* 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 )

As a radioman-gunner, he served aboard the USS Bunker Hill during the Battle of Okinawa in the spring of 1945.

His younger brother, Arthur Hugh Bunker ( July 29, 1895-May 19, 1964 ), was also a noted businessman, chairman of the executive committee of the War Production Board ( 1941 – 1945 ) during World War II, and president and then board chairman of American Metal Climax ( AMAX ).

* The Bunker was a 1981 made-for-television film directed by George Schaefer and based on the book The Bunker ( 1978 ) by James O ' Donnell about the last months of the war and days in the Führerbunker from 17 January 1945 to 2 May 1945.

He contributed many notable storylines for all three of them, including Freleng's Hare Do ( 1949 ), Bad Ol ' Putty Tat ( 1949 ), Bunker Hill Bunny ( 1950 ) and Big House Bunny ( 1950 ); Jones ' Hare Tonic ( 1945, an early success for both of them ) and Broom-Stick Bunny ( 1956 ); and McKimson's Hillbilly Hare ( 1950 ), Lovelorn Leghorn ( 1951 ) and Cat-Tails for Two ( 1953 ), the last of which was Speedy Gonzales ' first appearance.

Other than appearing in two episodes (# 16, " Inside the Reich " ( 1940 – 1944 ) and # 21, " Nemesis: Germany ( February – May 1945 )") of the 1974 television documentary series The World at War and being interviewed for the 1975 book The Bunker by James P. O ' Donnell and Uwe Bahnsen, she lived a life of relative obscurity.

USS Bunker Hill hit by kamikaze piloted by Ensign Kiyoshi Ogawa on 11 May 1945.

The Bunker ( original German title: Die Katakombe, also published as The Berlin Bunker ) is an account, written by American journalist James P. O ' Donnell and German jounalist Uwe Bahnsen, of the history of the Führerbunker in early 1945, as well as the last days of German dictator Adolf Hitler.

* Roy Licklider, " The Consequences of Negotiated Settlements in Civil Wars, 1945 -- 1993 ," American Political Science Review 89, no.

On April 30, 1945, he married Ruthe Willis and had three children together ( including a son, television director Roy Campanella II ), though their relationship deteriorated after his accident ; they separated in 1960 and Ruthe died in January 1963.

Howe, as Minister of Reconstruction and Minister of Munitions and Supply ( later Reconstruction and Supply ), brokered the deal with the Hawker Siddeley Group to take over the Victory Aircraft plant in 1945 with Frederick T. Smye hired by HSG's Roy Dobson as its first employee.

* Badal Roy ( born 1945 ), tabla player.

Roy Hattersley has been a socialist and Labour supporter from his youth, electioneering at the age of 12 for his local MP and city councillors, beginning in 1945.

Ethyl Eichelberger ( born James Roy Eichelberger, July 17, 1945 – August 12, 1990 ) was an American drag performer, playwright, and actor.

Ethyl Eichelberger was born James Roy Eichelberger on July 17, 1945 in Pekin, Illinois.

Fifty men parachuted on Cusna Mountain area ( Reggio Emilia ) between 4 and 24 March 1945, under command of Major Roy Farran.

In addition to the Bloc populaire, there was also an " Independent Group " of five anti-conscription MPs led by Frédéric Dorion which included Liguori Lacombe, Wilfrid Lacroix, Sasseville Roy and Emmanuel D ' Anjou ( D ' Anjou had joined the Bloc in June 1944 but had left to join Dorion's group by the time of the 1945 election ).

Weatherby, Inc. is an American gun manufacturer founded in 1945 by Roy Weatherby.

Alphonso Roy Jackson ( born September 9, 1945 ) served as the 13th United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development ( HUD ).

* Roy Brown ( footballer born 1945 ), English footballer

* Roy Brown ( Puerto Rican musician ) ( born 1945 ), Puerto Rican musician and folk singer

Roy Kellock chaired the Royal Commission investigating the Halifax Riot of VE Day 1945, and co-chaired the Royal Commission on Spying Activities in Canada in response to Gouzenko Affair in 1946.

He was elected as MP for Smethwick in the Labour landslide of 1945, defeating the Conservative incumbent, Roy Wise.

He eventually moved to Nashville, Tennessee where in 1945 he became involved in Acuff-Rose Music, a music publishing house established by his father and his father's partner, Roy Acuff.

Andersen AFB was established in 1944 as North Field and is named for Brigadier General James Roy Andersen ( 1904 – 1945 ).

Resuming his teaching posts upon his return to Canada in 1945, Roy was named superior of the seminary in December of that same year.

# Roy Theodore Graham, Liberal ( 1940 – 1945 )

# Joseph-Sasseville Roy, Independent Conservative ( 1940 – 1945 )

Roy Jenkins failed to win the constituency at the 1945 UK general election.

Foster was succeeded in 1945 by Edward William O ' Flaherty Lynam, Superintendent of the Map Room at the British Library and the first of a long line of post-war presidents whose terms of office were restricted to a period of five years: Malcolm Letts ( 1950 – 54 ); Professor J. N. L. Baker ( 1955 – 59 ); Sir Alan Burns ( 1959 – 64 ); Sir Gilbert Laithwaite ( 1964 – 69 ); C. F. Beckingham ( 1969 – 72 ); Esmond S. de Beer ( 1972 – 78 ); Glyndwr Williams ( 1978 – 82 ); David Beers Quinn ( 1982 – 87 ); Sir Harold Smedley ( 1987 – 92 ); Professor Paul E. H. Hair ( 1992 – 97 ); Sarah Tyacke ( 1997 – 2002 ); Professor Roy Bridges ( 2002 – 08 ); Professor Will Ryan ( 2008 – 11 ); and Captain Mike Barritt ( 2011 -).

Sir Roy Alan Gardner ( born 20 August 1945 ) is a British businessman and former association Football Director of Manchester United and most recently Plymouth Argyle.

* Roy Gardner ( businessman ) ( born 1945 ), former chairman of Manchester United F. C.