Title: 1945 Content: It is well known as 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 *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 == *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, 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 == *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== *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 == *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