* 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 )

Eamon Martin Dunphy ( born 3 August 1945 ) is an Irish media personality, broadcaster, author, sports pundit and former professional footballer.

* 1945 – Margaret Hassan, Irish aid worker ( d. 2004 )

* 1945 – John Banville, Irish novelist and journalist

* 1945 – Pat Jennings, Irish footballer

* 1945 – Christy Moore, Irish singer-songwriter and guitarist ( Planxty and Moving Hearts )

* 1945 – Shaw Clifton, Irish 18th General of The Salvation Army

" British & Irish Tramway Systems since 1945 " ( ISBN 0-7110-1989-4 ).

* February 8 – Valentine O ' Hara, Irish author and authority on Russia and the Baltic States ( d. 1945 )

* Van Morrison ( born 1945 ), an Irish musician

Van Morrison, OBE ( born George Ivan Morrison ; 31 August 1945 ) is a Northern Irish singer-songwriter and musician.

* Douglas Hyde ( 1860 – 1949 )-an Irish scholar of the Irish language who served as the first President of Ireland from 1938 to 1945.

Douglas Hyde (; 17 January 1860 – 12 July 1949 ), known as An Craoibhín Aoibhinn (" The Pleasant Little Branch "), was an Irish scholar of the Irish language who served as the first President of Ireland from 1938 to 1945.

The first Air Services Agreement with the United States in 1945 only permitted flights to Shannon, and only permitted Irish airlines to serve Boston, Chicago and New York.

The very existence of the debate is evidence that de Valera's latest attorney-general and part of his cabinet, maybe even de Valera himself, did not agree with de Valera's statement in 1945 that the Irish state was already a republic.

De Valera did suggest that it would have been better to reserve the declaration of the republic until Irish unity had been achieved, a comment hard to reconcile with his 1945 claim that the Irish state was already a republic.

Then, only a few commemorations were held — the most significant of which was a commissioned volume of Famine history edited by R. Dudley Edwards and T. Desmond Williams ( though not published until 1956 ), and the ' Famine Survey ' undertaken by the Irish Folklore Commission in 1945.

Jeanne Eagels was born in Kansas City, Missouri to Edward and Julia Sullivan Eagles ( 1865 – 1945 ) on June 26, 1890 of German and Irish descent.

Niall FitzGerald, KBE ( born 13 September 1945 in County Sligo ) is an Irish businessman.

* February 8-Valentine O ' Hara, Irish author and authority on Russia and the Baltic States ( died 1945 )

Alan Dukes ( born 20 April 1945 ) is a former Irish politician who served as leader of the Fine Gael political party and Teachta Dála ( TD ) for Kildare and Kildare South.

Bruton was the fifth Irish leader to address a joint session of the United States Congress on 11 September 1996, as only the 30th head of state or government of an EU country to do so since 1945.

The renowned Irish tenor John McCormack ( 1884 – 1945 ) advised him that his voice was better suited to a lighter repertoire than the operatic one he had in mind, and urged him to find an agent — thus he found the noted impresario Jack Hylton ( 1892 – 1965 ) who booked him, but couldn't fit his full name on the bill, thus Joseph McLaughlin became Josef Locke.