Famous Deaths for Year 1945

Months in Year 1945: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Deaths 1 - 150 of 222

Jan 1st - Vit Nejedly, composer, dies at 33
Jan 2nd - Betram Home Ramsay, Engl adm/Cmdr Naval Forces (Normandy), dies at 61
Jan 3rd - Fyodor Akimenko, composer, dies at 68
Jan 3rd - Edgar Cayce, American psychic (b. 1877)
Jan 3rd - Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski, Polish writer (b. 1879)
Jan 6th - Vladimir Vernadsky, Russian mineralogist (b. 1863)
Jan 8th - Jac[obus] P Thijsse, Dutch biologist (Omgang met planten), dies at 79
Jan 8th - Karl Krafft, Swiss astrologer who was manipulated by the Nazi regime (b. 1900)
Jan 9th - Jüri Uluots, Estonian Prime Minister (b. 1890)
Jan 10th - Rudolf Borchardt, writer, dies at 67
Jan 14th - Sandor Vandor, composer, dies at 43
Jan 16th - Dennis Donnini, Brit rifleman (Victoria Cross), dies in battle at 19
Jan 19th - Ernest B Allo, French theologist, dies at 71
Jan 22nd - A Wolfenstein, writer, dies at 61
Jan 22nd - Carlo Felice Boghen, composer, dies a day before 76th birthday
Jan 22nd - Johan Eykman, theologist (World Church), dies at 52
Jan 22nd - Else Lasker-Schuler, German-born poet (b. 1869)
Jan 23rd - Helmuth J Moltke, German politician ("July 20th Plot"), executed at 37
Jan 28th - Philip "Felix" Bekkers, actor (We Go on Trip), dies at 37
Jan 30th - Gottlieb J Haberlandt, Hungarian/German botanist, dies at 90
Jan 30th - William Busch, composer, dies at 43
Jan 31st - Eddie Slovik, 1st US executed for desertion since Civil War at 25
Feb 1st - Johan Huizinga, Dutch culture historian (Homo Ludens), dies at 72
Feb 2nd - Karl F Goerdeler, mayor (Leipzig)/"July 20th plot", hanged at 60
Feb 3rd - Jose Rolon, composer, dies at 61
Feb 3rd - Roland Freisler, German Nazi judge (July 20th plotter case), dies
Feb 6th - Jan Bos, Dutch resistance fighter, executed
Feb 6th - Paul Bos, Dutch resistance fighter, executed
Feb 9th - George J L Maduro, resistance fighter (Madurodam), dies in Dachau
Feb 9th - Jan Bakker, resistance fighter, executed at 26
Feb 10th - Juan de Hernandez, composer, dies at 63
Feb 10th - Anacleto Diaz, Filipino jurist (b. 1878)
Feb 11th - Al Dubin, Swiss songwriter (Tiptoe Thru The Tulips), dies at 53
Feb 11th - J S H Lokerman, Dutch resistance fighter, dies in Neugengamme
Feb 12th - Henrietta Szold, founder (Hadassah, Youth Aliyah), dies
Feb 12th - Walraven [Wally] van Hall, Dutch banker/resisted Nazis, executed at 39
Feb 12th - Antonio Villa-Real, Filipino jurist (b. 1880)
Feb 13th - George Studd, cricketer (4 Tests with brother v Aus 1882-83), dies
Feb 16th - Billy Frank, cricketer (Test South Africa v Eng 1896, 5 & 2, 1-52), dies
Feb 16th - Rudolf Vornlund, Swedish playwright (Upproret), dies at 45
Feb 19th - Wim Speelman, Dutch resistance fighter, executed at 26
Feb 21st - Eric Liddell, Scottish runner (Olympic-gold 1924), dies at 43
Feb 22nd - Osip Brik, Russian writer (b. 1888)
Feb 23rd - Aleksei Tolstoi, Russian poet/writer (Pjotr Peroyj), dies at 62
Feb 23rd - Aubrey Cousins, Canadian sergeant (Victoria Cross), dies in battle
Feb 24th - Ahmed Maher Pasha, Egypt's PM, assassinated in parliament
Feb 25th - Mário de Andrade, Brazilian writer and photographer (b. 1893)
Feb 27th - HJ Lochtman, Dutch chaplain/resistance fighter, dies in Bergen-Belsen
Mar 2nd - Emily Carr, Canadian artist (b. 1871)
Mar 3rd - Arthur Vanderpoorten, Flemish Internal minister (1940), dies at 61
Mar 3rd - Koos Speenhoff, Dutch singer, killed in bombing raid at 75
Mar 4th - Lucille La Verne, American actress (b. 1872)
Mar 4th - Mark Sandrich, American film director, writer and producer (b. 1900)
Mar 5th - Lena Baker, American murderer (b. 1901)
Mar 6th - Jan Thijssen, Dutch resistance fighter, executed at Savage Farm
Mar 6th - Rudolph Karel, composer, dies at 64
Mar 7th - Adolf Bartels, German writer/racist, dies at 82
Mar 8th - H J Jamin, Dutch resistance fighter, dies in Buchenwald
Mar 8th - Jan Beekes, resistance fighter, executed at 26
Jewish Victim & Diarist of the Holocaust Anne Frank (Mar 12th) Mar 12th - Anne Frank, diarist (Diary of Anne Frank), killed in Belsen Camp
Mar 13th - Herbert Bedford, composer, dies at 78
Mar 15th - Herman B Wiardi Beckman, Dutch MP (SDAP), dies at 41
Mar 16th - Pierre Drieu la Rochelle, French writer/poet, commits suicide at 52
Mar 16th - Börries von Münchhausen, German poet (b. 1874)
Mar 18th - William Grover-Williams, British racing driver
Mar 19th - Fritz Fromm, German supreme commander of Reserve army, executed
Mar 21st - J Woortman, Dutch resistance fighter, dies in Bergen-Belsen at 39
Mar 21st - Artur Nebe, German SS officer {b. 1894)
Mar 22nd - J Postuma, Dutch resistance fighter, dies
Mar 24th - J S Nicklin, Lt-Col/Canada's 1st parachutist, dies
Mar 24th - Thomas Rennie, Gen-Maj (Dutch command 51st Highland Division), dies
Mar 26th - David Lloyd George, British (L) premier (1916-22), dies at 82
Mar 26th - Isaack Stouten, resistance fighter, shot to death at 29
Mar 27th - Jorgen Nielsen, Danish writer (romance), dies at 42
Mar 29th - Karl T Sapper, German geographer/geologist (Vulkankunde), dies at 79
Mar 30th - Karel Moor, composer, dies at 71
Physicist and Nobel Laureate Hans Fischer (Mar 31st) Mar 31st - Hans Fischer, German physicist (Nobel 1930), dies at 63
Mar 31st - Maurice Rose, 1st US general in Nazi Germany, killed in action at 45
Apr 3rd - Joseph Weinheber, Austria poet/writer (Vienna Verbatim), dies at 43
Apr 5th - Huldreich Georg Fruh, composer, dies at 41
Apr 6th - Benjamin M Telders, president (Dutch Liberal States Party), dies at 42
Apr 9th - Dietrich Bonhoeffer, German theologist/antifascist, hanged
Apr 9th - Hans Oster, German major-general/spy, "July 20th plot", hanged
Apr 9th - Hans von Dohnanyi, "July 20th plotter", hanged
Apr 9th - Wilhelm Canaris, Admiral/headed Germany Abwehr, hanged
Apr 9th - Georg Elser, failed assassin of Hitler (b. 1903)
Apr 10th - Hendrik N Werkman, resistance/painter (Blue Boat), executed at 63
Apr 10th - Charles Nordhoff, English-born writer (b. 1887)
Apr 11th - Kamiel van Baelen, Flemish resistance fighter (in Dachau), dies at 29
Apr 12th - Franklin Roosevelt, 32nd US President (D) (1933-1945), dies at 63
Apr 13th - Ernst Cassirer, German philosopher (b. 1874)
32nd US President Franklin Roosevelt (Apr 12th) Apr 17th - Hannie Schaft, "Girl with red hair," executed
Apr 17th - Ion Pillat, Romaniams poet/senator (Umbra timpului), dies
Apr 17th - Walter Model, German fieldmarshal, commits suicide at 54
Apr 18th - Ernest T Pyle, British/US newscaster, killed in WW II at 44
Apr 18th - John Ambrose Fleming, electrical engineer, dies
Apr 18th - Ernie Pyle, American journalist (b. 1900)
Apr 19th - J P Heyboer, resistance fighter, executed
Apr 21st - John Poston, British major/Montgomery's ADC, dies in battle at 25
Apr 22nd - Kathe Kollwitz, German graphic artist, dies at 77
Apr 23rd - Albrecht Haushofer, writer, dies at 42
Apr 24th - Anton de Kom, Suriname resistance fighter, dies at 47
Apr 24th - Hubert Bath, composer, dies at 61
Apr 26th - Pavlo Skoropadsky, Ukrainian politician and general (b. 1871)
Apr 26th - Sigmund Rascher, Nazi doctor (b. 1909)
Apr 28th - Benito Mussolini, Fascist leader (Italy), shot after trial at 61
Italian Dictator Benito Mussolini (Apr 28th) Apr 28th - Claretta Petacci, mistress of Mussolini, executed
Apr 28th - Hans Bloesch, writer, dies
Apr 28th - Roberto Farinacci, Italian fascist (b. 1892)
Apr 29th - Matthias Kleinheisterkamp, German SS officer (b. 1893)
Apr 30th - Adolph Hitler, German dictator (1936-45), commits suicide at 56
Apr 30th - Eva Braun, mistress/wife of Hitler, commits suicide at 33
May 1st - Desider Antalffy-Zsiross, Hungarian organist/composer, dies at 59
May 1st - Paul Joseph Goebbels, Nazi minister of propoganda, commits suicide
May 2nd - Martin Bormann, propoganda minister for Hitler, dies
May 2nd - Ludwig Stumpfegger, German SS doctor (b. 1910)
May 2nd - Joe Corbett, baseball player (b. 1875)
May 3rd - Louis L H de Visser, Dutch MP (CPN), dies at 66
May 5th - Peter Van Pels, Jewish Refugee (b. 1926)
May 8th - Bernhard Rust, Nazi education minister (b. 1883)
May 9th - Clem Hill, cricketer (49 Tests for Australia 1896-1912), dies
Nazi Minister of Propaganda and Information Paul Joseph Goebbels (May 1st) May 10th - Richard Glücks, German SS officer (b. 1889)
May 13th - Tubby Hall, American musician (b. 1895)
May 14th - Heber J. Grant, seventh president of the The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1856)
May 15th - Major Courtney, US medal of honor marine, dies in battle of Sugar Loaf
May 15th - Charles Williams, UK writer (b. 1886)
May 17th - Jan van Geenen, resistance fighter, dies
May 17th - Sasaki Shigetsu Sokei-an, founder 1st Zen Institute of America, dies
May 19th - Philipp Bouhler, German nazi leader (b. 1889)
May 22nd - Carel A Lion Cachet, lithographer/wood carver, dies
May 30th - Irma Laplasse, Flemish farmer/nazi collaborator, executed
Jun 4th - Georg Kaiser, playwright, dies at 66
Jun 6th - Meinoud M Rost van Tonningen, anti semite/NSB (1937-41), suicide
Jun 7th - Nishida Kitaro, scholar/philosopher/Zen practitioner, dies at 74
Jun 7th - Ruben Marcos Campos, composer, dies at 69
Jun 8th - Karl Hanke, Nazi official (b. 1903)
Jun 16th - Aris Velouchiotis, Greek guerrilla resistance leader (b. 1905)
Jun 18th - Colonel Roberts, commandant 22nd regiment marines, dies in battle
Jun 18th - Simon B Buckner, US lt-gen/commandant of 10th Army, dies in action
Jun 20th - Bruno Frank, writer, dies at 58
Jun 21st - Josef Hora, Czech writer/poet (Sinking Shadows), dies at 53
Jun 22nd - Isamu Tsjo, Japanese chief-staff 32nd Army, commits harakiri
Jun 22nd - Mitsuri Ushijima, Jap lt-gen/commandant 32nd Army, commits harakiri
Jun 23rd - Lt Gen Ushijima, Japanese commander, commits suicide at Okinawa
Jun 26th - Erno Rapee, composer, dies at 54
Jun 26th - Nikolay Nikolayevich Tcherepnin, composer, dies at 72
Jul 5th - John Curtin, 14th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1885)
Jul 7th - Salomeja Neris, [S Bacinskaite-Buciene], Latvian poet, dies at 40
Jul 10th - Robert Goddard, Rocket pioneer, dies
Jul 12th - Boris Galerkin, Russian mathematician (b. 1871)