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In the year 1945
662 Notable deaths
Shigeru Honjō
Japanese general (1876-1945).
Born May 10th, 1876 in Hyogo Prefecture.
Died November 30th, 1945 at 69 years old in Tokyo (stabbing).
Gerhard Schmidhuber
German general.
Born April 9th, 1894 in Dresden.
Died February 11th, 1945 at 50 years old in Budapest (killed in action).
Antal Szerb
Hungarian writer (1901-1945).
Born May 1st, 1901 in Budapest. [ref]
Died January 27th, 1945 at 43 years old in Balf. [ref]
Ignacio Zuloaga
Spanish painter (1870-1945).
Born July 26th, 1870 in Eibar. [ref]
Died October 31st, 1945 at 75 years old in Madrid. [ref]
Frank Craven
American film actor, writer, director (1881-1945).
Born August 24th, 1881 in Boston.
Died September 1st, 1945 at 64 years old in Beverly Hills.
Princess Maud, Countess of Southesk
British princess; youngest child of alexander duff, 1st duke of fife, and louise, princess royal.
Born April 3rd, 1893 in London Borough of Richmond upon Thames.
Died December 14th, 1945 at 52 years old in London (bronchitis).
George Maduro
Dutch resistance member.
Born July 15th, 1916 in Willemstad.
Died February 9th, 1945 at 28 years old in Dachau concentration camp.
Thomas Lewis
British cardiologist.
Born December 26th, 1881 in Taff's Well.
Died March 17th, 1945 at 63 years old in Loudwater.
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]
Gustav Simon
German politician (1900-1945).
Born August 2nd, 1900 in Saarbrücken. [ref]
Died December 18th, 1945 at 45 years old in Paderborn (hanging). [ref]
Deaths 291 to 300 of 662
We are born from a quiet sleep, and we die to a calm awakening. Zhuangzi