Famous people and celebrities who died in May 1945

This page is dedicated to commemorating the celebrities and famous people who passed away in May 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

May 1 Magda Goebbels
Wife of Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Minister of Propaganda, who was deeply involved in the Nazi regime and died by suicide alongside her husband in Hitler's Berlin bunker in 1945.
May 1 Joseph Goebbels
German nazi propagandist responsible for all public communication media. he was a nazi propagandist who helped hitler bring the nazis power in 1933. he is still remembered as one of the third reich's monsters. shirer, "rise and fall of the third reich," describes him as a "...swarthy and dwarfish young man with a handicapped foot and a neurotic personality .... …
May 2 Martin Bormann
A high-ranking Nazi official who served as Adolf Hitler's private secretary and was a key figure in the Nazi Party's inner circle. He was instrumental in implementing the Holocaust and was tried in absentia for war crimes.
May 2 Joe Corbett
American baseball player and journalist (b. 1875)
May 4 Fedor von Bock
German field marshal (born in 1880).
May 8 Bernhard Rust
German lieutenant and politician (b. 1883)
May 8 Wilhelm Rediess
Ss and police leaders in nazi-occupated norway (born 1900).
May 8 Frank Bourne
British soldier, last survivor of the battle of rorke's drift (b. 1854)
May 8 Julius Hirsch
German footballer (b. 1892)[51]
May 8 Josef Terboven
German lieutenant and politician (b. 1898)
May 10 Richard Glücks
German ss officer (d. 1945).
May 10 Konrad Henlein
Czech soldier and politician (b. 1898)
May 13 Tubby Hall
American jazz drummer (born 1895).
May 14 Heber J. Grant
American religious leader, 7th president of the church of jesus christ of latter-day saints (b. 1856)
May 14 Isis Pogson
British meteorologist and astronomer (d. 1945).
May 15 Charles Williams
English author, poet, and critic (b. 1886)
May 15 Kenneth J. Alford
English soldier, bandmaster, and composer (b. 1881)
May 17 Sasaki Shigetsu Sokei-an
Died the founder of the first zen institute of america.
May 19 Philipp Bouhler
German soldier and politician (b. 1889)
May 22 Carel A Lion Cachet
Wood carver / lithographer
May 23 Heinrich Himmler
A key Nazi leader who was one of the primary architects of the Holocaust, serving as Reichsführer of the SS and playing a central role in the systematic genocide of millions of Jews during World War II.
May 24 Robert Ritter von Greim
German field marshal and pilot (b. 1892)
May 27 Enno Lolling
German ss-standartenfuhrer, died by suicide (born in 1888).
May 30 Irma Laplasse
Execution of a flemish farmer/nazi collaborator.