List of Famous people who died in 1945

Prince Waldemar William Louis Frederick Victor of Prussia was the eldest son of Prince Henry of Prussia and his wife, Princess Irene of Hesse and by Rhine.

Adam Stegerwald was a German Catholic politician and a leader of the left wing of the Centre Party.

Hans von Dohnanyi was a German jurist of Hungarian ancestry, Righteous Among the Nations, and German resistance member against the Nazi régime.

Walter Hohmann was a German engineer who made an important contribution to the understanding of orbital dynamics. In a book published in 1925, Hohmann demonstrated a fuel-efficient path to move a spacecraft between two different orbits, now called a Hohmann transfer orbit. He received his Ph.D. from the RWTH Aachen University in 1920.

Gideon Klein was a Czech pianist, classical music composer, educator and organizer of cultural life at Theresienstadt concentration camp.

Peter Raabe was a German composer and conductor.

Gheorghe Avramescu was a Romanian Lieutenant General during World War II. In 1945, he was arrested by the Soviets as "pro-German."

Stefan Mazurkiewicz was a Polish mathematician who worked in mathematical analysis, topology, and probability. He was a student of Wacław Sierpiński and a member of the Polish Academy of Learning (PAU). His students included Karol Borsuk, Bronisław Knaster, Kazimierz Kuratowski, Stanisław Saks, and Antoni Zygmund. For a time Mazurkiewicz was a professor at the University of Paris; however, he spent most of his career as a professor at the University of Warsaw.

Ngô Đình Khôi (1885-1945) was the eldest son of Ngô Đình Khả and the older brother of Ngô Đình Thục,Ngô Đình Diệm, Ngô Đình Nhu, Ngô Đình Cẩn, Ngô Đình Luyện and of three sisters Giao, Hiệp and Hoàng.

Count Kuno Friedrich Viktor von Westarp was a conservative politician in Germany.