Discover what happened on 20 April 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
- Herbert Lange (SS officer (1909–1945))
- Hans Steinhoff (German film director (1882-1945))
- Paul Thümmel (German counterintelligence agent (1902–1945))
- Joachim von Kortzfleisch (German general (1890–1945))
- Johannes Sobotta (German anatomist (1869-1945))
- Willy Liebel (German politician (1897-1945))
- Gertrud Kantorowicz (German art historian (1876-1945) died in Holocaust)
- Erwin Bumke (German Nazi politician (1874-1945))
- Karl Holz (Nazi leader (1895-1945))
- Eduard Reichenbaum
- Herbert Mumm von Schwarzenstein (German diplomat)
- Emil Hemeter (German politician (1880-1945))
- Otto Kuschow (German bricklayer and carpenter (1890-1945))
- Ewald Dittmann (German pastor)
- Hans Meyer-Hanno (German actor (1906-1945))
- Werner Kube (German politician (1924-1945))
- Dragiša Vasić (Member of Serbian Academy of Science and Arts (1885–1945))
- Max Draeger (German judge and jurist (1885–1945))
- Hugo Kapteina (victim of National Socialism from Berlin)
- Jacqueline Morgenstern
- Wacław Sieroszewski (Polish writer (1858-1945))
- Otto Wolf (Czech author and writer (1927-1945))
- Paul Hinze (German butcher (1906–1945))
- Paul Skoda (German politician and judge (1901-1945))
- Mikhaïl Podouchkine
- Q4130127
- Ivan Alekseyevich Gonchar
- Ivan Goncharov (Soviet soldier 1920-1945)
- Q4150282
- Vinzenz Kaiser (SS officer (1904–1945))
- Aleksandr Kolesnikov
- Yevgeniy Vasilyevich Malykh
- Q4403880
- Nikolai Semeyko (Soviet aviator (1923-1945))
- Q4478217
- Vasily Shkil’ (Hero of the Soviet Union (1919–1945))
- Brita Ellström (Swedish artist)
- Catharine Waugh McCulloch (American lawyer (1862-1945))
- Georges André Kohn (Victim of the Holocaust)
- Günther Vollmer (Nazi jurist (1902-1945))
- Kenneth Mackenzie (Bishop of Argyll and The Isles (1863-1945))
- Adam Seweryniak (Polish sportsperson)
- Erwin Dohrn (German navy officer and world war II U-boat commander)
- Henri Thyssen (Belgian military personnel)
- Kijū Hayashi (Japanese military personnel)
- Józefa Bojanowska
- Michel Carola
- Josef Jílek (Czechoslovak roman catholic priest (1908-1945))
- Max Meyerhof
- Milan Gyurlukov
- Bjarne Louis Hansen
- Franz Šedivý (Danish illustrator, born in Prague)
- Michal Minka (Slovak writer)
- Anton Kosi
- Lucia Levitskaya Gnatovskya
- Max Tschornicki (Member of the German resistance to Nazism)
- Viktors Eglītis (Latvian poet (1877-1945))
- Q15065040
- Fritz Mielentz (German teacher)
- Ernst Horn (German bank teller (1905-1945))
- Friedrich Klemstein (German politician)
- Georgy Makarov
- Q16447821
- Q17094374
- Max Montua
- Sergio De Simone (Italian Holocaust victim (1937–1945))
- Cornelis Chardon (Dutch lawyer and resistance member (1919-1945))
- Ernst Hampel (German painter and resistance fighter)
- Giuseppe Bentivogli (Italian resistance movement)
- Q21133223
- Jan Smulders (politician (1898-1945))
- Klaus Reese
- Hans Schulz (victim of National Socialism from Berlin)
- Paul Sonntag
- Michel Gobets (Dutch singer (1905-1945))
- Hermann Reinicke
- Q25501102
- Amelio De Juliis
- László Pacséry (Hungarian screenwriter)
- Georg Fiedler (entomologist)
- Paul Karlson (born:1910|died:1945|; Karlson, Paul)
- André Denimal (French resistance fighter)
- Josef Kottulinsky ((1919-1945))
- Clara Adelaide Ida Conyers Lindsay ((died 1945))
- Alice Anne Coghlan ((died 1945))
- John Bertie Norreys Entwisle ((died 1945))
- Jørgen Bøhm Prip
- Günther Heubel (15 Mar 1871 – certain 20 Apr 1945)
- Josef Bleha (Righteous Among the Nations)
- Johann Adam Brein
- Robert Haidner
- Heinrich Probst
- Wilhelm Eduard Kunz (German architect, active in Berlin, Bremerhaven, Dortmund, Opole, Strzelce Opolskie and Geestemünde)
- Hans-Ulrich von Luck (Prussian military and civil servant (1861-1945))
- Emil Olšovský
- Bedřich Krejčí
- Marie Sladká
- Ferdinand Šteffl
- Mathilde Philippe (French resistance fighter)
- Q97007157
- Theodor Wolscht
- Angèle Le Hen
- Edmundo Pallemaerts (Belgian composer)
- František Aufrecht (Holocaust victim (born 1908))
- Robert Bachner (Holocaust victim (born 1914))
- Valtr Donnebaum (Holocaust victim (born 1906))
- Erwin Bumke (German Nazi politician (1874-1945))
- Karl Holz (Nazi leader (1895-1945))
- Eduard Reichenbaum
- Herbert Mumm von Schwarzenstein (German diplomat)
- Emil Hemeter (German politician (1880-1945))
- Otto Kuschow (German bricklayer and carpenter (1890-1945))
- Ewald Dittmann (German pastor)
- Hans Meyer-Hanno (German actor (1906-1945))
- Werner Kube (German politician (1924-1945))
- Gertrud Kantorowicz (German art historian (1876-1945) died in Holocaust)
- Dragiša Vasić (Member of Serbian Academy of Science and Arts (1885–1945))
- Max Draeger (German judge and jurist (1885–1945))
- Hugo Kapteina (victim of National Socialism from Berlin)
- Jacqueline Morgenstern
- Wacław Sieroszewski (Polish writer (1858-1945))
- Otto Wolf (Czech author and writer (1927-1945))
- Paul Hinze (German butcher (1906–1945))
- Paul Skoda (German politician and judge (1901-1945))
- Mikhaïl Podouchkine
- Q4130127
- Ivan Alekseyevich Gonchar
- Ivan Goncharov (Soviet soldier 1920-1945)
- Q4150282
- Vinzenz Kaiser (SS officer (1904–1945))
- Aleksandr Kolesnikov
- Yevgeniy Vasilyevich Malykh
- Q4403880
- Nikolai Semeyko (Soviet aviator (1923-1945))
- Q4478217
- Vasily Shkil’ (Hero of the Soviet Union (1919–1945))
- Brita Ellström (Swedish artist)
- Catharine Waugh McCulloch (American lawyer (1862-1945))
- Georges André Kohn (Victim of the Holocaust)
- Günther Vollmer (Nazi jurist (1902-1945))
- Kenneth Mackenzie (Bishop of Argyll and The Isles (1863-1945))
- Adam Seweryniak (Polish sportsperson)
- Erwin Dohrn (German navy officer and world war II U-boat commander)
- Henri Thyssen (Belgian military personnel)
- Kijū Hayashi (Japanese military personnel)
- Józefa Bojanowska
- Michel Carola
- Josef Jílek (Czechoslovak roman catholic priest (1908-1945))
- Max Meyerhof
- Milan Gyurlukov
- Bjarne Louis Hansen
- Franz Šedivý (Danish illustrator, born in Prague)
- Michal Minka (Slovak writer)
- Anton Kosi
- Lucia Levitskaya Gnatovskya
- Max Tschornicki (Member of the German resistance to Nazism)
- Viktors Eglītis (Latvian poet (1877-1945))
- Q15065040
- Fritz Mielentz (German teacher)
- Ernst Horn (German bank teller (1905-1945))
- Friedrich Klemstein (German politician)
- Georgy Makarov
- Q16447821
- Q17094374
- Max Montua
- Sergio De Simone (Italian Holocaust victim (1937–1945))
- Cornelis Chardon (Dutch lawyer and resistance member (1919-1945))
- Ernst Hampel (German painter and resistance fighter)
- Giuseppe Bentivogli (Italian resistance movement)
- Q21133223
- Jan Smulders (politician (1898-1945))
- Klaus Reese
- Hans Schulz (victim of National Socialism from Berlin)
- Paul Sonntag
- Michel Gobets (Dutch singer (1905-1945))
- Hermann Reinicke
- Q25501102
- Amelio De Juliis
- László Pacséry (Hungarian screenwriter)
- Georg Fiedler (entomologist)
- Paul Karlson (born:1910|died:1945|; Karlson, Paul)
- André Denimal (French resistance fighter)
- Josef Kottulinsky ((1919-1945))
- Clara Adelaide Ida Conyers Lindsay ((died 1945))
- Alice Anne Coghlan ((died 1945))
- John Bertie Norreys Entwisle ((died 1945))
- Jørgen Bøhm Prip
- Günther Heubel (15 Mar 1871 – certain 20 Apr 1945)
- Josef Bleha (Righteous Among the Nations)
- Johann Adam Brein
- Robert Haidner
- Heinrich Probst
- Wilhelm Eduard Kunz (German architect, active in Berlin, Bremerhaven, Dortmund, Opole, Strzelce Opolskie and Geestemünde)
- Hans-Ulrich von Luck (Prussian military and civil servant (1861-1945))
- Emil Olšovský
- Bedřich Krejčí
- Marie Sladká
- Ferdinand Šteffl
- Mathilde Philippe (French resistance fighter)
- Q97007157
- Theodor Wolscht
- Angèle Le Hen
- Edmundo Pallemaerts (Belgian composer)
- František Aufrecht (Holocaust victim (born 1908))
- Robert Bachner (Holocaust victim (born 1914))
- Valtr Donnebaum (Holocaust victim (born 1906))
- Mikhaïl Podouchkine
- Q4130127
- Ivan Alekseyevich Gonchar
- Ivan Goncharov (Soviet soldier 1920-1945)
- Q4150282
- Vinzenz Kaiser (SS officer (1904–1945))
- Aleksandr Kolesnikov
- Yevgeniy Vasilyevich Malykh
- Q4403880
- Nikolai Semeyko (Soviet aviator (1923-1945))
- Q4478217
- Vasily Shkil’ (Hero of the Soviet Union (1919–1945))
- Brita Ellström (Swedish artist)
- Catharine Waugh McCulloch (American lawyer (1862-1945))
- Georges André Kohn (Victim of the Holocaust)
- Günther Vollmer (Nazi jurist (1902-1945))
- Kenneth Mackenzie (Bishop of Argyll and The Isles (1863-1945))
- Adam Seweryniak (Polish sportsperson)
- Erwin Dohrn (German navy officer and world war II U-boat commander)
- Henri Thyssen (Belgian military personnel)
- Kijū Hayashi (Japanese military personnel)
- Józefa Bojanowska
- Michel Carola
- Josef Jílek (Czechoslovak roman catholic priest (1908-1945))
- Max Meyerhof
- Milan Gyurlukov
- Bjarne Louis Hansen
- Franz Šedivý (Danish illustrator, born in Prague)
- Michal Minka (Slovak writer)
- Anton Kosi
- Lucia Levitskaya Gnatovskya
- Max Tschornicki (Member of the German resistance to Nazism)
- Viktors Eglītis (Latvian poet (1877-1945))
- Q15065040
- Fritz Mielentz (German teacher)
- Ernst Horn (German bank teller (1905-1945))
- Friedrich Klemstein (German politician)
- Georgy Makarov
- Q16447821
- Q17094374
- Max Montua
- Sergio De Simone (Italian Holocaust victim (1937–1945))
- Cornelis Chardon (Dutch lawyer and resistance member (1919-1945))
- Ernst Hampel (German painter and resistance fighter)
- Giuseppe Bentivogli (Italian resistance movement)
- Q21133223
- Jan Smulders (politician (1898-1945))
- Klaus Reese
- Hans Schulz (victim of National Socialism from Berlin)
- Paul Sonntag
- Michel Gobets (Dutch singer (1905-1945))
- Hermann Reinicke
- Q25501102
- Amelio De Juliis
- Georg Fiedler (entomologist)
- Paul Karlson (born:1910|died:1945|; Karlson, Paul)
- André Denimal (French resistance fighter)
- Josef Kottulinsky ((1919-1945))
- Clara Adelaide Ida Conyers Lindsay ((died 1945))
- Alice Anne Coghlan ((died 1945))
- John Bertie Norreys Entwisle ((died 1945))
- Jørgen Bøhm Prip
- Günther Heubel (15 Mar 1871 – certain 20 Apr 1945)
- Josef Bleha (Righteous Among the Nations)
- Johann Adam Brein
- Robert Haidner
- Heinrich Probst
- Wilhelm Eduard Kunz (German architect, active in Berlin, Bremerhaven, Dortmund, Opole, Strzelce Opolskie and Geestemünde)
- Hans-Ulrich von Luck (Prussian military and civil servant (1861-1945))
- Emil Olšovský
- Bedřich Krejčí
- Marie Sladká
- Ferdinand Šteffl
- Mathilde Philippe (French resistance fighter)
- Q97007157
- Theodor Wolscht
- Angèle Le Hen
- Edmundo Pallemaerts (Belgian composer)
- František Aufrecht (Holocaust victim (born 1908))
- Robert Bachner (Holocaust victim (born 1914))
- Valtr Donnebaum (Holocaust victim (born 1906))
- Georg Fischl (holocaust victim, b. 1927-02-15)
- Charles Spere (American actor (1897-1945))
- Karel Glaser (holocaust victim, b. 1914-06-08)
- Felix Grünwald (Holocaust victim (born 1910))
- Roger Taubert
- Isak Markowitz (Holocaust victim (born 1913))
- Lev Wrona (Holocaust victim (born 1911))
- Otakar Kellner (Holocaust victim (born 1919))
- Evald Kohn (Holocaust victim (born 1913))
- Oskar Mautner (holocaust victim, b. 1918-09-05)
- Josef Porges (holocaust victim, b. 1900-11-26)
- Edvard Reiss (holocaust victim, b. 1904-10-16)
- Zdenko Roubiček (holocaust victim, b. 1923-04-08)
- Jan Sak (Holocaust victim (born 1919))
- Theodor Spitzer (holocaust victim, b. 1917-02-24)
- Heřman Weinles (Holocaust victim (born 1901))
- Peter-Paul Petersen
- Q107576895
- Samuel Kulík
- Ján Spevák
- Pavel Tordaji
- Q107577022
- Augustín Bernát
- Q107577623
- Q107577816
- Jozef Mezovský
- Vladimír Cholvad
- Ladislav Lorko
- Emil Rimek
- Q107578460
- Q107578605
- Q107578692
- Leopold Koch (German navy officer and WWII submarine commander)
- Gerhard Nolte (German navy officer and WWII submarine commander)
- T. G. Hesnard (American politician)
- Friedrich Mentzel (German civil engineer and anti-fascist)
- Josef Čermák
- Pavel Čermák
- František Novotný
- Antonín Svoboda (Czech victim of Nazism (1899-1945))
- Josef Kojecký
- Hermann Jordan
- Czesław Staniszewski
- Eduard Škoda
- Jerzy Zieliński
- Bronisław Michalski
- Roman Miedzianowski
- Jerzy Gaworski (Polish carpenter)
- Hyman Kool
- Roman Sieczkowski
- Antoni Zagórski
- Bolesław Marchewa
- Stanisław Bogusz
- Zbigniew Grochowski
- Moritz Kaufthal
- Lazare Grutz
- Louise Van Nieuwenhuyse
- Paul Pawel (Austrian journalist)
- Jan Krejčíř
- Tadeusz Latowski (Latarski)
- Georg von Berger
- Rudolf Klotz
- Herbert Lange (SS officer (1909–1945))
- Hans Steinhoff (German film director (1882-1945))
- Paul Thümmel (German counterintelligence agent (1902–1945))
- Joachim von Kortzfleisch (German general (1890–1945))
- Johannes Sobotta (German anatomist (1869-1945))
- Willy Liebel (German politician (1897-1945))