This is a list of famous peoplemeeting established criteria for significance (see Wikipedia: Criteria for the significance of personalities ) who died in May 1945 .
The cause of death is indicated only in exceptional cases (homicide, suicide, traffic accident or accident). In other cases - not specified .
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May 1
- Verdiev, Avaz Hashim oglu - guards senior sergeant, commander of the branch of machine gunners, Hero of the Soviet Union; died of wounds.
- Volkov, Vasily Grigoryevich - Full Knight of the Order of Glory.
- Goebbels, Joseph (47) - Reich Minister of Education and Propaganda of Germany; suicide.
- Dolgov, Alexander Petrovich (27) - Hero of the Soviet Union.
- Kravchenko, Ivan Khotovich (23) - guard lieutenant of tank troops, Hero of the Soviet Union; died in battle.
- Lavrov, Peter Evstafievich (22) - Hero of the Soviet Union.
- Samat Sadykov (24) - Hero of the Soviet Union.
- Sokolov, Alexander Fedorovich (20) - Full Knight of the Order of Glory.
- Filko, Ivan Yakovlevich (30) - Hero of the Soviet Union.
- Khabibullin, Zaki Khabibullovich (33) - Hero of the Soviet Union.
May 2
- Bibik, Fedor Terentyevich (35) - Full Knight of the Order of Glory.
- Bormann, Martin (44) - Reich Minister without a portfolio (1941-1945); suicide by potassium cyanide.
- Dugin, Nikolai Dmitrievich (24) - Hero of the Soviet Union.
- Kopylov, Vasily Ivanovich (40) - Hero of the Soviet Union.
- Meshcheryakov, Georgy Trofimovich (28) - Hero of the Soviet Union.
- Radionov, Nikolai Ivanovich (23) - Hero of the Soviet Union.
- Stepanov, Illarion Petrovich - Full Knight of the Order of Glory.
- Stepanenko, Vasily Vasilievich (22) - Hero of the Soviet Union.
- Stumpfegger, Ludwig (34) - German surgeon, SS Obersturmbanführer; suicide by potassium cyanide.
May 3
- Stepan Bryukhanov (29) - Hero of the Soviet Union.
- Ilya Kovrizhko - Hero of the Soviet Union.
- Mikhail Pesochin (45) - commander of the 225th Rifle Novgorod Division, major general.
- Dmitry Teplyakov (38) - Hero of the Soviet Union.
May 4
- Fedor von Bock (64) - Field Marshal of Germany ; died of wounds.
- Vasily Nikitin - Hero of the Soviet Union.
May 5th
- Valentin Agafonov (20) - Hero of the Soviet Union.
- Nikolai Motorin (22) - Hero of the Soviet Union.
- Nikolai Sidorov (23) - Hero of the Soviet Union.
- Vasily Churyumov (27) - Hero of the Soviet Union.
May 6th
- Kuznetsov, Vasily Grigorievich (28) - Hero of the Soviet Union.
- Obukhov, Vasily Mikhailovich (34) - Hero of the Soviet Union.
- Senkin, Sergey Maksimovich - full holder of the Order of Glory.
May 7th
- Alexander Bidnenko - major, Hero of the Soviet Union; died of wounds.
- Alexander Rulev - Hero of the Soviet Union.
- Nikolai Starostin (24) - Hero of the Soviet Union.
May 8th
- Grigoriev, Ivan Ivanovich - Hero of the Soviet Union.
- Davidenko, Grigory Ivanovich (24) - Hero of the Soviet Union.
- Kurzenkov, Alexander Georgievich (24) - Hero of the Soviet Union.
- Merkulov, Illarion Grigorievich - Full Knight of the Order of Glory.
- Levkin, Ivan Vasilievich (22) - Full Knight of the Order of Glory.
- Nigmatullin, Gafiyat Yarmuhametovich (30) - Hero of the Soviet Union.
- Redies, Wilhelm (44) - SS Obergruppenfuhrer and Police General, SS General; suicide grenade.
- Terboven, Joseph Anton Heinrich (46) - Obergruppenführer SA; suicide grenade.
May 9th
- Erpo von Bodenhausen (48) - Wehrmacht Lieutenant General; suicide.
- Alexey Grachev (31) - Hero of the Soviet Union.
- Mikhail Eremin (24) - Hero of the Soviet Union.
- Peter Ktsoev (43) - Hero of the Soviet Union.
- Joseph Matrunchik (42) - lieutenant colonel of the Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army, participant in the Soviet-Finnish and World War II, Hero of the Soviet Union; died, having been blown up on an anti-tank mine.
- Vasily Mikhalko (27) - Hero of the Soviet Union.
- Alexander Savelyev (23) - Hero of the Soviet Union.
- Georgy Chernopyatov (34) - Hero of the Soviet Union.
May 10
- Vsevolod Blumenthal-Tamarin (64) - actor.
- Alexander Shcherbakov (43) - Soviet state and party leader, colonel general.
May 11th
- Yuri Bykov - Hero of the Soviet Union.
- Lev Manevich (46) - colonel of military intelligence, Hero of the Soviet Union.
- Ivan Yarovikov (24) - Hero of the Soviet Union.
May 12th
- Wolfgang Yörhel (37) - Standartenfuhrer SS; killed.
May 13th
- Wolfgang Lut (31) - German submariner; killed.
- Vasily Kazantsev (24) - corporal, Hero of the Soviet Union; died of wounds.
May 15th
- Vasily Mytsyk (32) - Hero of the Soviet Union; died of wounds.
- Sergei Poletsky - Hero of the Soviet Union.
- Victor Turin is a Soviet director.
- Vladimir Fufachev (21) - Hero of the Soviet Union.
May 16th
- Bayanov, Pyotr Aleksandrovich - squad leader of the 8th separate guards motorcycle battalion, guard foreman. Full Knight of the Order of Glory.
- Karpinsky, Franz Filippovich (38) - Senior Lieutenant, Hero of the Soviet Union; died of wounds.
- Pupov, Egor Yakovlevich (36) - a full holder of the Order of Glory.
- Shein, Pavel Stepanovich (23) - Hero of the Soviet Union.
May 17th
- Golubev, Victor Maksimovich (29) - Hero of the Soviet Union.
- Onishchenko, Grigory Kharlampievich (31) - Hero of the Soviet Union.
- Sotnikov, Mikhail Vasilievich (20) - a participant in the Great Patriotic War and a full holder of the Order of Glory.
May 19
- Konstantin Trenyov (68) - Russian writer, author of the play "Spring Love".
May 20
- Fersman, Alexander Evgenievich (61) - Soviet geochemist and mineralogist.
- Shusharin, Valentin Danilovich (19) - full holder of the Order of Glory.
May 21
- Alexey Kocherga (29) - Full Knight of the Order of Glory.
- Wilhelm Hasse (50) - Wehrmacht infantry general; died of wounds.
May 22
- Vladimir Krivorotov - Hero of the Soviet Union.
May 23
- Heinrich Himmler (44) - Reich Minister of the Interior of Germany (1943-1945); suicide by potassium cyanide.
- Ivan Goryachev (21) - Full Knight of the Order of Glory.
- Tikhon Kretinin - Hero of the Soviet Union.
May 24th
- Robert von Greim (52) - Field Marshal of Germany ; suicide by poison.
- Stepan Danilov (35) - major general, Hero of the Soviet Union; plane crash.
May 25
- Demyan Poor (62) - Soviet poet.
May 26
- Yakovlev, Ilya Stepanovich - full holder of the Order of Glory.
May 29
- Mikhail Sebastian (37) - Romanian writer, playwright; car accident.
- Dmitry Salnikov (62) - white general, participant in the Russo-Japanese, World War I and Civil War.
May 31
- Pasternak, Leonid Osipovich (83) - Russian painter and graphic artist , master of genre compositions and book illustrations, teacher .