James Forrestal [SEP] educated at
died after falling from a sixteenth floor window of the hospital where he was being treated.
In 1954, the world's first supercarrier was named in his honor, as is the James V. Forrestal Building, which houses the headquarters of the United States Department of Energy. He is also the namesake of the Forrestal Lecture Series at the United States Naval Academy, which brings prominent military and civilian leaders to speak to the Brigade of Midshipmen, and of the James Forrestal Campus of Princeton University in Plainsboro Township, New Jersey.
20 Aug – Fall of Japan
- 27 Aug – Douglas MacArthur
- 3 Sep – Chiang Kai-shek
- 10 Sep – Robert L. Eichelberger
- 17 Sep – James F. Byrnes
- 24 Sep – Alfred P. Sloan
- 1 Oct – Archbishop Damaskinos
- 8 Oct – Sinclair Lewis
- 15 Oct – Lewis Schwellenbach
- 22 Oct – Edvard Beneš
- 29 Oct – James V. Forrestal
- 5 Nov – Spruille Braden
- 12 Nov – Glenn Davis & Doc Blanchard