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1945 (MCMXLV) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1945th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 945th year of the 2nd millennium, the 45th year of the 20th century, and the 6th year of the 1940s decade. It is well known as the end of World War II and the founding of UNO and UNESCO.

• January 27 - The Red Army liberates Auschwitz concentration camp.
• April 30 - Adolf Hitler committed suicide.
• May 9 - Victory Day
• July 17 - Start of the Potsdam Conference.
• August 6 and 9 - U.S. drops atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
• August 18 - Death of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose as given by Habibur Rahman.
• September 2 - World War II ends
• October 24 - The United Nations is formed.

• January 3 – Stephen Stills (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young), singer, songwriter
• January 3 – Victoria Principal, actress
• January 9 – Levon Ter-Petrossian, first President of Armenia
• January 10 – Rod Stewart, singer
• January 19 – Maria Jespen, theologian
• January 26 – Jacqueline du Pré, cellist (d. 1987)
• January 28 – Marthe Keller, actress
• January 29 – Tom Selleck, actor (Magnum, P.I.)
• January 30 – Michael Dorris, writer (d. 1997)
• February 3 – Bob Griese, Football Hall of Famer
• February 5 – Charlotte Rampling, actress
• February 6 – Bob Marley, Jamaican roots rock reggae singer and musician (d. 1981)
• February 7 – Pete Postlethwaite, actor
• February 9 – Mia Farrow, actress
• February 12 – Thilo Sarrazin, German politician and economist
• February 14 – Prince Hans-Adam II of Liechtenstein
• February 17 – Brenda Fricker, actress
• February 24 – Barry Bostwick, actor
• February 28 – Bubba Smith, Football Hall of Famer (d. 2011)
• March 7 – John Heard, actor
• March 8 – Micky Dolenz, actor, director, musician ("The Monkees")
• March 8 – Anselm Kiefer, painter
• March 19 – Cem Karaca, Turkish rock musician
• March 22 – Paul Schockemöhle, equestrian
• March 29 – Walt Frazier, basketball player
• March 30 – Eric Clapton, blues guitarist (Cream)
• April 2 – Linda Hunt, actress
• April 4 – Daniel Cohn-Bendit, political activist
• April 25 - Björn Ulvaeus, Swedish guitarist (ABBA)
• April 27 – August Wilson, playwright
• May 4 – Narasinham Ram, journalist
• May 6 – Bob Seger, rock music singer
• May 6 – Jimmie Dale Gilmore, musician
• May 8 – Keith Jarrett, jazz musician
• May 13 – Magic Dick, musician ("The J. Geils Band")
• May 14 – Yochanan Vollach, Israeli footballer, president of Maccabi Haifa
• May 15 – Duarte Pio, Duke of Braganza presumptive heir to Portuguese crown
• May 19 – Pete Townshend, guitarist, lyricist (The Who)
• May 21 – Ernst Messerschmid, physicist and astronaut
• May 28 – John Fogerty, singer (Creedence Clearwater Revival)
• May 31 – Rainer Werner Fassbinder, director
• June 11 - Robert Munsch, American–Canadian children’s author
• June 15 – Her Royal Highness Princess Michael of Kent
• June 17 – Art Bell – radio talk show host
• June 17 – Eddy Merckx, Belgian cycling champion
• June 17 – Anupam Kher, actor, India
• June 19 – Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar poet, politician and Nobel peace laureate
• June 25 – Carly Simon, singer, songwriter
• July 7 – Michael Ancram (Michael Kerr, Earl of Ancram), British politician
• July 8 – Micheline Calmy-Rey, member of the Swiss Federal Council
• July 15 – Jürgen Möllemann, German politician (d. 2003)
• July 23 - Matias Türk, folk music and Croatian politician
• July 28 – Jim Davis, cartoonist
• August 14 – Steve Martin, actor and comedian
• August 31 – Itzhak Perlman, violinist
• August 31 – Van Morrison, musician
• August 31 - Bob Welch, musician (Fleetwood Mac) (d. 2012)
• September 3 – Aldo Moro, Italian politician
• September 5 – Khaleda Zia, Bangladeshi politician
• September 8 – Jose Feliciano, singer
• October 12 – Aurore Clément, French actress
• October 15 – Jim Palmer, Baseball Hall of Famer
• October 27 – Luís Inácio Lula da Silva, Brazilian President
• October 30 – Henry Winkler, actor (Happy Days)
• November 3 – J. D. Souther, country rock musician
• November 5 – Jacques Lanctôt, FLQ terrorist
• November 12 – Neil Young, (Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young), singer, songwriter
• November 15 - Anni-Frid Lyngstad, Swedish singer-songwriter and musician (ABBA)
• November 26 – Daniel Davis, actor (The Nanny)
• November 26 - John McVie, English bass guitarist (Fleetwood Mac)
• December 1 - Bette Midler, American actress and singer
• December 20 - Peter Criss, American singer-songwriter and musician (Kiss)
• December 30 - Davy Jones, English singer-songwriter and musician (The Monkees) (d. 2012)

• January 3 – Edgar Cayce, psychic, "exhaustion"
• January 22 – Else Lasker-Schuler, poet
• January 31 – Eddie Slovik, American soldier
• February 5 – Lilian Rolfe, SOE agent executed by the Nazis
• February 5 – Violette Szabo, SOE agent executed by the Nazis
• February 5 – Denise Bloch, SOE agent executed by the Nazis
• February 11 – Al Dubin, Swiss songwriter
• February 11 – J. S. H. Lokerman, Dutch resistance fighter
• February 17 – Gabrielle Weidner, Belgian heroine of World War II
• February 21 – Eric Liddell, Scottish runner
• March – Anne Frank, at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, typhus
• March 2 – Emily Carr, artist
• March 18 – William Grover-Williams, Grand Prix motor racing driver/war hero
• March 19 – Friedrich Fromm, Nazi official
• March 23 – Elisabeth de Rothschild, executed by the Nazis
• March 26 – David Lloyd George, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
• March 30 – Elise Rivet, Roman Catholic nun and war hero
• April 9 – Wilhelm Canaris, head of the German Abwehr, hanged for treason
• April 9 – Dietrich Bonhoeffer, theologian in Nazi Germany
• April 12 – United States President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, massive stroke
• April 18 – Ernie Pyle, American journalist, sniper fire
• April 28 – Benito Mussolini, Italian dictator, hanged
• April 30 – Adolf Hitler, German dictator and Nazi party leader, suicide
• May 1 – Cecily Lefort SOE agent, WW II heroine, executed by the Nazis
• May 1 – Joseph Goebbels, Nazi propagandist, suicide
• May 2 – Martin Bormann, Nazi-German politician (b. 1900)
• May 15 – Charles Williams, British writer
• May 15 - Kenneth J. Alford, British composer
• May 23 – Heinrich Himmler, head of the Nazi Gestapo, suicide
• July 5 – John Curtin, fourteenth Prime Minister of Australia
• August 2 – Pietro Mascagni, Italian composer
• August 9 – Harry Hillman, American athlete
• August 10 – Robert Goddard, American rocket scientist
• August 31 – Stefan Banach, Polish mathematician
• September 15 – Anton Webern, Austrian composer
• September 24 – Johannes Hans Geiger, inventor of the Geiger counter
• September 26 – Béla Bartók, aged 64, Hungarian composer
• October 13 – Milton Hershey, chocolate tycoon
• October 15 – Pierre Laval, former Vichy French premier, firing squad
• October 19 – N.C. Wyeth, illustrator
• October 24 – Vidkun Quisling, Norwegian politician, famous traitor, executed
• November 11 – Jerome Kern, composer
• November 21 – Robert Benchley, The New Yorker, humorist, theatre critic, actor
• December 4 – Thomas Hunt Morgan, biologist
• December 20 – General George S. Patton, car accident
• December 28 – Theodore Dreiser, writer

• Nobel Prize in Physics – Wolfgang Pauli, Austrian-born physicist
• Chemistry – Artturi Ilmari Virtanen, Finnish chemist
• Medicine – Sir Alexander Fleming, Ernst Boris Chain, Sir Howard Walter Florey, shared for their work on penicillin
• Literature – Gabriela Mistral, Chilean poet
• Peace – Cordell Hull, American politician

• Anchors Aweigh starring Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra
• The Bells of St. Mary's starring Bing Crosby and Ingrid Bergman
• Leave Her to Heaven starring Gene Tierney and Cornel Wilde
• Mildred Pierce featuring Joan Crawford, Jack Carson, Zachary Scott, and Ann Blyth
• Saratoga Trunk starring Gary Cooper and Ingrid Bergman
• Spellbound starring Ingrid Bergman and Gregory Peck
• Week-End at the Waldorf featuring Ginger Rogers, Lana Turner, and Walter Pidgeon

• The Age of Jackson – Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
• The Age of Reason – Jean-Paul Sartre
• Animal Farm – George Orwell
• Black Boy – Richard Wright
• The Black Rose – Thomas B. Costain
• Bonheur d'occasion (The Tin Flute) – Gabrielle Roy
• The Bosnian Trilogy – Ivo Andric
• Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
• By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept – Elizabeth Smart
• Cannery Row – John Steinbeck
• The Egyptian – Mika Waltari
• Gigi – Colette
• High Ground – Odella Phelps Wood
• Loving – Henry Green
• Night Has a Thousand Eyes – Cornell Woolrich
• The Naked and the Dead – Norman Mailer
• The Open Society and Its Enemies – Karl Popper
• Pippi Longstocking – Astrid Lindgren
• The Policy King – Lewis A. H. Caldwell
• The Pursuit of Love – Nancy Mitford
• Rabbit Hill – Robert Lawson
• A Street in Bronzeville – Gwendolyn Brooks
• Stuart Little – E.B. White
• Surrender on Demand – Varian Fry
• That Hideous Strength – C. S. Lewis
• The Thurber Carnival (anthology) – James Thurber
• Tootle – Gertrude Crampton
• Two Solitudes – Hugh MacLennan
• The Wide House – Taylor Caldwell

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