* 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 )

With the 1945 publication of the Nadal Prize winning Nada by Carmen Laforet and the 1947 release of Miguel Delibe's La sombra del ciprés es alargada, readers of intelligent Spanish narrative at last had cause for hope.

* Central Carmen Sugar Mill Smokestack ( closed in 1945, smokestack still standing and preservation work done in 2001 to repair damage from lightning strike )

* Carmen Maura ( born 1945 ), Spanish actress

Among his film successes are The Bridge ( 1929 ), Cover Girl ( 1944 ), A Song to Remember ( 1945 ), Gilda ( 1946 ), The Loves of Carmen ( 1948 ), Love Me or Leave Me ( 1955 ), The Swan ( 1956 ), The Joker Is Wild ( 1957 ), and A Farewell to Arms ( 1957 ).

Local officials of that town, Carmen, have been seeing to it that what happened in May 1945 – the bravery of those who fought the war and drove away the Japanese army then stationed in Barangay Ising – will not be forgotten.

* In The Three Caballeros ( 1945 ), Donald Duck cavorts with several Latin-American dancers, plus Aurora Miranda ( sister of Carmen Miranda ), who gives him a kiss.

* Spanish — Carmona, Fernando Briones: Melancholy Pierrot ( 1945 ); Dalí, Salvador: Pierrot with Guitar ( 1924 ), Pierrot Playing the Guitar ( 1925 ); Gris, Juan ( worked mainly in France ): Many works, including Pierrot ( 1919 ), Pierrot ( 1921 ), Pierrot Playing Guitar ( 1923 ), Pierrot with Book ( 1924 )— see images at right of page ; Picasso, Pablo ( worked mainly in France ): Many works, including Pierrot ( 1918 ), Pierrot and Harlequin ( 1920 ), Three Musicians ( 1921 ; two versions ), Portrait of Adolescent as Pierrot ( 1922 ), Paul as Pierrot ( 1925 ); Valle, Evaristo: Pierrot ( 1909 ).

Under hegemony, rebellion ( social, political, economic, armed ) is eliminated either by co-optation of the rebels or by suppression ( police and military ), without direct intervention by the hegemon ; the examples are the latter-stage Spanish and British empires, and the 19th-and 20th-century reichs of unified Germany ( 1871 – 1945 ).

Ignacio Zuloaga y Zabaleta ( July 26, 1870October 31, 1945 ) was a Spanish painter, born in Eibar ( Guipuzcoa ), near the monastery of Loyola.

In a preface written for a Paris exhibition of Spanish painter Francisco Riba Rovira in 1945 — approximately one year before her death — she expressed her opinions of Picasso, Cézanne, Matisse and Juan Gris as well as Riba-Rovira, a familiar artist of her salon at rue de Fleurus.

On 11 March 1945, Zarraonandía was selected by the Spanish coach Jacinto Quincoces to join the Spanish national team for a friendly match against Portugal in Lisbon.

* L ' Homme foudroyé ( 1945, Denoël ) / Novel / English ( 1970 ); Spanish ( 1983 )

In fact, Datu Mursalun and his family watched, without much interest, the American bombings of the Spanish fort and naval hospital in Isabela which signaled the retaking of Basilan by joint Filipino and American troops in 1945.

During the final period of colonial rule in Africa ( approximately 1945 to 1962 ) the fez was seen only as a full-dress item in French, British, Belgian, Spanish and Portuguese African units ; being replaced by wide-brimmed hats or forage caps on other occasions.

Nonetheless, during the war of liberation it was the generals of the north and of the south who garnered the most space in the Spanish and British colonial press, ( Motul Dictionary, Villa Rojas 1945 ).

* The Spanish Main ( 1945 ) — Writer ( screenplay )

From the Spanish time until after the Japanese occupation of the Philippines, the scenario did change a bit, when on August 30, 1945 beginning to the Philippine Commonwealth forces against the Japanese, President Ramón Magsaysay signed at the historic town plaza the Land Tenancy Act.

Destino ( the Galician, Spanish, Portuguese and Italian word for " destiny ") was storyboarded by Disney studio artist John Hench and artist Salvador Dalí for eight months in late 1945 and 1946 ; however production ceased not long after.

His film credits include The Spanish Main ( 1945 ), Of Human Bondage ( 1946 ), Song of Love ( 1947 ), Thief of Damascus ( 1952 ), Siren of Bagdad ( 1953 ), and Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse ( 1961 ).

* The Spanish Main ( 1945 )

( i. e., Horse Power ), also known by the Spanish title ( 1926 – 31 ) ( Slonimsky 1945, 231 ).

Manuel Chaves González ( born 7 July 1945 in Ceuta ) is a Spanish politician of the Spanish Socialist Workers ' Party ( PSOE ).

Tortuga also has been featured in the movies Safe in Hell ( 1931 ), The Black Swan ( 1942 ), The Spanish Main ( 1945 ), Double Crossbones ( 1950 ), Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd ( 1952 ), Pirates of Tortuga ( 1961 ).

* 1945: The Spanish Main

María Nsué Angüe ( born 1945 in Ebebeyín ( Río Muni ), Spanish Guinea ) is a noted contemporary Equatorial Guinean writer and former Minister of Education and Culture.

* Amador Álvarez ( born 1945 ), Spanish politician

Alejo Vidal-Quadras Roca ( born May 20, 1945 in Barcelona ) is a Spanish Member of the European Parliament, and a radiation physicist.