* 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 )

* October 11 – Harriet Boyd-Hawes, American archaeologist ( d. 1945 )

It was at Smith's house at Hampstead that Stephen met his first wife, Harriet Marian ( 1840 – 1875 ), daughter of William Makepeace Thackeray, with whom he had a daughter, Laura Makepeace Stephen ( 1870 – 1945 ); after her death he married Julia Prinsep Jackson ( 1846 – 1895 ), widow of Herbert Duckworth.

* Harriet Anne Hooker ( 1854 – 1945 ) married William Turner Thiselton-Dyer

Harriet Boyd Hawes ( October 11, 1871 – March 31, 1945 ) was a pioneering American archaeologist, nurse and relief worker.

Harriet Ellan Miers ( born August 10, 1945 ) is an American lawyer and former White House Counsel.

Harriet was named in honour of Harry Oakman, curator of the Gardens from 1945 to 1962 and the creator of the ( now disbanded ) zoo at the Gardens.

* Harriet Miers ( born 1945 )-former White House Counsel ( Nomination Withdrawn )

Among IPR staffers identified later as Communists or collaborators with Soviet intelligence agents were Kathleen Barnes, Hilda Austern, Elsie Fairfax-Cholmely, Chi Chao-ting, Guenter Stein, Harriet Levine, Talitha Gerlach, Chen Han-seng ( a member of the Sorge spy ring ), Michael Greenberg ( named as a source in 1945 by defecting Soviet courier Elizabeth Bentley ), and T. A.

In 1945, probably almost every American not only knew who Sam Spade was, but had some kind of emotional feeling about him.

And I suggest further that the main cause of the trouble we are in has been the failure of American policy-makers, ever since we assumed free world leadership in 1945, to deal with this problem realistically and seriously.

In 1945, Arturo Toscanini and the NBC Symphony Orchestra recorded the music in Carnegie Hall, one of the few commercial recordings Toscanini made of music by an American composer.

Seaborg leaked the synthesis of the elements 95 and 96 on the U. S. radio show for children, the Quiz Kids, five days before the official presentation at an American Chemical Society meeting on 11 November 1945, when one of the listeners asked whether any new transuranium element beside plutonium and neptunium had been discovered during the war.

Ski troops were trained for the war, and battles were waged in mountainous areas such as the battle at Riva Ridge in Italy, where the American 10th Mountain Division encountered heavy resistance in February 1945.

* 1945 – Joanna Cassidy, American actress

* 1945 – Sandi Griffiths, American singer

* 1945 – Douglas Osheroff, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate

* 1900 – Ernie Pyle, American journalist ( d. 1945 )

* 2006 – Arthur Lee, American singer-songwriter, musician, and producer ( Love ) ( b. 1945 )

* 2011 – Bubba Smith, American football player and actor ( b. 1945 )

* 1945 – World War II: Filipino troops of the 66th Infantry Regiment, Philippine Commonwealth Army, USAFIP-NL and the American troops of the 33rd and 37th Infantry Division, United States Army was liberated in Baguio City and they fought against the Japanese forces under by General Tomoyuki Yamashita.

* 1945 – Tom Allen, American politician

* 1945 – Steve Martin, American actor, singer, writer, and producer

* 1945 – Duffy Dyer, American baseball player

* 1945 – Gene Upshaw, American football player ( d. 2008 )

* 1945 – Suzanne Farrell, American ballerina

* 1945 – Ron Mael, American keyboard player and songwriter ( Sparks )