* 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 )

* October 31 – Cosmo Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury ( d. 1945 )

* Diarmuid Martin ( born 1945, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Dublin and Primate of Ireland

Bowing to Allied pressure, George was forced to appoint Archbishop Damaskinos of Athens as Regent in January 1945.

Cooke was ordained a priest by Archbishop Francis Spellman on December 1, 1945.

On 15 September 1945, he was appointed Primate of Hungary and Archbishop of Esztergom ( the seat of the head of the Catholic Church in Hungary ).

* Christoph Cardinal Schönborn ( born 1945 ), Archbishop of Vienna, joined the Domican Order in Warburg in 1963

As to the Catholic parishes in Zaolzie pertaining to the Archdiocese of Breslau Archbishop Bertram, then residing in the episcopal Jánský vrch castle in Czechoslovak Javorník ( Jauernig ), appointed František Onderek ( 1888 – 1962 ) as vicar general for the Czechoslovak portion of the Archdiocese of Breslau on 21 June 1945.

When the Diocese of Omaha was elevated to the rank of an archdiocese, Ryan became its first Archbishop on August 4, 1945.

* Aleksi Lehtonen, Archbishop of Finland ( 1945 – 1951 )

Since the passage of the Regency Act 1937, the only person to have been a Counsellor of State while not a queen consort, prince or princess was The Earl of Harewood ( although Princess Maud of Fife, who served as a Counsellor of State between 1942 and 1945, styled herself simply Lady Southesk ); prior to that the Lord Chancellor, the Lord President of the Council, the Prime Minister and the Archbishop of Canterbury had been appointed to the position by George V.

In the 1940s, plans were drawn up for a new cathedral on Wilshire Boulevard that would seat 3, 000 people, and in 1945 Archbishop John Joseph Cantwell announced that the Holy See approved the name " Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels ".

* Adolf Bertram ( 1859 – 1945 ), Archbishop of Breslau and a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church

* José Maria Cuenco † ( Auxiliary Bishop: 22 Nov 1941 ; Bishop: 24 Nov 1945 ; Archbishop: 29 Jun 1951 to 8 Oct 1972 )

In 1945 he was ordained a deacon and on January 22, 1950, he was elevated to the priesthood by Archbishop Mampre Sirounian, the Primate of Egypt.

* 1933 – 1945: Cosmo Gordon Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury

* Archbishop Damaskinos of Athens ( 1891-1949 ), was the Head of the Church of Greece as Archbishop of Athens and All Greece ( 1941-1949 ) and the Prime Minister of Greece ( 1945 )