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In the year 1945
727 Notable deaths
Bernhard Rust
German holocaust perpetrator (1883-1945).
Born September 30th, 1883 in Hanover.
Died May 8th, 1945 at 61 years old in Nübel.
Kenji Hatanaka
Japanese military officer and conspirator (1912-1945).
Born March 28th, 1912 in Kyoto Prefecture.
Died August 15th, 1945 at 33 years old in Tokyo (ballistic trauma).
Duy Tân
Vietnamese emperor (1899-1945).
Born September 19th, 1900 in Imperial City of Hue.
Died December 25th, 1945 at 45 years old in Lobaye Prefecture.
William Grover-Williams
Racecar driver (1903–1945).
Born January 16th, 1903 in Montrouge.
Died March 18th, 1945 at 42 years old in Sachsenhausen concentration camp.
Emanuel Moravec
Czech military officer, writer, and politician and hamda (1893-1945).
Born April 17th, 1893 in Prague. [ref]
Died May 5th, 1945 at 52 years old in Prague. [ref]
Herbert Lange
Ss officer (1909–1945).
Born September 29th, 1909 in Ziethen.
Died April 20th, 1945 at 35 years old in Bernau bei Berlin.
Peter Högl
Ss officer (1897-1945).
Born August 19th, 1897 in Marklkofen.
Died May 2nd, 1945 at 47 years old in Berlin.
Alfred Delp
German jesuit priest, and philosopher of the german resistance (1907-1945).
Born September 15th, 1907 in Mannheim.
Died February 2nd, 1945 at 37 years old in Plötzensee Prison (hanging).
Franklin Carmichael
Canadian artist (1890-1945).
Born May 4th, 1890 in Orillia.
Died October 24th, 1945 at 55 years old in Toronto.
Maria Skobtsova
Russian saint (1891–1945).
Born January 1st, 1891 in Riga.
Died March 31st, 1945 at 54 years old in Ravensbrück concentration camp (gas chamber).
Deaths 191 to 200 of 727
It is the secret of the world that all things subsist and do not die, but retire a little from sight and afterwards return again. Ralph Waldo Emerson