* 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 )

Seaborg leaked the synthesis of the elements 95 and 96 on the U. S. radio show for children, the Quiz Kids, five days before the official presentation at an American Chemical Society meeting on 11 November 1945, when one of the listeners asked whether any new transuranium element beside plutonium and neptunium had been discovered during the war.

* 1890 – Robert Ley, Nazi official ( d. 1945 )

The 1945 – 46 season, when the league was played over two geographical groups due to the ravages of WWII, is not statistically considered, even if its title is fully official.

* 1900 – Martin Bormann, German Nazi official ( d. 1945 )

* 1945 – Karl Hanke, German Nazi official ( b. 1903 )

After control of Taiwan was handed to the Republic of China in 1945, the official romanization of the city name came to be " Kao-hsiung ", based on the Wade – Giles romanization of the Mandarin reading of the kanji name.

Standard Macedonian was implemented as the official language of the Socialist Republic of Macedonia in 1945 and has since developed a thriving literary tradition.

* 1945 – World War II: Italian Campaign – General Heinrich von Vietinghoff signs the official instrument of surrender of all Wehrmacht forces in Italy.

* 1906 – Hermann Fegelein, German Nazi official and brother-in-law to Adolf Hitler ( d. 1945 )

* 1900 – Heinrich Himmler, German Nazi official ( d. 1945 )

Deutsches Reich remained the official name of Germany until 1945, although these years saw three very different political systems more commonly referred to in English as: " the German Empire " ( 1871 – 1918 ), the Weimar Republic ( 1919 – 1933 ; this term is a pre-World War II coinage not used at the time ), and Nazi Germany ( the Third Reich ) ( 1933 – 1945 ).

has thus not been used in official terminology since 1945, though it is still found in the name of the Reichstag building, which since 1999 has housed the German federal parliament, the Bundestag.

* 1883 – Bernhard Rust, German nazi official ( d. 1945 )

* 1899 – Philipp Bouhler, German Nazi official ( d. 1945 )

The Potsdam Conference of 1945 concluded that the Oder-Neisse would be the official border between Germany and Poland.

The referendum took place on October 20, 1945, with ( according to official numbers ) 100 % of the electorate voting for independence.

Since 1945, the official name of the city in Macedonian has been Skopje ( Скопје ), reflecting the Macedonian Cyrillic orthography for the local pronunciation.

* June 17 – Martin Bormann, German Nazi official ( d. 1945 )

* October 7 – Heinrich Himmler, German Nazi official and SS head ( d. 1945 )

Indonesian was elevated to the status of official language with the Indonesian declaration of independence in 1945, drawing inspiration from the Sumpah Pemuda ( Youth's Oath ) event in 1928.

The Constitution of Indonesia 1945 Chapter XV specifies the flag, official language, coat of arms, and national anthem of Indonesia.

Since its conception in 1928 and its official recognition in 1945 Constitution, the Indonesian language has been loaded with nationalist political agenda on unifying Indonesia ( former Dutch East Indies ).

Dr. Alfred Meyer ( October 5, 1891 – April 11, 1945 ) was a Nazi official, achieving the rank of Staatssekretär and Deputy Reichsminister in the Reich Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories ( Reichministerium für die Besetzten Ostgebiete or Ostministerium ).