1945
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| Years : | 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 |
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| Years: | 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 |
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[edit] Events
- World War II ends
- United Nations formed
- U.S. drops atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
[edit] Births
- January 3 - Stephen Stills (Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young), singer, songwriter
- January 3 - Victoria Principal, actress
- January 10 - Rod Stewart, singer
- January 19 - Maria Jespen, theologian
- January 26 - Jacqueline du Pré, cello player (d. 1987)
- January 27 - Nick Mason, musician of Pink Floyd
- January 28 - Marthe Keller, actress
- January 29 - Tom Selleck, actor (Magnum, P.I.)
- January 30 - Michael Dorris, author (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 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
- March 7 - John Heard, actor
- March 8 - Micky Dolenz, actor, director, musica ("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
- April 2 - Linda Hunt, actress
- April 4 - Daniel Cohn-Bendit, political activist
- April 4 - Craig T. Nelson, actor "Coach" "The District"
- 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 15 - Duarte Pio, Duke of Braganza presumptive heir to Portuguese crown
- May 19 - Pete Townshend, guitarist, lyricist
- May 21 - Ernst Messerschmid, physicist and astronaut
- May 28 - John Fogerty, singer
- May 31 - Rainer Werner Fassbinder, director
- 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 28 - Jim Davis, cartoonist
- August 14 - Steve Martin, actor and comedian
- August 31 - Itzhak Perlman, violinist
- August 31 - Van Morrison, musician
- September 3 - Aldo Moro, Italian 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 26 - Daniel Davis, actor (The Nanny)
[edit] Deaths
- 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 15 - Charles Williams, British author
- 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, author
[edit] Nobel Prizes
- Nobel Prize in Physics - Wolfgang Pauli
- Chemistry - Artturi Ilmari Virtanen
- Medicine - Sir Alexander Fleming, Ernst Boris Chain, Sir Howard Walter Florey
- Literature - Gabriela Mistral
- Peace - Cordell Hull
[edit] New Books
- 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
- 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
