| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known 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 |
