1945 deaths

Franklin Delano Roosevelt, also known as FDR, was the 32nd president of the United States, serving from 1933 until his death in 1945. He is the longest-serving US president and the only one to have served more than two terms. His first two terms were centered on combating the Great Depression, while his third and fourth focused on US involvement in World War II. A member of the Democratic Party, Roosevelt served in the New York State Senate from 1911 to 1913 and as the 44th governor of New York from 1929 to 1932.

Annelies Marie Frank was a German-born Jewish diarist and Holocaust victim. She gained worldwide notability posthumously for keeping a diary documenting her life in hiding during the German occupation of the Netherlands. In the diary, she regularly described her family's everyday life in their hiding place in an Amsterdam attic from 1942 until their arrest in 1944.

Nazi politician and Propaganda Minister (1897–1945)

German Nazi politician; leader of the German SS & main architect of the Holocaust (1900–1945)

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1916 to 1922

Hungarian composer and pianist (1881–1945)

French poet, essayist, and philosopher (1871–1945)

photographer, longtime companion and later wife of Adolf Hitler (1912–1945)

United States Army general (1885–1945)

American physicist

Korean independence activist (1864-1945)

American biologist (1866–1945)

German Lutheran pastor, theologian, anti-Nazi dissident (1906–1945)

German Nazi Party official and head of the Nazi Party Chancellery (1900–1945)

Polish mathematician (1892–1945)

British chemist (1877-1945)

American novelist and journalist (1871–1945)

Indian nationalist leader (1897-1945)

Russian-Soviet writer (1883-1945)

Russian and Soviet mineralogist and geochemist, one of the founders of geochemistry, biogeochemistry, and of radiogeology

Italian composer known for operas (1863–1945)

Norwegian politician and Nazi collaborator (1887–1945)

German chemist (1881–1945)

German philosopher (1874–1945)

Austrian-Bohemian novelist, playwright and poet (1890-1945)

French politician (1883–1945)

Austrian composer and conductor

German printmaker and sculptor (1867–1945)

German physicist (1882–1945)

German field marshal (1880–1945)

Russian poet, playwright, editor, short story writer and religious thinker (1869-1945)

German admiral, head of military intelligence service (1887–1945)

German politician (1901–1945)

Austro-Hungarian author and critic in Vienna (1869–1945)

mistress of the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini (1912–1948)

German Nazi politician; indicted by the International Military Tribunal for war crimes (1890-1945)

Czech painter and writer (1887–1945)

Jewish German poet (1869–1945)

Ukrainian general (1873-1945)

German field marshal (1849–1945)

politician and former Prime Minister of Japan (1891–1945)

47th President of Mexico

Marshal of the Soviet Union (1882-1945)

Czech politician, political prisoner, lawyer, translator and judge (1872-1945)

purported clairvoyant healer and psychic (1877–1945)

incident of Adolf Hitler's death

Austrian economist, philosopher and sociologist (1882–1945)

Australian politician, 14th Prime Minister of Australia (1885-1945)

German jurist and politician (1893–1945)

Italian poet, writer, and teacher (1870–1945)

American composer of musical theater and popular music (1885-1945)

Japanese general (1891-1945)

French writer

German concentration camp guard (1923–1945)

German opponent of Nazism, planned and carried out an assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler on 8 November 1939 (1903–1945)

English electrical engineer and physicist (1849-1945)

German field marshal (1892–1945)

German field marshal (1885-1945)

French writer

Archduchess of Austria (1864–1945)