* 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 )

* 1893 – Roland Freisler, German Nazi judge ( d. 1945 )

He was tried, together with Helmuth James Graf von Moltke, Franz Sperr, and Eugen Gerstenmaier, before the People's Court ( Volksgerichtshof ) on 9 – 11 January 1945, with Roland Freisler presiding.

* " Tampico " is the title of a 1945 song composed by US artist Gene Roland and produced by jazz musician and conductor Stan Kenton, with lead vocals by June Christy.

Roland Sletor Morris ( 1874 – 1945 ) was a U. S. diplomat and politician.

* Roland Joffe ( born 1945 ), British film director

Most of the conspirators were put on trial, in the People's Court of Roland Freisler, a " vile, vituperative maniac " over a period from August 1944 to February 1945.

* Roland Freisler: August 1942 – 3 February 1945

She also formed enduring friendships with, among others, Marcel Duchamp, Roland Penrose, Lee Miller, Yves Tanguy, Kay Sage, and George Balanchine, for whom she designed sets and costumes for several ballets, including The Night Shadow ( 1945 ).

Marion Freisler ( 10 February 1910, Hamburg – 21 January 1997 ), née Russegger was the wife of Roland Freisler, the infamous judge and chairman of the Nazi Volksgerichtshof ( People's court ), who died in 1945 during an air raid in Berlin.

* 1945 – Penelope Spheeris, American film director

* 1945 – Lloyd Kaufman, American film director and producer

Dirk Benedict ( born March 1, 1945 ) is an American movie, television and stage actor, perhaps best known for playing the characters Lieutenant Templeton " Faceman " Peck in The A-Team television series and Lieutenant Starbuck in the original Battlestar Galactica film and television series.

David Huffman ( 10 May 1945 – 27 February 1985 ) was a character actor with many television, film and stage credits.

The classic film noirs The Maltese Falcon and The Glass Key ( 1942 ) were based on novels by Hammett ; Cain's novels provided the basis for Double Indemnity ( 1944 ), Mildred Pierce ( 1945 ), The Postman Always Rings Twice ( 1946 ), and Slightly Scarlet ( 1956 ; adapted from Love's Lovely Counterfeit ).

Detour ( 1945 film ) | Detour ( 1945 ) cost $ 117, 000 to make when the biggest Hollywood studios spent around $ 600, 000 on the average feature.

In his next film Anchors Aweigh ( 1945 ), MGM virtually gave him a free hand to devise a range of dance routines, including the celebrated and much imitated animated dances with Jerry Mouse, and his duets with co-star Frank Sinatra.

" The film holds a rare niche in Hollywood history as having been completed and slated for release in 1945, then withdrawn and substantially re-edited with new, juiced up scenes added to better exploit the box office chemistry that shined between Bogie and Bacall in To Have and Have Not and the notoriety of their personal relationship.

Despite Bogart's elevated standing, he did not yet have a contractual right of script refusal, so when he got weak scripts, he dug in his heels, and locked horns again with the front office, as he did on the film Conflict ( 1945 ).

* In the 1945 film Kings Row, Parris Mitchell, a psychiatrist played by Robert Cummings, recites the first two stanzas of " Invictus " to his friend Drake McHugh, played by Ronald Reagan, before revealing to Drake that his legs were unnecessarily amputated by a cruel doctor.

His first wife was Karin Katharina Müller ( 14 October 1945 — 13 November 1992 ), an Austrian film and television director and screenwriter, from 1963 until her death in 1992, aged 47, from cancer.

One view emphasizes events occurring during and after the U. S. Occupation of Japan ( 1945 – 1952 ), and stresses U. S. cultural influences, including U. S. comics ( brought to Japan by the GIs ) and images and themes from U. S. television, film, and cartoons ( especially Disney ).

* 1945 – Curtis Hanson, American film director

* 1945 – Mark Sandrich, American film director, writer and producer ( b. 1900 )

* 2006 – Basil Poledouris, American film score composer ( b. 1945 )

Hammerstein won two Oscars for best original song — in 1941 for " The Last Time I Saw Paris " in the film Lady Be Good, and in 1945 for " It Might as Well Be Spring " in State Fair.

* Angel in Overalls ( 1945, B & W, 15: 00 ) This film was developed to show US Lockheed P-38 production line workers in a wide variety of roles.

* 1945 – Jerry Bruckheimer, American film and television producer

Cecil Kellaway portrayed Gainsborough in the 1945 film Kitty.

* Kitty ( 1945 ) is a notable fictional film about Gainsborough, portrayed by Cecil Kellaway.

Dorian faces his portrait in the 1945 film The Picture of Dorian Gray ( 1945 film ) | The Picture of Dorian Gray