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
Huang Xianfan
in 1945
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Huang Xianfan was a Zhuang Chinese historian, ethnologist, educator, and pioneer of field research on minority peoples in Guangxi and neighboring…
Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta
in 1945
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Malian politician known as IBK. He was born in Koutiala, studied and worked in Mali, Senegal, and France, served as Mali’s ambassador to Côte…
Idi Amin
in 1945
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Ugandan army officer and dictator who was president of Uganda from 1971 to 1979. This chronology records documented physical presences from his birth…
Igor Tamm
in 1945
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Soviet theoretical physicist and 1958 Nobel laureate in Physics, noted for work on Cherenkov radiation, nuclear physics, and controlled thermonuclear…
I. M. Pei
in 1945
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Ieoh Ming Pei was a Chinese-American architect whose work ranged from U.S. civic and cultural buildings to major projects in China, France, and the…
Italo Calvino
in 1945
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Italian novelist, short-story writer, editor, journalist, and member of Oulipo. Born in Cuba, raised chiefly in Sanremo, and active across Italy,…
Jawaharlal Nehru
in 1945
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Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist and statesman who became independent India’s first prime minister, serving from 15 August 1947 until his…
Jean-Paul Sartre
in 1945
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French philosopher, writer, and political activist associated with existentialism. His documented movements include education and teaching across…
Jiddu Krishnamurti
in 1945
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Indian philosopher, speaker, and writer. Raised within the Theosophical Society, he became head of the Order of the Star in the East, dissolved it at…
John F. Kennedy
in 1945
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy was an American naval officer, journalist, congressman, senator, and the 35th president of the United States.…
John Maynard Keynes
in 1945
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English economist, civil servant, Cambridge fellow, and British international negotiator whose work shaped modern macroeconomics.…
Jomo Kenyatta
in 1945
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Jomo Kenyatta (c. 1897–1978) was a Kenyan anti-colonial activist and politician who became Kenya’s first prime minister in 1963 and first president…
Jorge Amado
in 1945
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Brazilian modernist writer, journalist, and Communist politician whose life moved between Bahia, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, South America, Europe,…
Jorge Luis Borges
in 1945
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Argentine writer, poet, essayist, translator, lecturer, librarian, and critic. Borges was born in Buenos Aires, lived in Switzerland and Spain during…
Joseph Stalin
in 1945
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Soviet revolutionary and political leader, born Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili in Gori, Georgia.…
J. R. R. Tolkien
in 1945
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John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was an English philologist, university professor, and author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.…
Juan Perón
in 1945
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Juan Domingo Perón was an Argentine army officer and politician who served as president of Argentina from 1946 to 1955 and again from 1973 until his…
Kim Dae-jung
in 1945
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South Korean politician, democracy activist, and eighth president of South Korea (1998–2003).…
Kim Il Sung
in 1945
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Kim Il Sung (born Kim Song Ju) was a Korean communist guerrilla leader, North Korean political leader, and founder of the Democratic People’s…
Konstantin Chernenko
in 1945
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Soviet Communist Party official and General Secretary of the CPSU from 13 February 1984 until his death.…
Kwame Nkrumah
in 1945
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Ghanaian nationalist leader, Pan-Africanist, and political theorist who led the Gold Coast to independence as Ghana in 1957.…
Lata Mangeshkar
in 1945
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Indian playback singer and occasional composer whose career spanned eight decades. Born in Indore, she moved to Mumbai in 1945 and became a central…
Mao Zedong
in 1945
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Chinese communist revolutionary and political leader who led the Chinese Communist Party and founded the People’s Republic of China.…
Marlene Dietrich
in 1945
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German-American actress and singer Marlene Dietrich (Marie Magdalene Dietrich) was born in Berlin and achieved international fame through stage,…
Moments
- 1945 Training and residence in Auburn George H. W. Bush
- 1945 Paratrooper practice jump Marlene Dietrich
- 1945 Visits front after Rhine crossing Winston Churchill
- 1945 Dies in Führerbunker Adolf Hitler
- 1945 Body displayed at Piazzale Loreto Benito Mussolini
- 1945 Capture near Dongo Benito Mussolini
- 1945 Convoy at Menaggio Benito Mussolini
- 1945 Execution at Villa Belmonte Benito Mussolini
- 1945 Overnight stop at Como Benito Mussolini
- 1945 Return to Milan in the final days Benito Mussolini
- 1945 Stopped at Musso Benito Mussolini
- 1945 Dies at the Little White House Franklin Delano Roosevelt
- 1945 Naval Reserve Training Command staff Gerald Ford
- 1945 Sworn in as president Harry S. Truman
- 1945 Meeting with OSS agent Archimedes Patti Ho Chi Minh
- 1945 Led southern Guizhou border-peoples investigation Huang Xianfan
- 1945 Covered the United Nations conference John F. Kennedy
- 1945 Marriage in Mokpo Kim Dae-jung
- 1945 Seventh CCP National Congress Mao Zedong
- 1945 Naval reporting assignment at Kanoya Yasunari Kawabata
- 1945 All India Scheduled Caste Federation conference B. R. Ambedkar
- 1945 German surrender at Reims Dwight D. Eisenhower
- 1945 Military governor headquarters Dwight D. Eisenhower
- 1945 Celebrated VE Day in London Elizabeth II
- 1945 Return to London Kwame Nkrumah
- 1945 Performance in liberated Pilsen Marlene Dietrich
- 1945 Evacuation to Göttingen Max Planck
- 1945 Return to liberated Norway Olav V
- 1945 Internment at Bad Aibling airfield Pope Benedict XVI
- 1945 Germany and the Germans lecture Thomas Mann
- 1945 Postwar lecture visit T. S. Eliot
- 1945 Spinal operation in New York Frida Kahlo
- 1945 United Nations Charter Conference address Harry S. Truman
- 1945 Simla Conference Jawaharlal Nehru
- 1945 Watches the Moscow Victory Parade Joseph Stalin
- 1945 Merton Professor at Oxford J. R. R. Tolkien
- 1945 At Arline's deathbed Richard Feynman
- 1945 Postwar teaching at Chicago Enrico Fermi
- 1945 Trinity test observation Enrico Fermi
- 1945 London coverage of the general election George Orwell
- 1945 Disembarkation en route to Potsdam Harry S. Truman
- 1945 Potsdam Conference Harry S. Truman
- 1945 Participates in the Potsdam Conference Joseph Stalin
- 1945 Moves to Ménerbes with Françoise Pablo Picasso
- 1945 Based at Babelsberg for Potsdam Conference Winston Churchill
- 1945 Abdication edict at Kiến Trung Palace Bảo Đại
- 1945 Public abdication ceremony Bảo Đại
- 1945 New York City visit Charles de Gaulle
- 1945 Meeting with King George VI Harry S. Truman
- 1945 Imperial Palace bomb-shelter night Hirohito