Year 1943 (MCMXLIII) was a common year starting on Friday (the link will display full 1943 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. [edit] Events -
- (Below, many events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix.)
[edit] January [edit] February [edit] August [edit] September [edit] October [edit] 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: Americans 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.
[edit] December [edit] Undated [edit] Ongoing [edit] Births [edit] 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
[edit] 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
- May 1 – Vassal Gadoengin, Nauruan politician (d. 2004)
- May 5 – Michael Palin, British comedian
- May 10 – Richard (Dick) 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 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- 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 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 26 – Mick Jagger, English rock singer (Rolling Stones)
- July 28 – Richard Wright, British musician (d. 2008)
[edit] 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
[edit] 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
[edit] 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
[edit] November [edit] 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
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