* 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 )

On September 2, 1945, Curtis witnessed the Japanese surrender in Tokyo Bay from his ship's signal bridge about a mile away.

Curtis Lee Hanson ( born March 24, 1945 ) is an American film director, film producer and screenwriter.

In the B-29 campaign, Curtis E. LeMay relieved Kenneth B. Wolfe in India in July 1944, then Hansell on Guam in January 1945.

But that would change in 1945 when Walcott beat top heavyweights such as Joe Baksi, Lee Q. Murray, Curtis Sheppard and Jimmy Bivins.

Twentieth Air Force commander and AAF Commanding General Henry H. Arnold grew impatient with a lack of discernible results, and replaced General Haywood S. Hansell with General Curtis LeMay as commander of XXI Bomber Command on January 21, 1945.

He earned a master's degree in 1941 and a doctorate in 1945 from Philadelphia, as well as a conducting diploma from Curtis.

Columbia Pictures signed Curtis to a contract in 1945.

* Dr Leonard Curtis Luckwill ( 1914-2005 ), pioneering cider apple breeder & grower, also founded the Mendip Morris Men in the 1950s and was the Chairman of the English Folk Dance & Song Society for 1973, lived at " Mayscroft " on the Clevedon Road between 1945 & 1985.

* " My Dreams Are Getting Better All the Time " ( 1945 ) with Manny Curtis

* 1945 to 1971: George F. Curtis,

* Curtis Hanson ( born 1945 ), an American filmmaker

* Curtis Brown ( baseball ), ( born 1945 ), left fielder for the Montreal Expos

Well-known people who have lived in and around Selma include 19th-century inventors Frank Dusy, Abijah McCall and William Deidrick ; the poets William Everson ( Brother Antoninus, 1912 – 94 ) and Larry Levis ( 1946 – 96 ); William R. Shockley ( 1918 – 1945, recipient of the Congressional Medal of Honor in World War II ; author-historian Victor Davis Hanson ( 1953-); and Atlanta Braves manager Bobby Cox ( 1941-).

Other composers who have led the orchestra include Ernst von Dohnányi in 1927, Ottorino Respighi in 1929, Arnold Schoenberg in 1945, Darius Milhaud in 1949, Manuel Rosenthal in 1950, Leon Kirchner in 1960, Jean Martinon in 1970 and Howard Hanson.

* In 1946, Hanson was awarded the George Foster Peabody Award " for outstanding entertainment programming " for a series he presented on the Rochester, New York radio station WHAM in 1945.

Philip Hanson, author of The Rise and Fall of the Soviet economy: an Economic History of the USSR from 1945, claims that the label stagnation is not " entirely unfair ".