* 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 )

* Alexander Patch ( 1889 – 1945 ), general of US Army in World War II

* Patch Adams, a. k. a. Hunter Adams ( born 1945 ), founder of the Gesundheit!

** Alexander Patch, officer in the United States Army ( d. 1945 )

In 1945, the Belgian royal family was liberated by American troops under the command of Lieutenant General Alexander Patch, who thereafter became a close friend of King Leopold and Princess Lilian.

Hunter Doherty " Patch " Adams ( born May 28, 1945, in Washington, D. C .) is an American physician, social activist, citizen diplomat, clown and author.

General Alexander McCarrell " Sandy " Patch ( 23 November 1889 – 21 November 1945 ) was an officer in the United States Army, best known for his service in World War II.

In the spring of 1945, Supreme Allied Commander General Dwight D. Eisenhower offered Patch a B-25 Mitchell and pilot for his personal use, but Patch turned down the offer because he wished to remain in touch with his subordinate commanders during fast-moving operations and preferred a smaller plane that could land on unimproved fields and pastures.

Patch narrowly escaped injury or death on 18 April 1945 when a German Messerschmitt Me 109 fighter intercepted the United States Army Air Forces 72nd Liaison Squadron Stinson L-5 Sentinel liaison aircraft Sea Level, which was taking him from Kitzingen to Öhringen, Germany, to coordinate operations during the Battle of Nuremberg.

Patch retained command of the Seventh Army through the end of the war in Europe in May 1945, crossing into Germany and over the Rhine River, leading the Seventh Armys attack on the German Siegfried Line, and then moving into southern Germany.

On 1 May 1945, Lt. Gen. Alexander Patch, the commander of the US 36th Division, visited Horthy in his castle prison.

In 1945, Cunningham was invited by Ansel Adams to accept a position as a faculty member for the art photography department at the California School of Fine Arts.

Gould and Marsh Patent 24021, 17 May 1859, Edgar Patent 119335, 26 Sep 1871, Cramer Patent 152726, 7 Jul 1874, McChesney Patent 161086, 6 Apr 1875, Stewart Patent 497426, 19 Jan 1886, Adams Patent 682014, 3 Sep 1901, Nordbö Patent 1202882, 31 Oct 1916, Barnett Patent 1958227, 8 May 1934, Reuther Patent 2203393, 4 Jun 1940, Firestone Patent 2417639, 11 Jun 1945, and Reuther Patent 2557690, 5 Apr 1950.

Mercury Record Corporation was founded in the American city of Chicago in 1945 by Irving Green, Berle Adams and Arthur Talmadge.

Founded by Ansel Adams in 1945, the Photography Department was the first program of its kind dedicated to exploring photography as a fine art medium.

* Ansel Adams, landscape photographer, founded the photography department in 1945.

His seminar in Paris in the years after 1945 covered ground on several complex variables, sheaf theory, spectral sequences and homological algebra, in a way that deeply influenced Jean-Pierre Serre, Armand Borel, Alexander Grothendieck and Frank Adams, amongst others of the leading lights of the younger generation.

Adams also published a biography of Alexander Woollcott ( 1945 ) and three books for the Landmark Series including The Pony Express ( 1950 ), The Santa Fe Trail ( 1952 ), and The Erie Canal ( 1953 ).

Maud Solveig Christina Wikström ( born 12 February 1945 ), known professionally as Maud Adams, is a Swedish actress, known for her roles as two different Bond girls: in The Man with the Golden Gun ( 1974 ), and as the title character in Octopussy ( 1983 ).

Robert Byrne's first Master event was Ventnor City 1945, where he scored a respectable 4 / 9 to place 8th ; the winner was Weaver Adams.

The NDRC of the OSRD membership consisted of Conant ( Chairman ), Tolman ( Vice-Chairman ), Adams, Compton, and Jewett, along with the Commission of Patents ( Coe until September 1945, and then Casper W. Ooms ), and the representatives of the Army and Navy ( which changed periodically ).

Mr. Cole Adams, after forty-four months in the Japanese prison camps, first on Berhala Island near Sandakan, and then at Batu Lintang camp near Kuching, died in September 1945 on the very day of his release by the Australian 9th Division.

* Walter Adams ( athlete ) ( born 1945 ), German runner

Kitty Oppenheimer's aria, " Easter Eve, 1945 ", by Muriel Rukeyser ( from her poem of the same name ) was premiered by Audra McDonald in May, 2004 with the New York Philharmonic and Adams conducting.

Samuel Herbert Adams ( January 28, 1858 – May 21, 1945 ) was an American sculptor.

Adams died in New York City in 1945.

Adams retired from the Navy permanently in 1945.

* Charles Edward Adams ( seismologist ) ( 1870 – 1945 ), New Zealand university lecturer, surveyor, astronomer and seismologist