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In the year 1945

1,497 Notable birthdays

Finn Laudrup

Danish footballer.

Born July 31st, 1945 (age 80 years) in Frederiksberg.

Gérard Lenorman

French singer.

Born February 9th, 1945 (age 81 years) in Bénouville.

Jürgen Möllemann

German politician (1945-2003).

Born July 15th, 1945 in Augsburg.

Died June 5th, 2003 at 57 years old in Marl-Loemühle airfield (falling).

Geoffrey Nice

British barrister and judge.

Born October 21st, 1945 (age 80 years) in London. [ref]

Takeo Kanade

Japanese computer scientist.

Born October 24th, 1945 (age 80 years) in Hyōgo Prefecture.

Robert S. Wistrich

Professor at the hebrew university of jerusalem (1945–2015).

Born April 7th, 1945 in Lenger.

Died May 19th, 2015 at 70 years old in Rome (myocardial infarction).

Lev Alburt

Ukrainian-american chess grandmaster.

Born August 21st, 1945 (age 80 years) in Orenburg.

John Allen Paulos

American mathematician.

Born July 4th, 1945 (age 80 years) in Denver.

Susan Bassnett

British translation theorist and scholar of comparative literature.

Born October 21st, 1945 (age 80 years) in England.

Fikre Selassie Wogderess

Ethiopian prime minister (1945-2020).

Born July 13th, 1945 in Addis Ababa.

Died December 12th, 2020 at 75 years old in Addis Ababa. [ref]

Shiva Naipaul

Trinidad and tobago writer (1945–1985).

Born February 25th, 1945 in Port of Spain.

Died August 13th, 1985 at 40 years old in London Borough of Camden (traffic collision).

Randa Haines

Film director, screenwriter.

Born February 20th, 1945 (age 81 years) in Los Angeles.

Patty Shepard

American actress (1945-2013).

Born October 1st, 1945 in Greenville.

Died January 3rd, 2013 at 67 years old in Madrid (myocardial infarction). [ref]

Jorge Serrano Elías

President of guatemala.

Born April 26th, 1945 (age 81 years) in Guatemala City.

Toni Fritsch

Austrian player of association and american football (1945–2005).

Born July 10th, 1945 in Petronell-Carnuntum.

Died September 13th, 2005 at 60 years old in Vienna (myocardial infarction, cardioplegia). [ref]

Dick Rivers

French actor and singer (1945–2019).

Born April 24th, 1945 in Nice.

Died April 24th, 2019 at 74 years old in Neuilly-sur-Seine (cancer). [ref]

Yuri Antonov

Russian singer (born 1945).

Born February 19th, 1945 (age 81 years) in Tashkent.

Hiroko Nagata

Japanese activist (1945–2011).

Born February 8th, 1945 in Tokyo.

Died February 5th, 2011 at 65 years old in Tokyo (brain cancer). [ref]

Ebbe Skovdahl

Danish football manager (1945-2020).

Born July 5th, 1945 in Copenhagen.

Died October 23rd, 2020 at 75 years old in Karlslunde. [ref]

Carol Vadnais

Canadian ice hockey defenceman (1945-2014).

Born September 25th, 1945 in Montreal.

Died August 31st, 2014 at 68 years old in Laval (cancer).

Joy Fielding

Canadian actor and writer (born 1945).

Born March 18th, 1945 (age 81 years) in Toronto.

Robert Alexy

German jurist (1945-).

Born September 9th, 1945 (age 80 years) in Oldenburg.

Baghdadi Mahmudi

Prime minister of libya, 2006–2011.

Born July 1st, 1945 (age 80 years) in Zawiya.

Tea Banh

Deputy prime minister and minister for national defence for cambodia.

Born November 5th, 1945 (age 80 years) in Koh Kong Province.

Dick Marty

Swiss politician (1945–2023).

Born January 7th, 1945 in Sorengo.

Died December 28th, 2023 at 78 years old in Fescoggia. [ref]

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