1945: The Year in People

The Silent Generation · Year of the Rooster 🐓 · Born in 1945 turn 81 in 2026

The year in numbers

Gas, per gallon

$0.21

Median home

$4,600

Minimum wage

$0.40/hr

US population

2.38B

US president

Harry S. Truman

Top song

"Sentimental Journey" — Les Brown & Doris Day

Top film

The Bells of St. Mary's

Best Picture

The Lost Weekend

In the news: WWII ends; atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

What happened in 1945

1945 (MCMXLV) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1945th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 945th year of the 2nd millennium, the 45th year of the 20th century, and the 6th year of the 1940s decade.

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Born in 1945

219 people in our data · most viewed first

Davey Lopes

b. 1945 · May 3

American baseball player and manager

Debbie Harry

b. 1945 · July 1

American singer-songwriter and actress

Bette Midler

b. 1945 · December 1

American actress and singer

Henry Winkler

b. 1945 · October 30

American actor

Anni-Frid Lyngstad

b. 1945 · November 15

Swedish singer

Bryan Ferry

b. 1945 · September 26

British singer

Adrienne Barbeau

b. 1945 · June 11

American actress

Björn Ulvaeus

b. 1945 · April 25

Swedish musician

Brian Doyle-Murray

b. 1945 · October 31

American actor

Ehud Olmert

b. 1945 · September 30

Prime Minister of Israel from 2006 to 2009

George Miller (filmmaker)

b. 1945 · March 3

Australian filmmaker

Bianca Jagger

b. 1945 · May 2

Nicaraguan human rights advocate and actress

Anne Murray

b. 1945 · June 20

Canadian country singer

Bob Gunton

b. 1945 · November 15

American film, television, and theatre actor

Gerd Müller

1945–2021 · November 3

German footballer

Barry Bostwick

b. 1945 · February 24

American actor

Dirk Benedict

b. 1945 · March 1

American actor

Hans-Adam II, Prince of Liechtenstein

b. 1945 · February 14

Prince of Liechtenstein since 1989

Art Bell

1945–2018 · June 17

American broadcaster and author

Bob Welch (musician)

1945–2012 · August 31

American musician

Donny Hathaway

1945–1979 · October 1

American singer-songwriter

Bob Katter

b. 1945 · May 22

Australian politician

Bubba Smith

1945–2011 · February 28

American actor and athlete

JD Souther

1945–2024 · November 2

American singer, songwriter and actor

Died in 1945

Adolf Hitler1889–1945 · Dictator of Germany from 1933 to 1945
Franklin D. Roosevelt1882–1945 · President of the United States from 1933 to 1945
Benito Mussolini1883–1945 · Dictator of Italy from 1922 to 1943
Anne Frank1929–1945 · Diarist and Holocaust victim
Dietrich Bonhoeffer1906–1945 · German Lutheran pastor and theologian
Edgar Cayce1877–1945 · American clairvoyant
August von Mackensen1849–1945 · German field marshal
Béla Bartók1881–1945 · Hungarian composer
Anders Lassen1920–1945 · Danish military officer
Eric Liddell1902–1945 · Scottish athlete and missionary
Charles Williams (British writer)1886–1945 · British writer, theologian, and literary critic
Edith Frank1900–1945 · Mother of Anne Frank