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In the year 1945
662 Notable deaths
Béla Bartók
Hungarian composer and pianist.
Born March 25th, 1881 in Sânnicolau Mare. [ref]
Died September 26th, 1945 at 64 years old in New York City (leukemia). [ref]
Heinrich Müller
German police official and head of the gestapo (1900-1945).
Born April 28th, 1900 in Munich.
Died May 1st, 1945 at 45 years old in Berlin.
Eric Liddell
Scottish athlete, sprinter, olympian, protestant missionary (1902-1945).
Born January 16th, 1902 in Tianjin.
Died February 21st, 1945 at 43 years old in Weicheng District, Weifang (brain cancer).
Lord Alfred Douglas
English poet, translator and prose writer (1870-1945).
Born October 22nd, 1870 in Worcestershire. [ref]
Died March 20th, 1945 at 74 years old in St Andrews. [ref]
Milton S. Hershey
American businessman (1857-1945).
Born September 13th, 1857 in Derry Township.
Died October 13th, 1945 at 88 years old in Hershey (pneumonia).
Walter Model
German field marshal.
Born January 24th, 1891 in Genthin.
Died April 21st, 1945 at 54 years old in Ratingen (shot to the head).
Wilhelm Canaris
German admiral, head of military intelligence service.
Born January 1st, 1887 in Aplerbeck. [ref]
Died April 9th, 1945 at 58 years old in Flossenbürg concentration camp (hanging). [ref]
Roland Freisler
German lawyer and judge (1893-1945).
Born October 30th, 1893 in Celle.
Died February 3rd, 1945 at 51 years old in Berlin. [ref]
Robert H. Goddard
American physicist.
Born October 5th, 1882 in Worcester.
Died August 10th, 1945 at 62 years old in Baltimore (esophageal cancer). [ref]
Eddie Slovik
United states army soldier (1920-1945) executed for desertion during ww2.
Born February 18th, 1920 in Detroit.
Died January 31st, 1945 at 24 years old in Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines (ballistic trauma).
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I wanted a perfect ending. Now I’ve learned, the hard way, that some poems don’t rhyme, and some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity. Gilda Radner