1945

1945 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1945 MCMXLV
Ab urbe condita	2698
Armenian calendar	1394 ԹՎ ՌՅՂԴ
Assyrian calendar	6695
Bahá'í calendar	101–102
Balinese saka calendar	1866–1867
Bengali calendar	1352
Berber calendar	2895
British Regnal year	9 Geo. 6 – 10 Geo. 6
Buddhist calendar	2489
Burmese calendar	1307
Byzantine calendar	7453–7454
Chinese calendar	甲申年 (Wood Monkey) 4641 or 4581     — to — 乙酉年 (Wood Rooster) 4642 or 4582
Coptic calendar	1661–1662
Discordian calendar	3111
Ethiopian calendar	1937–1938
Hebrew calendar	5705–5706
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	2001–2002
- Shaka Samvat	1866–1867
- Kali Yuga	5045–5046
Holocene calendar	11945
Igbo calendar	945–946
Iranian calendar	1323–1324
Islamic calendar	1364–1365
Japanese calendar	Shōwa 20 (昭和２０年)
Javanese calendar	1875–1876
Juche calendar	34
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar	4278
Minguo calendar	ROC 34 民國34年
Nanakshahi calendar	477
Thai solar calendar	2488
Tibetan calendar	ཤིང་ཕོ་སྤྲེ་ལོ་ (male Wood-Monkey) 2071 or 1690 or 918     — to — ཤིང་མོ་བྱ་ལོ་ (female Wood-Bird) 2072 or 1691 or 919

1945 (MCMXLV) was a common year starting on Monday in the Gregorian calendar. It was known for the end of World War II and the founding of UNO and UNESCO.

Events

• January 27 - The Red Army liberates Auschwitz concentration camp.
• April 30 - Adolf Hitler committed suicide.
• May 9 - Victory Day
• May 12 – Rev. W. V. Awdry's children's book The Three Railway Engines, first of The Railway Series, is published in England.
• 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.

Births

Eric Clapton in 1975

Eddy Merckx in 1966

• January 3 – Stephen Stills (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young), singer, songwriter
• 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)

Deaths

Edgar Cayce in 1910

William Grover-Williams at the 1931 Belgian Grand Prix

• 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 Prizes

• 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

Movies released

Gregory Peck and Ingrid Bergman in Spellbound

• 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

New Books

John Steinbeck in 2009

E. B. White

• 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