Editing 1945 (section)

===August===
[[File:El Ingeniero Don Florencio Harmodio Arosemena.jpg|thumb|upright=0.45|[[Florencio Harmodio Arosemena]]]]
* [[August 1]] – [[Blas Cabrera Felipe]], Spanish physicist (b. [[1878]])
* [[August 2]] – [[Pietro Mascagni]], Italian composer (b. [[1863]])
* [[August 3]] – [[Roman Kochanowski]], Polish painter, illustrator (b. [[1857]])
* [[August 4]] – [[Gerhard Gentzen]], German mathematician and logician (starvation in prison camp) (b. [[1909]])
* [[August 5]] – [[Nat Jaffe]], American swing jazz pianist (b. [[1918]])
* [[August 8]] – [[Le Pétomane|Joseph Pujol, Le Pétomane]], French flatulist (b. [[1857]])
* [[August 7]] – [[Jacques Vaillant de Guélis]], British/French WWII hero (injuries received in automobile accident) (b. [[1907]])
* [[August 9]]
** [[Harry Hillman]], American track athlete (b. [[1881]])<ref>Harry Hillman Taken by Death, ''Cumberland News'', August 10, 1945</ref>
** [[Jun Tosaka]], Japanese philosopher (in prison) (b. [[1900]])
* [[August 10]] – [[Robert H. Goddard]], American rocket scientist (b. [[1882]])
* [[August 12]] – [[Karl Leisner]], German [[Roman Catholic]] priest and blessed (b. [[1915]])
* [[August 15]]
** [[Korechika Anami]], Japanese general (ritual suicide) (b. [[1887]])
** [[Matome Ugaki]], Japanese admiral (killed in action) (b. [[1890]])
* [[August 16]] – [[Takijirō Ōnishi]], Japanese admiral (ritual suicide) (b. [[1891]])
* [[August 18]]
** [[Subhas Chandra Bose]], Leader of Indian National Army (Third-degree burns from aircrash) (b. [[1897]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Firoz Alam|title=Subhas Chandra Bose|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sG4wAQAAIAAJ|date=1 October 2009|publisher=Sahni Publications|isbn=978-81-7564-242-3|page=121}}</ref>
** [[Sarala Devi Chaudhurani]], Indian educationist (b. [[1872]])
* [[August 24]] – [[Shizuichi Tanaka]], Japanese general (suicide) (b. [[1887]])
* [[August 25]] – [[Willis Augustus Lee]], American admiral, Olympic shooter (b. [[1888]])
* [[August 26]]
** [[Pio Collivadino]], Argentinian painter (b. [[1869]])
** [[Franz Werfel]], Austrian writer (b. [[1890]])
* [[August 27]] – Blessed [[María Pilar Izquierdo Albero]], Spanish [[Roman Catholic]] religious professed (b. [[1906]])
* [[August 29]] – [[Fritz Pfleumer]], German engineer, inventor (b. [[1881]])
* [[August 30]] – [[Florencio Harmodio Arosemena]], 6th [[President of Panama]] (b. [[1872]])
* [[August 31]]
** [[Stefan Banach]], Polish mathematician (b. [[1892]])
** [[Pope Macarius III of Alexandria]], Egyptian patriarch, saint (b. [[1872]])