Historical figures in 1945

The atlas holds 116 people and 201 moments here, in 1945. The most recorded lives are Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Benito Mussolini and George Orwell. Among them Writers, Political Leaders and Educators.

Notable people

  1. Abdurrahman Wahid

    in 1945

    1 moment here

    Indonesian Islamic scholar, Nahdlatul Ulama leader, reform advocate, and fourth president of Indonesia (1999–2001), widely known as Gus Dur.…

  2. Adolf Hitler

    in 1945

    2 moments here

    Adolf Hitler (1889–1945) was an Austrian-born German politician who led the National Socialist German Workers’ Party (NSDAP), became German…

  3. Alan Turing

    in 1945

    1 moment here

    English mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst, and computing pioneer. Turing studied at Cambridge and Princeton, worked at Bletchley Park during the…

  4. Albert Camus

    in 1945

    1 moment here

    French writer, philosopher, journalist, and political activist, born in French Algeria. Camus studied and worked in Algiers, moved between Algeria…

  5. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

    in 1945

    3 moments here

    Soviet and Russian novelist, essayist, historian, dissident, and Nobel laureate whose writings on Soviet political repression and the Gulag made him…

  6. Alfred Hitchcock

    in 1945

    1 moment here

    English filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock (1899–1980), known as the “Master of Suspense,” worked in British cinema before relocating to Hollywood in 1939.…

  7. Allan MacLeod Cormack

    in 1945

    1 moment here

    South African-born American physicist and academic whose mathematical work helped establish computed tomography.…

  8. Andy Warhol

    in 1945

    1 moment here

    American artist and filmmaker whose work helped define Pop art. Born in Pittsburgh, Warhol studied there before moving to New York in 1949.…

  9. Anne Frank

    in 1945

    1 moment here

    Anne Frank was a German-born Jewish diarist whose writing from hiding in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam became The Diary of a Young Girl.…

  10. Audrey Hepburn

    in 1945

    1 moment here

    British actress and humanitarian Audrey Hepburn (Audrey Kathleen Ruston) was born in Brussels, raised across Belgium, England and the Netherlands,…

  11. Augusto Pinochet

    in 1945

    1 moment here

    Augusto Pinochet Ugarte was a Chilean army officer who led the 11 September 1973 coup and ruled Chile as head of the military junta and then…

  12. Aung San

    in 1945

    2 moments here

    Burmese independence leader, political organizer, and military commander. Aung San helped found the Burma Independence Army, led the anti-Japanese…

  13. Bảo Đại

    in 1945

    5 moments here

    Nguyễn Phúc Vĩnh Thụy, known as Bảo Đại, was the final emperor of the Nguyễn dynasty and later chief of state of the State of Vietnam.…

  14. Benito Mussolini

    in 1945

    7 moments here

    Italian journalist, Fascist leader, and dictator of Italy from 1922 until his removal in 1943.…

  15. Bhumibol Adulyadej

    in 1945

    1 moment here

    Bhumibol Adulyadej (Rama IX) was King of Thailand from 1946 to 2016. Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, he grew up partly in Thailand and Switzerland,…

  16. Bob Marley

    in 1945

    1 moment here

    Jamaican singer, songwriter and guitarist whose work with the Wailers made reggae an international musical force.…

  17. B. R. Ambedkar

    in 1945

    1 moment here

    Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar was an Indian jurist, economist, social reformer, politician, principal architect of India’s Constitution, and a leading…

  18. Charles de Gaulle

    in 1945

    1 moment here

    French army officer, leader of Free France during the Second World War, head of France's Provisional Government, and president of the French Fifth…

  19. Chiang Kai-shek

    in 1945

    1 moment here

    Chinese military commander, revolutionary, and statesman. Chiang Kai-shek led the Nationalist government of China through the Northern Expedition,…

  20. Daniel arap Moi

    in 1945

    1 moment here

    Kenyan teacher and politician who served as Kenya’s vice president from 1967 to 1978 and its second president from 1978 to 2002.…

  21. Deng Xiaoping

    in 1945

    1 moment here

    Chinese revolutionary, statesman, and paramount leader of the People’s Republic of China from 1978 to 1989.…

  22. Desmond Tutu

    in 1945

    1 moment here

    South African Anglican bishop, theologian, anti-apartheid activist, Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Archbishop of Cape Town, and chair of South Africa’s…

  23. Dwight D. Eisenhower

    in 1945

    3 moments here

    Dwight D. Eisenhower was a United States Army officer, Supreme Allied Commander in Europe during World War II, and the 34th president of the United…

  24. Édith Piaf

    in 1945

    2 moments here

    French singer and lyricist Édith Giovanna Gassion, known as Édith Piaf, rose from street performance in Paris to international prominence in chanson…

Moments

  1. 1945 Childhood during the independence struggle Abdurrahman Wahid
  2. 1945 Hampton residence during ACE design Alan Turing
  3. 1945 Postwar residence in Paris Albert Camus
  4. 1945 Front-line service in East Prussia Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
  5. 1945 Imprisonment at Lubyanka Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
  6. 1945 M.Sc. at the University of Cape Town Allan MacLeod Cormack
  7. 1945 Graduates from Schenley High School Andy Warhol
  8. 1945 Postwar move to Amsterdam Audrey Hepburn
  9. 1945 Carampangue Regiment posting Augusto Pinochet
  10. 1945 University studies in Lausanne Bhumibol Adulyadej
  11. 1945 Postwar talks with Mao Chiang Kai-shek
  12. 1945 Teacher training at Tambach Daniel arap Moi
  13. 1945 Peace talks in Chongqing Deng Xiaoping
  14. 1945 Johannesburg Bantu High School Desmond Tutu
  15. 1945 RNZAF posting in Fiji Edmund Hillary
  16. 1945 RNZAF posting in the Solomon Islands Edmund Hillary
  17. 1945 Director of the Osaka District Railway Bureau Eisaku Satō
  18. 1945 Return to Val-Kill after FDR's death Eleanor Roosevelt
  19. 1945 Took seat at the Palais Bourbon Félix Houphouët-Boigny
  20. 1945 University law studies Fidel Castro
  21. 1945 High-school graduation Fidel V. Ramos
  22. 1945 War-correspondent visit to Cologne George Orwell
  23. 1945 War-correspondent visit to Stuttgart George Orwell
  24. 1945 Saint Mary's Navy Pre-Flight School assignment Gerald Ford
  25. 1945 Retirement to family farm in São Borja Getúlio Vargas
  26. 1945 Flying from Truscott Airfield Gough Whitlam
  27. 1945 Joined the ALP in Sydney Gough Whitlam
  28. 1945 RAAF route through Morotai Gough Whitlam
  29. 1945 Fifth Pan-African Congress Hastings Banda
  30. 1945 Move to Harlesden Hastings Banda
  31. 1945 Confinement at Sugamo Prison Hideki Tojo
  32. 1945 Birth in Koutiala Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta
  33. 1945 Work in Kiyindi Parish Idi Amin
  34. 1945 Establishes theoretical-physics department at MEPhI Igor Tamm
  35. 1945 Return to Harvard after wartime work I. M. Pei
  36. 1945 Settlement in Turin after liberation Italo Calvino
  37. 1945 Moved to rue Bonaparte Jean-Paul Sartre
  38. 1945 Visit to General Marshall at the Pentagon Jean-Paul Sartre
  39. 1945 Continued residence in Ojai Jiddu Krishnamurti
  40. 1945 Recovered at Castle Hot Springs John F. Kennedy
  41. 1945 Moved to São Paulo to direct Hoje Jorge Amado
  42. 1945 First public talk in Montevideo Jorge Luis Borges
  43. 1945 Penza regional party secretary Konstantin Chernenko
  44. 1945 Move to Mumbai Lata Mangeshkar
  45. 1945 Wartime winter in the Ardennes Marlene Dietrich
  46. 1945 Assistant lecturer at St Andrews Maurice Wilkins
  47. 1945 Rockefeller Foundation service in New York Max Theiler
  48. 1945 Relocation to Mexico Miguel Ángel Asturias
  49. 1945 Pakistan election speech Muhammad Ali Jinnah
  50. 1945 Transfer to al-Ghuri Mausoleum library Naguib Mahfouz

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