only child, Gareth Forwood ( 1945 – 2007 ), an actor.

Later it came under the direction of Sir Barry Jackson in 1945, Anthony Quayle from 1948 to 1956 and Glen Byam Shaw 1957-1959, with an impressive roll-call of actors.

Originally called The Mavericks, Tony Crane ( born Anthony Crane, 17 April 1945, Anfield, Liverpool ) and Billy Kinsley ( born William Ellis Kinsley, 28 November 1946, at The Mill Road Hospital, Mill Road, Everton, Liverpool ) formed their first band in late 1960 and became The Pacifics in September 1961.

* Anthony Armstrong's 1945 whimsical short story " Etaoin and Shrdlu " ends " And Sir Etaoin and Shrdlu married and lived so happily ever after that whenever you come across Etaoin's name even today it's generally followed by Shrdlu's ".

His daughter Sybil Frances Grey ( d. 1945 ) was the mother of Prime Minister Anthony Eden, 1st Earl of Avon.

Andrew McCulloch ( born 19 November 1945 ) is an English drummer who worked with Fields, Greenslade, Manfred Mann, Anthony Phillips, Crazy World of Arthur Brown and King Crimson in the 1970s before becoming a yachtmaster.

The Foreign Ministers: Vyacheslav Molotov, James F. Byrnes and Anthony Eden, July 1945.

She married film director Andre De Toth in 1944 and had a son, Andre Anthony Michael De Toth, known as Michael De Toth ( October 25, 1945 – February 24, 1991 ), and a daughter, Diana De Toth ( born October 16, 1948 ).

Anthony Braxton ( born June 4, 1945 ) is an American composer, saxophonist, clarinetist, flautist, pianist, and philosopher.

Moore was born in 1945 in Anthony, Kansas.

* Political Thought Since 1945: Philosophy, Science, Ideology edited by Leonard Tivey, Anthony Wright ( Edward Elgar, 1992 ) ISBN 1-85278-311-7

* Anthony Cramer, appellant in Cramer v. United States ( U. S. Supreme Court, 1945 )

He was a Scottish Representative Peer from 1945 to 1963 and served as a Lord-in-Waiting ( government whip in the House of Lords ) between 1954 and 1957 in the Conservative administrations of Winston Churchill and Anthony Eden.

Anthony Francis Arbour JP ( born 30 August 1945 ), commonly known as Tony Arbour, is a British Conservative Party politician, a Richmond councillor and member of the London Assembly representing South West London.

* Sir Patrick Abercrombie, John Owens & H Anthony Mealand, A Plan for Bath, Sir Isaac Pitman ( London ) 1945

*( Charles Anthony ) Peter Duncombe, 6th Baron Feversham ( 1945 – 2009 )

* Christopher Anthony Colin MacAndrew, 3rd Baron MacAndrew ( b. 1945 )

Sir Harold Mario Mitchell Acton KBE ( 5 July 1904 – 27 February 1994 ) was a British writer, scholar and dilettante perhaps most famous for being wrongly believed to have inspired the character of " Anthony Blanche " in Evelyn Waugh's novel Brideshead Revisited ( 1945 ).

* Low, Donald Anthony, Constitutional Heads and Political Crises: Commonwealth Episodes, 1945 – 85, published by Macmillan, 1988, ISBN 0-333-46420-6