1945

Rulers:

• Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 32nd President of the United States (1933-1945)

• Harry S. Truman, 33rd President of the United States (1945-1953)

Events:

• Portrait of a Courtesan, Fillide Melandroni (c.1597) and San Matteo e l’angelo (1602) by Caravaggio (in Kaiser Friedrich Museum) are destroyed during bombardments in Berlin.

Births:

• Adams, Maud (1945)

• Brandon, Michael (1945)

Davies, Terence (1945-2023)

• Farrow, Mia (1945)

Fassbinder, Rainer Werner (1945-1982)

Hanson, Curtis (1945-2016)

Hawn, Goldie (1945)

Hudson, Ernie (1945)

• Kapur, Shekhar (1945)

Martin, Steve (1945)

Midler, Bette (1945)

Mirren, Helen (1945)

Nuytten, Bruno (1945)

Terry, Nigel (1945-2015)

• Voyagis, Yorgo (1945)

Deaths:

Bartók, Béla (1881-1945)

• Charpentier, Georgette-Berthe (1872-1945)

• Roosevelt, Franklin Delano (1882-1945)

Music:

• Rózsa, Miklós (1907-1995): Spellbound (1945)

Art:

Chagall, Marc (1887-1985): L’automne au village (c.1939-45)

De Chirico, Giorgio (1888-1978): Autoritratto nudo (1945)

De Chirico, Giorgio (1888-1978): Via Appia Antica (1945-50)

• Magritte, René (1898-1967): La condition humaine (1945)

Film:

Caesar and Cleopatra (1945)