* 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 – Robin Jackman, English cricketer

* 1897 – Karl-Otto Koch, German SS officer ( d. 1945 )

In 1945, Yale University created the J. Willard Gibbs Professorship in Theoretical Chemistry, held until 1973 by Lars Onsager, who won the 1968 Nobel Prize in chemistry.

Lars Engqvist ( born August 13, 1945 ) is a Swedish politician.

Lars " Lasse " Nils Berghagen ( born 13 May 1945 in Enskede, Stockholm ) is a Swedish singer, songwriter and actor.

* 1945 – Björn Ulvaeus, Swedish singer-songwriter, musician, and producer ( ABBA and Hootenanny Singers )

* 2002 – Andres Küng, Swedish politician and journalist ( b. 1945 )

* 1945 – Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg is taken into Soviet custody while in Hungary ; he is never publicly seen again.

* 1945 – Birgitta Sellén, Swedish politician

In 1945, a similar design by Swedish Televerket was installed in Sweden, making it possible to increase the capacity of the A204 model switch.

Folke Bernadotte, Count of Wisborg ( in Swedish: Greve af Wisborg ; 2 January 1895 – 17 September 1948 ) was a Swedish diplomat and nobleman noted for his negotiation of the release of about 31, 000 prisoners from German concentration camps during World War II, including 450 Danish Jews from Theresienstadt released on 14 April 1945.

While vice-president of the Swedish Red Cross in 1945, Bernadotte attempted to negotiate an armistice between Germany and the Allies.

Between 1941 and 1945, Hasselblad delivered 342 cameras to the Swedish military.

Anni-Frid, Princess Reuss, Countess of Plauen () ( born Anni-Frid Synni Lyngstad, 15 November 1945 in Bjørkåsen, Ballangen, Norway ), widely known as Frida Lyngstad, is a Norwegian-born Swedish pop singer.

He served briefly as Minister for Trade from 1944 to 1945 in the Swedish coalition government during World War II.

Harris married Swedish businessman Anders Sven Axel Ebbeson ( born March 16, 1945 ) in 1996 and has one stepdaughter, Louise.

The last people to meet Wallenberg in Budapest were Ottó Fleischmann, Károly Szabó, and Pál Szalai, who were invited to a supper at the Swedish Embassy building in Gyopár street on January 12, 1945.

It had then been the closest ally of the Social Democrats for 25 years, and coalition partners 1936 – 1945 as well as 1951 – 1957, but has since revised this strategy in order to establish a closer long-term alliance between the centre-right ( Swedish borgerlig, lit.

The Götaland theory was the only notable result of the Nazi infiltration of Swedish archaeology during 1933 – 1945.

It was first published in Finnish in 1945, and in an abridged English translation by Naomi Walford in 1949, apparently from Swedish rather than Finnish.

Nils Edén ( 25 August 1871 – 16 June 1945 ) was a Swedish historian and liberal politician, Prime Minister of Sweden 1917 – 1920, and along with Hjalmar Branting acknowledged as co-architect of Sweden's transition from quasi-absolute monarchy to a parliamentary democracy with equal male and female suffrage.

In February 1945, the head of the Swedish office of the WJC, Hilel Storch, established contact through an intermediary with SS chief Heinrich Himmler.

In 1945, the Swedish Baptist General Conference dropped " Swedish " from its name and became the Baptist General Conference of America.

It also allowed the Allies to use Swedish airbases between 1944 and 1945.

* Johan Hübner von Holst ( 1881 – 1945 ), Swedish sport shooter

* The Swedish Social Democratic Party in Sweden from 1932 to 1976 except only for some months in 1936 ( 1936 – 1939 and 1951 – 1957 in coalition with the Farmers ' League, 1939 – 1945 at the head of a government of national unity ) It has also held the power the vast majority of elections even after 1976, and is still the largest party in Sweden.

In 1945 Danish units returning to their homeland brought with them a few Swedish model 1938 guns.