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In the year 1945
735 Notable deaths
Georg Kaiser
German dramatist (1878-1945).
Born November 25th, 1878 in Magdeburg.
Died June 4th, 1945 at 66 years old in Ascona.
Gerhard Schmidhuber
German general.
Born April 9th, 1894 in Dresden.
Died February 11th, 1945 at 50 years old in Budapest (killed in action).
Arthur Morrison
English writer and journalist (1863–1945).
Born November 1st, 1863 in Poplar.
Died December 4th, 1945 at 82 years old in Chalfont St Peter.
Reynold A. Nicholson
British orientalist.
Born August 18th, 1868 in Yorkshire.
Died August 27th, 1945 at 77 years old in Chester. [ref]
Leonhard Kaupisch
German general.
Born September 1st, 1878 in Bitterfeld.
Died September 26th, 1945 at 67 years old in Weimar.
Maurice Baring
British dramatist, poet, novelist, translator and essayist (1874-1945).
Born April 27th, 1874 in London. [ref]
Died December 16th, 1945 at 71 years old in Beaufort Castle (Parkinson's disease). [ref]
Nikolay Bogdanov-Belsky
Russian artist (1868-1945).
Born December 20th, 1868 in Belsky County. [ref]
Died February 19th, 1945 at 76 years old in Berlin.
Mladen Lorković
Croatian politician, lawyer and ustasha leader (1909-1945).
Born March 1st, 1909 in Zagreb.
Died April 30th, 1945 at 36 years old in Lepoglava prison.
Alfred Saalwächter
German admiral (1883-1945).
Born January 10th, 1883 in Nowa Sól.
Died December 6th, 1945 at 62 years old in Berlin, Moscow (gunshot wound).
Julius Leber
German politician of the spd and member of the german resistance against the nazi régime (1891-1945).
Born November 16th, 1891 in Biesheim.
Died January 5th, 1945 at 53 years old in Plötzensee Prison (hanging to death).
Deaths 311 to 320 of 735
For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one. Kahlil Gibran