page_title: 1945
section_title: January
hierarchical_section_title: 1945 / Deaths / January
caption_attribution_description: English: Pedro Abad Santos, Filipino revolutionary and Pampanga representative.
context_page_description: 1945 was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1945th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 945th year of the 2nd millennium, the 45th year of the 20th century, and the 6th year of the 1940s decade.
  It marked the end of World War II and the fall of Nazi Germany and the Empire of Japan. It also saw the only time nuclear weapons were used in combat.
context_section_description: January 2 – Bertram Ramsay, British admiral (b. 1883)
  January 3 – Edgar Cayce, American mysticist (b. 1877)
  January 4 – Ricardo Jiménez Oreamuno, 3-time President of Costa Rica (b. 1859)
  January 6
  Josefa Llanes Escoda, Filipino women's suffrage advocate, founder of the Girl Scouts of the Philippines (b. 1898)
  Herbert Lumsden, British general (killed in action) (b. 1897)
  William Noble, American missionary (b. 1866)
  Vladimir Vernadsky, Soviet mineralogist, geochemist (b. 1863)
  January 7
  Thomas McGuire, American World War II fighter ace (b. 1920)
  Prince Rainier of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (b. 1900)
  January 9
  Dennis O'Neill, British child killed by his foster parents, which scandal resulted in an overhaul of the British Care Systems (b. 1932)
  Jüri Uluots, Estonian statesman (b. 1890)
  January 10 – Pēteris Juraševskis, 8th Prime Minister of Latvia (b. 1872)
  January 12 – Teresio Olivelli, Italian Roman Catholic soldier and venerable (b. 1916)
  January 15 – Pedro Abad Santos, Filipino politician, brother of José Abad Santos (b. 1876)
  January 16 – José Fabella, Filipino physician (b. 1889)
  January 19
  Petar Bojović, Serbian field marshal (b. 1858)
  Gustave Mesny, French Army general (b. 1886)
  January 20 – Federico Pedrocchi, Italian artist, writer (b. 1907)
  January 21 – Sir Archibald Murray, British Army general (b. 1860)
  January 22 – Else Lasker-Schüler, German poet, author (b. 1869)
  January 23
  Nikolaus Gross, German Roman Catholic layman, martyr and blessed (b. 1898)
  Newton E. Mason, United States Navy rear admiral (b. 1850)
  Eugen Bolz, German politician, 20 July Plotter (b. 1881)
  January 30
  William Goodenough, British admiral (b. 1867)
  Pedro Paulet, Peruvian scientist (b. 1874)
  January 31 – Eddie Slovik, American soldier (b. 1920)
caption: Pedro Abad Santos
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