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1945 deaths
- Seitarō KitayamaSeitarō Kitayama helped bring Japanese animation into existence at a time when the medium was barely a handful of years old anywhere in the world.
- 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 HitlerNot a monster from nowhere but a warning we cannot misread. Listen to a sober, accurate history of Adolf Hitler and the thread it runs through.
- 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 was shot at the wall of the Villa Belmonte in the village of Giulino di Mezzegra. It was the afternoon of the 28th of April 1945.
- 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…