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Year 1943 (MCMXLIII) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1943 calendar).

Contents 1 Events 1.1 January 1.2 February 1.3 March-April 1.4 May-June 1.5 July 1.6 August 1.7 September 1.8 October 1.9 November 1.10 December 1.11 Undated 1.12 Ongoing 2 Births 2.1 January-February 2.2 March-April 2.3 May-June 2.4 July-August 2.5 September-October 2.6 November-December 3 Deaths 3.1 January-June 3.2 July-December 4 Nobel prizes 5 Ship events 6 References 7 External links

[edit] Events

(Below, many events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix.)

[edit] January

• January 4 - End of term for Culbert Olson, 29th Governor of California. He is succeeded by Earl Warren.
• January 11 - The United States and United Kingdom give up territorial rights in China.
• January 11 - General Juanto dies in Argentina - Ramón Castillo succeeds him
• January 12 - Jan Campert, Dutch journalist and writer, dies in Neuengamme concentration camp
• January 13 - Herr Schenke makes the first emergency ejection from an aircraft
• January 14 - Franklin D. Roosevelt becomes the first President of the United States to travel by airplane while in office (Miami, Florida to Morocco to meet with Winston Churchill to discuss World War II).
• January 15 - WWII: Japanese are driven off Guadalcanal.
• January 15 - The world's largest office building, The Pentagon, is dedicated in Arlington, Virginia.
• January 18 - WWII: Soviet officials announce they have broken the Wehrmacht's siege of Leningrad.
• January 18 - The Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto rise up for the first time, starting the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
• January 23 - WWII: British forces capture Tripoli from the Nazis.
• January 23 - Duke Ellington plays at New York City's Carnegie Hall for the first time.
• January 23 - Critic and commentator Alexander Woollcott suffers an eventually fatal heart attack during a regular broadcast of the CBS Radio roundtable program "People's Platform".
• January 27 - WWII: 50 bombers mount the first all American air raid against Germany (Wilhelmshaven was the target).
• January 29 - German police arrest necrophiliac Bruno Ludke

[edit] February

• February 2 - WWII: In Russia, the Battle of Stalingrad comes to an end with the surrender of the German 6th Army.
• February 3 - WWII: The death of the Four Chaplains when their ship was struck by a torpedo.
• February 7 - WWII: In the United States, it is announced that shoe rationing will go into effect in two days.
• February 8 - WWII: Battle of Guadalcanal - United States forces defeat Japanese troops.
• February 10 - March 3 - Mohandas Gandhi keeps a hunger strike to protest his imprisonment
• February 11 - General Eisenhower is selected to command the allied armies in Europe.
• February 14 - WWII: Rostov-na-Donu, Russia is liberated.
• February 14 - WWII: Battle of the Kasserine Pass - German General Erwin Rommel and his Afrika Korps launch an offensive against Allied defenses in Tunisia; it is the United States' first major battle defeat of the war.
• February 16 - WWII: Soviet Union reconquers Kharkov, but is later driven out in the Third Battle of Kharkov
• February 18 - In a speech at the Berlin Sportpalast German Propagandaminister (Propaganda Minister) Joseph Goebbels declare a "Total War" against the allies
• February 18 - The Nazis arrest the members of the White Rose movement.
• February 20 - American movie studio executives agree to allow the Office of War Information to censor movies.
• February 20 - The Mexican volcano Parícutin is born in a farmer's cornfield.
• February 22 - Members of White Rose are executed in Nazi Germany.
• February 24 - George Harrison, guitarist of The Beatles, is born to Harold and Louise Harrison in Liverpool, England.
• February 27 - The Smith Mine #3 in Bearcreek, Montana, United States explodes, killing 74 men.
• February 28 - Operation Gunnerside, 6 Norwegians led by Joachim Ronneberg successfully attack the heavy water plant Vemork.

[edit] March-April

• March 1 - Heinz Guderian becomes the Inspector-General of the Armoured Troops for the German Army.
• March 2 - WWII: Battle of the Bismarck Sea - United States and Australian forces sink Japanese convoy ships.
• March 3 - 173 people are killed in a crush while trying to enter an air-raid shelter at Bethnal Green tube station in London.
• March 8 - WWII: American forces are attacked by Japanese troops on Hill 700 in Bougainville in a battle that will last five days.
• March 13 - WWII: On Bougainville, Japanese troops end their assault on American forces at Hill 700.
• March 13 - Holocaust: German forces liquidate the Jewish ghetto in Kraków.
• March 22 - WWII: The entire population of Khatyn in Belarus is burnt alive by the German occupation forces.
• March 26 - WWII: Battle of Komandorski Islands - In the Aleutian Islands the battle begins when United States Navy forces intercept Japanese attempting to reinforce a garrison at Kiska.
• March 31 - Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma! opens on Broadway, heralds a new era in "integrated" stage musicals, becomes an instantaneous stage classic, and goes on to be Broadway's longest-running musical up to that time (1948).
• April 3 - Shipwrecked steward Poon Lim is rescued by Brazilian fishermen after he has been adrift for 130 days
• April 13 - WWII: Radio Berlin announces the discovery by Wehrmacht of mass graves of Poles killed by Soviets in the Katyn massacre.
• April 22 - Albert Hofmann writes his first report about the hallucinogenic properties of LSD, which he first synthesized in 1938.
• April 25 - Easter occurs on the latest possible date. Last time 1886 next time 2038.
• April 27 - The U.S. Federal Writers' Project is shuttered.

[edit] May-June

• May 11 - WWII: American troops invade Attu in the Aleutian Islands in an attempt to expel occupying Japanese forces.
• May 12 - Trident Conference begins in Washington, D.C. with Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill taking part.
• May 13 - WWII: German Afrika Korps and Italian troops in North Africa surrender to Allied forces.
• May 14 - Sinking of the Australian Hospital Ship Centaur off the coast of Queensland, by a Japanese submarine.
• May 15 - Comintern is dissolved.
• May 16 - WWII: The Dambuster Raids by RAF 617 Sqdn on German dams.
• May 16 - Holocaust: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising ends.
• May 17 - WWII: Surviving RAF Dam Busters return.
• May 17 - The United States Army contracts with the University of Pennsylvania's Moore School to develop the ENIAC.
• May 19 - Winston Churchill addresses a joint session of the U.S. Congress.
• May 24 - Holocaust: Josef Mengele becomes Chief Medical Officer in Auschwitz.
• June 01 - British Overseas Airways Corporation Flight 777 is shot down over the Bay of Biscay by German Junkers Ju 88s, killing actor Leslie Howard and leading to speculation that downing was an attempt to kill British Prime Minister Winston Churchill
• June 4 - Military Coup d'état in Argentina ousts Ramón Castillo.
• June 22 - U.S. Army 45th Infantry Division land in North Africa prior to training at Arzew, French Morocco while serving in World War II.
• June 30- Florence Ballard-American Singer (The Supremes)

[edit] July

• July 5 - WWII: Battle of Kursk - The largest tank battle in history begins.
• July 5 - WWII: An Allied invasion fleet sails to Sicily.
• July 6 - WWII: Americans and Japanese fight the Battle of Kula Gulf off Kolombangara.
• July 10 - WWII: The Allied invasion of Sicily marks the beginning allied invasion of Axis-controlled Europe with landings on the island of Sicily, off mainland Italy by the U.S. Army 45th Infantry Division.
• July 12 - WWII: the Wehrmacht and the Red Army fight the Battle of Prokhorovka - the greatest tank battle in history.
• July 19 - WWII: Rome is bombed by the Allies for the first time in the war.
• July 24 - WWII: Operation Gomorrah begins: British and Canadian aeroplanes bomb Hamburg by night, those of the Americans by day. By the end of the operation in November, 9,000 tons of explosives will have killed more than 30,000 people and destroyed 280,000 buildings.
• July 25 - In Italy the Gran Consiglio del Fascismo retires its consent to Mussolini; Mussolini is arrested and the power is given to Maresciallo d'Italia Gen. Pietro Badoglio.
• July 28 - WWII: Operation Gomorrah - The British bomb Hamburg causing a firestorm that kills 42,000 German civilians.

[edit] August

• August 1 - Operation Tidal Wave: 177 B-24 Liberator bombers from the U.S. Army Air Force bomb oil refineries at Ploieşti, Romania.
• August 3 - WWII: John F. Kennedy's PT-109 is rammed by a destroyer, the Battle of Vella Gulf will be more successful.
• August 5 - WWII: John F. Kennedy and crew are found by coastwatcher scouts Solomon Islanders Biuku Gasa and Eroni Kumana with their dugout canoe.
• August 6 - WWII: Americans defeat a Japanese convoy at the Battle of Vella Gulf off Kolombangara as the US Army drives the Japanese out of Munda airfield on New Georgia.
• August 14 - Quadrant Conference begins in Quebec City. Canadian Prime Minister MacKenzie King meets with Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt.
• August 17 - WWII: The US 7th Army under General George S. Patton arrive in Messina, Italy followed several hours later by the British 8th Army under Field Marshal Bernard L. Montgomery, thus completing the Allied conquest of Sicily.
• August 23 - The Battle of Kursk ends with a heavy defeat for the German forces.
• August 29 - WWII: Germany dissolves the Danish government after it refuses to deal with a wave of strikes and disturbances to the satisfaction of the German authorities. (See: Occupation of Denmark)

[edit] September

• September 3 - WWII: Mainland Italy is invaded by Allied forces under Bernard L. Montgomery, for the first time in the war.
• September 5 - WWII: The 503rd Parachute Regiment under American General Douglas MacArthur lands and occupies Nadzab, just east of the port city of Lae in northeastern Papua New Guinea.
• September 7 - A fire at the Gulf Hotel in Houston, Texas, kills 55 people.
• September 8 - WWII: United States General Dwight D. Eisenhower publicly announces the surrender of Italy to the Allies and the USAAF bombed the German General Headquarter for the Mediterranean zone Frascati bombing raid September 8, 1943.
• September 8 - WWII: Julius Fucik is executed by Nazis.
• September 8 - First classes commence at Grace University.
• September 17 - WWII: The Villefranche-de-Rouergue uprising takes place.
• September 23 - WWII: Republic of Salò is founded.

[edit] October

• October 1 - WWII: American forces enter Naples.
• October 6 - WWII: Americans and Japanese fight the naval Battle of Vella Lavella.
• October 7 - WWII: Naples post office explosion
• October 10 - The Order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky instituted in the USSR.
• October 13 - WWII: The new government of Italy sides with the Allies and declares war on Germany.
• October 18 - Chiang Kai-shek took the oath of office as president of China.
• October 21 - Lucie Aubrac and others in her French Resistance cell liberate Raymond Aubrac from Gestapo imprisonment
• October 22 - WWII: RAF delivers a highly destructive airstrike on the German industrial and population center of Kassel

[edit] November

• November 1 - WWII: In Operation Goodtime, United States Marines land on Bougainville in the Solomon Islands.
• November 2 - WWII: In the early morning hours, American and Japanese ships fight the inconclusive Battle of Empress Augusta Bay off Bougainville.
• November 2 - WWII: British troops, in Italy, reach the Garigliano River.
• November 14 - Leonard Bernstein, substituting at the last minute for ailing principal conductor Bruno Walter, directs the New York Philharmonic in its regular Sunday afternoon broadcast concert over CBS Radio. The event receives front page coverage in the New York Times the following day.
• November 15 - Porajmos: German SS leader Heinrich Himmler orders that Gypsies and "part-Gypsies" were to be put "on the same level as Jews and placed in concentration camps."
• November 16 - WWII: After flying from Britain, 160 American bombers strike a hydro-electric power facility and heavy water factory in German-controlled Vemork, Norway.
• November 16 - WWII: Japanese submarine sinks surfaced USA submarine USS Corvina near Truk
• November 18 - WWII: 440 Royal Air Force planes bomb Berlin causing only light damage and killing 131. The RAF lost nine aircraft and 53 aviators.
• November 20 - WWII: Battle of Tarawa begins - United States Marines land on Tawara and Makin atolls in the Gilbert Islands and take heavy fire from Japanese shore guns.
• November 22 - WWII: War in the Pacific - US President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and ROC leader Chiang Kai-Shek meet in Cairo, Egypt, to discuss ways to defeat Japan.
• November 22 - Lebanon gains independence from France.
• November 23 - The Deutsche Opernhaus on Bismarckstraße in the Berlin neighborhood of Charlottenburg was destroyed. It was rebuilt in 1961 and called the Deutsche Oper Berlin.
• November 25 - WWII: Americans and Japanese fight the naval Battle of Cape St. George between Buka and New Ireland.
• November 28 - WWII: Tehran Conference - US President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet Leader Joseph Stalin meet in Tehran to discuss war strategy (on November 30 they established an agreement concerning a planned June 1944 invasion of Europe codenamed Operation Overlord).
• November 29 - Second session of AVNOJ, the Anti-fascist council of national liberation of Yugoslavia, is held in Jajce, Bosnia and Herzegovina, determining the post-war ordering of the country.

[edit] December

• December 3 - Edward R. Murrow delivers his classic "Orchestrated Hell" broadcast over CBS Radio describing a Royal Air Force nighttime bombing raid on Berlin.
• December 4 - WWII: In Yugoslavia, resistance leader Marshal Tito proclaims a provisional democratic Yugoslav government in-exile.
• December 4 - Great Depression ends in the United States: With unemployment figures falling fast due to World War II-related employment, US President Franklin D. Roosevelt closes the Works Progress Administration.
• December 18 - Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards was born.
• December 20 - Military coup in Bolivia
• December 24 - WWII: US General Dwight D. Eisenhower becomes the Supreme Allied Commander in Europe.
• December 30 - Subhash Chandra Bose raises the flag of Indian independence at Port Blair.

[edit] Undated

• Development of the Colossus computer by British to break German encryption (see History of computing hardware).
• Mondragón cooperative begins in Basque Country in Spain
• Arana Hall, Otago founded.
• Jacques-Yves Cousteau co-invents, with Emile Gagnan, the first commercially successful open circuit type of scuba diving equipment, the aqua-lung.^[1].

[edit] Ongoing

• Second World War (1939-1945)
• Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945)

[edit] Births

1943 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1943 MCMXLIII
Ab urbe condita	2696
Armenian calendar	1392 ԹՎ ՌՅՂԲ
Chinese calendar	4579/4639-11-25 (壬午年十一月廿五日) — to — 4580/4640-12-5 (癸未年十二月初五日)
Ethiopian calendar	1935 – 1936
Hebrew calendar	5703 – 5704
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1998 – 1999
- Shaka Samvat	1865 – 1866
- Kali Yuga	5044 – 5045
Iranian calendar	1321 – 1322
Islamic calendar	1362 – 1363
Japanese calendar	Shōwa 18 (昭和18年)
- Imperial Year	Kōki 2603 (皇紀2603年)
- Jōmon Era	11943
Thai solar calendar	2486

[edit] January-February

• January 2 - Baris Manco, Turkish singer and television personality
• January 4 - Doris Kearns Goodwin, American writer
• January 6 - Terry Venables, English football manager
• January 9 - Freddie Starr, English comedian and singer
• January 10 - Jim Croce, American singer (d. 1973)
• January 11 - Jim Hightower, American radio host and author
• January 13 - Richard Moll, American actor
• January 16 - Brian Ferneyhough, British composer
• January 18 - Kay Granger, American politician
• January 19 - Janis Joplin, American singer (d. 1970)
• January 19 - Princess Margriet of the Netherlands
• January 20 - Mel Hague, English singer and author
• January 24 - Sharon Tate, American actress and murder victim (d. 1969)
• January 25 - Tobe Hooper, American film director
• January 26 - César Gutiérrez, Venezuelan Major League Baseball player (d. 2005)
• January 29 - Tony Blackburn, British radio disc jockey
• January 30 - Marty Balin, American musician

• February 2 - Erkan Genis, Turkish artist
• February 3 - Blythe Danner, American actress
• February 4 - Alberto João Jardim, Portuguese politician
• February 5 - Nolan Bushnell, American video game pioneer
• February 5 - Michael Mann, American film, director, writer, producer
• February 5 - Craig Morton, American football player
• February 6 - Fabian, American singer
• February 7 - Gareth Hunt. English actor
• February 9 - Joe Pesci, American actor
• February 9 - Joseph E. Stiglitz, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate
• February 14 - Maceo Parker, American musician (P-Funk)
• February 18 - Graeme Garden, Scottish writer, comedian, and actor
• February 19 - Tim Hunt, British biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• February 19 - Homer Hickam American author and retired NASA Engineer
• February 20 - Mike Leigh, British film director
• February 21 - David Geffen, American record executive and film producer
• February 23 - Fred Biletnikoff, American football player and coach
• February 24 - George Harrison, English musician (The Beatles) (d. 2001)
• February 24 - Hristo Prodanov, Bulgarian mountaineer
• February 26 - Bill Duke, American actor and director
• February 27 - Morten Lauridsen, American composer
• February 27 - Graham Bowers, British musician, artist and engineer

[edit] March-April

• March - John Leeson, British actor
• March 1 - Gil Amelio, American entrepreneur
• March 2 - Peter Straub, American author
• March 2 - Zygfryd Blaut, Polish footballer
• March 3 - Trond Mohn, Norwegian billionaire
• March 4 - Lucio Dalla, Italian singer and songwriter
• March 8 - Lynn Redgrave, English actress
• March 9 - Bobby Fischer, American chess player
• March 9 - Charles Gibson, American television journalist
• March 15 - David Cronenberg, Canadian film director
• March 16 - Helen Armstrong , American violinist
• March 18 - Kevin Dobson, American actor
• March 19 - Mario J. Molina, Mexican chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
• March 19 - Mario Monti, Italian member of the European Commission
• March 20 - Gerard Malanga, American poet and photographer
• March 20 - Naima Neidre, Estonian graphic artist
• March 21 - Vivian Stanshall, English comedian, writer, artist, broadcaster, and musician (d. 1995)
• March 21 - István Gyulai, Hungarian sports official (d. 2006)
• March 22 - Bruno Ganz, Swiss actor
• March 22 - Keith Relf, British musician (The Yardbirds) (d. 1976)
• March 26 - Bob Woodward, American journalist
• March 29 - Eric Idle, English actor, writer, and composer
• March 29 - John Major, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
• March 29 - Vangelis, Greek musician and composer
• March 31 - Christopher Walken, American actor

• April 2 - Frank Feather, British-born international business futurist and author
• April 5 - Max Gail, American actor
• April 8 - Miller Farr, American football player
• April 10 - Andrzej Badeński, Polish athlete
• April 20 - John Eliot Gardiner, English conductor
• April 22 - Louise Glück, American poet and 12th US Poet Laureate
• April 23 - Hervé Villechaize, French-Born Actor
• April 23 - Dominik Duka, Czech Roman Catholic bishop and theologian
• April 23 - Frans Koppelaar, Dutch painter
• April 28 - John O. Creighton, astronaut

[edit] May-June

• May 5 - Michael Palin, British comedian
• May 8 - Toni Tennille, American singer
• May 10 - Richard (Dick) Darman, American federal government official and businessman
• May 14 - Jack Bruce, British musician and songwriter
• May 14 - Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, President of Iceland
• May 17 - Tuanku Syed Sirajuddin, King of Malaysia
• May 22 - Betty Williams, Irish politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
• May 25 - Jessi Colter, American singer and composer
• May 26 - Erica Terpstra, Dutch swimmer, politician and president of the Dutch Olympic Committee
• May 27 - Bruce Weitz, American actor
• May 30 - James Chaney, American civil rights worker (d.1964)
• May 31 - Joe Namath, American football player
• May 31 - Sharon Gless, American actress

• June 2 - Ilayaraaja, Indian composer
• June 6 - Richard Smalley, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
• June 4 - Joyce Meyer, evangelical author and speaker
• June 8 - Colin Baker, British actor
• June 15 - Johnny Hallyday, French singer and actor
• June 15 - Poul Nyrup Rasmussen, Prime Minister of Denmark
• June 16 - Joan Van Ark, American actress
• June 17 - Newt Gingrich, American politician
• June 17 - Barry Manilow, American musician
• June 23 - James Levine, American conductor
• June 26 - John Beasley, American actor
• June 26 - Klaus von Klitzing, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
• June 27 - Rico Petrocelli, baseball player
• June 29 - Maureen O'Brien, British actress

[edit] July-August

• July 4 - Konrad "Conny" Bauer, German trombonist
• July 4 - Geraldo Rivera, American reporter and talk show host
• July 5 - Curt Blefary, baseball player (d. 2001)
• July 10 - Arthur Ashe, American tennis player (d. 1993)
• July 12 - Christine McVie, British musician (Fleetwood Mac)
• July 15 - Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Irish astrophysicist
• July 20 - Wendy Richard, British actress
• July 23 - Bob Hilton, American game show host and announcer
• July 26 - Mick Jagger, English singer (Rolling Stones)
• July 28 - Rick Wright, English keyboardist (Pink Floyd)

• August 2 - Kathy Lennon, American singer (The Lennon Sisters)
• August 4 - Bjørn Wirkola, Norwegian ski jumper
• August 5 - Nelson Briles, baseball player (d. 2005)
• August 7 - Dino Valente, American musician, (d. 1994)
• August 11 - Abigail Folger, American heiress and murder victim (d. 1969)
• August 11 - Pervez Musharraf, Pakistani general and leader
• August 14 - Jimmy Johnson, American football coach and television analyst
• August 17 - Robert De Niro, American actor
• August 18 - Gianni Rivera, Italian footballer
• August 20 - Sylvester McCoy, British actor
• August 24 - John Cipollina, American musician (d. 1989)
• August 28 - Lou Piniella, baseball player and manager
• August 30 - Jean-Claude Killy, French skier

[edit] September-October

• September 6 - Richard J. Roberts, English biochemist and molecular biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• September 6 - Roger Waters, English musician
• September 11 - Gilbert Proesch, Italian-born artist (Gilbert and George)
• September 11 - Raymond Villeneuve, Canadian terrorist
• September 22 - Toni Basil, American musician and video artist
• September 28 - J. T. Walsh, American actor (d. 1998)
• September 29 - Lech Wałęsa, President of Poland, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
• September 30 - Johann Deisenhofer, German biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate
• September 30 - Ian Ogilvy, English actor

• October 2 - Franklin Rosemont, American poet
• October 6 - Michael Durrell, American actor
• October 14 - Lois Hamilton, American model, actress, and artist (d. 1999)
• October 16 - Paul Rose, Canadian terrorist
• October 31 - Paul Frampton, English physicist

[edit] November-December

• November 5 - Sam Shepard, American playwright and actor
• November 7 - Joni Mitchell, Canadian musician
• November 7 - Michael Spence, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate
• November 7 - Stephen Greenblatt, American literary critic
• November 11 - Doug Frost, Australian swimming coach
• November 12 - Wallace Shawn, American actor
• November 14 - Peter Norton, American software engineer and businessman
• November 19 - Aurelio Monteagudo, Cuban Major League Baseball player (d. 1990)
• November 21 - Larry Mahan, American rodeo cowboy
• November 26 - Marilynne Robinson, American writer

• December 5 - Eva Joly, Norwegian-born French magistrate
• December 8 - James Douglas "Jim" Morrison, American musician (d. 1971)
• December 11 - John Kerry, American politician
• December 12 - Grover Washington, Jr., American saxophonist (d. 1999)
• December 13 - Ferguson Jenkins, baseball player
• December 17 - Ron Geesin, British musician and songwriter (Pink Floyd)
• December 18 - Keith Richards, English guitarist and songwriter (The Rolling Stones)
• December 19 - Ross M. Lence, American political scientist (d. 2006)
• December 23 - Harry Shearer, American actor and writer
• December 27 - Peter Sinfield, British lyricist and producer
• December 24 - Tarja Halonen, President of Finland
• December 28 - Richard Whiteley, English television presenter (d. 2005)
• December 31 - John Denver, American musician (d. 1997)
• December 31 - Ben Kingsley, English actor

[edit] Deaths

[edit] January-June

• January 5 - George Washington Carver, American botanist (b. 1864)
• March 28 - Sergei Rachmaninov, Russian composer (b. 1873)

[edit] July-December

• July 4 - Wladyslaw Sikorski, Polish politician (b. 1881)
• July 21 - Charlie Paddock, American athlete (b. 1900)
• August 12 - Bobby Peel, English cricketer (b. 1857)
• August 14 - Joe Kelley, baseball player (b. 1871)
• August 21 - Henrik Pontoppidan, Danish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1857)
• August 28 - King Boris III of Bulgaria (b. 1894)
• September 1 - Charles Atangana, Cameroonian chief
• September 24 - John Stone Stone, American physicist and inventor (b. 1869)
• October 5 - Leon Roppolo, American musician (b. 1902)
• October 9 - Pieter Zeeman, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1865)
• October 19 - Camille Claudel, French sculptor (b. 1864)
• December 1 - Damrong Rajanubhab, Thai prince and historian (b. 1862)
• December 14 - John Harvey Kellogg, American doctor (b. 1852)
• December 15 - Fats Waller, American jazz pianist (b. 1904)
• December 22 - Beatrix Potter, British children's author and illustrator (b. 1866)

[edit] Nobel prizes

• Physics - Otto Stern
• Chemistry - George de Hevesy
• Physiology or Medicine - Carl Peter Henrik Dam, Edward Adelbert Doisy, Gerhard Domagk
• Literature - not awarded
• Peace - not awarded

[edit] Ship events

• List of ship launches in 1943
• List of ship commissionings in 1943
• List of ship decommissionings in 1943
• List of shipwrecks in 1943

[edit] References

[edit] External links

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