List of Famous people who died in 1945

Robert Hunt Stapylton Dudley Lydston Newman, 1st Baron Mamhead, known as Sir Robert Newman, Bt, between 1892 and 1931, was a British politician. He was also a president of the Church of England Society for the Maintenance of the Faith.

Mary Berenson was an art historian, now thought to have had a large hand in some of the writings of her second husband, Bernard Berenson.

Edith Frank was the mother of Holocaust diarist Anne Frank, and her older sister Margot. She was a prisoner during the Holocaust at Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, where she died from starvation.

Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy, nicknamed the Comrade Count, was a Russian and Soviet writer who wrote in many genres but specialized in science fiction and historical novels.

Alessandro Longo was an Italian composer and musicologist.

Admiral Sir Charles Henry Coke KCVO was a Royal Navy officer who served during the First World War.

Aleksandr Sergeyevich Shcherbakov was a Soviet politician and statesman who was a wartime head of the Political Directorate of the Red Army as well as the director of the Soviet Information Bureau.