A list of events in 1945 related to serial killers.
January[]
- 30 — James Paster is born.
February[]
- 10 — Dale Wayne Eaton is born.
- 11 — Eugene Blake is born.
March[]
- 9 — Dennis Rader is born.
- 13 — Christopher Wilder is born.
- 15 — James Hall is apprehended.
- 19 — Randy Kraft is born.
- 20 — Fred Howard Coffey is born.
- 21 — Willie Steelman is born.
- 22 — Larry Ranes is born.
April[]
- 12 — Lawrence Dalton is born.
May[]
- 25 — Mitsuko Miyazaki is murdered by Yoshio Kodaira.
June[]
- 5 — William Heirens's victim, Josephine Ross, is found.
- 6 — Arthur Shawcross is born.
- 11 — Trevor Hardy is born.
July[]
August[]
September[]
- 24 — William Dean Christensen is born.
October[]
- 29 — Leonard Lake is born.
November[]
- 8 — Joseph DeAngelo is born.
- 22 — Robert Ben Rhoades is born.
- 23 — Dennis Nilsen is born.
December[]
- 12 — José Paz Bezerra is born.
- 28 — Charles Gary Sullivan is born.
Unknown[]
- ? — Ralph Andrews is born.
- ? — Sliman ben Mohamed Bellounès is apprehended.
- ? — John Dwight Canaday is born.
- ? — Alfred Leonard Cline is apprehended.
- ? — James B. Grinder is born.
- ? — Miguel Kiefeld is apprehended.
- ? — Thomas Henry McMonigle is apprehended.
- ? — Ioan Sârca is apprehended.
- ? — Gerald Stanley is born.