Deaths in 1945

Deaths

January
 January 2 – Sir Bertram Ramsay, British admiral (b. 1883)
 January 3 – Edgar Cayce, American mystic (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)
 Edith Frank, German-Dutch mother of Anne Frank (b. 1900)
 Herbert Lumsden, British general (killed in action) (b. 1897) Lumsden, Herbert
 Vladimir Vernadsky, Soviet mineralogist, geochemist (b. 1863)
 January 7
 Alexander Stirling Calder, American sculptor (b. 1870)
 Thomas McGuire, American World War II fighter ace (killed in action) (b. 1920)
 Prince Rainer of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (killed in action) (b. 1900)
 January 9 – Jüri Uluots,  8th Prime Minister of Estonia (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. 1888)
 January 19
 Petar Bojović, Serbian field marshal (b. 1858)
 Gustave Mesny, French Army general (b. 1886)
 January 20 – Federico Pedrocchi, Italian artist, writer (killed on active service) (b. 1907)
 January 21 – Sir Archibald Murray, British Army general (b. 1860)
 January 22 – Else Lasker-Schüler, German poet, author (b. 1869)
 January 23
 Eugen Bolz, German politician, 20 July Plotter (executed) (b. 1881)
 Nikolaus Gross, German Roman Catholic layman, martyr and blessed (b. 1898)
 Newton E. Mason, United States Navy rear admiral (b. 1850)
 January 29 – Hans Conrad Leipelt, Austrian member of the White Rose resistance movement in Nazi Germany (executed) (b. 1921)
 January 30
 Sir William Goodenough, British admiral (b. 1867)
 Pedro Paulet, Peruvian scientist (b. 1874)
 January 31 – Eddie Slovik, American soldier (executed for desertion) (b. 1920)

February
 February (or March) – Anne Frank, German-born Jewish diarist, writer (typhus in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp) (b. 1929)
 February 1
 Ivan Bagryanov, 30th Prime Minister of Bulgaria (executed) (b. 1891)
 Dobri Bozhilov, 29th Prime Minister of Bulgaria (executed) (b. 1884)
 Bogdan Filov, Bulgarian archaeologist, historian and politician, 28th Prime Minister of Bulgaria (executed) (b. 1883)
 Petar Gabrovski, acting Prime Minister of Bulgaria (executed) (b. 1898)
 Johan Huizinga, Dutch cultural historian (b. 1872)
 Prince Kiril of Bulgaria (executed) (b. 1895)
 February 2
 Adolf Brand, German campaigner for homosexuality (air raid victim) (b. 1874)
 Alfred Delp, German Jesuit priest and philosopher of the German Resistance, 20 July plotter (executed) (b. 1907)
 Carl Friedrich Goerdeler, German politician, civil servant, executive and economist, 20 July plotter (executed) (b. 1884)
 Gustav Heistermann von Ziehlberg, German general, 20 July plotter (executed) (b. 1898)
 Joe Hunt, American tennis champion (military aircraft crash) (b. 1919)
 February 3 – Roland Freisler, Nazi German judge (air raid victim) (b. 1893)
 February 5
 Denise Bloch, French World War II heroine (executed) (b. 1916)
 Lilian Rolfe, French World War II heroine (executed) (b. 1914)
 Violette Szabo, French/British World War II heroine (executed) (b. 1921)
 February 6 – Robert Brasillach, French writer (executed) (b. 1909)
 February 8 – Robert Mallet-Stevens, French architect, designer (b. 1886)
 February 11 – Al Dubin, Swiss-born American songwriter (b. 1891)
 February 13 – Maria Orosa, Filipino technologist, chemist, humanitarian and WWII heroine (air raid victim) (b. 1893)
 February 18 – Ivan Chernyakhovsky, Soviet general (died of wounds) (b. 1906)
 February 19 – John Basilone, American war hero (killed in action) (b. 1916)
 February 21 – Eric Liddell, British Olympic athlete (in internment camp) (b. 1902)
 February 22 – Sara Josephine Baker, American physician (b. 1873)
 February 23
 José María Moncada, 19th President of Nicaragua (b. 1870)
 Aleksei Nikolaevich Tolstoy, Russian writer (b. 1883)
 February 24 – Josef Mayr-Nusser, Italian Roman Catholic layman, martyr and blessed (b. 1910)
 February 25 – Mário de Andrade, Brazilian writer, photographer (b. 1893)
 February 26 – Millard Harmon, American general (b. 1888)

March
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 March 2 – Emily Carr, Canadian painter (b. 1871)
 March 3
 Gheorghe Avramescu, Romanian general (in custody) (b. 1884)
 Aleksandra Samusenko, Soviet WWII tank commander (died of wounds) (b. 1922)
 March 4
 Harry Chauvel, Australian Army general (b. 1865)
 Lucille La Verne, American actress (b. 1872)
 Mark Sandrich, American film director (b. 1900)
 March 5 – George Alan Vasey, Australian general (killed in military aircraft accident) (b. 1895)
 March 12 – Friedrich Fromm, German Nazi official (executed) (b. 1888)
 March 14 – Francisco Braga, Brazilian composer (b. 1868)
 March 15 – Sava Caracaș, Romanian general (b. 1890)
 March 18 – William Grover-Williams, British/French racing driver, war hero (executed) (b. 1903)
 March 19 – Marcel Callo, French Roman Catholic layman, martyr and blessed (in concentration camp) (b. 1921)
 March 20 – Lord Alfred Douglas, English poet (b. 1870)
 March 22
 Enrico Caviglia, Italian marshal (b. 1862)
 Heinrich Maier, Austrian Roman Catholic priest and blessed (b. 1908)
 Takeichi Nishi, Japanese equestrian gold medalist (1932), tank commander at Battle of Iwo Jima (killed in action) (b. 1902)
 March 23 – Élisabeth de Rothschild, French WWII heroine (b. 1902)
 March 26
 David Lloyd George, British politician and statesman, 51st Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1863)
 Tadamichi Kuribayashi, Imperial Japanese Army general, commander of the battle of Iwo Jima (probably killed in action) (b. 1891)
 Boris Shaposhnikov, Soviet military leader, Marshal of the Soviet Union (b. 1882)
 Ichimaru Toshinosuke, Japanese naval aviator, commander at Battle of Iwo Jima (killed in action) (b. 1891)
 March 27 – Halid Ziya Uşaklıgil, Turkish author (b. 1867)
 March 29 – Ferenc Csik, Hungarian swimmer (air raid victim) (b. 1913)
 March 30 – Maurice Rose, American general (killed in action) (b. 1899)MG Maurice Rose
 March 31
 Hans Fischer, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (suicide) (b. 1881)
 Torgny Segerstedt, Swedish newspaper editor, publicist (b. 1876)
 Maria Skobtsova, Soviet Orthodox nun and saint (killed by poison) (b. 1891)
 Natalia Tulasiewicz, Polish teacher and Roman Catholic blessed (murdered in concentration camp) (b. 1906)

April
 April 7
 Seiichi Itō, Japanese admiral (lost in action) (b. 1890)
 Aruga Kōsaku, Japanese admiral (lost in action) (b. 1897)
 April 9
 Dietrich Bonhoeffer, German theologian (executed) (b. 1906)
 Wilhelm Canaris, German admiral, head of the Abwehr (executed) (b. 1887)
 Hans von Dohnanyi, Hungarian-born German lawyer, member of the German Resistance, 20 July Plotter (executed) (b. 1902)
 Georg Elser, German carpenter and attempted assassin of Adolf Hitler (executed) (b. 1903)
 April 10 
 Gloria Dickson, American actress (fire victim) (b. 1917)
 Hendrik Nicolaas Werkman, Dutch artist and printer (b. 1882)
 April 11 – Frederick Lugard, 1st Baron Lugard, British colonial administrator (b. 1858)
 April 12 – Franklin D. Roosevelt, American political leader and statesman, 32nd President of the United States (b. 1882)
 April 13 – Ernst Cassirer, German philosopher (b. 1874)
 April 15 – Joachim Albrecht Eggeling, German SS general (suicide) (b. 1884)
 April 18
 Sir Ambrose Fleming, British electrical engineer and physicist (b. 1849)
 Ernie Pyle, American journalist (killed in action) (b. 1900)
 William, Prince of Albania (b. 1876)
 April 21 – Walter Model, German field marshal (suicide) (b. 1891)
 April 22 – Käthe Kollwitz, German artist (b. 1867)
 April 23 – Klaus Bonhoeffer, German resistance fighter, 20 July Plotter (executed) (b. 1901)
 April 24 – Ernst-Robert Grawitz, German SS Reichsphysician (suicide) (b. 1899)
 April 28
 Executed:
 Hermann Fegelein, German SS general (b. 1906)
 Benito Mussolini, Italian politician, journalist, 27th Prime Minister of Italy and Duce of Fascism (b. 1883)
 Clara Petacci, mistress of Benito Mussolini (b. 1912)
 Nicola Bombacci, Italian Fascist politician (b. 1879)
 Roberto Farinacci, Italian Fascist politician (b. 1892)
 Alessandro Pavolini, Italian Fascist politician (b. 1903)
 April 29 – Achille Starace, Italian Fascist politician (executed) (b. 1889) 
 April 30
 Luisa Ferida, Italian actress (executed) (b. 1914)
 Adolf Hitler, Austrian-born German politician, Führer of Germany (suicide) (b. 1889)
 Eva Braun, wife of Adolf Hitler (suicide) (b. 1912)

May
 May 1
 Joseph Goebbels, Chancellor of Germany for 1 day and Reich Minister of Propaganda (suicide) (b. 1897)
 Magda Goebbels, wife of Joseph Goebbels (suicide) (b. 1901)
 May 2
 Martin Bormann, Nazi Party leader and private secretary to Adolf Hitler (presumed suicide) (b. 1900)
 Wilhelm Burgdorf, German general (suicide) (b. 1895)
 Hans Krebs, German general (suicide) (b. 1898)
 Prince Waldemar of Prussia (haemophilia) (b. 1889)
 May 3 – Mario Blasich, Italian physician, politician (b. 1878)
 May 4 – Fedor von Bock, German field marshal (killed in action) (b. 1880)
 May 6 – Xhem Hasa, Albanian nationalist (assassinated) (b. 1908)
 May 7 – Vladimir Boyarsky, Soviet army officer (executed) (b. 1901)
 May 8
 Francis Bruguière, American photographer (b. 1875)
 Julius Hirsch, German footballer (killed in Auschwitz concentration camp) (b. 1892)
 Wilhelm Rediess, SS and Police Leader of Nazi-occupied Norway (suicide) (b. 1900)
 Bernhard Rust, education minister of Nazi Germany (presumed suicide) (b. 1883)
 Josef Terboven, Reichskommissar of Nazi-occupied Norway (suicide) (b. 1898)
 May 9 – Gustav Becking, German musicologist (b. 1894)
 May 10 – Konrad Henlein, Sudeten German Nazi leader (suicide) (b. 1898)
 May 11
 Kiyoshi Ogawa, Japanese kamikaze pilot (b. 1922)
 Seizō Yasunori, Japanese kamikaze pilot (b. 1924)
 May 14
 Joseph Barthélemy, French jurist, politician and journalist (b. 1874)
 Heber J. Grant, 7th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1856)
 May 15 
 Kenneth J. Alford, British soldier and composer (b. 1881)
 Charles Williams, British author (b. 1886)
 May 16 – Kaju Sugiura, Japanese admiral (killed in action) (b. 1896)
 May 18 – William Joseph Simmons, American founder of the second Ku Klux Klan (b. 1880)
 May 19 – Philipp Bouhler, German Nazi leader and general (suicide) (b. 1899)
 May 21 – Prince Kan'in Kotohito, Japanese prince, member of the Imperial Japanese Army General Staff Office (b. 1865)
 May 23 – Heinrich Himmler, German politician, Reichsführer-SS (suicide) (b. 1900)
 May 24 – Robert Ritter von Greim, German field marshal (suicide) (b. 1892)
 May 25 
 Rafael Estrella Ureña, Dominican lawyer and politician, acting president of the Dominican Republic (b. 1889)
 Ishii Kikujirō, Japanese diplomat and politician (killed in bombing raid) (b. 1866)
 May 31
 Odilo Globocnik, Austrian Nazi leader (suicide)  (b. 1904)
 Curt von Gottberg, German SS general (suicide) (b. 1896)

June
 June 4 – Georg Kaiser, German dramatist (b. 1878)
 June 7 – Kitaro Nishida, Japanese philosopher (b. 1870)
 June 8
 Robert Desnos, French poet, resistance fighter (typhoid) (b. 1900)
 Karl Hanke, German Nazi general and last Reichsführer-SS (killed) (b. 1903)
 June 11 – Lurana W. Sheldon, American author and editor (b. 1862)
 June 13 – Minoru Ōta, Japanese admiral (suicide) (b. 1891)
 June 15
 Carl Gustaf Ekman, Prime Minister of Sweden (b. 1872)
 Amélie Rives Troubetzkoy, American author (b. 1863)
 Aris Velouchiotis, Greek World War II resistance leader (suicide) (b. 1905)
 June 16
 Nikolai Berzarin, Soviet Red Army general (b. 1904)
 Nils Edén, 15th Prime Minister of Sweden (b. 1871)
 June 18
 Florence Bascom, American geologist and educator (b. 1862)
 Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr., American general (killed in action on Okinawa) (b. 1886)
 Friedrich, Prince of Wied, German prince (b. 1872)
 June 20
 Robert Crewe-Milnes, 1st Marquess of Crewe, British politician (b. 1858)
 Luís Fernando de Orleans y Borbón, Spanish prince (b. 1888)
 June 22
 Isamu Chō, Japanese general (ritual suicide) (b. 1895)
 Mitsuru Ushijima, Japanese general (ritual suicide) (b. 1887)
 June 24 – José Gutiérrez Solana, Spanish painter (b. 1886)
 June 27 – Emil Hácha, 3rd President of Czechoslovakia, State President of Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia (b. 1872)
 June 30
 Germogen (Maximov), Russian Orthodox Metropolitan (b. 1861)
 Gabriel El-Registan, Soviet poet (b. 1899)

July
 July 1 – Félix Evaristo Mejía, Dominican diplomat, educator and writer (b. 1866)
 July 2 – Óscar R. Benavides, Peruvian field marshal, diplomat, politician and President of Peru (b. 1876)
 July 5 – John Curtin, 14th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1885)
 July 7 – Peter To Rot, Papuan Roman Catholic layman, martyr and blessed (b. 1912)
 July 9 – Luigi Aldrovandi Marescotti, Italian politician, diplomat (b. 1876)
 July 12 
 Boris Galerkin, Russian mathematician (b. 1871)
 Wolfram von Richthofen, German field marshal (brain tumor) (b. 1895)
 July 13 – Alla Nazimova, Russian-born American actress (b. 1879)
 July 17 – Ernst Busch, German field marshal, as prisoner of war (b. 1885)
 July 20 – Paul Valéry, French poet (b. 1871)
 July 24 – Arnold von Winckler, German general (b. 1856)
 July 25 – Malin Craig, United States Army general (b. 1875)
 July 28 – Margot Asquith, Countess of Oxford and Asquith (b. 1864)
 July 29 – Maria Pierina De Micheli, Italian Roman Catholic religious sister, mystic and blessed (b. 1890)
 July 31 – Artemio Ricarte, Filipino general (b. 1866)

August
 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 (starvation in prison camp) (b. 1909)
 August 5 – Nat Jaffe, American swing jazz pianist (b. 1918)
 August 7 – Jacques Vaillant de Guélis, British/French WWII hero (injuries received in automobile accident) (b. 1907)
 August 8 – Joseph Pujol, Le Pétomane, French flatulist (b. 1857)
 August 9
 Harry Hillman, American track athlete (b. 1881)Harry Hillman Taken by Death, Cumberland News, August 10, 1945
 Jun Tosaka, Japanese philosopher (in prison) (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 (ritual suicide) (b. 1887)
 Matome Ugaki, Japanese admiral (killed in action) (b. 1890)
 August 16 – Takijirō Ōnishi, Japanese admiral (ritual suicide) (b. 1891)
 August 18
 Subhas Chandra Bose, Leader of Indian National Army (Third-degree burns from aircrash) (b. 1897)
 Sarala Devi Chaudhurani, Indian educationist (b. 1872)
 August 24 – Shizuichi Tanaka, Japanese general (suicide) (b. 1887)
 August 25 – Willis Augustus Lee, American admiral, Olympic shooter (b. 1888)
 August 26
 Pio Collivadino, Argentinian painter (b. 1869)
 Franz Werfel, Austrian writer (b. 1890)
 August 27 – Blessed María Pilar Izquierdo Albero, Spanish Roman Catholic religious professed (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)
 Pope Macarius III of Alexandria, Egyptian patriarch, saint (b. 1872)

September
 September 6
 Witold Leon Czartoryski, Polish nobleman (b. 1864)
 John S. McCain Sr., American admiral (b. 1884)
 September 9 – Aage Bertelsen, Danish painter (b. 1873)
 September 12 – Hajime Sugiyama, Japanese general (suicide) (b. 1880)
 September 15
 Richard Friedrich Johannes Pfeiffer, German physician and bacteriologist (b. 1858)
 André Tardieu, 3-time prime minister of France (b. 1876)
 Anton Webern, Austrian composer (b. 1883)
 Zhang Mingqi, Qing dynasty politician (b. 1875)
 September 16 – John McCormack, Irish tenor (b. 1884)
 September 18
 José Agripino Barnet, Cuban politician and diplomat, acting president of Cuba (b. 1864)
 Blind Willie Johnson, American gospel blues singer (b. 1897)
 September 20
 Augusto Tasso Fragoso, Brazilian soldier, statesman and interim president of Brazil (b. 1869)
 Eduard Wirths, German doctor, chief SS doctor at Auschwitz concentration camp (suicide) (b. 1909)
 September 24 – Hans Geiger, German physicist, inventor (b. 1882)
 September 26
 Béla Bartók, Hungarian composer (b. 1881)
 Leonhard Kaupisch, German general (b. 1878)
 Kiyoshi Miki, Japanese philosopher (b. 1897)

October
 October 1 – Walter Bradford Cannon, American physiologist (b. 1871)
 October 6 – Leonardo Conti, German physician, Nazi officer (suicide) (b. 1900)
 October 8 – Felix Salten, Austrian author (b. 1869)
 October 10 – Joseph Darnand, Vichy French politician (executed) (b. 1897)
 October 12 – Dmytro Antonovych, Soviet politician (b. 1877)
 October 13 – Milton S. Hershey, American chocolate tycoon (b. 1857)
 October 15 – Pierre Laval, French politician, 2-time Prime Minister of France (executed) (b. 1883)
 October 18 – Frederick Hovey, American tennis player (b. 1868)
 October 19
 Plutarco Elías Calles, Mexican general, politician and 40th President of Mexico (b. 1877)
 N. C. Wyeth, American illustrator (b. 1882)
 October 21 
 Henry Armetta, Italian actor (b. 1888)
 Felicija Bortkevičienė, Lithuanian politician and publisher  (b. 1873)
 October 24 
 Franklin Carmichael, Canadian landscape painter and graphic designer  (b. 1890)Franklin Carmichael
 Vidkun Quisling, Norwegian Nazi collaborator (executed) (b. 1887)
 October 25 – Robert Ley, German Nazi politician (suicide) (b. 1890)
 October 26
 Adolf von Brudermann, Austro-Hungarian general (b. 1854)
 Paul Pelliot, French explorer (b. 1878)
 October 30 – Xian Xinghai, Chinese composer (b. 1905)
 October 31
 Henry Ainley, British actor (b. 1879)
 Ignacio Zuloaga, Basque Spanish painter (b. 1870)

November
 November 8 – August von Mackensen, German field marshal (b. 1849)
 November 11 – Jerome Kern, American composer (b. 1885)
 November 13 – Sir Edwyn Alexander-Sinclair, British admiral (b. 1865)[Sinclair, Sir Edwyn Sinclair Alexander-, of Freswick (1865–1945)]
 November 16 – Sigurður Eggerz, Minister for Iceland during World War I and 2nd Prime Minister of Iceland (b. 1875)
 November 17 – Frederick Francis IV, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (b. 1882)
 November 20 – Francis William Aston, British chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1877)
 November 21
 Robert Benchley, American humorist, theater critic and actor (b. 1889)Billy Altman, Laughter's Gentle Soul: The Life of Robert Benchley. (New York City: W. W. Norton, 1997. ) Pages 352-362
 Ellen Glasgow, American novelist (b. 1873)Inge, Tonette Bond. Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, ed.  Charles Reagan Wilson and William R. Ferris. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1989. Page 884.
 Alexander Patch, United States Army lieutenant general, World War II army commander (b. 1889)
 Jimmy Quinn, Scottish footballer (b. 1878)
 November 23 – Charles Coborn, British singer (b. 1852) 
 November 27 – Josep Maria Sert, Spanish Catalan muralist (b. 1874)
 November 28 – Dwight F. Davis, American tennis player (b. 1879)
 November 30 – Shigeru Honjō, Japanese general (suicide) (b. 1876)

December
 December 1 – Anton Dostler, German general (executed) (b. 1891)
 December 4
 Thomas Hunt Morgan, American biologist, geneticist, embryologist and Nobel Prize in Physiology recipient (b. 1866)
 Richárd Weisz, Hungarian Olympic champion wrestler (b. 1879)
 December 5 – Cosmo Gordon Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1864)
 December 8 – Gabriellino D'Annunzio, Italian actor, director and screenwriter (b. 1886)
 December 12 – Prince Frederick of Schaumburg-Lippe (b. 1868)
 December 13
 Johanna Bormann, German Nazi concentration camp guard (executed) (b. 1893)
 Henri Dentz, French general (b. 1881)
 Irma Grese, German camp guard at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp (executed) (b. 1923)
 Josef Kramer, German commandant of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp (executed) (b. 1906)
 Elisabeth Volkenrath, German supervisor at Nazi concentration camps (executed) (b. 1919)
 December 14 – Forrester Harvey, Irish actor (b. 1884)
 December 16
 Giovanni Agnelli, Italian entrepreneur, founder of Fiat (b. 1866)
 Fumimaro Konoe, Japanese general, politician, and 23rd Prime Minister of Japan (suicide) (b. 1891)
 December 19 – Leonard F. Wing, American general and politician (b. 1893)Wing, Leonard Fish
 December 21 – George S. Patton, American general (injuries from automobile accident) (b. 1885)
 December 22 – Otto Neurath, Austrian philosopher, political economist (b. 1892)
 December 26 
 Duy Tân, Emperor of Vietnam (b. 1900)
 Roger Keyes, 1st Baron Keyes, British admiral (b. 1872)
 December 28 – Theodore Dreiser, American novelist (b. 1871)