Famous people and celebrities who died in April 1945

This page is dedicated to commemorating the celebrities and famous people who passed away in April 1945. This month marked the loss of influential and beloved figures whose contributions spanned various fields and touched many lives. Explore our detailed list to remember and celebrate their enduring legacies and the remarkable impact they had on the world

• April 5 Karl-Otto Koch

  German ss officer (d. 1945).

• April 5 Heinrich Borgmann

  German officer (b. 1912)

• April 9 Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  A prominent German theologian and Lutheran pastor who actively resisted the Nazi regime. He was a key figure in the Confessing Church movement and was executed by the Nazis for his role in a plot to assassinate Hitler.

• April 9 Hans von Dohnányi

  German jurist and prominent resistance member who actively opposed the Nazi regime, ultimately executed for his involvement in the July 20 plot to assassinate Hitler.

• April 9 Hans Oster

  German general, member the german resistance (born in 1887).

• April 9 Wilhelm Canaris

  German military admiral; was involved in the assassination plot against hitler on 7/20/1944. he was discovered by the gestapo and he was taken into custody. he was tortured to death at flossenburg prison, germany; he died on 04/09/1945 at 04:00 pm.

• April 9 Karl Sack

  German jurist, member the german resistance (born in 1896).

• April 9 Johann Georg Elser

  German carpenter (b. 1903)

• April 10 Hendrik Nicolaas Werkman

  Dutch printer and typographer (b. 1882)

• April 12 Franklin Roosevelt

  American politician, u.s. president 1933-1945. he was the only person to serve four terms. he was a state senator from 1910-13. he was assistant secretary to the navy 1913-20 and attorney governor of new york 1929-1933. roosevelt was elected to the highest office in the country in november 1932.

• April 13 Ernst Cassirer

  German philosopher. he was educated at the neo-kantian martburg school and initially followed hermann cohen, who tried to provide an idealistic philosophy science. after cohen's death, cohen developed a theory about symbolism that he used to expand phenomenology to a wider philosophy of culture. he is a leading advocate of philosophical idealism in the 20th century.

• April 15 Hermann Florstedt

  German ss officer (b. 1895)

• April 18 Ernie Pyle

  Legendary World War II war correspondent who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1943 and was killed in action in Okinawa. He was renowned for his human-interest stories that captured the experiences of ordinary soldiers. General Omar Bradley considered him an exceptional journalist and humanitarian.

• April 18 John Ambrose Fleming

  English physicist and engineer, invented the vacuum tube (b. 1849)

• April 20 Erwin Bumke

  Polish-german jurist and politician (b. 1874)

• April 21 Walter Model

  German field marshal (born in 1891)

• April 22 Wilhelm Cauer

  Wilhelm Cauer was a prominent German electrical engineer and mathematician who made significant contributions to filter theory and network synthesis. He is known for developing the Cauer filter, a type of electronic filter with remarkable precision and characteristics. His work was foundational in the field of electrical engineering, particularly in signal processing.

• April 22 Käthe Kollwitz

  German painter and sculptor (b. 1867)

• April 24 Ernst-Robert Grawitz

  German physician (born 1899)

• April 25 Huldreich Georg Früh

  Swiss composer (b. 1903)

• April 26 Pavlo Skoropadskyi

  German-ukrainian general and politician, hetman of ukraine (b. 1871)

• April 28 Claretta Petacci

  Mistress of Benito Mussolini who was executed alongside him at the end of World War II, symbolizing the dramatic fall of the Italian Fascist regime.

• April 28 Hermann Fegelein

  Nazi SS General who was Hitler's brother-in-law and was executed by Hitler in the final days of World War II for alleged desertion in the Berlin bunker.

• April 28 Roberto Farinacci

  Italian soldier and politician (b. 1892)

• April 28 Benito Mussolini

  Italian journalist and politician, 27th prime minister of italy (b. 1883)

• April 28 Hans Bloesch

  Writer

• April 30 Eva Braun

  Eva Braun was Adolf Hitler's long-time mistress and wife for a single day before their joint suicide in Berlin. She was a young photographer who became romantically involved with Hitler despite knowing little about Nazi politics. Her life was closely tied to Hitler's, and she ultimately chose to die alongside him at the end of World War II.

• April 30 Adolph Hitler

  German dictator who led the Nazi Party and initiated World War II.