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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Giovanni Agnelli
Business
13-Aug-1866 16-Dec-1945 Founder of Fiat
Henry Armetta
Actor
4-Jul-1888 21-Oct-1945 A Bell For Adano
Margot Asquith
Socialite
2-Feb-1864 28-Jul-1945 Wife of Herbert Henry Asquith
Francis W. Aston
Chemist
1-Sep-1877 20-Nov-1945 Invented the mass spectograph
George Barbier
Actor
19-Nov-1864 19-Jul-1945 Life Begins at Forty
Bela Bartok
Composer
25-Mar-1881 26-Sep-1945 Hungarian composer
Carl Becker
Historian
7-Sep-1873 10-Apr-1945 Everyman His Own Historian
Robert Benchley
Author
15-Sep-1889 21-Nov-1945 Humorist and screenwriter
Vincent Bendix
Inventor
12-Aug-1881 27-Mar-1945 Founder of Bendix Corporation
John Birch
Religion
28-May-1918 25-Aug-1945 Missionary to China killed during WW2
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Religion
4-Feb-1906 9-Apr-1945 Lutheran theologian, opponent of Hitler
Martin Bormann
Government
17-Jun-1900 2-May-1945 Adolf Hitler's adjutant
Eva Braun
First Lady
6-Feb-1912 30-Apr-1945 Adolf Hitler's mistress, then wife
Charles W. Bryan
Politician
10-Feb-1867 4-Mar-1945 Twice Governor of Nebraska
Thomas Burke
Author
29-Nov-1886 22-Sep-1945 Limehouse Nights
William M. Calder
Politician
3-Mar-1869 3-Mar-1945 US Senator from New York, 1917-23
Plutarco Elías Calles
Head of State
25-Sep-1877 19-Oct-1945 President of Mexico, 1924-28
Wilhelm Canaris
Military
1-Jan-1887 9-Apr-1945 Nazi spymaster, tried to kill Hitler
Walter Bradford Cannon
Scientist
19-Oct-1871 1-Oct-1945 Fight or flight response
Ernst Cassirer
Philosopher
28-Jul-1874 13-Apr-1945 The Myth of the State
Edgar Cayce
Paranormal
18-Mar-1877 3-Jan-1945 Performed "paranormal" readings
John Hessin Clarke
Judge
18-Sep-1857 22-Mar-1945 US Supreme Court Justice, 1916-22
John Curtin
Head of State
8-Jan-1885 5-Jul-1945 Prime Minister of Australia, 1941-45
Harry K. Daghlian
Physicist
4-May-1921 15-Sep-1945 Casualty of the Manhattan Project
Margaret Deland
Author
23-Feb-1857 13-Jan-1945 Old Chester Tales
Gloria Dickson
Actor
13-Aug-1916 10-Apr-1945 They Won't Forget
Theodore Dreiser
Novelist
27-Aug-1871 28-Dec-1945 An American Tragedy
Al Dubin
Songwriter
10-Jun-1891 11-Feb-1945 Lullaby of Broadway
E. R. Eddison
Novelist
24-Nov-1882 18-Aug-1945 The Worm Ouroboros
Gus Edwards
Songwriter
18-Aug-1879 7-Nov-1945 By the Light of the Silvery Moon
Hans Fischer
Chemist
27-Jul-1881 31-Mar-1945 Synthesized hemin
John Ambrose Fleming
Engineer
29-Nov-1849 19-Apr-1945 Invented the vacuum tube
Anne Frank
Victim
12-Jun-1929 Mar-1945 The Diary of Anne Frank
Bruno Frank
Playwright
13-Jun-1878 20-Jun-1945 Storm in a Teacup
Roland Freisler
Government
30-Oct-1893 3-Feb-1945 Headed the Reich Ministry of Justice
Hans Geiger
Physicist
30-Sep-1882 24-Sep-1945 Co-Inventor of the Geiger Counter
David Lloyd George
Head of State
17-Jan-1863 26-Mar-1945 UK Prime Minister, 1916-22
Kurt Gerstein
Military
11-Aug-1905 25-Jul-1945 Holocaust collaborator and whistleblower
Ellen Glasgow
Novelist
22-Apr-1873 21-Nov-1945 In This Our Life
Robert Goddard
Scientist
5-Oct-1882 10-Aug-1945 Father of modern rocketry
Joseph Goebbels
Government
29-Oct-1897 1-May-1945 Reich Minister of Propaganda
Magda Goebbels
Relative
11-Nov-1901 1-May-1945 Wife of Joseph Goebbels
Carl Goerdeler
Politician
31-Jul-1884 2-Feb-1945 Politician, hanged by the Nazis
Alexander Granach
Actor
18-Apr-1893 14-Mar-1945 Nosferatu
Milton Hershey
Business
13-Sep-1857 13-Oct-1945 Founder of Hershey's
Heinrich Himmler
Government
7-Oct-1900 23-May-1945 Leader of the SS
Adolf Hitler
Head of State
20-Apr-1889 30-Apr-1945 Chancellor of Germany, 1933-45
Hiram Johnson
Politician
2-Sep-1866 6-Aug-1945 Governor and Senator from California
Georg Kaiser
Playwright
25-Nov-1878 4-Jun-1945 The Gardener of Toulouse
Jerome Kern
Composer
27-Jan-1885 12-Nov-1945 Show Boat
Käthe Kollwitz
Artist
8-Jul-1867 22-Apr-1945 German graphic aritst
Pierre Laval
Head of State
28-Jun-1883 15-Oct-1945 Prime Minister of Vichy France
Robert Ley
Military
15-Feb-1890 25-Oct-1945 Nazi union buster, slave master
Edward B. Marks
Songwriter
28-Nov-1865 17-Dec-1945 My Mother Was a Lady
Pietro Mascagni
Composer
7-Dec-1863 2-Aug-1945 Cavalleria Rusticana
John McCormack
Singer
14-Jun-1884 16-Sep-1945 Operatic tenor, Irish balladeer
Jimmy Monaco
Composer
13-Jan-1885 16-Oct-1945 You Made Me Love You
Thomas H. Morgan
Scientist
25-Sep-1866 4-Dec-1945 Fruit fly chromosomes and heredity
John Moses
Politician
12-Jun-1885 3-Mar-1945 Governor of North Dakota, 1939-45
Benito Mussolini
Head of State
29-Jul-1883 28-Apr-1945 Fascist Dictator of Italy
Alla Nazimova
Actor
22-May-1879 13-Jul-1945 Blood and Sand
Otto Neurath
Sociologist
10-Dec-1882 22-Dec-1945 Vienna Circle positivist
Truman H. Newberry
Politician
5-Nov-1864 3-Oct-1945 US Senator from Michigan, 1919-22
Albert Jay Nock
Author
13-Oct-1870 19-Aug-1945 Memoirs of a Superfluous Man
Warder Norton
Business
17-Sep-1891 7-Nov-1945 W. W. Norton & Company
George S. Patton
Military
11-Nov-1885 21-Dec-1945 American WWII Army commander
Tom Pendergast
Politician
22-Jul-1873 26-Jan-1945 Missouri political boss
Clara Petacci
Relative
28-Feb-1912 28-Apr-1945 Mussolini's mistress
Le Pétomane
Oddity
1-Jun-1857 1945 Legendary fartiste
Johannes Popitz
Government
2-Dec-1884 2-Feb-1945 Prussian finance minister 1933-44
Ernie Pyle
Journalist
3-Aug-1900 18-Apr-1945 Scripps-Howard war correspondent
Vidkun Quisling
Politician
18-Jul-1887 24-Oct-1945 Norwegian president, Nazi collaborator
Thomas C. Riggs
Politician
17-Oct-1873 16-Jan-1945 Territorial Governor of Alaska, 1918-21
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Head of State
30-Jan-1882 12-Apr-1945 US President during WWII
Mark Sandrich
Film Director
26-Aug-1900 4-Mar-1945 Top Hat
James G. Scrugham
Politician
19-Jan-1880 23-Jun-1945 Governor of Nevada, 1923-27
William Seabrook
Author
22-Feb-1886 20-Sep-1945 Thoroughly sodden traveling author
Eddie Slovik
Military
18-Feb-1920 31-Jan-1945 US soldier executed for desertion
Arthur Symons
Poet
28-Feb-1865 22-Jan-1945 English symbolist poet
Violette Szabo
Spy
26-Jun-1921 5-Feb-1945 British secret agent, fought with French Resistance
Paul Valéry
Poet
30-Oct-1871 20-Jul-1945 La Jeune Parque
Henry Victor
Actor
2-Oct-1892 15-Mar-1945 Freaks
Teddy Weatherford
Jazz Musician
11-Oct-1903 25-Apr-1945 Jazz ambassador to the Far East
Arthur J. Weaver
Politician
18-Nov-1873 17-Oct-1945 Governor of Nebraska, 1929-31
Anton Webern
Composer
3-Dec-1883 15-Sep-1945 Atonal composer
Prince William of Wied
Royalty
26-Mar-1876 18-Apr-1945 Prince of Albania, 1914


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