* 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 )

* June 10 – Rainer Werner Fassbinder, German film director, screenwriter and actor ( b. 1945 )

The publication Der Ruf ( The Call ) was a popular literary magazine first published in 1945 by Alfred Andersch and edited by Hans Werner Richter.

Rainer Werner Fassbinder ( 31 May 1945 – 10 June 1982 ) was a German film director, screenwriter, and actor.

* Haupt, Werner, Army Group North: The Wehrmacht in Russia 1941 – 1945, Schiffer Publishing, Atglen, PA., 1997.

In November 1941 he replaced Werner Mölders, who was killed in a flying accident, as Germany's commander of the Fighter Force ( General der Jagdflieger ), staying in this position until January 1945 when he was relieved of his command because of his constant criticism of the Luftwaffe senior leadership, climaxing in the Fighter Pilots Conspiracy.

Werner Heisenberg, who had left Hechingen on 19 April, was captured by Pash and a small force at his home in Urfeld, on 3 May 1945.

* Werner Baldessarini ( born 1945 ), Austrian fashion designer and businessman, formerly chairman of Hugo Boss

* 1945-1974: The party was in government from 1945 to 1974 and gave Luxembourg the following Prime Ministers: Pierre Dupong, Joseph Bech, Pierre Frieden, and Pierre Werner.

* Oberstleutnant Werner Baumbach, 15 November 1944 – 6 March 1945

Schoeck was not given to overt signs of gratitude, but he dedicated the song cycle Gaselen ( 1923 ), the Sonata for Bass Clarinet and Piano ( 1927 – 28 ), and the Suite in A flat for Strings ( 1945 ) to Werner Reinhart.

From June to December 1945, Bagge was ( together with Kurt Diebner, Walther Gerlach, Otto Hahn, Paul Harteck, Werner Heisenberg, Horst Korsching, Max von Laue, Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, and Karl Wirtz ) detained at Farm Hall near Cambridge, England.

* Werner Oswald, Deutsche Autos 1945 – 1975.

Thus the A4-Raketen of the Operation Backfire started in October 1945 of one in the Werner forest between Arensch and Sahlenburg established starting place, from which still some shelter remainders and a soil hollow remained remaining.

Werner emigrated to California in 1945 after his uncle's death and changed his name to Peter Pepper, later establishing a successful office supplies company under that name.

She worked alongside one of Hitler's physicians, Dr. Werner Haase, as a nurse at Humboldt University Hospital and was transferred by the Red Cross to the Reich Chancellery in late April 1945.

Born in Stolp, Germany ( now, as part of Poland, called Słupsk ), as the 7th of 8 children born to Werner ( an anti-Nazi Lutheran minister ) and Toni de Boor in 1937, he fled in 1945 with his family, settling eventually in Schwerin, then part of East Germany.

Many more witnesses died in Soviet captivity, such as Dr. Werner Haase, the last physician to attend Hitler, who had already been gravely ill with tuberculosis in April 1945.

* Generalmajor der Reserve Werner Mummert ( 9 Mar 1945 – 25 Apr 1945 )

* Generalmajor der Reserve Werner Mummert ( 26 Apr 1945 – 9 May 1945 )

Fourteen German prisoners of war who were executed in 1945 ( for the murders of fellow-POWs Johannes Kunze, Horst Günther and Werner Drechsler ) in the military prison are buried in the northwest corner of the cemetery.

The building designed by Werner March was destroyed in 1945.