Remembered
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Vidkun Quisling
1887 – 1945
Politician, Military officer, Wartime collaborator, Soldier
Vidkun Abraham Lauritz Jonssøn Quisling (; Norwegian: [ˈʋɪ̂dkʉn ˈkʋɪ̂slɪŋ] ; 18 July 1887 – 24 October 1945) was a Norwegian military officer, politician and Na…
Béla Bartók
1881 – 1945
Composer, Classical pianist, Choreographer, Music educator, Ethnomusicologist, University teacher
Béla Viktor János Bartók (; Hungarian: [ˈbɒrtoːk ˈbeːlɒ]; 25 March 1881 – 26 September 1945) was a Hungarian composer, pianist and ethnomusicologist. He is cons…
Stefan Banach
1892 – 1945
Mathematician, University teacher
Stefan Banach (Polish: [ˈstɛfan ˈbanax] ; 30 March 1892 – 31 August 1945) was a Polish mathematician who is generally considered one of the 20th century's most…
Sitanath Tattwabhushan
1856 – 1945
Philosopher, Theologian, Writer
Pandit Sitanath Tattwabhushan was the official theologian and philosopher of the Sadharan Brahmo Samaj. His hymns still form the basis of Brahmo rites and litur…
Subhas Chandra Bose
1897 – 1945
Politician, Revolutionary, Writer, Freedom fighter, Autobiographer, Resistance fighter
Subhas Chandra Bose (23 January 1897 – 18 August 1945) was an Indian anti-colonial nationalist whose defiance of British authority in India made him a hero amon…
Robert H. Goddard
1882 – 1945
Military flight engineer, Physicist, Inventor, Mathematician, Engineer, Astronomer
Robert Hutchings Goddard (October 5, 1882 – August 10, 1945) was an American physicist, inventor, and engineer credited with creating and building the world's f…
Pietro Mascagni
1863 – 1945
Conductor, Composer
Pietro Mascagni (7 December 1863 – 2 August 1945) was an Italian composer primarily known for his operas. His 1890 masterpiece Cavalleria rusticana caused one o…
Paul Valéry
1871 – 1945
Philosopher, Poet, Journalist, Writer, Essayist, Literary critic
Ambroise Paul Toussaint Jules Valéry (French: [pɔl valeʁi]; 30 October 1871 – 20 July 1945) was a French poet, essayist, and philosopher. In addition to his poe…
Heinrich Himmler
1900 – 1945
Politician, Farmer, Occultist, Laboratory technician, Gestapo employee, Holocaust perpetrator
Heinrich Luitpold Himmler (German: [ˈhaɪnʁɪç ˈluːɪtpɔlt ˈhɪmlɐ] ; 7 October 1900 – 23 May 1945) was a German Nazi politician, police administrator, and military…
Martin Bormann
1900 – 1945
Politician, Farmer, Nazi, Soldier, Holocaust perpetrator
Martin Ludwig Bormann (17 June 1900 – 2 May 1945) was a German Nazi Party official, head of the Nazi Party Chancellery, and private secretary to Adolf Hitler. B…
Joseph Goebbels
1897 – 1945
Politician, Diarist, Autobiographer, Journalist, Novelist, Propagandist
Paul Joseph Goebbels (29 October 1897 – 1 May 1945) was a German politician and philologist who was the Gauleiter (district leader) of Berlin, chief propagandis…
Adolf Hitler
1889 – 1945
Soldier, Painter, Political writer, Politician, Military commander, Writer
Adolf Hitler (20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician who was dictator of Germany in the Nazi era from 1933 until his suicide in…
Eva Braun
1912 – 1945
Photographer, Photo lab technician, Model
Eva Anna Paula Hitler (née Braun; 6 February 1912 – 30 April 1945) was a German photographer who was the longtime companion and briefly the wife of Adolf Hitler…
Benito Mussolini
1883 – 1945
Journalist, Teacher, Politician
Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini (29 July 1883 – 28 April 1945) was a fascist dictator who was the prime minister of Italy from 1922 until his deposition in 194…
Franklin D. Roosevelt
1882 – 1945
Lawyer, Statesperson, Golfer, Screenwriter, Philatelist, Governor
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (January 30, 1882 – April 12, 1945), also known as FDR, was the 32nd president of the United States, serving from 1933 until his death…
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
1906 – 1945
Philosopher, Resistance fighter, Poet, Pastor, Protestant theologian
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (4 February 1906 – 9 April 1945) was a German Lutheran pastor, neo-orthodox theologian and anti-Nazi dissident who was a key founding membe…
David Lloyd George
1863 – 1945
Politician, Diplomat, Solicitor, Civil servant, Writer, Official
David Lloyd George, 1st Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor (17 January 1863 – 26 March 1945), was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1916 to 1922. A Liberal Par…
Anne Frank
1929 – 1945
Diarist
Annelies Marie Frank (12 June 1929 – c. February or March 1945) was a German-born Jewish diarist and Holocaust victim. She gained worldwide notability posthumou…
Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy
1882 – 1945
Playwright, Writer, Poet, Novelist, Children's writer, Screenwriter
Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy (Russian: Алексей Николаевич Толстой; 10 January 1883 [O.S. 29 December 1882] – 23 February 1945) was a Russian and Soviet writer w…
Vladimir Vernadsky
1863 – 1945
Philosopher, Geologist, Biogeochemist, University teacher, Ecologist, Geochemist
Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky (Russian: Владимир Иванович Вернадский), known in Ukraine as Volodymyr Ivanovych Vernadsky (Ukrainian: Володимир Іванович Вернадськ…