Famous People Who Died in 1945

• Benchley, Robert

  1930s New Yorker theater critic and witty essayist

• Birch, John

  Missionary for whom the John Birch Society was named

• Bonhoeffer, Dietrich

  The theologian hanged for plotting against Hitler

• Braun, Eva

  Mistress and last-minute wife of Adolf Hitler

• Frank, Anne

  Author of The Diary of Anne Frank

• Goebbels, Joseph

   Adolf Hitler's Minister of Propaganda, 1933-45

• Himmler, Heinrich

  Hitler's head of the Gestapo during World War II

• Hitler, Adolf

  The leader of Nazi Germany during World War II

• Lloyd George, David

   The British Prime Minister, 1916-22

• Mussolini, Benito

  Italy's dictator during World War II

• Patten, Gilbert

  The writer of the Frank Merriwell dime novels in the early 20th century

• Patton, George S.

  Commander of the U.S. Third Army in World War II

• Roosevelt, Franklin

  The president who led the U.S. through World War II

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