page_title: 1945
section_title: August
hierarchical_section_title: 1945 / Deaths / August
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: 100. Geburtstag von Karl Leisner Ausgabepreis: 62 Eurocent First Day of Issue / Erstausgabetag: 5. Februar 2015
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: August 1 – Blas Cabrera Felipe, Spanish physicist (b. 1878)
  August 2 – Pietro Mascagni, Italian composer (b. 1863)
  August 3 – Roman Kochanowski, Polish painter, illustrator (b. 1857)
  August 4 – Gerhard Gentzen, German mathematician and logician (b. 1909)
  August 5 – Nat Jaffe, American swing jazz pianist (b. 1918)
  August 8 – Joseph Pujol, Le Pétomane, French flatulist (b. 1857)
  August 7 – Jacques Vaillant de Guélis, French WWII hero (b. 1907)
  August 9
  Harry Hillman, American track athlete (b. 1881)
  Jun Tosaka, Japanese philosopher (b. 1900)
  August 10 – Robert H. Goddard, American rocket scientist (b. 1882)
  August 12 – Karl Leisner, German Roman Catholic priest and blessed (b. 1915)
  August 15
  Korechika Anami, Japanese general (b. 1887)
  Matome Ugaki, Japanese admiral (b. 1890)
  August 16 – Takijirō Ōnishi, Japanese admiral (b. 1891)
  August 18
  Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, Indian political leader (unclassified) (b. 1897)
  Sarala Devi Chaudhurani, Indian educationist (b. 1872)
  August 19 – Tomás Burgos, Chilean philanthropist (b. 1875)
  August 22 – Mustafa Al-Maraghi, Egyptian reformer (b. 1881)
  August 24 – Shizuichi Tanaka, Japanese general (b. 1887)
  August 25
  John Birch, American missionary for whom the John Birch Society is named (killed in action) (b. 1918)
  Willis Augustus Lee, American admiral, Olympic shooter (b. 1888)
  Thomas F. Woodlock, editor of The Wall Street Journal and Interstate Commerce Commission commissioner (b. 1866)
  August 26
  Pio Collivadino, Argentinian painter (b. 1869)
  Franz Werfel, Austrian writer (b. 1890)
  August 27 – Maria Pilar Izquierdo Albero, Spanish Roman Catholic religious professed and blessed (b. 1906)
  August 29 – Fritz Pfleumer, German engineer, inventor (b. 1881)
  August 30 – Florencio Harmodio Arosemena, 6th President of Panama (b. 1872)
  August 31
  Stefan Banach, Polish mathematician (b. 1892)
  Macarius III of Alexandria, Egyptian patriarch, saint (b. 1872)
caption: Karl Leisner
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