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** Combined American and Filipino forces recapture the [[Bataan]] Peninsula.

** [[Venezuela]] declares war on Germany.

* [[February 19]]–[[February 20|20]] – 980 (~~Actual~~actual figure is disputed)<ref>{{cite web |title=Guinness World Records Website |url=https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/2016/12/national-geographic-channel-and-guinness-world-records-investigate-crocodile-atta-455138 |website=guinnessworldrecords.com|date=December 13, 2016 }}</ref> Japanese soldiers die as a result of being attacked by long saltwater [[crocodile]]s in [[Battle of Ramree Island|Ramree, Burma]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Guinness Book of World Records|year=2008|page=137}}</ref>

* [[February 19]] – WWII: [[Battle of Iwo Jima]] – About 30,000 [[United States Marine Corps|United States Marines]] land on [[Iwo Jima]].

* [[February 21]] – The last [[V-2 rocket]] is launched from [[Peenemünde]].

* [[February 22]] – WWII:

** [[Italian Campaign (World War II)|Italian Front]]: The [[Battle of Monte Castello]] ends, after nearly three months of fighting, when the [[Brazilian Expeditionary Force~~|Brazilian troops~~]] ~~expel~~expels German forces from a pivot point in the [[Apennine Mountains#Northern Apennines|(Tuscan) North Apennines]], where their artillery was impeding the advance of the [[Eighth Army (United Kingdom)|~~Eighth~~ British Eighth Army]] toward [[Bologna]].

** [[Uruguay]] declares war on Germany and Japan.

* [[February 23]] – WWII:

** [[Battle of Iwo Jima]]: A group of [[United States Marine Corps|United States Marines]] reach the top of [[Mount Suribachi]] on the island, and are photographed raising the [[flag of the United States|American flag]]. The photo, ''[[Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima]]'' (taken by [[Joe Rosenthal]]), later wins a [[Pulitzer Prize]].

** The [[11th Airborne Division (United States)|11th Airborne Division]], with [[Filipino people|Filipino]] guerrillas, free the captives of the [[Los Baños, Laguna|Los Baños]] internment camp.

** The capital of the [[Philippines]], Manila, is liberated by combined American and Filipino ground troops. ~~American~~The ~~and~~suburb ~~Filipino troops enter~~of [[Intramuros]] is devastated.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=kzYOAAAACAAJ Battle of Manila Footnotes: Battle for Manila] by [[Richard Connaughton]], John Pimlott and Duncan Anderson (2002) Presidio Press {{ISBN|0-89141-771-0}} pp 164-7</ref>

** The German garrison in [[Poznań]] capitulates to [[Red Army]] and Polish troops.

** [[Bombing of Pforzheim in World War II|Bombing of Pforzheim]]: The heaviest of a series of bombing raids on [[Pforzheim]], Germany by Allied aircraft is carried out by the British [[Royal Air Force]]. As many as 17,600 people, or 31.4% of the town's population, are killed in the raid and about 83% of the town's buildings destroyed, two-thirds of its complete area and between 80 and 100% of the inner city.

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[[File:Yamato battleship explosion.jpg|thumb|[[April 7]] – [[Japanese battleship Yamato|Japanese battleship ''Yamato'']] explodes after persistent attacks from U.S. aircraft during the [[Battle of Okinawa]].]]

[[File:Stars & Stripes & Hitler Dead2.jpg|thumb|[[April 30]] – [[Adolf Hitler]], along with his wife of one day [[Eva Braun]], [[Death of Adolf Hitler|commits suicide]].]]

* [[April 1]] – WWII: [[Battle of Okinawa]]: The [[Tenth United States Army]] lands on [[Okinawa Prefecture|Okinawa]].

* [[April 4]] – WWII:

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* [[April 6]] – WWII:

** [[Sarajevo]] is liberated from [[Nazi Germany]] and the [[Independent State of Croatia]] (a [[fascist]] [[puppet state]]) by [[Yugoslav Partisans]].

** The [[Battle of Slater's Knoll]] on [[Bougainville Island]] concludes, with a decisive victory for the [[Australian Army]]'s [[7th Brigade (Australia)|7th Brigade]].

** Allied forces reach [[Merkers Adventure Mines|Merkers Salt Mines]] in [[Thuringia]], where gold reserves of the Nazi German [[Reichsbank]] and art treasures are stored.

* [[April 7]] – WWII:

** The only flight of the German ramming unit known as [[Sonderkommando Elbe]] takes place, resulting in the loss of some 24 [[B-17 Flying Fortress|B-17s]] and [[B-24 Liberator|B-24s]] of the United States [[Eighth Air Force]].

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* [[April 11]] – [[Buchenwald concentration camp]] is liberated by the [[United States Army]].

* [[April 12]]

**Vice President [[Harry S. Truman]] becomes the 33rd president of the United States, upon the death of President [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] at the [[Little White House]] in [[Warm Springs, Georgia]] of an [[intracerebral hemorrhage]]. President Truman is [[First inauguration of Harry S. Truman|sworn in]] later ~~that~~this evening in the [[White House]].

**A [[Tornado outbreak of April 12, 1945|devastating tornado outbreak]] occurs across the United States, which kills 128 people and injures over 1,000 others. This ~~outbreak~~ is heavily overshadowed by the death of President Roosevelt.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Grazulis|first1=Thomas P.|author-link=Thomas P. Grazulis|title=Significant Tornadoes, 1680–1991: A Chronology and Analysis of Events|date=July 1993|publisher=The Tornado Project of Environmental Films|location=[[St. Johnsbury, Vermont]]|isbn=1-879362-03-1|page=919}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Top Ten Deadliest Oklahoma Tornadoes (1882-Present) |url=https://www.weather.gov/oun/tornadodata-ok-deadliest |publisher=National Weather Service in Norman, Oklahoma |access-date=14 August 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230814191757/https://www.weather.gov/oun/tornadodata-ok-deadliest |archive-date=14 August 2023 |url-status=live}}</ref>

** WWII: The [[Ninth United States Army|U.S. Ninth Army]] under General [[William H. Simpson]] crosses the [[Elbe|Elbe River]] astride [[Magdeburg]], and reaches [[Tangermünde]] — only 50 miles from [[Berlin]].

* [[April 14]] – WWII:

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* [[April 19]] – [[Rodgers and Hammerstein]]'s ''[[Carousel (musical)|Carousel]]'', a musical play based on [[Ferenc Molnár]]'s ''[[Liliom]]'', opens on [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]], and becomes their second long-running stage classic. It includes the standard "[[You'll Never Walk Alone]]".

* [[April 20]] – WWII:

** On his 56th birthday, [[Adolf Hitler]] leaves his ''[[Führerbunker]]'', to decorate a group of [[Hitler Youth]] soldiers in Berlin. It will be his last trip to the surface from his underground bunker.

** The German city of [[Nuremberg]], previously the site of the [[Nuremberg rallies]], is occupied by American troops.

* [[April 22]] – WWII:

** [[Heinrich Himmler]], through [[Folke Bernadotte]], Count of Wisborg, puts forth an offer of German surrender to the Western Allies, but not the Soviet Union.

** [[Adolf Hitler]] finally concedes that "everything is lost"<ref>{{cite AV media|people=Jones, Bill|year=1989|title=The Fatal Attraction of Adolf Hitler|medium=Television documentary|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8onbm_8bcgQ|access-date=2016-04-27|publisher=[[BBC]]}}</ref> at a meeting in the ''Führerbunker'' after learning that ''[[SS-Obergruppenführer]]'' [[Felix Steiner]] cannot mobilize enough men to launch a counterattack on the [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] forces which ~~have~~are ~~completely surrounded~~surrounding Berlin.

* [[April 23]] – WWII:

** [[Hermann Göring]] sends the [[Göring ~~Telegram~~telegram]] to Hitler, seeking confirmation that he should take over leadership of Germany, in accordance with the decree of June 29, 1941. Hitler regards this as treason.

** The main [[Flossenbürg concentration camp]] is liberated by the United States Army.

* [[April 24]] – WWII:

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* [[April 25]]

** Founding negotiations for the [[United Nations]] begin in [[San Francisco]].

** WWII – [[Elbe Day]]: United States and [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] troops link up at the river [[Elbe~~|Elbe River~~]], cutting Germany in two.

* [[April 25]]–[[April 26|26]] – WWII: The last major [[strategic bombing]] raid by [[RAF Bomber Command]], the destruction of the oil refinery at [[Tønsberg]] in southern Norway, is carried out by 107 [[Avro Lancaster]]s.

* [[April 26]] – WWII:

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** The last German formations withdraw from Finland to Norway. The [[Lapland War]] and thus, [[Military history of Finland during World War II|World War II in Finland]], comes to an end and the ''[[Raising the Flag on the Three-Country Cairn]]'' photograph is taken.

** The provisional government of [[Austria]] headed by [[Karl Renner]] asserts its independence from Germany.<ref name="stone books apr 27">{{cite web |url=http://books.stonebooks.com/wardiary/19450427/ |title=War Diary for Friday, 27 April 1945 |website=Stone & Stone Books |access-date=March 28, 2016}}</ref>

** U.S. Ordnance troops find the coffins of [[Frederick William I of Prussia]], [[Frederick the Great]], [[Paul von Hindenburg]], and his wife, in a salt mine in Germany.<ref>MacDonogh, Giles (2007). ''After the Reich: The Brutal History of the Allied Occupation''. New York: Basic Books. p. 93.</ref>

* [[April 28]]

** The bodies of [[Benito Mussolini]], his mistress, [[Clara Petacci]], and other followers are hung by their heels at a gas station in the public square of [[Milan]], Piazzale Loreto, following their execution by Italian partisans after an attempt to flee the country.

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** Soviet soldiers hoist the [[Red flag (politics)|Red flag]] over the ''[[Reich Chancellery#New Reich Chancellery|Reich Chancellery]]'' in Berlin.

** [[Adolf Hitler]] marries his longtime mistress [[Eva Braun]], in a closed civil ceremony in the Berlin ''[[Führerbunker]]'', and signs [[Last will and testament of Adolf Hitler|his last will and testament]].

* [[April 230]] – WWII:▼

* ~~[[April 30]] –~~* [[Death of Adolf Hitler]]: Adolf Hitler and his wife of one day, Eva Braun, commit suicide as the [[Red Army]] approaches the ''Führerbunker'' in Berlin. ''Großadmiral'' [[Karl Dönitz]] succeeds Hitler as [[President of Germany (1919–1945)|President of Germany]] (''Reichspräsident'') and [[Joseph Goebbels]] succeeds as [[Chancellor of Germany]] (''Reichskanzler''), in accordance with Hitler's political testament of the previous day.

** American forces enter the Bavarian capital of [[Munich]].

=== May ===

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[[File:Americans on Okinawa hear of victory in Europe.jpg|thumb|[[May 8]] – American soldiers fighting in the [[Pacific War|Pacific]] theater listen to radio reports of [[Victory in Europe Day]].]]

[[File:Prague liberation 1945 konev.jpg|thumb|[[May 9]] – Prague is liberated by the [[Red Army]].]]

* [[May]] – [[Interpol]] (being headquartered in Berlin) effectively ceases to exist (it is recreated on [[June 3]], [[1946]]).▼

* [[May 1]] – WWII:

** [[Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk|Reichssender Hamburg]]'s [[Flensburg]] radio station announces that Hitler has died in battle, "fighting up to his last breath against [[Bolshevik|Bolshevism]]."

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** Rocket scientist [[Wernher von Braun]] and 120 members of his team surrender to U.S. forces (later going on to help start the U.S. space program).

** German Protestant theologian [[Gerhard Kittel]] is arrested by the French forces in Tübingen, Germany.

** [[Operation Dracula]]: British troops liberate the Burmese capital of [[Rangoon]] from Japanese forces.

* [[May 4]] – WWII:

** [[German surrender at Lüneburg Heath]]: All German armed forces in northwest Germany, Denmark and the Netherlands surrender unconditionally to Field Marshal [[Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein|Bernard Montgomery]], effective on May 5 at 08:00 hours British Double (and German) Summer Time.

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** The [[Flensburg Government]] is dissolved by the Allies, and [[President of Germany (1919–1945)|German President]] [[Karl Dönitz]] and [[German Chancellor]] [[Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk]] are arrested by British [[RAF Regiment]] personnel at [[Flensburg]]. They are respectively the last German [[Head of state]] and [[Prime minister|Head of government]] until [[1949]].

** [[Heinrich Himmler]], former head of the [[Nazism|Nazi]] [[Schutzstaffel|SS]], commits suicide in British custody.

* [[May 28]] – U.S.-born Irish-raised [[William Joyce]] ("[[Lord Haw-Haw]]") is captured on the German border. He is later charged in London with high treason for his earlier English-language wartime broadcasts from German radio, convicted, and then hanged in January 1946.

* [[May 29]]

** German communists, led by [[Walter Ulbricht]], arrive in Berlin.

** Dutch painter [[Han van Meegeren]] is arrested for collaboration with the Nazis, but the "Dutch Golden Age" paintings he has sold to [[Hermann Göring]] (Koch) are later proved to be his own fakes.

* [[May 30]] – The [[Iran]]ian government demands that all Soviet and British troops leave the country.

▲* [[May]] – [[Interpol]] (being headquartered in Berlin) effectively ceases to exist (it is recreated on [[June 3]], [[1946]]).

===June===

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* [[June 5]] – The [[Allied Control Council]], the military occupation governing body of Germany, formally takes power.

* [[June 7]] – King [[Haakon VII of Norway]] returns to Norway five years to the day after leaving for exile in Britain.

* [[June 7]] – [[Benjamin Britten]]'s opera [[Peter Grimes]] in [[Sadler's Wells Theatre|Sadler Wells]] in [[London]]

* [[June 11]]

** [[William Lyon Mackenzie King]] is re-elected as Canadian prime minister.

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* [[July 1]] –
** WWII: Germany is [[Inner German border|divided]] between the Allied occupation forces.

** WWII: Australian and other Allied forces launch an invasion of the east coast of Japanese-occupied [[Borneo]] near [[Balikpapan]].

* [[July 2]] – The [[1945 Sheikh Bashir Rebellion]] breaks out in [[Burao]] and [[Erigavo]] in [[British Somaliland]], led by [[Sheikh Bashir]], a [[Somalis|Somali]] religious leader.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Mohamed|first=Jama|date=2002|title='The Evils of Locust Bait': Popular Nationalism during the 1945 Anti-Locust Control Rebellion in Colonial Somaliland|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/3600720|journal=Past & Present~~|volume=174~~|issue=174|pages=184–216|doi=10.1093/past/174.1.184|jstor=3600720|issn=0031-2746}}</ref>

* [[July 4]] – [[Brazilian cruiser Bahia|Brazilian cruiser ''Bahia'']] is sunk by an accidentally induced explosion, killing more than 300 and stranding the survivors in shark-infested waters.

* [[July 5]]

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[[File:Buchenwald Slave Laborers Liberation.jpg|thumb| [[October 18]] – [[Nuremberg trials]] begin, after [[Buchenwald concentration camp|Buchenwald]] closes.]]

~~[[File:Flag of the United Nations (1945-1947).svg|thumb| [[October 24]] – [[United Nations]] formed. Shown above is its flag (the modern version is slightly retouched).]]~~

* [[October]] – [[Arthur C. Clarke]] puts forward the idea of a [[Geosynchronous satellite|geosynchronous]] [[communications satellite]], in a ''[[Wireless World]]'' magazine article.

* [[October 1]]–[[October|15]] – [[Operation Backfire (WWII)|Operation Backfire]]: Three [[V-2 rocket|A4 rockets]] are launched near [[Cuxhaven]], in a demonstration to Allied forces.

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** [[Hans-Adam II, Prince of Liechtenstein]]

* [[February 15]] – [[Douglas Hofstadter]], American cognitive scientist

* [[February 16]]

** [[Pete Christlieb]], American jazz musician

** [[Elliot Mintz]], American consultant

* [[February 17]] – [[Brenda Fricker]], Irish actress<ref>{{cite book|title=Chase's ... Calendar of Events|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=G_0KAQAAMAAJ|year=2003|publisher=Contemporary Books|isbn=978-0-07-139098-9|page=138}}</ref>

* [[February 18]] – [[Hashem Mahameed]], Israeli politician (d. [[2018]])

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* [[March 31]]

** [[Nana Ampadu]], Ghanaian musician (d. [[2021]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/entertainment/Profile-of-highlife-legend-Nana-Ampadu-1369396|title=Profile of highlife legend Nana Ampadu|date=September 30, 2021|website=GhanaWeb|access-date=October 5, 2021|archive-date=October 19, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221019195846/https://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/entertainment/Profile-of-highlife-legend-Nana-Ampadu-1369396|url-status=dead}}</ref>

** [[Edwin Catmull]], American computer scientist, President of [[Walt Disney Animation Studios]]<ref>{{Cite book|last=Avery|first=Laura|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FmhmAAAAMAAJ&q=Parkersburg|title=Newsmakers|date=2004|publisher=Gale Research|pages=61|isbn=978-0-7876-6806-8|language=en|issn=0899-0417|oclc=17977680}}</ref>

=== April ===

* [[April 2]] – [[Linda Hunt]], American actress<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |last1=Bauer |first1=Pat |title=Linda Hunt |encyclopedia=Encyclopedia Britannica |date=29 March 2022 |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Linda-Hunt |access-date=21 February 2023}}</ref>

▲* [[April 2]]

* [[April 4]] – [[Daniel Cohn-Bendit]], French political activist<ref>{{cite book|title=Encyclopedia of Contemporary German Culture|publisher=Taylor & Francis|year=2013|isbn=9781136816109}}</ref>

** [[Jürgen Drews]], German singer

** [[Linda Hunt]], American actress▼

* [[April 4]] – [[Daniel Cohn-Bendit]], French political activist

* [[April 5]]

** [[Cem Karaca]], Turkish musician (d. [[2004]])

** [[Tommy Smith (footballer, born 1945)|Tommy Smith]], English footballer (d. [[2019]])

* [[April 11]] – [[Christian Quadflieg]], German actor

* [[April 12]] – [[Lee Jong-wook]], South Korean Director-General of the [[World Health Organization]] (d. [[2006]])

* [[April 13]]

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* [[April 14]]

** [[Ritchie Blackmore]], English rock guitarist

** [[Tuilaʻepa Saʻilele Malielegaoi]], 6th [[Prime Minister of Samoa]]

* [[April 20]] – [[Naftali Temu]], Kenyan Olympic long-distance runner (d. [[2003]])

* [[April 21]] – [[Ana Lúcia Torre]], Brazilian actress

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** [[Ali Akbar Velayati]], Iranian physician, politician

* [[June 25]]

** [[Lali Armengol]], Spanish playwright, professor and theater director<ref name=":0">{{cite book |title=20 mujeres venezolanas del siglo XX|url=https://transparencia.org.ve/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/20-mujeres-venezolanas-del-siglo-XX.pdf|chapter=Lali Armengol Argemi|last=Dagnino|first=Maruja|pages=68–71|editor=Transparencia Venezuela|access-date=June 12, 2022|archive-date=May 6, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210506112116/https://transparencia.org.ve/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/20-mujeres-venezolanas-del-siglo-XX.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref>

** [[Mohammed Bakar]], Malaysian footballer

** [[Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick]], American politician

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** [[Leopoldo Mastelloni]], Italian actor, comedian and singer

** [[Thor Martinsen]], Norwegian ice hockey player

* [[July 13]]

** [[Robert H. Foglesong]], U.S. general

** [[Danny Abramowicz]], American football player, coach

* [[July 14]] – [[Antun Vujić]], Croatian politician, philosopher, political analyst, lexicographer and author

* [[July 15]]

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* [[July 30]]

** [[Patrick Modiano]], French novelist, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate<ref>{{Cite encyclopedia |title=Patrick Modiano |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Patrick-Modiano |access-date=4 February 2022 |encyclopedia=[[Encyclopedia Britannica]]}}</ref>

** [[David Sanborn]], American saxophonist (d. [[2024]])

===August===

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===December===

* [[December 1]] ~~– [[Bette Midler]], American actress, comedian and singer~~

** [[Lyle Bien]], American vice admiral<ref>{{cite web |title=Legacy Lyle Bien |url=https://sdexcellence.org/Lyle_Bien_1997 |website=[[South Dakota Hall of Fame]] |access-date=June 17, 2024}}</ref>

▲** [[~~Linda~~Bette ~~Hunt~~Midler]], American actress, comedian and singer

* [[December 2]] – [[Tex Watson]], American multiple murderer, 'Manson Family' member

* [[December 3]] – [[Bozhidar Dimitrov]], Bulgarian historian, politician and polemicist (d. [[2018]])

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* [[January 6]]

** [[Josefa Llanes Escoda]], Filipino women's [[suffrage]] advocate, founder of the [[Girl Scouts of the Philippines]] (b. [[1898]])

** [[Herbert Lumsden]], British general (b. [[1897]])<ref>[https://generals.dk/general/Lumsden/Herbert/Great_Britain.html Lumsden, Herbert]</ref>

** [[Vladimir Vernadsky]], Soviet mineralogist, geochemist (b. [[1863]])

* [[January 7]]

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** [[Thomas McGuire]], American World War II fighter ace (killed in action) (b. [[1920]])

** [[Prince Rainer of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha]] (killed in action) (b. [[1900]])

* [[January 9]] – [[Jüri Uluots]], ~~Estonian~~ ~~statesman~~8th [[Prime Minister of Estonia]] (b. [[1890]])

* [[January 10]] – [[Pēteris Juraševskis]], 8th [[Prime Minister of Latvia]] (b. [[1872]])

* [[January 12]] – [[Teresio Olivelli]], Italian [[Roman Catholic]] soldier and venerable (b. [[1916]])

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** [[Lucille La Verne]], American actress (b. [[1872]])<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/107039613 | title=Preview unavailable | website=[[ProQuest]] | id={{ProQuest|107039613}} }}</ref>

** [[Mark Sandrich]], American film director (b. [[1900]])

* [[March 5]] – [[George Alan ~~Vasey|George~~ Vasey]], Australian general (killed in military aircraft accident) (b. [[1895]])

* [[March 12]] – [[Friedrich Fromm]], German Nazi official (executed) (b. [[1888]])

* [[March 14]] – [[Antônio Francisco Braga]], Brazilian composer (b. [[1868]])

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* [[March 27]] – [[Halid Ziya Uşaklıgil]], Turkish author (b. [[1867]])

* [[March 29]] – [[Ferenc Csik]], Hungarian swimmer (air raid victim) (b. [[1913]])

* [[March 30]] – [[Maurice Rose]], American general (b. [[1899]])<ref>[https://militaryhallofhonor.com/honoree-record.php?id=3022 MG Maurice Rose]</ref>

* [[March 31]]

** [[Hans Fischer]], German chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (suicide) (b. [[1881]])

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* [[June 13]] – [[Minoru Ōta]], Japanese admiral (suicide) (b. [[1891]])

* [[June 15]]

** [[Nikola Avramov]], Bulgarian painter (b. [[1897]])

** [[Carl Gustaf Ekman]], Prime Minister of Sweden (b. [[1872]])

** [[Amélie Rives Troubetzkoy]], American author (b. [[1863]])

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* [[June 18]]

** [[Florence Bascom]], American geologist and educator (b. [[1862]])

** [[Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr.]], American general (killed in action at [[Okinawa Prefecture|Okinawa]]) (b. [[1886]])

** [[Friedrich, Prince of Wied]], German prince (b. [[1872]])

* [[June 20]]

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** [[Eduard Wirths]], German doctor, chief SS doctor at [[Auschwitz concentration camp]] (suicide) (b. [[1909]])

* [[September 24]] – [[Hans Geiger]], German physicist, inventor (b. [[1882]])

* [[September 25]] – [[Plutarco Elías Calles]], Mexican general and president (1924-[[1928]]), known as ''Jefe Maximo'' ("Maximum Boss") (b. [[1877]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.biografiasyvidas.com/biografia/c/calles.htm|title=Plutarco Elías Calles

~~|publisher=Biografias y Vidas |language=es|access-date=May 29, 2019}}</ref>~~

* [[September 26]]

** [[Béla Bartók]], Hungarian composer (b. [[1881]])<ref>{{wikicite|ref={{harvid|Stevens|2018}}|reference=Stevens, Halsey. 2018. "[https://www.britannica.com/biography/Bela-Bartok#ref84023 Béla Bartók: Hungarian Composer]". ''Encyclopædia Britannica'' online (accessed 27 September 2018).}}</ref>