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Year 1945 (MCMXLV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. Events Below, events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. January Auschwitz]]. February The "Big Three" at the Yalta Conference, Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin, February 2, 1945. the island]], February 19, 1945. - February 3 – WWII:
- February 4–February 11 – WWII: President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin hold the Yalta Conference.
- February 6 – French writer Robert Brasillach is executed for collaboration with the Germans.
- February 7 – WWII: General Douglas MacArthur returns to Manila.
- February 9
- February 10 – WWII: The SS General von Steuben is sunk by the Soviet submarine S-13.
- February 13 – WWII:
- February 14 – Chile, Ecuador, Paraguay and Peru join the United Nations.
- February 16 – WWII:
- American and Filipino ground forces land on Corregidor Island in the Philippines.
- Combined American and Filipino forces recapture the Bataan Peninsula.
- February 19–February 20 – 980 Japanese soldiers die as a result of a killing spree by long saltwater crocodiles in Ramree, Burma.[2]
- February 19 – WWII – Battle of Iwo Jima: About 30,000 United States Marines land on Iwo Jima.
- February 21 – The last V-2-rocket is launched from Peenem nde.
- February 22 – Uruguay decares war on Germany and Japan.
- February 23 – WWII:
- February 24 – The Egyptian Premier Ahmad Mahir Pasha is killed in Parliament after reading a decree.
- February 28 – In Bucharest, a violent demonstration takes place, during which the bol evic group opens fire on the army and protesters. In response, Andrei Y. Vishinsky, USSR vice commissioner of foreign affairs and president of the Allied Control Commission for Romania, travels to Bucharest to compel Nicolae R descu to resign as premier.
March March: Anne Frank dies in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp of typhus - March 3 – WWII:
- March 4 – In the United Kingdom, The Princess Elizabeth, later to become Queen Elizabeth II, joins the British Army's Women's Auxiliary Territorial Service as a truck driver/mechanic.
- March 4 – Football club FC Red Star (in Serbian: FK Crvena Zvezda) formed in Belgrade, Yougoslavia.
- March 6
- A Communist-led government is formed in Romania under Petru Groza following Soviet intervention.
- Resistance fighters ambush and attempt to execute SS general Hanns Albin Rauter, the arch-persecutor of the Dutch.
- March 7 – WWII: American troops seize the bridge over the Rhine River at Remagen, Germany and begin to cross.
- March 8
- March 9 – The film Les Enfants du Paradis premieres in Paris.
- March 9–March 10 – WWII: American B-29 bombers attack Tokyo, Japan with incendiary bombs; the city is fire-bombed, killing 100,000 citizens.
- March 12 – Swinem nde is destroyed by the USAAF killing an estimated 8,000 to 23,000 civilians, mostly refugees saved by Operation Hannibal
- March 15 – The 17th Academy Awards ceremony is held, broadcast via radio for the first time. Best Picture goes to Going My Way.
- March 16 – WWII: The Battle of Iwo Jima unofficially ends, with pockets of guerrilla resistance persisting until the official conclusion of the battle.
- March 17 – WWII: Kobe, Japan is fire-bombed by 331 B-29 bombers, killing over 8,000 people.
- March 18 – WWII: 1,250 American bombers attack Berlin.
- March 19 – WWII:
- Adolf Hitler orders that all industries, military installations, machine shops, transportation facilities and communications facilities in Germany be destroyed.
- Off the coast of Japan, bombers hit the aircraft carrier USS Franklin, killing about 800 of her crewmen and crippling the ship.
- March 21 – WWII: British troops liberate Mandalay, Burma.
- March 22 – The Arab League is formed with the adoption of a charter in Cairo, Egypt.
- March 24
- March 26 – WWII: The Battle of Iwo Jima officially ends, with the destruction of the remaining areas of Japansese resistance.
- March 29 – The "Clash of Titans": George Mikan and Bob Kurland duel at Madison Square Garden. OSU defeats DePaul 52 44.
- March 30 – WWII:
April Japanese battleship Yamato]] explodes after persistent attacks from U.S. aircraft during the Battle of Okinawa, 7 April 1945. committed suicide]] on 30 April 1945. - April 1 – WWII – Battle of Okinawa: The U.S. 10th Army lands on Okinawa.
- April 4 – WWII: American troops liberate their first Nazi concentration camp, Ohrdruf death camp in Germany.
- The Red Army enters Bratislava and pushes to the outskirts of Vienna, taking it on April 13 after several days of intense fighting.
- April 6 – WWII: Sarajevo is liberated from the Nazi Germany and Nazi Croatia (German puppet state) by the Yugoslav Partisans.
- April 7 – WWII:
- April 9
- April 10 – WWII:
- April 12 – United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt dies suddenly at Warm Springs, Georgia; Vice President Harry S. Truman becomes the 33rd President.
- April 14 – WWII: The Canadian First Army assumes military control of the Netherlands where German forces are trapped in the Atlantic wall fortifications along the coastline.[4]
- April 15 – The Bergen-Belsen concentration camp is liberated.
- April 15 – WWII: The Canadian First Army reaches the coast in northern Holland and captures Arnhem.
- April 16 – WWII: The Goya is sunk by the Soviet submarine L-3.
- April 16 – WWII: The Canadians take Harlingen, and occupies Leeuwarden and Groningen
- April 17 – Brazilian forces liberate the town of Montese, Italy, from German forces.
- April 18 – American 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 Moln r's Liliom, opens on Broadway and becomes their second long-running stage classic.
- April 22
- Heinrich Himmler, through Count Bernadotte, puts forth an offer of German surrender to the Western Allies, but not the Soviet Union.
- Adolf Hitler concedes defeat in his underground Berlin bunker after learning Felix Steiner count not mobilize enough men to launch a counterattack on the Soviets who had just broken through Germany.
- April 24 – Retreating German troops destroy all the bridges over the Adige in Verona, including the historical Ponte di Castelvecchio and Ponte Pietra.
- April – The British/Canadian front enters Breman.
- April 25
- April 25–26 – WWII: Last major strategic bombing raid by RAF Bomber Command, the destruction of the oil refinery at T nsberg in southern Norway by 107 Avro Lancasters.
- April 26 – WWII: Battle of Bautzen: The last "successful" German panzer-offensive in Bautzen ends with the city recaptured.
- April 26 – WWII: The Nazis surrender to the British/Canadian front who now control the Swiss border from Basle to Lake Constance.
- April 27
- U.S. Ordinance troops find the coffins of Frederick Wilhelm I, Frederick the Great, Paul von Hindenburg, and his wife.
- The Western Allies flatly reject any offer of surrender by Germany other than unconditional on all fronts.
- April 28 – 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.
- April 28 – The Canadian First Army captures Emden and Wilhelmshaven.
- April 29
- April 30 – Adolf Hitler and his wife of one day, Eva Braun, commit suicide as the Red Army approaches the F hrerbunker in Berlin. Karl D nitz succeeds Hitler as President of Germany; Joseph Goebbels succeeds Hitler as Chancellor of Germany.
May - May – For all practical purposes the ICPC ceases to exist (recreated on June 3, 1946).
- May 1 – WWII:
- May 2 – WWII:
- May 3 – WWII:
- May 4 – WWII:
- The concentration camp Neuengamme near Hamburg is liberated by the British Army.
- The North German army surrenders to Marshal Bernard Montgomery.
- Holland is liberated by British and Canadian troops.[5] German forces officially surrender one day later.
- Denmark is liberated.[6] German forces officially surrender one day later.
- May 5 – WWII:
- May 6 – WWII: Axis Sally delivers her last propaganda broadcast to Allied troops (the first was on December 11, 1941).
- May 7 – WWII: General Alfred Jodl signs unconditional surrender terms at Reims, France, ending Germany's participation in the war. The document takes effect the next day.
- May 8 – WWII:
- V-E Day (Victory in Europe, as Nazi Germany surrenders) commemorates the end of WWII in Europe, with the final surrender being to the Soviets in Berlin, attended by representatives of the Western Powers.
- Canadian troops move into Amsterdam, after German troops surrender.
- Surrender of the Dodecanese is signed in Symi.
- The British 8th Army, together with Slovene partisan troops and a motorized detachment of the Yugoslav 4th Army, arrives in Carinthia and Klagenfurt.
- May 8–29 – S tif massacre: In Algeria, thousands die as French troops and released Italian POWs kill an estimated 6,000 to 40,000 Algerian citizens.
- May 9 – WWII:
- May 12
- May 14–15 – WWII – Battle of Poljana: The last battle of the War in Europe is fought at Poljana near Slovenj Gradec, Slovenia.
- May 23 – President of Germany Karl D nitz and Chancellor of Germany Count Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk are arrested by British forces at Flensburg. They are respectively the last German Head of state and Head of government until 1949.
- May 23 – Heinrich Himmler, former head of the Nazi SS, commits suicide in British custody.
- May 28 – William Joyce ("Lord Haw-Haw") is captured. He is later charged with high treason in London for his English-language wartime broadcasts on German radio, convicted, and then hanged in January 1946.
- May 29
- German communists, led by Walther Ulbricht, arrive in Berlin.
- Dutch painter Han van Meegeren is arrested for collaboration with the Nazis, but the paintings he had sold to Hermann G ring (Koch) are later found to be his fakes.
- May 30 – The Iranian government demands that all Soviet and British troops leave the country.
June Dwight Eisenhower and Georgy Zhukov, June 5, 1945. July Trinity Test]] at night in New Mexico. - July 1 – WWII: Germany is divided between the Allied occupation forces.
- July 5 – WWII: The Philippines are declared liberated.
- July 8 – WWII: Harry S. Truman is informed that Japan will talk peace if it can retain the reign of the Emperor.[7]
- July 9 – A forest fire breaks out in the Tillamook Burn (the third in that area since 1933).
- July 15 – The Scott Morrison Award of Minor Hockey Excellence was first given out to recipient Gordie Howe
- July 14 – Italy declares war on Japan.
- July 16 – The Trinity Test, the first of an atomic bomb, using about six kilograms of plutonium, succeeds in unleashing an explosion equivalent to that of 19 kilotons of TNT.
- July 16 – WWII: A train collision near Munich, Germany kills 102 war prisoners.
- July 17–August 2 – WWII – Potsdam Conference: At Potsdam, the three main Allied leaders hold their final summit of the war.
- July 21 – WWII: President Harry S. Truman approves the order for atomic bombs to be used against Japan.[7]
- July 23 – WWII: French marshal Philippe P tain, who headed the Vichy government during WWII, goes on trial for treason.
- July 26 – Winston Churchill resigns as the United Kingdom'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. It is the first time that Labour has governed Britain with a commons majority.[8]
- July 26 – The Potsdam Declaration demands Japan's unconditional surrender; Article 12 permitting Japan to retain the reign of the Emperor has been deleted by President Truman.[7]
- July 28 – An U.S. Army Air Forces B-25 bomber crashes into the Empire State Building, killing 14 people, including all on board.
- July 28 – WWII: Japan ambiguously rejects the Potsdam Declaration.[7]
- July 29 – The BBC Light Programme radio station is launched, aimed at mainstream light entertainment and music.
- July 30 – WWII: The heavy cruiser USS Indianapolis is hit and sunk by torpedoes from the Japanese submarine I-58 in the Philippine Sea. Some 900 survivors jump into the sea and are adrift for up to four days. Nearly 600 die before help arrives. Captain Charles B. McVay III of the cruiser is later court-martialed and convicted.
August nuclear bomb dropped on Nagasaki]] rising 18 km into the air. USS Missouri]]. September - September 2
- Japanese general Tomoyuki Yamashita surrenders to Filipino and American forces at Kiangan, Ifugao.
- WWII ends: The final official surrender of Japan is accepted by the Supreme Allied Commander, General Douglas MacArthur, and Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz for the United States, and delegates from Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, The Netherlands, China, and others from a Japanese delegation led by Mamoru Shigemitsu, on board the American battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay (but i August 14 is recognized as the day the Pacific War ended).
- September 4 – WWII: Japanese forces surrender on Wake Island after hearing word of their country's surrender.
- September 5
- September 8
- American troops occupy southern Korea, while the Soviet Union occupies the north, with the dividing line being the 38th parallel of latitude. This arrangement proves to be the indirect beginning of a divided Korea.
- Hideki T j , Japanese prime minister during most of WWII, attempts suicide to avoid facing a war crimes tribunal.
- September 9 – The first case of a computer bug is found: a moth lodged in a relay of a Harvard Mark II computer at the Naval Weapons Center in Dahlgren, Virginia.
- September 11
- September 12 – The Japanese Army formally surrenders to the British in Singapore.
- September 18 – Typhoon Makurazaki in Japan kills 3,746 people.
- September 20 – Mohandas Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru demand that all British troops depart India.
October October 24: The United Nations is formed. This was its flag. The modern version is slightly retouched. Buchenwald]] closed. November December Date unknown Births January - January 3
- January 4 – Richard R. Schrock, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
- January 10
- January 14 – Einar H konarson, Icelandic painter
- January 15
- January 20 – Robert Olen Butler, American writer
- January 25 – Leigh Taylor-Young, American actress
- January 26 – Jacqueline du Pr , English cellist (d. 1987)
- January 27 – Harold Cardinal, Cree political leader, writer, and lawyer (d. 2005)
- January 29
- January 30 – Michael Dorris, American author (d. 1997)
- January 31 – Joseph Kosuth, American artist
February - February 2 – David D. Friedman, American economist
- February 3
- February 6 – Bob Marley, Jamaican reggae singer, songwriter and musician ( . 1981)
- February 7 – Gerald Davies, Welsh rugby player
- February 9 – Mia Farrow, American actress
- February 12 – Maud Adams, Swedish actress
- February 14 – Prince Hans-Adam II of Liechtenstein
- February 16 – Jeremy Bulloch, English actor
- February 17 – Brenda Fricker, Irish actress
- February 20 – Henry Polic II, American actor
- February 24 – Barry Bostwick, American actor
- February 25
- February 26 – Marta Kristen, Norwegian actress
- February 27 – Carl Anderson, American singer and actor (d. 2004)
- February 28 – Bubba Smith, American football player and actor (d. 2011)
March - March 1 – Dirk Benedict, American actor
- March 4
- March 7
- March 8
- March 9 – Dennis Rader, American serial killer
- March 13 – Anatoly Fomenko, Russian mathematician
- March 15 – A. K. Faezul Huq, Bangladeshi lawyer and politician (d. 2007)
- March 17 – Katri Helena, Finnish singer
- March 19 – Cem Karaca, Turkish musician (d. 2004)
- March 20
- Jay Ingram, Canadian television host, author and journalist
- Pat Riley, American basketball coach
- March 26 – Mikhail Voronin, Russian gymnast (d. 2004)
- March 29
- March 30 – Eric Clapton, English rock guitarist
- March 31 – Gabe Kaplan, American actor, comedian, and professional poker player
April - April 2 – Linda Hunt, American actress
- April 4 – Daniel Cohn-Bendit, French activist
- April 7 – Werner Schroeter, German film director
- April 9 – Peter Gammons, American baseball sportswriter
- April 12 – Lee Jong-wook, Korean Director-General of the World Health Organization (d. 2006)
- April 13
- April 14 – Ritchie Blackmore, English rock guitarist (Deep Purple)
- April 21 – Diana Darvey, British actress, singer and dancer (d. 2000)
- April 25 – Bj rn Ulvaeus, Swedish rock songwriter (ABBA)
- April 27 – August Wilson, American playwright (d. 2005)
- April 29
May - May 1 – Rita Coolidge, American pop singer
- May 2 – Sarah Weddington, American attorney
- May 4 – Narasimhan Ram, Indian journalist
- May 5 – Kurt Loder, American film critic, author, and television personality
- May 6
- May 8 – Keith Jarrett, American musician
- May 14 – Yochanan Vollach, Israeli footballer and president of Maccabi Haifa, CEO
- May 15 – Duarte Pio, Duke of Braganza, heir to the Portuguese crown
- May 16 – Nicky Chinn, English rock songwriter (The Sweet, Suzi Quatro)
- May 17 – Tony Roche, Australian tennis player
- May 19 – Pete Townshend, English rock guitarist and lyricist (The Who)
- May 21
- May 22 – Victoria Wyndham, American actress (Another World)
- May 23
- May 24 – Priscilla Presley, American actress and businesswoman
- May 28 – John Fogerty, American rock singer (Creedence Clearwater Revival)
- May 29 – Gary Brooker, English pianist and singer (Procol Harum)
- May 30 – Gladys Horton, American singer (The Marvelettes) (d. 2011)
- May 31
June - June 1 – Frederica von Stade, American mezzo-soprano
- June 2 – Jon Peters, American film producer
- June 3 – Hale Irwin, American professional golfer
- June 4
- June 5 – John Carlos, American athlete
- June 6 – David Dukes, American actor (d. 2000)
- June 7 – Wolfgang Schussel, Chancellor of Austria
- June 8 – Steven Fromholz, American singer-songwriter
- June 9 – Nike Wagner, German woman of the theater
- June 11 – Adrienne Barbeau, American actress, television personality and author
- June 12 – Pat Jennings, Northern Irish footballer player
- June 13 – Rodney P. Rempt, American admiral
- June 14 – J rg Immendorff, German painter
- June 15 – Fran oise Chandernagor, French writer
- June 16 – Claire Alexander, Canadian ice hockey player
- June 17
- June 19
- June 20 – Anne Murray, Canadian singer
- June 24 – George Pataki, Governor of New York
- June 25 – Carly Simon, American singer-songwriter
- June 26 – Dwight York, American musician, fashion consultant, cult leader, and child molester
- June 28 – David Knights, British bassist (Procol Harum)
- June 29 – Chandrika Kumaratunga, President of Sri Lanka
July - July 1 – Debbie Harry, American rock 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 Koontz, American writer
- July 10 – Ron Glass, American actor
- July 11 – Richard Wesley, American playwright and screenwriter
- July 15 – J rgen M llemann, German politician (d. 2003)
- July 16 – Victor Sloan, Irish artist
- July 17 – Alexander, Crown Prince of Yugoslavia
- July 20
- July 21 – John Lowe, English darts player
- July 24 – Azim Premji, Indian businessman
- July 26 – Dame Helen Mirren, British actress
- July 28 – Jim Davis, American cartoonist
- July 30 – Roger Dobkowitz, American game show producer
August - August 1 – Douglas D. Osheroff, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
- August 2 – Joanna Cassidy, American actress
- August 4 – Alan Mulally, American businessman, current CEO of the Ford Motor Company
- August 5
- August 6 – Ron Jones, British director (d. 1993)
- August 7 – Alan Page, American football player
- August 9 – Posy Simmonds, English cartoonist
- August 14
- August 19 – Ian Gillan, English rock singer (Deep Purple)
- August 22 – Ron Dante, American rock singer, songwriter, and record producer (The Archies)
- August 24 – Vincent K. McMahon, American professional wrestling promoter, chairman and CEO of WWE
- August 26 – Tom Ridge, American politician
- August 31
September - September 1 – Mustafa Balel, Turkish writer
- September 4 – Danny Gatton, American guitarist (d. 1994)
- September 5 – Al Stewart, Scottish singer-songwriter
- September 7 – Jacques Lemaire, Canadian ice hockey coach
- September 8
- September 9 – Doug Ingle, American songwriter and singer for Iron Butterfly
- September 10 – Jos Feliciano, Puerto Rican singer
- September 11 – Franz Beckenbauer, German footballer and coach
- September 14 – Martin Tyler, British sports broadcaster
- September 15 – Jessye Norman, American soprano
- September 16 – Pat Stevens, American voice actress (d. 2010)
- September 17 – Phil Jackson, American basketball coach
- September 19 – Randolph Mantooth, American actor and motivational speaker
- September 20 – Candy Spelling, American author and socialize
- September 21
- September 23 – Paul Petersen, child actor and advocate of other child actors
- September 25 – Dee Dee Warwick, American singer (d. 2008)
- September 26 – Bryan Ferry, English singer-songwriter and musician (Roxy Music)
- September 27
- September 29 – Nadezhda Chizhova, Russian athlete
- September 30 – Ehud Olmert, 12th Prime Minister of Israel
October - October 2 – Don McLean, American rock singer-songwriter
- October 3
- October 4 – Clifton Davis, American actor
- October 5 – Brian Connolly, Scottish musician
- October 6 – Ivan Graziani, Italian singer-songwriter (d. 1997)
- October 12
- October 13 – Susan Stafford, American television presenter
- October 15 – Jim Palmer, American baseball player
- October 18
- October 19 – John Lithgow, American actor
- October 20 – George Wyner, American actor
- October 22 – Yvan Ponton, Canadian actor and sportscaster
- October 24 – Eugenie Scott, Executive Director of the National Center for Science Education
- October 25
- October 27
- October 29 – Melba Moore, American singer and actress
- October 29 – Daniel Albright, American literary critic and musicologist
- October 30 – Henry Winkler, American actor, producer and director
- October 31 – Brian Doyle-Murray, American actor
November December - December 1 – Bette Midler, American actress, comedienne and singer
- December 2 – Charles "Tex" Watson, American prisoner
- December 7 – Clive Russell, English actor
- December 9 – Michael Nouri, American actor
- December 13 – Kathy Garver, American actress, author and online radio hostess
- December 16 – Patti Deutsch, American voice actress
- December 17
- December 19 – Elaine Joyce, American actress and game show panelist
- December 20
- December 22 – Diane Sawyer, American news journalist
- December 24
- December 25 – Gary Sandy, American actor (WKRP in Cincinnati)
- December 26 – John Walsh, American media personality
- December 28 – Birendra of Nepal (d. 2001)
- December 30 – Davy Jones, English actor and singer (The Monkees) (d. 2012)
- December 31
Deaths January February March - March – Margot Frank (b. 1926) and her younger sister Anne Frank, German-born Jewish diarist (typhus) (b. 1929)
- March 2 – Emily Carr, Canadian artist (b. 1871)
- March 3 – Aleksandra Samusenko, Soviet WWII tank commander (b. 1922)
- March 4
- March 16 – B rries von M nchhausen, German poet (b. 1874)
- March 18 – William Grover-Williams, French race car driver and war hero (b. 1903)
- March 19 – Friedrich Fromm, German Nazi official (b. 1888)
- March 20 – Lord Alfred Douglas, English poet (b. 1870)
- March 22
- March 23 – Elisabeth de Rothschild, French WWII heroine (executed) (b. 1902)
- March 26 – David Lloyd George, Welsh Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1863)
- March 29 – Ferenc Csik, Hungarian swimmer (b. 1913)
- March 30 – lise Rivet, French nun and war heroine (b. 1890)
- March 31
April May - May 1
- May 2 – Martin Bormann, German Nazi leader (b. 1900)
- May 4 – Fedor von Bock, German field marshal (b. 1880)
- May 5 – Peter van Pels, German-Jewish love interest of diarist Anne Frank (b. 1926)
- May 8
- May 11 – Kiyoshi Ogawa, Kamikaze pilot (b. 1922)
- May 14 – Heber J. Grant, 7th president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1856)
- May 15 – Charles Williams, British author (b. 1886)
- May 17 – Bobby Hutchins, Our Gang films child actor (b. 1925)
- May 18 – William Joseph Simmons, American founder of the second KKK (b. 1880)
- May 19 – Philipp Bouhler, German Nazi leader (b. 1899)
- May 23 – Heinrich Himmler, German head of the SS (suicide) (b. 1900)
- May 24 – Robert Ritter von Greim, German field marshal (suicide) (b. 1892)
- May 31 – Odilo Globocnik, Austrian Nazi leader (suicide) (b. 1904)
June July August September October November - November 7 – Gus Edwards, American songwriter (b. 1879)
- November 8 – August von Mackensen, German field marshal (b. 1849)
- November 11 – Jerome Kern, American composer (b. 1885)
- November 16 – Sigur ur Eggerz, Prime Minister of Iceland during World War I (b. 1875)
- November 20 – Francis William Aston, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1877)
- November 21
- November 23 – Charles Armijo Woodruff, 11th Governor of American Samoa (b. 1884)
- November 25 – Doris Keane, American stage actress (b. 1881)
- November 28 – Dwight F. Davis, American tennis player (b. 1879)
- December 4 – Thomas Hunt Morgan, American geneticist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1866)
December - December 5 – Cosmo Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1864)
- December 13 – Josef Kramer, commandant of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp (executed) (b. 1906)
- December 14 – Forrester Harvey, Irish actor (b. 1884)
- December 16 – Fumimaro Konoe, Prime Minister of Japan (suicide) (b. 1891)
- December 21 – George S. Patton, U.S. general (car accident) (b. 1885)
- December 22 – Otto Neurath, Austrian philosopher and political economist (b. 1892)
- December 25 – Duy Tan, emperor of Vietnam (b. 1899)
- December 26 – Roger Keyes, 1st Baron Keyes, British admiral (b. 1872)
- December 28 – Theodore Dreiser, American author (b. 1871)
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