Deaths in 1945

## Deaths
### January
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* 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)
** 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
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* 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)
* 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
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* 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
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* 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
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* 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
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* 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
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* 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)
** 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)

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* 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
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* 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 24 
** Franklin Carmichael, Canadian landscape painter and graphic designer  (b. 1890)
** 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
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* 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)
* 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)
** Ellen Glasgow, American novelist (b. 1873)
** 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
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* 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)
* 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)