* 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 )

In California in 1945, Bogart bought a sailing yacht, the Santana, from actor Dick Powell.

* 1945 – Dick Marty, Swiss politician

* 1945 – Magic Dick, American musician ( The J. Geils Band )

* September 24 – Dick Bong, American fighter ace ( d. 1945 )

Among his other films were Spellbound ( 1945 ), The Paradine Case ( 1947 ), The Gunfighter ( 1950 ), Moby Dick ( 1956 ), On the Beach ( 1959 ), which brought to life the terrors of global nuclear war, The Guns of Navarone ( 1961 ), and Roman Holiday ( 1953 ), with Audrey Hepburn in her Oscar-winning role.

In November 1945, Trevor-Roper was ordered by Dick White, then head of counter-intelligence in the British sector of Berlin ( and later head of MI5 and MI6 in succession ) to investigate the circumstances of Adolf Hitler's death and to rebut the propaganda of the Soviet government that Hitler was alive and living somewhere in the West.

At the 1945 election Profumo was defeated at Kettering by a Labour candidate, Dick Mitchison.

The Old Gold Comedy Theater ended in June 1945 with an adaptation of Tom, Dick and Harry, featuring June Allyson and Reginald Gardiner and was not renewed for the following season.

This became the Cypress Lodge in 1945 under its then-owner Dick Fairhurst, who built new cabins and a main lodge in the early 1960s.

Richard Ira " Dick " Bong ( September 24, 1920 – August 6, 1945 ) is the United States ' highest-scoring air ace, having shot down at least 40 Japanese aircraft during World War II.

* Lux Radio Theater, Murder My Sweet, adapted from the 1944 film, CBS Radio, 11 June 1945 ( Dick Powell as Marlowe )

Carl Buettner ( 1945 – 1946 ), Gil Turner ( 1948 – 1956 ), and Dick Matena ( 2005 – 2008 ) are generally regarded as the most notable Wolf creators featured in the title.

Prime examples include Ella Raines in Phantom Lady ( 1944 ), Lucille Ball in both The Dark Corner ( 1946 ) and Lured ( 1947 ), Alan Ladd in the aforementioned The Blue Dahlia, George Raft in Johnny Angel ( 1945 ), June Vincent and Dan Duryea in Black Angel ( 1946 ), Humphrey Bogart in Dead Reckoning ( 1947 ), and Dick Powell in Cry Danger ( 1951 ).

Beginning in April 1945, Kilgallen co-hosted a WOR-AM radio talk show, Breakfast With Dorothy and Dick, with Kollmar from their 16-room apartment at 640 Park Avenue.

From 1945 to 1963, Dorothy Kilgallen and her husband Dick Kollmar ( 1910 – 1971 ) cohosted WOR morning show Breakfast With Dorothy and Dick.

After the Standells signed with Liberty in 1964, Leeds left the group, and was replaced by vocalist and drummer Dick Dodd ( born Joseph Richard Dodd in Hermosa Beach, California, October 27, 1945 ).

Charles William Frederick Dick ( November 3, 1858March 13, 1945 ) was a Republican politician from Ohio.

From 1941 until his death on March 13, 1945, at age 86, Dick was the oldest living former US Senator.

They moved to Seattle where Dick worked for Boeing on in-flight camera recording equipment as a Flight Test Engineer, a job that lasted until 1945.

At that time, he became the first deaf player in the majors since Dick Sipek in 1945.

OL Dick Harris ( 1945 – 48 )

In November 1945, Dick White, then head of counter-intelligence in the British sector of Berlin ( and later head of MI5 and MI6 in succession ), had their agent, Hugh Trevor-Roper, investigate the matter to counter the Soviet claims.

The film version of Murder, My Sweet was dramatized as an hour-long radio play on the June 11, 1945 broadcast of Lux Radio Theater, starring Dick Powell and Claire Trevor in their original film roles.