* 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 )

********* HH Princess Maud of Fife, Countess of Southesk ( 1893 – 1945 )

Princess Juliana's genuine warmth and the gestures of her Canadian hosts created a lasting bond which was reinforced when Canadian soldiers fought and died by the thousands in 1944 and 1945 to liberate the Netherlands from the Nazis.

On 2 August 1945, Princess Juliana was reunited with her family on Dutch soil.

They had two children, Elizabeth Charlotte Lucy ( later Princess Antoine Bibesco ) ( 1897 – 1945 ) and the film director Anthony ( 1902 – 1968 ).

The string of notable successes continued as Princess Charlotte in The First Gentleman ( Savoy, 1945 ) opposite Robert Morley as the Prince Regent, Pegeen in Playboy of the Western World ( Bristol Old Vic, 1946 ) and Tess of the d ' Urbervilles ( Bristol Old Vic, 1946, transferring to the Piccadilly Theatre in the West End in 1947 ), which was adapted for the stage by her husband.

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.

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.

On VE Day – 8 May 1945 – the Palace was the centre of British celebrations, with the King, Queen and Princess Elizabeth, the future Queen, and Princess Margaret appearing on the balcony, with the Palace's blacked-out windows behind them, to the cheers from a vast crowd on The Mall.

Princess Michael of Kent ( Baroness Marie Christine Anna Agnes Hedwig Ida ; née von Reibnitz ; born 15 January 1945 ) is an Austrian-Hungarian member of the British Royal Family.

Princess Michael of Kent was born on 15 January 1945, in Karlsbad, in the then-German-populated Sudetenland, now known as Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic, near the family estates of her Austrian maternal grandmother, Princess Hedwig von Windisch-Graetz, just prior to the defeat and the end of Nazi Germany and of World War II in Europe, and the following expulsion of the German population later that year.

Elizabeth, Princess Bibesco ( née Asquith ; 26 February 1897 – 7 April 1945 ) was an English writer active between 1921 and 1940.

Stéphanie ( 21 May 1864 – 23 August 1945 ) was a Belgian princess by birth, and then made Crown Princess of Austria through her marriage to the heir-apparent of the Habsburg dynasty, Archduke Rudolf.

* Her Royal Highness Princess Stéphanie, Princess Lónyai of Nagy-Lónya ( 1917 – 1945 )

The remains of his wife, Princess Beatrice, were placed there in August 1945 and those of his eldest son, the Marquess of Carisbrooke, in July 1961.

* HH Princess Maud of Fife ( 3 April 1893 – 14 December 1945 ) married the 11th Earl of Southesk, and had issue.

* Lady Maud Duff later H. H Princess Maud of Fife ( 3 April 1893 – 14 December 1945 ) married the 11th Earl of Southesk, and had issue.

Princess Maud, Countess of Southesk ( Maud Alexandra Victoria Georgina Bertha Carnegie ; née Duff ; 3 April 1893 – 14 December 1945 ) was a member of the British Royal Family, a female line granddaughter of King Edward VII.

Although Princess Maud did not normally carry out royal engagements, she served as a Counsellor of State between 1942 and 1945.

The Princess Louise returned to its original mechanized role in Northwest Europe in March 1945, and The Royal Canadian Dragoons became the armoured car regiment of I Canadian Corps.

On her death in 1959, the titles passed to her nephew James Carnegie, Lord Carnegie, the only son of the eleventh Earl of Southesk and Princess Maud ( who died in 1945 ), who became the third Duke.

* Princess Pauline ( 19 December 18777 May 1965 ), married in 1898 William Frederick, Prince of Wied ( 1872 – 1945 ); had issue.