* 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 )

* 1881 – Hans Fischer, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1945 )

* 1945 – Hans Monderman, Dutch road traffic engineer and innovator ( d. 2008 )

** 31 July 1945 – 8 June 1946: Hans Neureuther, Non-party

* 1882 – Hans Geiger, German physicist ( d. 1945 )

* July 27 – Hans Fischer, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1945 )

The publication Der Ruf ( The Call ) was a popular literary magazine first published in 1945 by Alfred Andersch and edited by Hans Werner Richter.

Hans " Gengar " Geiger ( 30 September 1882 – 24 September 1945 ) was a German physicist.

* Hans Uwe Hielscher ( born 1945 ) – Germany

From September 1944 to March 1945 Wassenaar was one of launching sites used by the German Luftwaffe, commanded by SS General Hans Kammler for the V-2 rockets directed mainly towards London.

Hans Guido Mutke claimed to have broken the sound barrier on 9 April 1945 in a Messerschmitt Me 262.

In 1945, Moynihan found, physicist Hans Bethe estimated that the Soviets would be able to build their own bomb in five years.

Rabi chaired Columbia's physics department from 1945 to 1949, during which time it was home to two Nobel Laureates ( Rabi and Enrico Fermi ) and eleven future laureates, including seven faculty ( Polykarp Kusch, Willis Lamb, Maria Goeppert-Mayer, James Rainwater, Norman Ramsey, Charles Townes and Hideki Yukawa ), a research scientist ( Aage Bohr ), a visiting professor ( Hans Bethe ), a doctoral student ( Leon Lederman ) and an undergrad ( Leon Cooper ).

Colonel Hans Imfeld, commissioner of the French Republic, entered Luang Prabang on 25 August 1945 with a party of Franco-Laotian guerrillas and received assurances from the King that the protectorate was still in force.

As a result, Houtermans moved to Göttingen in 1945, where Hans Kopferman and Richard Becker got him positions at the Institut für Theoretische Physik and II.

* Hans Molitor ( 1895 – 1945, New Jersey ) Austrian-American pharmacologist

Thereafter extremist political figures like Hans Krebs, editor of the Iglauer Volkswehr newspaper, became prominent with the rise of Nazism and the Nazi occupation ( 1939 – 1945 ).

* Hans Geiger ( 1882 – 1945 ), physics

In January 1945 a prototype for mass production was completed, but on 6 February SS-Obergruppenführer Hans Kammler cancelled the project.

Hans Frank was captured by American troops in May 1945 and was one of the defendants at the Nuremberg Trials.

In early April 1945, as American forces were approaching the camp, the SS executed General Hans Oster, Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, Rev.

After 1945 important work in France, in the seminar of Henri Cartan, and Germany with Hans Grauert and Reinhold Remmert, quickly changed the picture of the theory.

German forces in North West Germany, Denmark, and the Netherlands surrender: On 4 May 1945, the British Field Marshal Montgomery took the unconditional military surrender from Generaladmiral Hans-Georg von Friedeburg, and General Hans Kinzel, of all German forces " in Holland, in northwest Germany including the Frisian Islands and Heligoland and all other islands, in Schleswig-Holstein, and in Denmark … includ all naval ships in these areas.

* Hans Koch ( 1893 – 1945 ), Resistance fighter

Hans ( Heinz ) Friedrich Karl Franz Kammler ( 26 August 1901 – May 1945?