Year
1943 (
MCMXLIII) was a
common year starting on
Friday (the link will display full 1943 calendar) of the
Gregorian calendar.
Events
- : (Below, many events of World War
II have the "WWII"
prefix.)
January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
- November 1 –
WWII – 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" 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: A Japanese submarine sinks the surfaced U.S. submarine
USS Corvina near
Truk
.
- November 18 –
WWII: 440 Royal Air Force planes bomb Berlin
, causing
only light damage and killing 131. The RAF loses 9 aircraft
and 53 aviators.
- November 20 –
WWII: Battle of Tarawa
: United States
Marines land on Tawara
and
Makin atolls in the Gilbert Islands and take heavy fire from
Japanese
shore guns.
- November 22
- November 23 – The
Deutsche
Opernhaus
on Bismarckstraße in the Berlin
neighborhood of Charlottenburg
is destroyed. It is rebuilt in
1961 and called the Deutsche
Oper Berlin
.
- November 25 –
WWII: American
and Japanese
fight the naval Battle of Cape St. George between
Buka
and
New
Ireland
.
- November 28 – WWII – Tehran
Conference: U.S. 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 establish an agreement
concerning a planned June 1944 invasion of
Europe codenamed Operation Overlord).
- November 29 – The
second session of AVNOJ, the Anti-Fascist
Council of National Liberation of Yugoslavia, is held in Jajce, Bosnia and Herzegovina
, to determine the post-war ordering of the
country.
December
Undated
Ongoing
Births
January
- January 1 – Don
Novello, American actor
- January 2 – Barış Manço, Turkish singer and
television personality (d. 1999)
- January 4 – Doris Kearns Goodwin, American
writer
- January 6 – Terry Venables, English football manager
- January 7 – Sadako Sasaki, Japanese atomic bomb sickness victim (d. 1955)
- 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 15 – Margaret Beckett, British politician
- January 18 – Kay Granger, American politician
- January 19
- January 20 – Mel
Hague, English singer and author
- January 24 – Sharon Tate, American actress "Manson Family" (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
February
- February 2 – Erkan Genis, Turkish artist
- February 3 – Blythe Danner, American actress
- February 4 – Alberto João Jardim, Portuguese
politician
- February 5
- February 6 – Fabian, American singer
- February 7 – Gareth Hunt, English actor (d. 2007)
- February 8 – Creed Bratton, American actor and
musician
- February 9
- February 14 – Maceo Parker, American musician (P-Funk)
- February 18 – Graeme Garden, Scottish writer, comedian, and
actor
- February 19
- February 20
- February 21 – David Geffen, American record executive and
film producer
- February 23 – Fred Biletnikoff, American football player
and coach
- February 24 – Hristo Prodanov, Bulgarian mountaineer
- February 25 – George Harrison, British musician (The Beatles) (d. 2001)
- February 26 – Bill Duke, American actor and director
- February 27
March
April
May
- May 1 – Vassal
Gadoengin, Nauruan politician (d. 2004)
- May 5 – Michael
Palin, British comedian
- May 10 – Richard Darman, American federal government
official and businessman
- May 13 – Kurt
Trampedach, Danish artist
- May 14
- May 17 – Tuanku Syed Sirajuddin, King of Malaysia
- May 22 – Betty Williams, Northern
Irish political activist, co-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
June
- June 2 – Ilayaraaja, Indian composer
- June 3 – John Burgess, Australian game show host
and actor
- June 4 – Joyce
Meyer, Christian author and speaker
- June 6 – Richard Smalley, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
- June 7 – Chan
Hung Lit, Hong Kong actor (d. 2009)
- June 7- Nikki
Giovanni, American poet
- June 8 – Colin
Baker, British actor
- June 13 – Malcolm McDowell, British actor
- June 14 – Jim Sensenbrenner, American
politician
- June 15
- June 16 – Joan
Van Ark, American actress
- June 17
- June 21 – Marika
Green French-Swedish actress
- June 23 – James
Levine, American conductor
- June 26
- June 27 – Rico Petrocelli, baseball player
- June 28 – Jens
Birkemose, Danish painter
- June 29
July
- July 1 – Jeff
Wayne, American musician
- July 3
- July 4
- July 5 – Curt
Blefary, American baseball player (d. 2001)
- July 7 – Joel
Siegel, American film critic (d. 2007)
- July 8 – Guido
Marzulli, Italian painter
- July 10 – Arthur
Ashe, American tennis player (d. 1993)
- July 15 – Jocelyn Bell Burnell, British
astrophysicist
- July 16 – Reinaldo Arenas, Cuban writer (d. 1990)
- July 19
- July 20 – Wendy
Richard, British actress (d. 2009)
- July 21
- July 23 – Dr. Randall Forsberg, American nuclear
freeze advocate (d. 2007)
- July 25 – Erika Steinbach, German politician
- July 26 – Mick
Jagger, English rock singer (Rolling
Stones)
- July 28 – Richard Wright, British musician
(d. 2008)
August
- August 2 – Max
Wright, American Actor
- August 3 – Clarence Wijewardena, Sri Lankan
musician (died 1996)
- August 4 – Bjørn Wirkola, Norwegian ski jumper
- August 5 – Nelson Briles, American baseball player (d.
2005)
- August 6 – Jim
Hardin, former Baltimore
Orioles, New York Yankees and
Atlanta Braves pitcher (d. 1991)
- August 7 – Dino
Valente, American musician (d. 1994)
- August 11
- August 14 – Jimmy Johnson, American
football coach and television analyst
- August 17
- August 18 – Gianni Rivera, Italian footballer
- August 20 – Sylvester McCoy, British actor
- August 27 – Tuesday Weld, American actress
- August 28
- August 30
- August 31 – Leonid Ivashov, Russian general
September
- September 1 – Don Stroud, American actor
- September 5 – Dulce Saguisag, Filipino politician and
former DSWD Secretary. (d. 2007)
- September 6
- September 9 – Art LaFleur, American actor
- September 10 – Daniel Truhitte, American actor
- September 11
- September 13 – Mildred D. Taylor, American writer
- September 14 – Irwin Goodman, Finnish singer (d. 1991)
- September 19 – Joe Morgan, American Hall of Fame baseball
player
- 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
October
- October 2 – Franklin Rosemont, American poet
- October 6 – Michael Durrell, American actor
- October 8 – Chevy Chase, American comedian and actor
- October 14 – Lois Hamilton, American model, actress, and
artist (d. 1999)
- October 15 – Penny Marshall, American actress and
director
- October 16 – Paul Rose, Canadian terrorist
- October 18 – Birthe Rønn Hornbech, Danish
politician
- October 31 – Paul Frampton, English physicist
November
December
- December 2 –
Wayne Allard, U.S Senator from Colorado

- December 5 – Eva
Joly, Norwegian-born French magistrate
- December 8
- December 11 – John Kerry, American politician
- December 12 – Tridib Mitra, Indian Bengali Poet of the
Hungry generation Movement
- December 12 – Grover Washington, Jr., American
saxophonist (d. 1999)
- December 13 – Ferguson Jenkins, Canadian baseball
player
- December 15 – Lucien den Arend, Dutch sculptor
- December 17 – Ron Geesin, British musician and songwriter
(Pink Floyd)
- December 18 – Keith Richards, English rock 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 24
- December 28
- December 31
Unknown dates
Deaths
January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December
Nobel Prizes
Ship events
Notes
- "Year by Year 1943" – History Channel
International
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