* 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 )

Working for New York's WMCA in 1945, Barry Gray was bored with playing music and put a telephone receiver up to his microphone to talk with bandleader Woody Herman.

Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser ( August 27, 1871 – December 28, 1945 ) was an American novelist and journalist of the naturalist school.

* Reuben Fine vs Herman Steiner, Pan-American Championship, Hollywood 1945.

Herman received his Bachelor of Arts from the University of Pennsylvania in 1945 and PhD in 1953 from the University of California, Berkeley.

The Noveltoons series introduced several popular characters such as Herman and Katnip and Baby Huey, and Casper the Friendly Ghost, created by writer Seymour Reit and Famous animator Joe Oriolo during World War II as a children's book manuscript, was sold to Famous in 1945 and became the studio's most successful wholly owned property.

The First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC ( commonly shortened to First Draft ) was an incomplete 101-page document written by John von Neumann and distributed on June 30, 1945 by Herman Goldstine, security officer on the classified ENIAC project.

He rejoined Goodman in 1945, then toured and recorded with Woody Herman ( he was featured as a soloist on " Stars fell on Alabama ", 1946 Col. 37197and performed with Boyd Raeburn and Ted Beneke ( 1947 ).

Gen. Milton B. Halsey ( 20 January 1944 – 24 September 1945 ), Maj. Gen. Herman F. Kramer ( 24 September 1945 to inactivation ).

Hermannus Jantinus " Herman " van Veen ( born 14 March 1945 ) is a Dutch stage performer, actor, musician and singer / songwriter and author.

In 1945, the Herman Miller furniture company was producing mostly conventional, wood-based designs.

He became the Director of Design for Herman Miller in 1945, and held the position until 1972.

The first Herman Miller catalog produced by Nelson was released in 1945.

Jakob Wilhelm Hauer became the group's " leader and representative " by acclamation, and other members included the philosopher Ernst Bergmann ( 1881 – 1945 ), the racial ideologue Hans F. K. Günther, the writer Ernst Graf zu Reventlow, the historian Herman Wirth, Ludwig Fahrenkrog and Lothar Stengel-von Rutkowski.

* Herman Cain ( born 1945 ), American businessman, talk show host and candidate for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination

* Herman Cain ( 1945 –)

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* Randy Cain ( born Rudy Cain May 2, 1945, Philadelphia ; died April 9, 2009, Maple Shade Township, New Jersey ) ( until 1971 ).

Examples include Brigid O ' Shaughnessy, portrayed by Mary Astor, who murders Sam Spade's partner in The Maltese Falcon ( 1941 ); Gene Tierney as Ellen Brent Harland in Leave Her to Heaven ( 1945 ), and the cabaret singer portrayed by Rita Hayworth in Gilda ( 1946 ), narcissistic wives who manipulate their husbands ; Phyllis Dietrichson ( Barbara Stanwyck ) in Double Indemnity ( 1944 ), Ava Gardner in The Killers and Cora ( Lana Turner ) in The Postman Always Rings Twice, both based on novels by James M. Cain, manipulate men into killing their husbands.

She published three verse plays, Bluebeard ( 1933 ), Cain ( 1945 ) and Out of The Darkness ( 1947 ).

Haynes ' most recent project was a five-hour miniseries for HBO of Mildred Pierce based on the novel by James M. Cain and the 1945 film starring Joan Crawford.

For a short time in the 1940s, Ridler was also a successful Verse Dramatist with such plays as Cain ( 1943 ) and Shadow Factory: A Nativity Play ( 1945 ).

After leaving the military in November 1945 Cain returned to Oxford to pursue research in the Department of Zoology.

After Dunstan's resignation and a brief Liberal government under Ian Macfarlan, Cain again became premier on 21 November 1945.