List of Famous people who died in 1945

Count Pavel Nikolayevich Ignatiev was an Imperial Russian politician who served as Education Minister for Tsar Nicholas II. He was the son of Count Nikolay Pavlovich Ignatyev, who was the Minister of the Interior under Tsar Alexander III. After the October Revolution brought the Bolsheviks into power, Ignatieff fled Russia with his family, ultimately ending up in Canada.

Chotoku Kyan was an Okinawan karate master who was famous for both his karate skills and his colorful personal life. He had a large influence on the styles of karate that would become Shorin-Ryu and its related styles.

Gloria Dickson was an American stage and screen actress of the 1930s and 1940s.

Thomas Franklin Conway was an American lawyer and politician from New York. He was the Lieutenant Governor of New York from 1911 to 1912.

Tomás Burgos Sotomayor was a Chilean philanthropist, one of the strongest supporters of the "mutualist movement" and the founder of "Villa Lo Burgos", the present city of Purranque.

Aleksandr Anatolyevich Kosmodemyansky was a first lieutenant and a hero of the Soviet Union, who was bestowed this title posthumously after having been killed during World War II during the capture of the settlement of Vierbrüderkrug, in the Kaporner Heath near Metgethen, just west of Königsberg, East Prussia, Germany.

Major Henry Astell Law, 7th Baron Ellenborough,, was a member of the House of Lords.

Valerie "Vally" Wieselthier was an Austrian-American ceramic artist.