1945

**1945** (MCMXLV) was a common year starting on Monday in the Gregorian calendar.  It was known for 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
*May 12 – Rev. W. V. Awdry's children's book *The Three Railway Engines*, first of The Railway Series, is published in England.
*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 
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 in 1966]]
*January 3 – Stephen Stills (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young), singer, songwriter
*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, American–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 
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*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
 and Ingrid Bergman in *Spellbound*]]
**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 
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**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