1943

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Year 1943 (MCMXLIII) was a common year starting on Friday (the link will display full 1943 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar.

Events of 1943

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

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.
General Juanto dies in Argentina - Ramón Castillo succeeds him

January 12 - Dutch journalist and writer Jan Campert, dies in Neuengamme concentration camp
January 13 - Helmut Schenk is the first person to use an ejection seat 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.
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.
Beginning of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

January 23

WWII: British forces capture Tripoli from the Nazis.
Duke Ellington plays at New York City's Carnegie Hall for the first time.

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 alleged necrophiliac Bruno Ludke

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
The US State Department writes that Middle-East oil is "the greatest single prize in all history."

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.
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
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.
The Mexican volcano Parícutin is born in a farmer's cornfield.

February 22 - Members of White Rose are executed in Nazi Germany.
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.

March

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.
Holocaust: German forces liquidate the Jewish ghetto in Kraków.

March 19 - Frank Nitti suicides
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

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 19 - Albert Hofmann self administers the drug LSD for the first time in history, and records the details of his trip.
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.

May

May 9-12 - Japanese troops carries out the Changjiao massacre in Changjiao, Hunan, China.
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.
The United States Army contracts with the University of Pennsylvania's Moore School to develop the ENIAC.
The Memphis Belle Becomes the first airplane in the 8th Air Force to complete a 25-mission tour of duty.

May 19 - Winston Churchill addresses a joint session of the U.S. Congress.
May 24 - Holocaust: Josef Mengele becomes Chief Medical Officer in Auschwitz.
May 31 - Rioting between military personel and Mexican American youths erupts in East Los Angeles and is dubbed the "Zoot Suit Riots".
May 31 - Helmut Kapp has been killed in Jędrzejów

June

June 1 - 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 13 - The Looney Tunes animated short Porky Pig's Feat, is released to theaters in the U.S.
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.

July

July 5 - WWII:

Battle of Kursk - The largest tank battle in history begins.
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 11 - United States Army forces assault the village of Piano Lupo, just outside of Gela, Sicily.
July 12 - WWII: the Wehrmacht and the Red Army fight the Battle of Prokhorovka.
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.

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 4 - WWII: USS Intrepid (CV-11) is launched
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 13 - WWII: Rome is declared an open city.
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, Sicily 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 serious strategic defeat for the German forces.
August 24 - WWII: Germany - Heinrich Himmler is named Reichminister of the Interior.
August 26 - WWII: Lord Louis Mountbatten is named Supreme Allied Commander for Southeast Asia.
August 28 - WWII: Bulgaria - King Boris III dies under peculiar circumstances. His six-year-old son, Simeon II, ascends to the throne.
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)

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.
Julius Fucik is executed by Nazis.

September 8 - First classes commence at Grace University.
September 12 - WWII: German paratroopers rescue Mussolini from imprisonment, in "Operation Oak".
September 16 - WWII: Salerno Mutiny
September 17 - WWII: The Villefranche-de-Rouergue uprising takes place.
September 23 - WWII: Republic of Salò is founded.
September 27 - WWII: First of the four days of Naples uprising.

October

October 1 - WWII: American forces enter liberated 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 takes 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
October 30 - The Merrie Melodies short,Falling Hare,The Only short with Bugs getting out-smated is released.

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.
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.
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.
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.

December

December 2 - A Luftwaffe bombing raid on the harbour of Bari, Italy, sinks an American ship with a mustard gas stockpile. Numerous fatalities (though the exact death toll is unresolved as the bombing raid itself caused hundreds of deaths too).
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.
Great Depression officially 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 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 sets up a pro-Japanese Indian government at Port Blair, India.

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..
Publication of Martin Noth's groundbreaking Uberlieferungsgeschischtliche Studien: Die sammelnden und bearbeitenden Geschichtswerke im Alten Testament [Schriften der Konigsberger Gelehrten Gesellschaft: Geisteswissenschaftliche Klasse; 18,2 (trans: "Writings of the Konigsberger Scholarly Society:Spiritual Scientific Class No. 18.2")]: (Halle ["Halle an der Saale"]: M. Niemeyer, 1943)

Ongoing

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

Births

January-February

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 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)
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
Michael Mann, American film director, writer, and producer
Craig Morton, American football player

February 6 - Fabian, American singer
February 7 - Gareth Hunt, English actor
February 9

Joe Pesci, American actor
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
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 - Hristo Prodanov, Bulgarian mountaineer
February 25 - George Harrison, British musician (The Beatles) (d. 2001)
February 26 - Bill Duke, American actor and director
February 27

Morten Lauridsen, American composer
Graham Bowers, British musician, artist and engineer

March-April

March - John Leeson, British actor
March 1

Richard H. Price, American physicist
Gil Amelio, American entrepreneur

March 2

Peter Straub, American author
Zygfryd Blaut, Polish footballer

March 3 - Trond Mohn, Norwegian billionaire
March 4

Lucio Dalla, Italian singer and songwriter
Zoltan Jeney, Hungarian composer

March 8 - Lynn Redgrave, English actress
March 9

Bobby Fischer, American chess player (d. 2008)
Charles Gibson, American television journalist

March 15 - David Cronenberg, Canadian film director
March 16

Helen Armstrong, American violinist
Kim Mu-saeng, South Korean actor (d. 2005)

March 18 - Kevin Dobson, American actor
March 19

Mario J. Molina, Mexican chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
Mario Monti, Italian member of the European Commission

March 20

Gerard Malanga, American poet and photographer
Naima Neidre, Estonian graphic artist

March 21

Ellen Cannon Reed, American witch and author, (d. 2003)
Vivian Stanshall, English comedian, writer, artist, broadcaster, and musician (d. 1995)
István Gyulai, Hungarian sports official (d. 2006)

March 22

Bruno Ganz, Swiss actor
Keith Relf, British musician (The Yardbirds) (d. 1976)

March 25 - Royston MaldoomOBE, British choreographer (1943)
March 26 - Bob Woodward, American journalist
March 29

Eric Idle, English actor, writer, and composer
John Major, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
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 (d. 1993)
Dominik Duka, Czech Roman Catholic bishop and theologian
Frans Koppelaar, Dutch painter

April 25 - James G. Mitchell, Canadian computer scientist
April 28 - John O. Creighton, astronaut

May-June

May 5 - Michael Palin, British comedian
May 7 - Terry Allen, American country music singer
May 8

Paul Samwell-Smith, British musician (The Yardbirds)
Toni Tennille, American singer

May 10 - Richard (Dick) Darman, American federal government official and businessman
May 14

Jack Bruce, British musician and songwriter
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
Sharon Gless, American actress

June 2

Fil Villarreal, CMS, USAF/Retired
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 14 - Jim Sensenbrenner, American politician
June 15

Johnny Hallyday, French singer and actor
Poul Nyrup Rasmussen, Prime Minister of Denmark

June 16 - Joan Van Ark, American actress
June 17

Newt Gingrich, American politician
Barry Manilow, American musician

June 21 - Marika Green French-Swedish actress
June 23 - James Levine, American conductor
June 26

John Beasley, American actor
Klaus von Klitzing, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate

June 27 - Rico Petrocelli, baseball player
June 29

Maureen O'Brien, British actress
Soon-Tek Oh, Japanese actor

July-August

July 1 - Jeff Wayne, musician
July 3

Judith Durham, Australian singer
Kurtwood Smith, American actor

July 4

Konrad "Conny" Bauer, German trombonist
Geraldo Rivera, American reporter and talk show host

July 5 - Curt Blefary, baseball player (d. 2001)
July 7 - Joel Siegel, American film critic (d. 2007)
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 16 - Reinaldo Arenas, Cuban writer (d. 1990)
July 20 - Wendy Richard, British actress
July 21 - Edward Herrmann, American actor
July 23

Dr. Randall Forsberg, American nuclear freeze advocate (d. 2007)
Bob Hilton, American game show host and announcer

July 25 - Jim McCarty, British musician (The Yardbirds)
July 26 - Mick Jagger, English singer (Rolling Stones)
July 28 - Rick Wright, English keyboardist (Pink Floyd)
July 31 - Sab Shimono, American actor
August 2

Patrick Adiarte, American actor and dancer
Kathy Lennon, American singer (The Lennon Sisters)

August 4 - Bjørn Wirkola, Norwegian ski jumper
August 5 - Nelson Briles, 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

Abigail Folger, American heiress and murder victim (d. 1969)
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

September-October

September 1 - Don Stroud, American actor
September 5 - Dulce Saguisag, Filipino politician and former DSWD Secretary. (d. 2007)
September 6

Richard J. Roberts, English biochemist and molecular biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Roger Waters, English musician (Pink Floyd)

September 9 - Art LaFleur, American actor
September 10 - Daniel Truhitte, American actor
September 11

Gilbert Proesch, Italian-born artist (Gilbert and George)
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 - Judy Graubart, American actress
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 16 - Paul Rose, Canadian terrorist
October 18 - Birthe Rønn Hornbech, Danish politician
October 31 - Paul Frampton, English physicist

November-December

November 1 - John McEnery, English actor
November 4 - Chuck Scarborough American News Anchor on NBC
November 5

Friedman Paul Erhardt, German American pioneering television chef (d. 2007)
Sam Shepard, American playwright and actor

November 7

Michael Byrne, English actor
Joni Mitchell, Canadian musician
Michael Spence, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate
Stephen Greenblatt, American literary critic

November 11 - Doug Frost, Australian swimming coach
November 12 - Wallace Shawn, American actor
November 13 - Ian William Kenneth Dickenson, Initial Chief Rescue Officer for Victoria State Emergency Service
November 14 - Peter Norton, American software engineer and businessman
November 19 - Aurelio Monteagudo, Cuban Major League Baseball player (d. 1990)
November 20 - Mie Hama, Japanese actress
November 21 - Larry Mahan, American rodeo cowboy
November 26 - Marilynne Robinson, American writer
December 2 - Wayne Allard U.S Senator from Colorado - Senior Senator
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 15 - Lucien den Arend, sculptor
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 24 - Tarja Halonen, President of Finland
December 27 - Peter Sinfield, British lyricist and producer
December 28 - Richard Whiteley, English television presenter (d. 2005)
December 31

John Denver, American musician (d. 1997)
Ben Kingsley, British actor

Unknown dates

Dulce Saguisag, Filipino former secretary (d. 2007)

Deaths

January-June

January 5 - George Washington Carver, American botanist (b. 1864)
January 7 - Nikola Tesla, Croatian-born American scientist (b. 1856)
January 8 - Richard Hillary, Battle of Britain Spitfire pilot, author of The Last Enemy (b. 1919)
February - Bess Houdini, wife of Harry Houdini
February 4 - Frank Calder, the first NHL President (b. 1877)
March 28 - Sergei Rachmaninoff, Russian composer (b. 1873)
April 18 - Isoroku Yamamoto, Japanese admiral (b. 1884)
June 1 - Leslie Howard, British actor (b. 1893)
June 4 - Kermit Roosevelt, American explorer and author (b. 1889)

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 6 - Reginald McKenna, British Chancellor of the Exchequer 1915–1916 (born 1863)
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)

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

Ship events

Notes

External links

1943 Coin Pictures

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