List of Famous people who died in 1945

Henriëtte van der Meij was a leading figure in the first wave feminist movement in the Netherlands. At least one source identifies her as the first woman to work as a full-time journalist in that country.

Charles Walter Stansby Williams was a British poet, novelist, playwright, theologian, literary critic, and member of the Inklings, an informal literary discussion group associated with J. R. R. Tolkien at the University of Oxford.

Charles Maurice Donnay was a French dramatist.

Vladimir Perić, best known by the nom de guerre Valter, was a Yugoslav Partisan commander in German-occupied Sarajevo during World War II.

Sir John Ambrose Fleming FRS was an English electrical engineer and physicist who invented the first thermionic valve or vacuum tube, designed the radio transmitter with which the first transatlantic radio transmission was made, and also established the right-hand rule used in physics.

Óscar Raymundo Benavides Larrea was a prominent Peruvian field marshal, diplomat, and politician who served as the 45th and 49th President of Peru.