Curated category
1945 deaths
- Seitarō KitayamaSeitarō Kitayama directed the first commercial anime productions in Japan during 1917. His work emerged when film technology was still new to most audiences.
- Franklin D. RooseveltFranklin Delano Roosevelt won the presidency four times, the only person in American history to serve more than two terms.
- David Lloyd GeorgeDavid Lloyd George stood before a crowd in Birmingham in 1901 and had to be smuggled out disguised as a policeman when his life was threatened by a mob.
- Heinrich HimmlerHeinrich Himmler was reluctant to open his mouth. A British doctor in Lüneburg leaned in to examine it on the 23rd of May 1945, and the prisoner jerked his…
- Adolf HitlerAdolf Hitler was born on the 20th of April 1889 in Braunau am Inn, a town in Austria-Hungary near the German border. He died by suicide on the 30th of April…
- Benito MussoliniBenito Mussolini was named after a Mexican president. His father, a blacksmith and a socialist, chose the name Benito for the liberal Mexican leader Benito…
- Joseph GoebbelsOn the evening of the 1st of May 1945, Joseph Goebbels walked up from an underground bunker into the garden of the Reich Chancellery and ended his life.
- Béla BartókBéla Bartók died in a New York City hospital on the 26th of September 1945, and only ten people attended his funeral. For a man later ranked among Hungary's…
- Death of Adolf HitlerAdolf Hitler died by his own hand in the Führerbunker in Berlin on the 30th of April 1945, as Soviet artillery shelled the city above him.
- Death of Benito MussoliniBenito Mussolini, the deposed Italian fascist dictator, was summarily executed by an Italian partisan in the village of Giulino di Mezzegra in northern Italy…
- Johan HuizingaJohan Huizinga was born in Groningen on the 7th of December 1872, the son of a professor of physiology named Dirk Huizinga.
- Fumimaro KonoeFumimaro Konoe committed suicide on the morning of the 16th of December 1945, swallowing potassium cyanide in his room rather than face arrest for war crimes.
- Vladimir VernadskyVladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky died on the 6th of January 1945, just as the Soviet atomic bomb project he had helped inspire was beginning to take shape.
- Hermann KallenbachHermann Kallenbach arrived in Johannesburg in 1896 as a young Lithuanian-born architect joining his uncles, with no particular reason to become one of…