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 entered the world on the 30th of January 1882, inside Springwood, a sprawling estate located south of Hyde Park in New York.
- David Lloyd GeorgeOn the 17th of January 1863, a boy named David George was born in Chorlton-on-Medlock, Manchester. His father William died of pneumonia just over a year…
- Heinrich HimmlerHeinrich Luitpold Himmler was born in Munich on the 7th of October 1900 into a conservative middle-class Catholic family.
- Adolf HitlerAdolf Hitler was born on the 20th of April 1889 in Braunau am Inn, a town in Austria-Hungary. He lived with his father Alois and mother Klara Pölzl.
- Benito MussoliniBenito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini was born on the 29th of July 1883 in Dovia di Predappio, a small town in the province of Forlì.
- Joseph GoebbelsPaul Joseph Goebbels was born on the 29th of October 1897 in Rheydt, an industrial town south of Mönchengladbach near Düsseldorf.
- Béla BartókBéla Viktor János Bartók was born on the 25th of March 1881 in Nagyszentmiklós, a town in the Kingdom of Hungary. His mother spoke Hungarian fluently and…
- Death of Adolf HitlerOn the 16th of April 1945, Soviet forces crossed the Oder River and commenced the battle for the Seelow Heights. This defensive line was the last major…
- 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 on the 7th of December 1872 in Groningen. His father Dirk worked as a professor of physiology while his mother Jacoba Tonkens died…
- Fumimaro KonoeFumimaro Konoe was born in Tokyo on the 12th of October 1891 to a prominent aristocratic family. His lineage traced back to the ancient Fujiwara clan, making…
- Vladimir VernadskyVladimir Vernadsky was born in Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire, on the 12th of March 1863. His father Ivan Vernadsky served as a professor of political…
- Hermann KallenbachHermann Kallenbach entered the world on the 1st of March 1871 in Žemaičių Naumiestis, Lithuania. This town sat within the Russian Empire at that time.