Year (''' MCMXLV ''') was a Common Year Starting On Monday (link will display the full calendar). It is most widely known for being the end of World War II . It is also known as the beginning of the Information Age .
:: ''(Below, many events of World War II have the " WWII " prefix.)''
: Soviet s liberate
Auschwitz .]]
- Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill leave to meet with Soviet leader Joseph Stalin at the Yalta Conference .
- agrees to enter the Pacific Theater conflict against Japan .
- Franklin D. Roosevelt , Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin begin the Yalta Conference (ends February 11 )
- February 6 - French writer Robert Brasillach executed for Collaboration with the Germans
- returns to Manila
- February 9 - Walter Ulbricht becomes the leader of German Communists in Moscow
- sunk by the Soviet Submarine S-13 .
- February 13 - WWII :
- --- Soviet Union forces capture Budapest , Hungary from the Nazis .
- ---The Royal Air Force Bombs Dresden , Germany .
- February 14 - Chile , Ecuador , Paraguay and Peru join the United Nations .
- February 16 - WWII :
- ---American forces land on Corregidor island in the Philippines .
- ---American forces recapture the Bataan Peninsula
- - about 30,000 United States Marine s landed on Iwo Jima starting the battle.
- February 21 - Last launch of an A4-rocket at Peenemünde
- February 23 - WWII :
- ---During the Battle Of Iwo Jima , a group of United States Marine s reach the top of Mount Suribachi on the island and are photographed raising the American Flag . The photo, '' Raising The Flag On Iwo Jima '' taken by Joe Rosenthal will later win a Pulitzer Prize .
- ---The capital of the Philippines , Manila, is liberated by American forces.
- ---Capitulation of German garrison in Poznań , city is liberated by Red Army and Polish forces.
- February 24 - Egyptian Premier Ahmed Maher Pasha is killed in Parliament after reading a decree
- Early March - Annelies Marie Frank , also called Anne Frank, dies in the Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp , Lower Saxony , Germany .
- March 1 - Franklin D. Roosevelt gives what will be his last address to a joint session of Congress, reporting on the Yalta Conference .
- March 2
- ---Former US Vice-President Henry Agard Wallace starts his term of office as US Secretary Of Commerce , serving under President Franklin D. Roosevelt
- ---Launch of the Bachem Ba 349 Natter from Stetten Am Kalten Markt . The Natter was the first manned rocket and developed as anti-aircraft weapon. The launch failed and the pilot died."Year by Year 1945" -- History Channel International
- March 3 - WWII :
- ---Previously neutral Finland declares war on the Axis Powers .
- ---A possible experimental atomic test blast occurs at the Nazis' Ohrdruf military testing area {Link without Title} .
- March 4 - In the United Kingdom , Princess Elizabeth , later to become Queen Elizabeth II, joins the British Army as a driver.
- March 6 - Communist-led government formed in Romania
- at Remagen , Germany and begin to cross.
- March 8 - Josip Broz Tito forms a government in Yugoslavia
- bombers attack Japan with Incendiary Bomb s. Tokyo is Fire-bomb ed killing 100,000 citizens.
- ends, with small pockets of guerrilla resistance persisting past the official conclusion of the battle.
- ese city of Kobe is Fire-bomb ed by 331 B-29 bombers, killing over 8,000.
- .
- March 19 - WWII :
- --- Adolf Hitler orders that all industries, military installations, shops, transportation facilities and communications facilities in Germany be destroyed.
- ---Off the coast of Japan , bombers hit the Aircraft Carrier USS ''Franklin'' , killing 800 of her crew and crippling the ship.
- troops liberate Mandalay , Burma
- March 22 - The Arab League was formed with the adoption of a charter in Cairo , Egypt .
- and Bob Kurland duelled at Madison Square Garden . OSU defeats DePaul 52-44.
- forces invade Austria and take Vienna . Alger Hiss congratulated in Moscow for his part in bringing about the Western Betrayal at the Yalta Conference .
- From February 14 , 1936 , to March 1 , 1945, AG Weser launched a total of 162 U-boats .
- troops land on Okinawa in the last campaign of the war. The Battle Of Okinawa starts.
- Death Camp in Germany .
- April 7 - WWII :
- ---The Japanese Battleship ''Yamato'' is sunk 200 miles north of Okinawa while enroute on a Suicide Mission .
- --- Visoko was liberated by the 7th, 9th and 17th Krajina brigades from the Tenth division of Yugoslav Partisan forces.
- --- Kantaro Suzuki becomes the Prime Minister Of Japan
- April 9
- ---Abwehr conspirators Wilhelm Canaris , Hans Oster and Hans Dohanyi are hanged at Flossenberg Concentration Camp along with pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer .
- ---, in East Prussia , ends.
- April 10 - The Allied Forces liberate the Nazi Concentration Camp , Buchenwald .
- April 12 - United States President Franklin Delano Roosevelt ( 1933 -1945) dies suddenly at Warm Springs, Georgia ; Vice President Harry S. Truman (1945- 1953 ) becomes the 33rd President.
- April 15 - Bergen-Belsen concentration camp liberated.
- sunk by the Soviet Submarine L-3 .
- April 18 - U.S. War Correspondent Ernie Pyle is killed by Japanese machine-gun fire on the island of Ie Shima off Okinawa .
- April 19 - Rodgers And Hammerstein 's '' Carousel '', a musical play based on Ferenc Molnar 's ''Liliom'', opens on Broadway and becomes their second long-running stage classic.
- April 24 - Retreating German Troops destroy all the bridges over the Adige in Verona , including the historical Ponte Di Castelvecchio and Ponte Pietra .
- April 25
- ---Founding negotiations of United Nations in San Francisco
- ---, United States and Soviet troops link up at the Elbe River , cutting Germany in two
- April 26 - Battle Of Bautzen (World War II) - last "successful" German panzer-offensive in Bautzen , the city is recaptured
- April 27 - U.S. Ordinance troops find the coffins of Frederick Wilhelm I, Frederick the Great, Paul Von Hindenburg , and his wife
- April 28 - Italian dictator Benito Mussolini and his mistress, Clara Petacci , are executed by Italian partisans as they attempt to flee the country. Their bodies are then hung by their heels in the public square of Milan .
- bombers drop food into the Netherlands to prevent the starvation of the civilian population.
- April 30 - Adolf Hitler and his wife of one day, Eva Braun , Commit Suicide as Red Army approaches Führerbunker in Berlin . Karl Dönitz succeeds Hitler as President Of Germany . Joseph Goebbels succeeds Hitler as Chancellor Of Germany .
- May 1 - WWII :
- --- Hamburg Radio announces that Hitler has died in battle, "...fighting up to his last breath against Bolshevism ."
- --- Joseph Goebbels and his wife commit suicide after killing their 6 children. Karl Dönitz appoints Count Lutz Schwerin Von Krosigk as the new Chancellor Of Germany .
- ---Troops of Yugoslav 4th Army together with Slovene 9th Corpus NOV enter Trieste .
- May 2 - WWII :
- ---The Soviet Union announces the Fall Of Berlin . Soviet soldiers hoist the Red Flag over the ''Reichstag'' Building .
- ---Troops of New Zealand Army 2nd Division enter Trieste a day after the Yugoslavs . German Army in Trieste surrenders to the New Zealand Army .
- ---The last postage stamp utilized by Manzhouguo is issued.
- May 3 - WWII :
- ---Sinkings of the Prison Ship s Cap Arcona , Thielbek and Deutschland by the RAF in the Lübeck Bay.
- ---Rocket scientist Wernher Von Braun and 120 members of his team surrender to US forces. They later help start the US space program.
- May 4 - WWII :
- ---Liberation of the Concentration Camp Neuengamme near Hamburg by the British army.
- ---Reddition of the North Germany army by Marshal Bernard Montgomery .
- ---Holland liberated by Canadian troops. {Link without Title} German troops officially surrender one day later.
- May 5 - WWII :
- --- Prague uprising against the Nazis.
- --- Ezra Pound , poet and author, is arrested by American soldiers in Italy for treason.
- --- US 11th Armored Division liberates prisoners of Mauthausen Concentration Camp - including Simon Wiesenthal
- --- Canadian soldiers liberate the city of Amsterdam from Nazi occupation.
-- Admiral Karl Dönitz orders all U-boat s to cease offensive operations and return to their bases.
- --- A Japanese Balloon Bomb killed five children and a woman, Elsie Mitchell near Bly, Oregon , when it exploded as they dragged it from the woods. They were the only people killed by enemy attack on the United States mainland during World War II .
- delivers her last Propaganda broadcast to Allied troops (first was on December 11 , 1941 ).
- signs unconditional surrender terms at Rheims , France , ending Germany 's participation in the war. The document will take effect the next day.
- May 8 - WWII :
- --- V-E Day (Victory in Europe, as Nazi Germany surrenders) commemorates the end of World War II in Europe .
- ---British 8th Army together with Slovene partisan troops and motorized detachment of Yugoslav 4th Army arrives to Carinthia and Klagenfurt .
- May 8 - May 29 - In Algeria , thousands die as French troops and released Italian POW's brutally kill what is estimated as 45 thousand Algerian citizens (Sétif Rebellion) .in the biggest massacre in the world.
- May 9 - WWII :
- --- Hermann Göring is captured by the United States Army ; Norway arrests Vidkun Quisling ; Soviet Union marks V-E Day .
- --- Red Army enters Prague (capitulation of German occupation troops)
- ---General Alexander Löhr Commander of German Army Group E near Topolšica , Slovenia , signs capitulation of German occupation troops.
- --- Occupation Of The Channel Islands ends with the liberation by British troops. Alderney , annex of the Concentration Camp Neuengamme liberated.
- near Slovenj Gradec , Slovenia
- May 23
- --- President Of Germany Karl Dönitz and Chancellor Of Germany Count Lutz Schwerin Von Krosigk are arrested by British forces at Flensburg . They would respectively be the last German Head Of State and Head Of Government until 1949 .
- --- Heinrich Himmler , the head of the Nazi Gestapo , commits suicide in British custody.
- May 25 - Turkish scientist make the first scientific recordings of a wet dream. The files record every point from the begings of stimulation all the way through the climax.
- May 28 - William Joyce , known as " Lord Haw-Haw " is captured. He is later charged with high treason in London for his English-language wartime broadcasts on German radio. He is hanged in January of 1946.
- May 29 - Group of German communists, Ulbricht in the lead, arrive in Berlin .
- May 30 - Iran ian government demands that Soviet and British troops leave the country.
: Trinity Test at night in Nevada .]]
- July 1 - WWII : Germany is divided between Allied occupation forces
- declared.
- was informed that Japan will talk peace if she can keep the Emperor. {Link without Title}
- July 9 - A Forest Fire breaks out in the Tillamook Burn , the third fire in that area since 1933.
- , the first test of an Atomic Bomb , using 6 kilograms of Plutonium , succeeds in detonating, unleashing an explosion equivalent to that of 19 kilotons of TNT.
- , Germany kills 102 war prisoners.
- - At Potsdam , the three main Allied leaders begin their final summit of the war. The meeting will end on August 2 .
- approves order for atomic bombs to be used. {Link without Title}
- , who headed the Vichy Government during World War II goes on trial, charged with treason.
- July 26
- --- Winston Churchill resigns as Britain 's prime minister after his Conservative Party is soundly defeated by the Labour Party in the 1945 General Election . Clement Attlee becomes the new prime minister.
- --- Potsdam Declaration demands Japan's unconditional surrender; Article 12 permitting Japan to retain the Emperor had been deleted by Truman. {Link without Title}
- July 28
- ---An Army Air Forces B-25 bomber accidentally crashes into the Empire State Building , killing 14 people.
- --- rejects Potsdam Declaration {Link without Title} .
- July 29 - The BBC Light Programme Radio Station was launched, aimed at Mainstream light entertainment and Music .
- is hit and sunk by the Japanese Submarine I-58 . Some 900 survivors jump into the sea and are adrift for 4 days. Nearly 600 die before help arrives. Captain Charles B. McVay III is later court-martialed.
- , fugitive former leader of Vichy France , surrenders to Allied soldiers in Austria.
: USS ''Indianapolis'' will be sunk.]]
: The United Nations is formed. This was its flag. The modern version is slightly retouched.]]
: Nuremberg trials begin, after Buchenwald closed.]]
- October 1 - to October 15 - Launch of three A4 Rocket s near Cuxhaven in order to show Allied forces the rocket with liquid fuel ( Operation Backfire )
- October 3 - to October 10 - Detroit Tigers won the World Series against the Chicago Cubs . The Cubs haven't made it to the World Series since.
- October 5 - A strike by the Set Decorator's Union in Hollywood results in Riot
- October 10 - Russian code clerk Igor Gouzenko defects to Canada . He helps the West gain an understanding of Soviet spy rings in North America .
- , Pierre Laval , is executed by Firing Squad for Treason .
- October 17 - A massive number of people, headed for CGT and Evita , gather in the Plaza De Mayo in Argentina to demand Juan Peron 's release. This is known to the Peronists as the ''Día de la lealtad'' (day of loyalty) or ''San Perón'' (Saint Perón). It's considered the birthday of Peronism.
- October 18
- ---The first German War Crimes trial begins in Nuremberg .
- --- Isaías Medina Angarita , president of Venezuela , is overthrown by a Military Coup .
- for the first time.
- October 23 - Jackie Robinson signs a contract with the Montreal Royals .
- October 24
- --- United Nations founded.
- ---Norwegian Nazi leader, Vidkun Quisling , is shot by Firing Squad for Treason .
- October 27 - Indonesia n separatists riot and fight Dutch and British security forces.
- October 29
- --- Getúlio Vargas , president of Brazil , resigns.
- ---At Gimbel's Department Store in New York City , the first Ballpoint Pen s go on sale at $12.50 each.
found.]]
- The Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College , the first chiropractic college in Canada, initiates its four year doctoral program.
- Arthur C. Clarke puts forward the idea of a communications Satellite in a ''Wireless World'' magazine article.
- At the Mayo Clinic , Streptomycin is first used to treat Tuberculosis .
- Percy Spencer accidentally discovers that microwaves can heat food. Invention of the Microwave Oven follows.
- Grand Rapids, Michigan and Newburgh, New York become the first cities to Add Fluoride To Drinking Water .
- The first nuclear reactor outside of the U.S. is built in Chalk River , Ontario , Canada .
- High-altitude, west-to-east winds across the Pacific Ocean — discovered by the Japan ese in 1942 and by Americans in 1944 — are dubbed the '' Jet Stream ''.
- Salvador Edward Luria and Alfred Day Hershey independently recognize that Virus es undergo Mutation s.
- The Herbicide 2,4-D is introduced; it is later used as a component of Agent Orange .
- A team led by Charles DuBois Coryell discovers Chemical Element 61, the only one still missing between 1 and 96 on the Periodic Table . The new element is called Promethium .
- Raymond Libby develops oral Penicillin .
- American Canamid discovers Folic Acid , a Vitamin abundant in Green Leafy Vegetable s, Liver , Kidney , and Yeast .
- The first Geothermal Milk Pasteurization occurs in Klamath Falls , Oregon , USA .
- January 3
- --- Victoria Principal , American actress
- --- Stephen Stills , American singer and songwriter ( Crosby, Stills, Nash And Young )
- --- Abbas Khattak , Commander of Pakistan Air Force
- January 4 - Richard R. Schrock , American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
- January 10
- --- Jennifer Moss , British actress (d. 2006 )
- --- Rod Stewart , British singer
- January 15
- --- Princess Michael Of Kent
- --- Vince Foster , a deputy White House counsel during the first term of President Bill Clinton (d. 1993 )
- January 20 - Robert Olen Butler , American writer
- January 26 - Jacqueline Du Pré , English cellist (d. 1987 )
- January 27 - Harold Cardinal , Cree political leader, writer, and lawyer (d. 2005 )
- January 29
- --- Jim Nicholson , Northern Irish politician
- --- Tom Selleck , American actor
- January 30 - Michael Dorris , American author (d. 1997 )
- January 31 - Joseph Kosuth , American artist
- February 2 - David Friedman , American economist
- February 3
- --- Bob Griese , American football player
- --- Philip Waruinge , Kenyan boxer
- February 5 - Charlotte Rampling , English actress
- February 6 - Bob Marley , Jamaican singer and musician (d. 1981 )
- February 7
- --- Gerald Davies , Welsh rugby player
- --- Pete Postlethwaite , English actor
- February 9 - Mia Farrow , American actress
- February 12 - Maud Adams , Swedish actress
- February 16 - Frank Welker , American voice actor
- February 14 - Prince Hans-Adam II Of Liechtenstein
- February 17 - Brenda Fricker , Irish actress
- February 25 - Elkie Brooks , English singer
- February 27 - Carl Anderson , American singer and actor (d. 2004 )
- February 28 - Bubba Smith , American football player and actor
- March 1 - Dirk Benedict , American actor
- March 3 - Hattie Winston , American actress
- March 4
- --- Dieter Meier , Swiss singer and children's writer
- --- Tommy Svensson , Swedish football manager and former player
- --- Gary Williams , American basketball coach
- March 7 - John Heard , American actor
- March 8
- --- Jim Chapman , American politician
- --- Micky Dolenz , American actor, director, and musician ( The Monkees )
- --- Anselm Kiefer , German painter
- March 9 - Dennis Rader , American serial killer
- March 13 - Anatoly Timofeevich Fomenko , Russian mathematician
- March 15 - A. K. Faezul Huq , Bangladeshi Politician
- March 19 - Cem Karaca , Turkish musician (d. 2004 )
- March 20 - Jay Ingram , television host, author and journalist
- March 26 - Mikhail Voronin , Russian gymnast (d. 2004 )
- March 29 - Walt Frazier , American basketball player
- March 30 - Eric Clapton , English guitarist
- March 31 - Gabe Kaplan , American actor, comedian, and professional poker player
- April 2 - Linda Hunt , American actress
- April 4 - Daniel Cohn-Bendit , French activist
- April 7 - Werner Schroeter , German film director
- April 9
- --- Peter Gammons , baseball sportswriter
- --- Steve Gadd , American session drummer
- April 12 - Lee Jong-wook , Korean Director-General of the World Health Organization (d. 2006 )
- April 13
- --- Tony Dow , American actor, producer, and director
- --- Lowell George , American musician ( Little Feat )
- --- Bob Kalsu , American football player (d. 1970 )
- April 14 - Ritchie Blackmore , English guitarist ( Deep Purple 1968-1975 & 1984-1993)
- April 20 - Frank DiLeo , American actor
- April 21 - Diana Darvey , British actress, singer and dancer (d. 2000 )
- April 25 - Björn Ulvaeus , Swedish songwriter ( ABBA )
- April 27 - August Wilson , American playwright (d. 2005 )
- May 1 - Rita Coolidge , American singer
- May 2
- --- Judge Dread , English musician
- --- Sarah Weddington , American attorney
- May 4 - Narasinham Ram , Indian journalist
- May 6
- --- Jimmie Dale Gilmore , American musician
- --- Bob Seger , American singer
- May 8 - Keith Jarrett , American musician
- May 14 - Yochanan Vollach , former Israeli football player and president of Maccabi Haifa, CEO
- May 15 - Duarte Pio, Duke of Braganza]], heir to the Portuguese crown
Haifa association
- June 1 - Frederica Von Stade , American mezzo-soprano
- June 8 - Steven Fromholz , American singer-songwriter
- June 9 - Nike Wagner , German woman of the theater
- June 11 - Adrienne Barbeau , American film and television actress
- June 12 - Pat Jennings , Northern Irish footballer player
- June 14 - Jörg Immendorff , German painter
- June 15 - Françoise Chandernagor , French writer
- June 16 - Claire Alexander , Canadian ice hockey player
- June 17
- --- Frank Ashmore , American actor
- --- Art Bell , American radio talk show host
- --- Anupam Kher , Indian actor
- --- Eddy Merckx , Belgian cyclist
- June 19
- --- Aung San Suu Kyi , Myanmar poet, politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
- --- Radovan Karadžić , Serbian politician
- June 24 - George Pataki , former New York State Governor
- June 25 - Carly Simon , American singer and songwriter
- June 26 - Dwight York , American musician, fashion consultant, cult leader, and child molester
- July 1 - Debbie Harry , American singer ( Blondie )
- July 5 - Lu Sheng-yen , leader of the True Buddha School
- July 6 - Burt Ward , American actor
- July 7 - Michael Ancram , British politician
- July 8 - Micheline Calmy-Rey , Swiss Federal Councilor
- July 9 - Dean R. Koontz , American writer
- July 11 - Richard Wesley , American playwright and screenwriter
- July 15 - Jürgen Möllemann , German politician (d. 2003 )
- July 16 - Victor Sloan , Irish artist
- July 17 - Alexander, Crown Prince Of Yugoslavia
- July 19 - A. K. Faezul Huq , Bangladeshi politician and lawyer (d. 2007 )
- July 20 - Kim Carnes , American singer-songwriter
- July 24 - Azim Premji , Indian businessman
- July 28
- --- Jim Davis , American cartoonist
- --- Richard Wright , English keyboardist ( Pink Floyd )
- August 1 - Douglas D. Osheroff , American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
- August 5 - Loni Anderson , American actress
- August 6 - Ron Jones , director (d. 1995 )
- August 7 - Alan Page , American football player
- August 9 - Posy Simmonds , English cartoonist
- August 14
- --- Steve Martin , American actor and comedian
- --- Eliana Pittman , Brazilian singer and actress
- August 15 - Mahamandaleshwar Paramhans Swami Maheshwarananda , Indian guru
- August 19 - Ian Gillan , English singer ( Deep Purple )
- August 22 - Ron Dante , American singer, songwriter, and record producer ( The Archies )
- August 24 - Vince McMahon , American wrestling promoter
- August 31
- --- Van Morrison , Irish musician
- --- Itzhak Perlman ,
- September 1 - Mustafa Balel , Turkish writer
- September 5 - Al Stewart , Scottish singer-songwriter
- September 8 - Jose Feliciano , Puerto Rican singer
- September 14 - Martin Tyler , British sports broadcaster
- September 15 - Jessye Norman , American soprano
- September 19 - Randolph Mantooth , American actor
- September 21 - Shaw Clifton , General of The Salvation Army
- September 27 - Kay Ryan , American poet
- September 30
- --- Salaheddin Ali Nader Shah Angha , 42nd Oveyssi-Shahmaghsoudi leader
- --- Ehud Olmert , 12th Prime Minister Of Israel
- October 3 - Kay Baxter , American bodybuilder (d. 1988 )
- October 12 - Aurore Clément , French actress
- October 15 - Jim Palmer , baseball player
- October 18 - Yıldo , Turkish famous showmen, football player
- October 19 - John Lithgow , American actor
- October 24 - Eugenie Scott , Executive Director of the National Center For Science Education
- October 25 - David Schramm , American astrophysicist
- October 27 - Luís Inácio Lula Da Silva , President Of Brazil
- October 30 - Henry Winkler , American actor
- October 31 - Brian Doyle-Murray , American actor
- November 5 - Jacques Lanctôt , Canadian terrorist
- November 11 - Chris Dreja , British musician ( The Yardbirds )
- November 12
- --- Michael Bishop , American author
- --- Tracy Kidder , American journalist and author
- --- Neil Young , Canadian singer
- November 15 - Anni-Frid Lyngstad , Norwegian singer ( ABBA )
- November 18 - Wilma Mankiller , Chief of the Cherowkee nation
- November 21 - Goldie Hawn , American actress
- November 26
- --- Daniel Davis , American actor
- --- John McVie , English musician ( Fleetwood Mac )
- January 2 - Bertram Ramsay , British admiral (b. 1883 )
- January 3 - Edgar Cayce , American psychic (b. 1877 )
- January 9 - Jüri Uluots , Estonian statesman (b. 1890 )
- January 22 - Else Lasker-Schuler , German poet (b. 1869 )
- January 31 - Eddie Slovik , American soldier (b. 1920 )
- February 5
- --- Denise Bloch , French World War II heroine (executed) (b. 1915 )
- --- Lilian Rolfe , French World War II heroine (executed) (b. 1914 )
- --- Violette Szabo , French World War II heroine (executed) (b. 1921 )
- February 11 - Al Dubin , Swiss songwriter (b. 1891 )
- February 14 - Didier Bonvitesse , Belgian painter and sculptor (b. 1880 )
- February 17 - Gabrielle Weidner , Belgian World War II heroine (b. 1914 )
- February 21 - Eric Liddell , Scottish runner (b. 1902 )
- February 25 - Mário De Andrade , Brazilian writer and photographer (b. 1893 )
- March - Anne Frank , German-born diarist (typhus) (b. 1929 )
- March 2 - Emily Carr , Canadian artist (b. 1871 )
- March 16 - Börries Von Münchhausen , German poet (b. 1874 )
- March 18 - William Grover-Williams , French race car driver and war hero (b. 1903 )
- March 19 - Friedrich Fromm , Nazi official (b. 1888 )
- March 20 - Lord Alfred Douglas , English poet (b. 1870 )
- March 22
- --- Eliyahu Bet-Zuri , Israeli assassin (executed) (b. 1922 )
- --- Eliyahu Hakim , Israeli assassin (executed) (b. 1925 )
- March 23 - Elisabeth De Rothschild , French World War II heroine (executed) (b. 1902 )
- March 26 - David Lloyd George , Welsh Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom (b. 1863 )
- March 30 - Élise Rivet , French nun and war heroine (b. 1890 )
- March 31 - Hans Fischer , German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1881 )
- April- Auguste Van Pels , housemate of Anne Frank
- April 9
- --- Dietrich Bonhoeffer , German theologian (hanged) (b. 1906 )
- --- Wilhelm Canaris , head of the German Abwehr (hanged) (b. 1887 )
- April 10 - H.N. Werkman , Dutch artist and printer (executed) (b. 1882 )
- April 12 - Franklin Delano Roosevelt , President Of The United States (massive stroke) (b. 1882 )
- April 18 - Ernie Pyle , American journalist (sniper fire) (b. 1900 )
- April 22 - Käthe Kollwitz , German artist (b. 1867 )
- April 24 - Ernst-Robert Grawitz , Reichsphysician SS and Police in the Third Reich (b. 1899 )
- April 28 - Benito Mussolini , Italian dictator (executed) (b. 1883 )
- April 30
- --- Adolf Hitler , German dictator (suicide) (b. 1889 )
- --- Eva Braun , mistress of Adolf Hitler (suicide) (b. 1912 )
- --- William Darby , creator of the U.S. Army Rangers (b. 1911 )
- May 1
- --- Cecily Lefort , English World War II heroine (executed) (b. 1900 )
- --- Joseph Goebbels , Nazi propagandist (suicide) (b. 1897 )
- --- Magda Goebbels , wife of Joseph Goebbels (suicide) (b. 1901 )
- May 5 - Peter Van Pels , love interest of diarist Anne Frank (b. 1926 )
- May 14 - Heber J. Grant , seventh president of The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-day Saints (b. 1856 )
- May 15 - Charles Williams , British author (b. 1886 )
- May 18 - William Joseph Simmons , founder of the second KKK (b. 1880 )
- May 23 - Heinrich Himmler , head of the Nazi Gestapo (suicide) (b. 1900 )
- June 8 - Robert Desnos , French poet and French resistance fighter (b. 1900 )
- June 15 - Nikola Avramov , Bulgarian painter (b. 1897 )
- June 16 - Nikolai Berzarin , Russian Red Army General (b. 1904 )
- July 5 - John Curtin , fourteenth Prime Minister Of Australia (b. 1885 )
- July 20 - Paul Valéry , French poet (b. 1871 )
- August 2 - Pietro Mascagni , Italian composer (b. 1863 )
- August 9 - Harry Hillman , American athlete (b. 1881 )
- August 10 - Robert Goddard , American rocket scientist (b. 1882 )
- August 15 - Korechika Anami , Japanese general (b. 1887 )
- August 18 - Subhash Chandra Bose , Indian political leader (b. 1897 )
- August 19 - Tomas Burgos , Chilean philanthropist (b. 1875 )
- August 31 - Stefan Banach , Polish mathematician (b. 1892 )
- September 12 - Sugiyama Hajime , Japanese general (b. 1880 )
- September 15 - Anton Webern , Austrian composer (b. 1883 )
- September 24 - Johannes Hans Geiger , German physicist and inventor (b. 1882 )
- September 26 - Béla Bartók , Hungarian composer (b. 1881 )
- October 13 - Milton Hershey , American chocolate tycoon (b. 1857 )
- October 15 - Pierre Laval , Prime Minister Of France (executed) (b. 1883 )
- October 19 - N.C. Wyeth , American illustrator (b. 1882 )
- October 24 - Vidkun Quisling , Norwegian traitor (executed) (b. 1887 )
- October 26 - Paul Pelliot , French explorer (b. 1878 )
- November 8 - August Von Mackensen , German field marshal (b. 1849 )
- November 11 - Jerome Kern , American composer (b. 1885 )
- November 20 - Francis William Aston , English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1877 )
- November 21 - Robert Benchley , American humorist, theater critic, and actor (b. 1889 )
- December 4 - Thomas Hunt Morgan , American geneticist, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine (b. 1866 )
- December 5 - Cosmo Lang , Archbishop Of Canterbury (b. 1864 )
- December 16 - Fumimaro Konoe , Prime Minister Of Japan (suicide) (b. 1891 )
- December 21 - George S. Patton , U.S. general (car accident) (b. 1885 )
- December 28 - Theodore Dreiser , American author (b. 1871 )
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