List of Famous people who died in 1945

Richard Kunze was a German right-wing politician known for his anti-Semitism.

Ernst Hofmann was a German film actor.

Ernst Wolf Alexander Oskar Harnack, granted the title von Harnack in 1914, was an official of the Prussian provincial government, a German politician, and a German Resistance fighter. He was arrested, tried and executed in March 1945 at Plötzensee Prison for political opposition to the Nazi Party.

Isamu Chō was an officer in the Imperial Japanese Army known for his support of ultranationalist politics and involvement in a number of attempted coup d'états in pre-World War II Japan.

Joseph Schrembs was a German-born prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as the bishop of the Diocese of Toledo (1911–21) and the Diocese of Cleveland, Ohio (1921–45).

Karl Theodor Vahlen was an Austrian-born mathematician who was an ardent supporter of the Nazi Party. He served as the first Gauleiter of Pomerania and was a member of both the SA and SS.

Count Lev Lvovich Tolstoy was a Russian writer, and the fourth child and third son of Leo Tolstoy.

Tsunenosuke Hamada was a Japanese politician who served as governor of Hiroshima Prefecture from September 1925 to September 1926. He was governor of Toyama Prefecture (1910-1915), Miyagi Prefecture (1915-1919) and Kyoto Prefecture (1926-1927).

Pierre Cérésole was a Swiss peace activist and engineer, known primarily as the founder of the Service Civil International (SCI) in 1920, an organisation that helped in reconstruction after the First World War with the goal of achieving an atmosphere of brotherhood.