* 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 )

It is very unlikely that Charles Edward was ignorant of the concentration camps and medical experiments on mentally disabled patients known as Action T4 as he first nominated Ernst-Robert Grawitz as head of operations for the German Red Cross 1937-1945 and then replaced him in 1945 with Karl Gebhardt, both of whom were found guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity after the war.

Ernst-Robert Grawitz ( 8 June 1899 – 24 April 1945 ) was a German physician ( and an SS Reichsarzt ) in Nazi Germany during World War II.

In 1945 the German Red Cross, which during the war became thoroughly Nazified, and its head Ernst Grawitz was a major figure in medical experiments on Jews and " enemies of the state ", was dissolved, and the International Red Cross and other international relief agencies were kept from helping ethnic Germans through strict controls on supplies and on travel.

* 1945 – World War II: Battle of Bautzen – last successful German tank-offensive of the war and last noteworthy victory of the Wehrmacht.

* 1945 – The Red Army begins the final assault on German forces around Berlin, with nearly one million troops fighting in the Battle of the Seelow Heights.

* 1945 – More than 7, 000 die when the German refugee ship Goya is sunk by a Soviet submarine torpedo.

* 1945 – World War II: The German army in Italy unconditionally surrenders to the Allies.

* 1945 – The Italian commune of Fornovo di Taro is liberated from German forces by Brazilian forces.

* 1945 – Wim Wenders, German director, screenwriter, and producer

* 1945 – World War II: German troops kill more than 1, 000 political and military prisoners in Gardelegen, Germany.

* 1945 – Jürgen Drews, German singer

* 1945 – World War II: The German pocket battleship Admiral Scheer is sunk.

* 1945 – Brazilian forces liberate the town of Montese, Italy, from German Nazi forces.

* 1945 – Erwin Bumke, German jurist ( b. 1874 )

* 1999 – The German Bundestag returns to Berlin, the first German parliamentary body to meet there since the Reichstag was dissolved in 1945.

The StuG III was the most-produced German armored fighting vehicle of any type built during the war years, with some 9, 400 examples built from January 1940 through March 1945.

* 1945 – World War II: German troops are finally expelled from Finnish Lapland.

* 1945 – World War II: Benito Mussolini is arrested by Italian partisans in Dongo, while attempting escape disguised as a German soldier.

Dürer has never fallen from critical favour, and there have been revivals of interest in his works Germany in the Dürer Renaissance of about 1570 to 1630, in the early nineteenth century, and in German nationalism from 1870 to 1945.

* 1945 – World War II: Soviet Union forces south of Berlin at Zossen attack the German High Command headquarters.

* 1945 – Walter Model, German field marshal ( b. 1891 )

* 1945 – The last German troops retreat from Finland's soil in Lapland, ending the Lapland War.

* 1945 – Werner Schroeter, German director

During the Western Allied invasion of Germany in April 1945, the airfield was seized by the United States Third Army, and used by the USAAF 354th Fighter Group which flew P-47 Thunderbolts from the aerodrome ( designated ALG R-82 ) from late April until the German capitulation on 7 May 1945.