* 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 )

Howard Aiken, who built the quickly-obsoleted electromechanical calculator, the Harvard Mark I, between 1937 and 1945, praised Babbage's work likely as a way of enhancing his own stature, but knew nothing of the Analytical Engine's architecture during the construction of the Mark I, and considered his visit to the constructed portion of the Analytical Engine " the greatest disappointment of my life ".

He served with General Mark Clark's Fifth Army in Italy from 1943 – 1945.

* Lopez, Mark ( 2000 ), The Origins of Multiculturalism in Australian Politics 1945 – 1975, Melbourne University Press, Carlton South, Victoria.

Towards the end of the war, beginning in 1945, PTs received two eight-cell Mark 50 rocket launchers, launching spin-stabilized flat trajectory Mark 7 and / or Mark 10 Rockets with a range of.

( The actual feat was performed in a Mark IV Auster on the Salisbury Plain north of RAF Andover in the late spring of 1945 ).

* Mark Shaw ( b. 1945 ), attorney, author and network television personality, was born in Auburn and graduated from Auburn High School.

At Christmas 1961, Nelson began dating Sharon Kristin " Kris " Harmon ( born June 25, 1945 ), the daughter of football legend Tom Harmon and actress Elyse Knox ( née Elsie Kornbrath ), and the older sister of Kelly and Mark.

* 1945: Mark S. Watson, The Baltimore Sun, " for distinguished reporting from Washington, London and the French and Italian fronts in 1944.

* Inez M. Cavanaugh, " Reminiscing in Tempo: Tricky Sam Goes Over the Great Times He Had with Duke, Bubber, Freddie Jenkins ,", Metronome ( February 1945 ), 17, 26 ; as reprinted in Mark Tucker, The Duke Ellington Reader, New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.

No sophomore won the Heisman in its first 72 years, at which point there were three consecutive sophomore winners: Tim Tebow in 2007, followed by Sam Bradford then Mark Ingram, Jr .. Only a few juniors have won the award, starting with the eleventh winner, Doc Blanchard in 1945.

* Mark Longaker, Ernest Dowson: A Biography ( Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1945 )

* Mark Wainberg ( born 1945 ), a Canadian scientist

These players include Andy Pafko ( who, coincidentally, played in the 1945 World Series as a Cub ), Gene Baker, Smoky Burgess, Don Hoak, Dale Long, Lou Brock ( whose first title was in after a mid-season trade to the St. Louis Cardinals ), Lou Johnson, Jim Brewer, Moe Drabowsky, Don Cardwell, Ken Holtzman, Billy North, Fred Norman, Bill Madlock, Manny Trillo, Greg Gross, Rick Monday, Burt Hooton, Bruce Sutter, Willie Hernández, Joe Niekro, Dennis Eckersley, Joe Carter, Greg Maddux, Joe Girardi ( as both a player and a manager ), José Vizcaíno, Glenallen Hill ( after his second stint with the Cubs ; his title came in after a mid-season trade ), Luis Gonzalez, Mike Morgan, Mark Grace, Mark Bellhorn, Bill Mueller, Scott Eyre ( whose title came in after he been traded from the Cubs during the season ), Tom Gordon, Matt Stairs, Jamie Moyer, in, Mark DeRosa and Mike Fontenot — the former of whom had been traded the offseason before, the latter having been traded that midseason, and in, Ryan Theriot who was traded the previous season.

On June 27, 1945, shortly prior to the formation of the Allied Commission for Austria, the US Joint Chiefs of Staff issued an ordinance authorizing General Mark W. Clark as Commander in Chief of US Forces of Occupation in Austria.

* Mark C. Taylor ( born 1945 ), professor of religion at Columbia University, author

From 1945 to 1948 he was Principal of the College of St Mark and St John in Chelsea, London, where one of his colleagues was the biologist Cyril Bibby.

* In Mark Robson's film Isle of the Dead ( 1945 ), Disney composer Leigh Harline's somber score makes use of Sergei Rachmaninoff's music.

* Bomber R & D Since 1945: The Role of Experience By Mark A. Lorell, Alison Saunders

During the 1940s she appeared alongside some of the most popular male stars of the day, including Errol Flynn in Gentleman Jim ( 1942 ), Fredric March in The Adventures of Mark Twain ( 1944 ) and San Antonio ( 1945 ) ( in which she sang a special version of the popular ballad " Some Sunday Morning "), Humphrey Bogart in Conflict ( 1945 ) and The Two Mrs. Carrolls ( 1947 ), Cary Grant in a sanitized, fictionalized version of the life of Cole and Linda Porter in Night and Day ( 1946 ), and Bing Crosby in Here Comes the Groom ( 1951 ).