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•  February 13, 1945 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Rooster in Chinese astrology.
•  February 23, 1945 – World War II: The 11th Airborne Division, with Filipino guerrillas, free the captives of the Los Baños internment camp.
•  March 21, 1945 – World War II: Operation Carthage – British planes bomb Gestapo headquarters in Copenhagen, Denmark. They also hit a school and 125 civilians are killed.
•  April 8, 1945 – World War II: After an air raid accidentally destroys a train carrying about 4,000 Nazi concentration camp internees in Prussian Hanover, the survivors are massacred by Nazis.
•  April 13, 1945 – World War II: Soviet and Bulgarian forces capture Vienna, Austria.
•  April 17, 1945 – Brazilian forces liberate the town of Montese, Italy, from German Nazi forces.
•  April 25, 1945 – Elbe Day: United States and Soviet troops meet in Torgau along the River Elbe, cutting the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany in two, a milestone in the approaching end of World War II in Europe.
•  August 14, 1945 – Japan accepts the Allied terms of surrender in World War II and the Emperor records the Imperial Rescript on Surrender (August 15 in Japan standard time).
•  August 30, 1945 – Hong Kong is liberated from Japan by British Armed Forces.
•  September 7, 1945 – Japanese forces on Wake Island, which they had held since December of 1941, surrender to U.S. Marines.

•  January 11, 1945 – Christine Kaufmann, German-Austrian actress
•  January 14, 1945 – Einar Hakonarson, Icelandic painter
•  February 3, 1945 – Johnny Cymbal, American singer and songwriter (d. 1993)
•  February 7, 1945 – Gerald Davies, Welsh rugby player
•  May 27, 1945 – Bruce Cockburn, Canadian musician
•  June 23, 1945 – John Garang, Sudanese politician (d. 2005)
•  June 24, 1945 – Wayne Cashman, Canadian ice hockey player
•  July 19, 1945 – George Dzundza, American actor
•  August 29, 1945 – Chris Copping, musician, singer-songwriter
•  September 26, 1945 – Gal Costa, Brazilian singer