* 1943 – World War II: Operation Mincemeat: The submarine surfaces in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Spain to deposit a dead man planted with false invasion plans and dressed as a British military intelligence officer.

* 1943 – Frederick Chiluba, Zambian politician, 2nd President of Zambia ( d. 2011 )

* 1943 – Bobby Vee, American singer

* 1943 – Japanese forces evacuate New Georgia Island in the Pacific Theater of Operations during World War II.

* 1868 – Hong Beom-do, Korean activist ( d. 1943 )

* 1943 – Chuck Girard, American singer-songwriter and pianist ( Love Song and The Castells )

* 1943 – Bob Kerrey, American politician, 35th Governor of Nebraska

* 1943 – Tuesday Weld, American actress

* 1943 – Jon Postel, American computer scientist ( d. 1998 )

* 1943 – Ken Norton, American boxer

* 1943 – Michael Willetts, English soldier, George Cross recipient ( d. 1971 )

* 1943 – Rebellion in the Nazi death camp of Treblinka.

* 1943 – World War II: the Motor Torpedo Boat PT-109 is rammed by the Japanese destroyer Amagiri and sinks.

* 1943 – Tom Burgmeier, American baseball player

* 1943 – Max Wright, American actor

* 1943 – Béla Bollobás, Hungarian-English mathematician

* 1943 – Lana Cantrell, Australian-American singer and lawyer

* 1943 – Alain Corneau, French director

* 1943 – Denis Payton, English saxophonist ( The Dave Clark Five )

* 1943 – Ruth Madoc, Welsh actress

* 1943 – Dave Peverett, English musician ( Foghat and Savoy Brown ) ( d. 2000 )

* Adrian Păunescu ( 1943 – 2010 ), Romanian poet, journalist, and politician

* 1902 – Jan Campert, Dutch journalist and critic ( d. 1943 )

* 1943 – María Rojo, Mexican actress and politician

* 1888 – Armand J. Piron, American violinist, bandleader, and composer ( d. 1943 )

Obersturmbannführer Rudolf Höss was overall commandant of the Auschwitz complex from May 1940 – November 1943 ; Obersturmbannführer Arthur Liebehenschel from November 1943 – May 1944 ; and Sturmbannführer Richard Baer from May 1944 – January 1945.

In 1943 plant biologist Arthur Galston began studying the compound triiodobenzoic acid as a plant growth hormone, in an attempt to adapt soybeans to a short growing season.

It enjoyed a nine-week run and encouraged the duo to join forces with Arthur Pierson for What's Up ?, which opened on Broadway in 1943.

This hereditary title passed to Ian St John Lawson Johnston in 1943 and to Arthur Charles St John Lawson Johnston in 1996.

Allied leaders of the Sicilian campaign in North Africa ; ( front row, left to right ) General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder, 1st Baron Tedder | Arthur Tedder, General Sir Harold Alexander, Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope | Andrew Cunningham, ( top row, left to right ) Harold Macmillan, Major General Walter Bedell Smith, and unidentified British officers ; 1943

* February 6 – Arthur Ashe, American tennis player and civil activist ( b. 1943 )

The first was one of Wellington ( The Duke: Being an Account of the Life & Achievements of Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, 1943 ).

It enjoyed a nine-week run and encouraged the duo to join forces with Arthur Pierson for What's Up ?, which opened on Broadway in 1943.

The professional history of radioactive weaponry may be traced to a 1943 memo from James Bryant Conant, Arthur Holly Compton, and Harold Urey, to Brigadier General Leslie Groves of the Manhattan Project and to a 1940 science fiction story, " Solution Unsatisfactory " by Lt. J. G. Robert A. Heinlein, USN ( R ).

In August 1943, Davis's husband, Arthur Farnsworth, collapsed while walking along a Hollywood street and died two days later.

He first presented Jerome Kern's " The Way You Look Tonight " in Swing Time ( 1936 ); the Gershwins ' " They Can't Take That Away From Me " in Shall We Dance ( 1937 ), " A Foggy Day " and " Nice Work if You Can Get it " in A Damsel in Distress ( 1937 ); Johnny Mercer's " One for My Baby " from The Sky's the Limit ( 1943 ) and " Something's Gotta Give " from Daddy Long Legs ( 1955 ); and Harry Warren and Arthur Freed's " This Heart of Mine " from Ziegfeld Follies ( 1946 ).

Even though she had not made a picture in five years, Arthur accepted the part at the request of George Stevens with whom she had worked in two earlier films, The Talk of the Town ( 1942 ) and The More the Merrier ( 1943 ) for which she received her only Oscar nomination.

Neave was the son of Sheffield Airey Neave ( 1879 – 1961 ), a well-known entomologist, and his wife Dorothy ( d. 1943 ), the daughter of Arthur Thomson Middleton.

* Arthur Steere ( 1865 – 1943 ) senator, businessman

His grandson was Lt Col Arthur John Barry CBE, TD, MICE ( 1859 – 1943 ), civil engineer and architect, son of Charles Barry, Jr. and pupil and later partner of Sir John Wolfe-Barry.

* Robert Insley & Arthur W. Green: U. S. Patent Nº 2, 319, 546 ; 1943

* Watch the 1943 film Corvette Port Arthur at NFB. ca

He would later lead the United Australia Party to the 1943 election, though Arthur Fadden served as Coalition leader.

His Prime Ministerial predecessor and 1943 election Coalition leader, Arthur Fadden of the Country Party wrote: " I do not care who knows it but in my opinion there was no greater figure in Australian public life in my lifetime than Curtin.

Arthur was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress in 1944 for her performance in The More the Merrier ( 1943 ).

On 18 February 1943, the Mediterranean Air Command ( MAC ) was established with Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder in charge of all Allied air forces in the Mediterranean Theater of Operations ( MTO ).

Bradley had two sons and five daughters ; of these children one son, Arthur Granville Bradley ( 1850 – 1943 ), and four daughters were writers, including Margaret Louisa Woods, Emily Tennyson Bradley ( married Alexander Murray Smith ), Lady Mabel Birchenough ( the wife of Sir Henry Birchenough, public servant and business man ) and Rose Marion Bradley.