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)