* 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 )

Ian Fraser " Lemmy " Kilmister ( born 24 December 1945 in Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England ) is an English rock musician.

Lemmy was born on Christmas Eve in 1945 in Burslem, Stoke on Trent, England.

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* Lemmy ( Ian Fraser Kilmister, born 1945 ), British rock musician, founder of the Motörhead

* Lemmy ( born 1945 ), British musician

* 1945 – Hong Kong is liberated from Japan by British Armed Forces.

* HMS Auriga ( P419 ), a British submarine launched in 1945

* 1945 – Diana Darvey, British actress, singer, and dancer ( d. 2000 )

* 1945 – Martyn Lewis, British news anchor

* Blair, Alasdair M. " The British iron and steel industry since 1945 ," Journal of European Economic History Winter 1997, Vol.

Clement Richard Attlee, 1st Earl Attlee, KG, OM, CH, PC, FRS ( 3 January 1883 – 8 October 1967 ) was a British Labour politician who served as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1945 to 1951, and as the Leader of the Labour Party from 1935 to 1955.

* English in the British Isles until its consolidation as a national language in the Renaissance and the rise of Modern English ; subsequently internationally under the various states in or formerly in the British Empire ; globally since the victories of the predominantly English speaking countries ( United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and others ) and their allies in the two world wars ending in 1918 ( World War I ) and 1945 ( WW II ) and the subsequent rise of the United States as a superpower and major cultural influence.

A personal high point was the reception of the Japanese surrender in Singapore when British troops returned to the island to receive the formal surrender of Japanese forces in the region led by General Itagaki Seishiro on 12 September 1945, codenamed Operation Tiderace.

Following the liberation of Denmark and the end of World War II, the last British troops left in September 1945.

* 1945 – World War II: On the first day of the bombing of Dresden, the British Royal Air Force and the United States Army Air Forces begin fire-bombing Dresden, the capital of the German state of Saxony.

* 1945 – World War II: The German town of Pforzheim is completely destroyed in a raid by 379 British bombers.

* 1945 – Paul Newton, British musician ( Uriah Heep )

* 1945 – Simon Schama, British historian

* 1945 – World War II: The British Indian Army and Imperial Japanese Army begin a series of battles known as the Battle of Pokoku and Irrawaddy River operations.

In 2008, The Times ranked him second on a list of " The 50 greatest British writers since 1945 ".

In 1945 or early 1946, while still living at Canonbury Square, Orwell wrote an article on " British Cookery ", complete with recipes, commissioned by the British Council.

" Between 1945 and 1947, with A. J. Ayer and Bertrand Russell, he contributed a series of articles and essays to Polemic, a short-lived British " Magazine of Philosophy, Psychology, and Aesthetics " edited by the ex-Communist Humphrey Slater.

While in British custody, he committed suicide on 23 May 1945.

Hamburg surrendered without a fight to British Forces on 3 May 1945.

It was through abstinence from much of the Second World War that the US found itself one of only two superpowers left in 1945, whereas the British Empire, France, and Germany were all contenders prior to this.

After World War II, between 1945 and the 29 November 1947 Partition vote, British soldiers and policemen were targeted by Irgun and Lehi.

* 1944 – 1945 The killings of several suspected collaborators with the Haganah and the British mandate government during the Hunting Season.