Who Was Alive in 1945
173 of 492 historical figures were alive in 1945
George Bernard ShawAge 89
Max PlanckAge 87
Henry FordAge 82
H.G. WellsAge 79
Frank Lloyd WrightAge 78
Mahatma GandhiAge 76
Henri MatisseAge 76
Orville WrightAge 74
Bertrand RussellAge 73
Winston ChurchillAge 71
Carl JungAge 70
Albert SchweitzerAge 70
Thomas MannAge 70
Lise MeitnerAge 67
Joseph StalinAge 67
Albert EinsteinAge 66
Helen KellerAge 65
Pablo PicassoAge 64
Alexander FlemingAge 64
Igor StravinskyAge 63
Franklin D. RooseveltAge 63
Coco ChanelAge 62
Benito MussoliniAge 62
John Maynard KeynesAge 62
Eleanor RooseveltAge 61
Harry S. TrumanAge 61
Niels BohrAge 60
Diego RiveraAge 59
Erwin SchrödingerAge 58
Georgia O'KeeffeAge 58
Chiang Kai-shekAge 58
Le CorbusierAge 58
T. S. EliotAge 57
Charlie ChaplinAge 56
Jawaharlal NehruAge 56
Adolf HitlerAge 56
Ludwig WittgensteinAge 56
Ho Chi MinhAge 55
Agatha ChristieAge 55
Dwight D. EisenhowerAge 55
Charles de GaulleAge 55
Haile SelassieAge 53
J.R.R. TolkienAge 53
Mao ZedongAge 52
Aldous HuxleyAge 51
Nikita KhrushchevAge 51
Babe RuthAge 50
Buster KeatonAge 50
Golda MeirAge 47
C. S. LewisAge 47
Duke EllingtonAge 46
Ernest HemingwayAge 46
Jorge Luis BorgesAge 46
Alfred HitchcockAge 46
Humphrey BogartAge 46
Werner HeisenbergAge 44
Louis ArmstrongAge 44
Walt DisneyAge 44
Enrico FermiAge 44
HirohitoAge 44
Marlene DietrichAge 44
George OrwellAge 42
Bob HopeAge 42
Robert OppenheimerAge 41
Salvador DalíAge 41
Pablo NerudaAge 41
Jean-Paul SartreAge 40
Hannah ArendtAge 39
Frida KahloAge 38
Rachel CarsonAge 38
Simone de BeauvoirAge 37
Lyndon B. JohnsonAge 37
Kwame NkrumahAge 36
Dorothy HodgkinAge 35
Mother TeresaAge 35
Akira KurosawaAge 35
Jacques CousteauAge 35
Ronald ReaganAge 34
Naguib MahfouzAge 34
Alan TuringAge 33
Jackson PollockAge 33
Rosa ParksAge 32
Jesse OwensAge 32
Richard NixonAge 32
Albert CamusAge 32
Gerald FordAge 32
Hedy LamarrAge 31
Orson WellesAge 30
Frank SinatraAge 30
Billie HolidayAge 30
Ingrid BergmanAge 30
Roald DahlAge 29
John F. KennedyAge 28
Ella FitzgeraldAge 28
Indira GandhiAge 28
Ingmar BergmanAge 27
Nelson MandelaAge 27
Richard FeynmanAge 27
Eva PerónAge 26
Edmund HillaryAge 26
Jackie RobinsonAge 26
Rosalind FranklinAge 25
Pope John Paul IIAge 25
Toshiro MifuneAge 25
Stan LeeAge 23
Marlon BrandoAge 21
James BaldwinAge 21
Jimmy CarterAge 21
George H. W. BushAge 21
Patrice LumumbaAge 20
Margaret ThatcherAge 20
B.B. KingAge 20
Malcolm XAge 20
Marilyn MonroeAge 19
Fidel CastroAge 19
Elizabeth IIAge 19
Gabriel García MárquezAge 18
Pope Benedict XVIAge 18
James WatsonAge 17
Andy WarholAge 17
Stanley KubrickAge 17
Maya AngelouAge 17
Che GuevaraAge 17
Vera RubinAge 17
Noam ChomskyAge 17
Anne FrankAge 16
Martin Luther King Jr.Age 16
Audrey HepburnAge 16
Grace KellyAge 16
Chinua AchebeAge 15
Neil ArmstrongAge 15
Ray CharlesAge 15
Tu YouyouAge 15
James DeanAge 14
Desmond TutuAge 14
Toni MorrisonAge 14
Mikhail GorbachevAge 14
Johnny CashAge 13
Elizabeth TaylorAge 13
Sylvia PlathAge 13
Yoko OnoAge 12
Wole SoyinkaAge 11
Yuri GagarinAge 11
Carl SaganAge 11
Jane GoodallAge 11
Dalai LamaAge 10
Elvis PresleyAge 10
Woody AllenAge 10
Pope FrancisAge 9
Jack NicholsonAge 8
Saddam HusseinAge 8
Kofi AnnanAge 7
Francis Ford CoppolaAge 6
PeléAge 5
Bruce LeeAge 5
John LennonAge 5
Wangari MaathaiAge 5
Bob DylanAge 4
Muhammad AliAge 3
Aretha FranklinAge 3
Jimi HendrixAge 3
Stephen HawkingAge 3
Paul McCartneyAge 3
Muammar GaddafiAge 3
Joe BidenAge 3
Billie Jean KingAge 2
George HarrisonAge 2
Janis JoplinAge 2
Jim MorrisonAge 2
Lech WałęsaAge 2
George LucasAge 1
Aung San Suu KyiAge 0
Bob MarleyAge 0
Born in 1945
Also Born in 1945
President of Brazil (2003–2011; since 2023)
German footballer (1945–2024)
President of the Philippines from 2016 to 2022
English actor (born 1945)
French novelist (born 1945)
English musician (born 1945)
Leader of Nicaragua (1979–1990; 2007–present)
Bosnian Serb politician and war criminal (born 1945)
German footballer (1945–2021)
Prime Minister of Israel from 2006 to 2009
Former President of India
American actress (born 1945)
Died in 1945
Adolf Hitler
Nazi dictator of Germany 1933–1945
Franklin D. Roosevelt
32nd US President, New Deal, WWII leader
Benito Mussolini
Fascist dictator of Italy 1922–1943
Anne Frank
Diary of a Young Girl, Holocaust victim
Also Died in 1945
Dictator of Germany from 1933 to 1945
Dictator of Italy from 1922 to 1943
German Nazi propaganda minister (1897–1945)
German Nazi leader of the SS (1900–1945)
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1916 to 1922
Hungarian composer (1881–1945)
French poet, essayist, and philosopher (1871–1945)
Wife of Adolf Hitler (1912–1945)
United States Army general (1885–1945)
American physicist and inventor (1882–1945)
German Lutheran pastor and theologian (1906–1945)
German Nazi politician (1900–1945)
Notable World Events in 1945
Sources
- 1945 — Wikipedia. Births, deaths and events of the year
- George Bernard Shaw — Wikipedia
- Max Planck — Wikipedia
- Henry Ford — Wikipedia
- H. G. Wells — Wikipedia
- Frank Lloyd Wright — Wikipedia
- Mahatma Gandhi — Wikipedia
- Henri Matisse — Wikipedia
- Wright brothers — Wikipedia
- Bertrand Russell — Wikipedia
- Winston Churchill — Wikipedia
- Carl Jung — Wikipedia
- Albert Schweitzer — Wikipedia
- Thomas Mann — Wikipedia
- Lise Meitner — Wikipedia
- Joseph Stalin — Wikipedia
- Albert Einstein — Wikipedia
- Helen Keller — Wikipedia
- Pablo Picasso — Wikipedia
- Alexander Fleming — Wikipedia
- Igor Stravinsky — Wikipedia
- Franklin D. Roosevelt — Wikipedia
- Coco Chanel — Wikipedia
- Benito Mussolini — Wikipedia
- John Maynard Keynes — Wikipedia
- Eleanor Roosevelt — Wikipedia
- Harry S. Truman — Wikipedia
- Niels Bohr — Wikipedia
- Diego Rivera — Wikipedia
- Erwin Schrödinger — Wikipedia
- Georgia O'Keeffe — Wikipedia
- Chiang Kai-shek — Wikipedia
- Le Corbusier — Wikipedia
- T. S. Eliot — Wikipedia
- Charlie Chaplin — Wikipedia
- Jawaharlal Nehru — Wikipedia
- Adolf Hitler — Wikipedia
- Ludwig Wittgenstein — Wikipedia
- Ho Chi Minh — Wikipedia
- Agatha Christie — Wikipedia
- Dwight D. Eisenhower — Wikipedia
- Charles de Gaulle — Wikipedia
- Haile Selassie — Wikipedia
- J. R. R. Tolkien — Wikipedia
- Mao Zedong — Wikipedia
- Aldous Huxley — Wikipedia
- Nikita Khrushchev — Wikipedia
- Babe Ruth — Wikipedia
- Buster Keaton — Wikipedia
- Golda Meir — Wikipedia
- C. S. Lewis — Wikipedia
- Duke Ellington — Wikipedia
- Ernest Hemingway — Wikipedia
- Jorge Luis Borges — Wikipedia
- Alfred Hitchcock — Wikipedia
- Humphrey Bogart — Wikipedia
- Werner Heisenberg — Wikipedia
- Louis Armstrong — Wikipedia
- Walt Disney — Wikipedia
- Enrico Fermi — Wikipedia
- Hirohito — Wikipedia
- Marlene Dietrich — Wikipedia
- George Orwell — Wikipedia
- Bob Hope — Wikipedia
- J. Robert Oppenheimer — Wikipedia
- Salvador Dalí — Wikipedia
- Pablo Neruda — Wikipedia
- Jean-Paul Sartre — Wikipedia
- Hannah Arendt — Wikipedia
- Frida Kahlo — Wikipedia
- Rachel Carson — Wikipedia
- Simone de Beauvoir — Wikipedia
- Lyndon B. Johnson — Wikipedia
- Kwame Nkrumah — Wikipedia
- Dorothy Hodgkin — Wikipedia
- Mother Teresa — Wikipedia
- Akira Kurosawa — Wikipedia
- Jacques Cousteau — Wikipedia
- Ronald Reagan — Wikipedia
- Naguib Mahfouz — Wikipedia
- Alan Turing — Wikipedia
- Jackson Pollock — Wikipedia
- Rosa Parks — Wikipedia
- Jesse Owens — Wikipedia
- Richard Nixon — Wikipedia
- Albert Camus — Wikipedia
- Gerald Ford — Wikipedia
- Hedy Lamarr — Wikipedia
- Orson Welles — Wikipedia
- Frank Sinatra — Wikipedia
- Billie Holiday — Wikipedia
- Ingrid Bergman — Wikipedia
- Roald Dahl — Wikipedia
- John F. Kennedy — Wikipedia
- Ella Fitzgerald — Wikipedia
- Indira Gandhi — Wikipedia
- Ingmar Bergman — Wikipedia
- Nelson Mandela — Wikipedia
- Richard Feynman — Wikipedia
- Eva Perón — Wikipedia
- Edmund Hillary — Wikipedia
- Jackie Robinson — Wikipedia
- Rosalind Franklin — Wikipedia
- Pope John Paul II — Wikipedia
- Toshiro Mifune — Wikipedia
- Stan Lee — Wikipedia
- Marlon Brando — Wikipedia
- James Baldwin — Wikipedia
- Jimmy Carter — Wikipedia
- George H. W. Bush — Wikipedia
- Patrice Lumumba — Wikipedia
- Margaret Thatcher — Wikipedia
- B. B. King — Wikipedia
- Malcolm X — Wikipedia
- Marilyn Monroe — Wikipedia
- Fidel Castro — Wikipedia
- Elizabeth II — Wikipedia
- Gabriel García Márquez — Wikipedia
- Pope Benedict XVI — Wikipedia
- James Watson — Wikipedia
- Andy Warhol — Wikipedia
- Stanley Kubrick — Wikipedia
- Maya Angelou — Wikipedia
- Che Guevara — Wikipedia
- Vera Rubin — Wikipedia
- Noam Chomsky — Wikipedia
- Anne Frank — Wikipedia
- Martin Luther King Jr. — Wikipedia
- Audrey Hepburn — Wikipedia
- Grace Kelly — Wikipedia
- Chinua Achebe — Wikipedia
- Neil Armstrong — Wikipedia
- Ray Charles — Wikipedia
- Tu Youyou — Wikipedia
- James Dean — Wikipedia
- Desmond Tutu — Wikipedia
- Toni Morrison — Wikipedia
- Mikhail Gorbachev — Wikipedia
- Johnny Cash — Wikipedia
- Elizabeth Taylor — Wikipedia
- Sylvia Plath — Wikipedia
- Yoko Ono — Wikipedia
- Wole Soyinka — Wikipedia
- Yuri Gagarin — Wikipedia
- Carl Sagan — Wikipedia
- Jane Goodall — Wikipedia
- 14th Dalai Lama — Wikipedia
- Elvis Presley — Wikipedia
- Woody Allen — Wikipedia
- Pope Francis — Wikipedia
- Jack Nicholson — Wikipedia
- Saddam Hussein — Wikipedia
- Kofi Annan — Wikipedia
- Francis Ford Coppola — Wikipedia
- Pelé — Wikipedia
- Bruce Lee — Wikipedia
- John Lennon — Wikipedia
- Wangarĩ Maathai — Wikipedia
- Bob Dylan — Wikipedia
- Muhammad Ali — Wikipedia
- Aretha Franklin — Wikipedia
- Jimi Hendrix — Wikipedia
- Stephen Hawking — Wikipedia
- Paul McCartney — Wikipedia
- Muammar Gaddafi — Wikipedia
- Joe Biden — Wikipedia
- Billie Jean King — Wikipedia
- George Harrison — Wikipedia
- Janis Joplin — Wikipedia
- Jim Morrison — Wikipedia
- Lech Wałęsa — Wikipedia
- George Lucas — Wikipedia
- Aung San Suu Kyi — Wikipedia
- Bob Marley — Wikipedia