What happened on 9 January 1945?

Discover what happened on 9 January 1945 in history! This day marks a series of notable events, famous births, and significant deaths. Explore the details below to learn more about the historical happenings of this day. On this day, history comes alive!

Deaths

• Chhotu Ram (Indian freedom fighter, journalist and legal luminary (1881-1945))
• William Grenfell, 1st Baron Desborough (British athlete and politician (1855-1945))
• Shigekazu Shimazaki (Japanese admiral (1908–1945))
• Jüri Uluots (Estonian prime minister (1890-1945))
• Albert Kardos (Hungarian literary historian, teacher (1861-1945))
• Walter Caldonazzi
• Osman Cemal Kaygili (Turkish writer (1890–1945))
• Mihály Mándity
• Paul Chack (French Navy officer, writer and Nazi Collaborator (1876–1945))
• Miklós Rózsa (Hungarian art historian, journalist (1874–1945))
• Leopold Hilgarth
• Elisabeth Krämer-Bannow (German ethnologist (1874-1945))
• Ignaz Schuhmann
• József Újvári (association football player (1904-1945))
• Georges Le Bidois (French linguist (1863–1938))
• Johann Künzle (Swiss writer (1857-1945))
• Roelof Theodorus Overakker (Dutch soldier (1890-1945))
• George Frank Victor Gosenson
• Joseph de Puysseleyr
• Johannes Evers (German theologian (1859–1945))
• Ernest Gaubert (French journalist, author, poet, novelist, and biographer (1881-1945))
• Jean-Baptiste Daviais (French activist (1878-1945))
• Louis Le Bondidier
• Kurt Oleska (German basketball player (1914–1945))
• Robert Tuttle Morris (American surgeon (1857-1945))
• Jan Østervold (sailor)
• Charles F. Carey, Jr. (United States Army Medal of Honor recipient (1915-1945))
• Clayton Mansfield (American modern pentathlete and military officer (1906–1945))
• Dennis O’Neill case (British abuse victim)
• Willibald C. Bianchi (United States Army Medal of Honor recipient (1915-1945))
• Szczepan Szymkiewicz
• Eduard Aust (German navy officer and world war II U-boat commander)
• Kurt Dietrich Paul Arendt
• Otto Eberlein (German navy officer and world war II U-boat commander (1913-1944))
• Motojirō Ozaki (Japanese politician)
• Theodor Wollschack (Czechoslovak member of Czechoslovak national parliament, German nation politician and educator)
• Filip Kohn
• Laurinc Fešüš (Slovak pharmacist and murder victim)
• Ondrej Strelinger
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• Karola Skutecká (Czechoslovak painter (1893-1945))
• László Remete
• Leopold Singer ((1875-1945))
• Mohamed Bel Hadj (French military personnel)
• Waddy Young (American football player (1916-1945))
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• Sergey Nabokov (Russian poet and pedagogist)
• William Flamson (cricketer (1904-1945))
• Henri Vaes (Belgian architect)
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• Matvey Lavrinenko (Soviet military leader (1903-1945))
• Athanasios Argiros (Greek politician)
• Franc Orešnik
• Luigi Cortile (Italian partisan)
• Karolina Juszczykowska (Polish Righteous Among the Nations (1898-1945))
• Regina Safirsztajn (Jewish resistance fighter)
• Paulus Fransiskus Josephus Karthaus
• Amelio Tassoni
• Henk Kompagnie (Dutch politician)
• José Antonio Septién y de la Llata (Engineer, politician, sculptor, essayist, diplomat, historian and Governor of Querétaro)
• Annetta Pfaff
• Eduard Roman Posch
• Sebastiano Gallina (Italian general)
• Margrethe Petersen
• Saturnino Peri (Roman Catholic bishop (1862-1945))
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• Aleksandra Sheremeteva ((born 1886))
• María de la Encarnación O’Shea Musso Hurtado de Corcuera Sutton-Clonard ((1877-1945))
• Antonín Volný
• František Němec
• Frédéric-Théodore Dubois ((1876-1945))
• Antal Székács (Hungarina wholesaler, industrialist, non-fiction writer and politician (1862-1945))
• Jiří Jan Heller (Holocaust victim (born 1915))
• József Némai (Hungarian otolaryngologist (1862-1945))
• Hedwig Schweriner (Holocaust victim (born 1863))
• Dr. Fritz Rosenbaum (Holocaust victim (born 1899))
• Ernst Simons (Holocaust victim (born 1926))
• Erich Kohn (holocaust victim, b. 1909-11-12)
• Ernst Rosenzweig (Holocaust victim (born 1901))
• Braun (Holocaust victim, d. 1945-01-09)
• Adele Huth (Holocaust victim (born 1883))
• Josef Ples
• František Fiala
• Ferdinand Blavič
• Józef Kozłowski
• Władysław Sobota
• Marcin Kaniewski
• Józef Dudziński
• Stanisław Czopowicz
• Mieczysław Wejcman
• Ludovicus Schouleur
• Edouard Diricq
• Bogusław Juszczakiewicz
• András Szőnyi-Szücs (Hungarian military officer and resistance fighter (1910-1945))
• Shah Mohsin Danapuri (Islamic scholar and Sufi poet)
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• Henri Vaes (Belgian architect)
• Regina Safirsztajn (Jewish resistance fighter)
• Chhotu Ram (Indian freedom fighter, journalist and legal luminary (1881-1945))
• William Grenfell, 1st Baron Desborough (British athlete and politician (1855-1945))
• Shigekazu Shimazaki (Japanese admiral (1908–1945))
• Jüri Uluots (Estonian prime minister (1890-1945))
• Albert Kardos (Hungarian literary historian, teacher (1861-1945))
• Walter Caldonazzi
• Osman Cemal Kaygili (Turkish writer (1890–1945))
• Mihály Mándity
• Paul Chack (French Navy officer, writer and Nazi Collaborator (1876–1945))
• Miklós Rózsa (Hungarian art historian, journalist (1874–1945))
• Leopold Hilgarth
• Elisabeth Krämer-Bannow (German ethnologist (1874-1945))
• Ignaz Schuhmann
• József Újvári (association football player (1904-1945))
• Georges Le Bidois (French linguist (1863–1938))
• Johann Künzle (Swiss writer (1857-1945))
• Roelof Theodorus Overakker (Dutch soldier (1890-1945))
• George Frank Victor Gosenson
• Joseph de Puysseleyr
• Johannes Evers (German theologian (1859–1945))
• Ernest Gaubert (French journalist, author, poet, novelist, and biographer (1881-1945))
• Jean-Baptiste Daviais (French activist (1878-1945))
• Louis Le Bondidier
• Kurt Oleska (German basketball player (1914–1945))
• Robert Tuttle Morris (American surgeon (1857-1945))
• Jan Østervold (sailor)
• Charles F. Carey, Jr. (United States Army Medal of Honor recipient (1915-1945))
• Clayton Mansfield (American modern pentathlete and military officer (1906–1945))
• Dennis O’Neill case (British abuse victim)
• Willibald C. Bianchi (United States Army Medal of Honor recipient (1915-1945))
• Szczepan Szymkiewicz
• Eduard Aust (German navy officer and world war II U-boat commander)
• Kurt Dietrich Paul Arendt
• Otto Eberlein (German navy officer and world war II U-boat commander (1913-1944))
• Motojirō Ozaki (Japanese politician)
• Theodor Wollschack (Czechoslovak member of Czechoslovak national parliament, German nation politician and educator)
• Filip Kohn
• Laurinc Fešüš (Slovak pharmacist and murder victim)
• Ondrej Strelinger
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• Karola Skutecká (Czechoslovak painter (1893-1945))
• László Remete
• Leopold Singer ((1875-1945))
• Mohamed Bel Hadj (French military personnel)
• Waddy Young (American football player (1916-1945))
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• Sergey Nabokov (Russian poet and pedagogist)
• William Flamson (cricketer (1904-1945))
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• Matvey Lavrinenko (Soviet military leader (1903-1945))
• Athanasios Argiros (Greek politician)
• Franc Orešnik
• Luigi Cortile (Italian partisan)
• Karolina Juszczykowska (Polish Righteous Among the Nations (1898-1945))
• Paulus Fransiskus Josephus Karthaus
• Amelio Tassoni
• Henk Kompagnie (Dutch politician)
• José Antonio Septién y de la Llata (Engineer, politician, sculptor, essayist, diplomat, historian and Governor of Querétaro)
• Annetta Pfaff
• Eduard Roman Posch
• Sebastiano Gallina (Italian general)
• Margrethe Petersen
• Saturnino Peri (Roman Catholic bishop (1862-1945))
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• Aleksandra Sheremeteva ((born 1886))
• María de la Encarnación O’Shea Musso Hurtado de Corcuera Sutton-Clonard ((1877-1945))
• Antonín Volný
• František Němec
• Frédéric-Théodore Dubois ((1876-1945))
• Antal Székács (Hungarina wholesaler, industrialist, non-fiction writer and politician (1862-1945))
• Jiří Jan Heller (Holocaust victim (born 1915))
• József Némai (Hungarian otolaryngologist (1862-1945))
• Hedwig Schweriner (Holocaust victim (born 1863))
• Dr. Fritz Rosenbaum (Holocaust victim (born 1899))
• Ernst Simons (Holocaust victim (born 1926))
• Erich Kohn (holocaust victim, b. 1909-11-12)
• Ernst Rosenzweig (Holocaust victim (born 1901))
• Braun (Holocaust victim, d. 1945-01-09)
• Adele Huth (Holocaust victim (born 1883))
• Josef Ples
• František Fiala
• Ferdinand Blavič
• Józef Kozłowski
• Władysław Sobota
• Marcin Kaniewski
• Józef Dudziński
• Stanisław Czopowicz
• Mieczysław Wejcman
• Henri Vaes (Belgian architect)
• Regina Safirsztajn (Jewish resistance fighter)
• William Grenfell, 1st Baron Desborough (British athlete and politician (1855-1945))
• Shigekazu Shimazaki (Japanese admiral (1908–1945))
• Jüri Uluots (Estonian prime minister (1890-1945))
• Albert Kardos (Hungarian literary historian, teacher (1861-1945))
• Walter Caldonazzi
• Osman Cemal Kaygili (Turkish writer (1890–1945))
• Mihály Mándity
• Paul Chack (French Navy officer, writer and Nazi Collaborator (1876–1945))
• Miklós Rózsa (Hungarian art historian, journalist (1874–1945))
• Leopold Hilgarth
• Elisabeth Krämer-Bannow (German ethnologist (1874-1945))
• Ignaz Schuhmann
• József Újvári (association football player (1904-1945))
• Georges Le Bidois (French linguist (1863–1938))
• Johann Künzle (Swiss writer (1857-1945))
• Roelof Theodorus Overakker (Dutch soldier (1890-1945))
• George Frank Victor Gosenson
• Joseph de Puysseleyr
• Johannes Evers (German theologian (1859–1945))
• Ernest Gaubert (French journalist, author, poet, novelist, and biographer (1881-1945))
• Jean-Baptiste Daviais (French activist (1878-1945))
• Louis Le Bondidier
• Kurt Oleska (German basketball player (1914–1945))
• Robert Tuttle Morris (American surgeon (1857-1945))
• Jan Østervold (sailor)
• Charles F. Carey, Jr. (United States Army Medal of Honor recipient (1915-1945))
• Clayton Mansfield (American modern pentathlete and military officer (1906–1945))
• Dennis O’Neill case (British abuse victim)
• Willibald C. Bianchi (United States Army Medal of Honor recipient (1915-1945))
• Szczepan Szymkiewicz
• Eduard Aust (German navy officer and world war II U-boat commander)
• Kurt Dietrich Paul Arendt
• Otto Eberlein (German navy officer and world war II U-boat commander (1913-1944))
• Motojirō Ozaki (Japanese politician)
• Theodor Wollschack (Czechoslovak member of Czechoslovak national parliament, German nation politician and educator)
• Filip Kohn
• Laurinc Fešüš (Slovak pharmacist and murder victim)
• Ondrej Strelinger
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• Karola Skutecká (Czechoslovak painter (1893-1945))
• László Remete
• Leopold Singer ((1875-1945))
• Mohamed Bel Hadj (French military personnel)
• Waddy Young (American football player (1916-1945))
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• Sergey Nabokov (Russian poet and pedagogist)
• William Flamson (cricketer (1904-1945))
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• Matvey Lavrinenko (Soviet military leader (1903-1945))
• Athanasios Argiros (Greek politician)
• Franc Orešnik
• Luigi Cortile (Italian partisan)
• Karolina Juszczykowska (Polish Righteous Among the Nations (1898-1945))
• Ludovicus Schouleur
• Edouard Diricq
• Bogusław Juszczakiewicz
• Erminia Nudi (Italian teacher (1874-1945))
• Walter G. Chaffee (American architect)
• Hugo Höntscher
• John P. Woodridge (American Army officer)
• András Szőnyi-Szücs (Hungarian military officer and resistance fighter (1910-1945))
• Shah Mohsin Danapuri (Islamic scholar and Sufi poet)
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• Henri Vaes (Belgian architect)
• Regina Safirsztajn (Jewish resistance fighter)
• Chhotu Ram (Indian freedom fighter, journalist and legal luminary (1881-1945))
• William Grenfell, 1st Baron Desborough (British athlete and politician (1855-1945))
• Shigekazu Shimazaki (Japanese admiral (1908–1945))
• Jüri Uluots (Estonian prime minister (1890-1945))
• Albert Kardos (Hungarian literary historian, teacher (1861-1945))
• Walter Caldonazzi
• Osman Cemal Kaygili (Turkish writer (1890–1945))
• Mihály Mándity
• Paul Chack (French Navy officer, writer and Nazi Collaborator (1876–1945))
• Miklós Rózsa (Hungarian art historian, journalist (1874–1945))
• Leopold Hilgarth
• Elisabeth Krämer-Bannow (German ethnologist (1874-1945))
• Ignaz Schuhmann
• József Újvári (association football player (1904-1945))
• Georges Le Bidois (French linguist (1863–1938))
• Johann Künzle (Swiss writer (1857-1945))
• Roelof Theodorus Overakker (Dutch soldier (1890-1945))
• George Frank Victor Gosenson
• Joseph de Puysseleyr
• Johannes Evers (German theologian (1859–1945))
• Ernest Gaubert (French journalist, author, poet, novelist, and biographer (1881-1945))
• Jean-Baptiste Daviais (French activist (1878-1945))
• Louis Le Bondidier
• Kurt Oleska (German basketball player (1914–1945))
• Robert Tuttle Morris (American surgeon (1857-1945))
• Jan Østervold (sailor)
• Charles F. Carey, Jr. (United States Army Medal of Honor recipient (1915-1945))
• Clayton Mansfield (American modern pentathlete and military officer (1906–1945))
• Dennis O’Neill case (British abuse victim)
• Willibald C. Bianchi (United States Army Medal of Honor recipient (1915-1945))
• Szczepan Szymkiewicz
• Eduard Aust (German navy officer and world war II U-boat commander)
• Kurt Dietrich Paul Arendt
• Otto Eberlein (German navy officer and world war II U-boat commander (1913-1944))
• Motojirō Ozaki (Japanese politician)
• Theodor Wollschack (Czechoslovak member of Czechoslovak national parliament, German nation politician and educator)
• Filip Kohn
• Laurinc Fešüš (Slovak pharmacist and murder victim)
• Ondrej Strelinger
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• Karola Skutecká (Czechoslovak painter (1893-1945))
• László Remete
• Leopold Singer ((1875-1945))
• Mohamed Bel Hadj (French military personnel)
• Waddy Young (American football player (1916-1945))
• Q15070373
• Sergey Nabokov (Russian poet and pedagogist)
• William Flamson (cricketer (1904-1945))
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• Matvey Lavrinenko (Soviet military leader (1903-1945))
• Athanasios Argiros (Greek politician)
• Franc Orešnik
• Luigi Cortile (Italian partisan)
• Karolina Juszczykowska (Polish Righteous Among the Nations (1898-1945))