* 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 – 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 )

116, BB 123, is a five-movement musical work for orchestra composed by Béla Bartók in 1943.

The best known Concerto for Orchestra is the one by Béla Bartók ( 1943 ), although the title had been used several times before.

* Concerto for Orchestra by Béla Bartók ( 1943 )

* The last movement of Béla Bartók's Concerto for Orchestra ( 1943 ).

Concertos and concert works for two pianos have been written by Bach ( two to four pianos, BWV 1060-65, actually harpsichord concertos, but often performed on pianos ), Mozart ( two, K 242 ( originally for three pianos and orchestra ) and K 365 ), Mendelssohn ( two, 1823-4 ), Bruch ( 1912 ), Béla Bartók ( 1927 / 1932, a reworking of his Sonata for two pianos and percussion ), Poulenc ( 1932 ), Arthur Benjamin ( 1938 ), Peter Mieg ( 1939-41 ), Darius Milhaud ( 1941 and 1951 ), Bohuslav Martinů ( 1943 ), Ralph Vaughan Williams ( c. 1946 ), Roy Harris ( 1946 ), Gian Francesco Malipiero ( two works, both 1957 ), Walter Piston ( 1959 ), Luciano Berio ( 1973 ), and Harald Genzmer ( 1990 ).

In 1943 both Ferenc Puskás and József Bozsik made their debut for Kispest FC and between 1947 and 1948 the club was coached by the legendary Hungarian coach Béla Guttman.

February 14, 1943 ) was a German mathematician.

* January 23 – David Hilbert, German mathematician ( d. 1943 )

Hilbert's paradox of the Grand Hotel is a mathematical veridical paradox ( a non-contradictory speculation that is strongly counter-intuitive ) about infinite sets presented by German mathematician David Hilbert ( 1862 – 1943 ).

* Mary Ellen, ( 1856 – 1908 ) who married the mathematician and author Charles Howard Hinton and had four children: George ( 1882 – 1943 ), Eric (* 1884 ), William ( 1886 – 1909 ) and Sebastian ( 1887 – 1923 ) inventor of the Jungle gym.

* Bill Gosper ( born 1943 ), mathematician and pioneering computer programmer.

Tore Olaus Engset ( May 8, 1865 in Stranda – October, 1943 in Oslo ) was a Norwegian mathematician and engineer who did pioneering work in the field of telephone traffic queuing theory.

* William Anthony Granville ( 1864 – 1943 ), American mathematician, the sixth president of Gettysburg College from 1910 until 1923

* Richard Hamilton ( mathematician ) ( born 1943 ), American mathematician

* Masahiko Fujiwara ( born 1943 ), a Japanese mathematician and essayist

Guido Fubini ( 19 January 1879 – 6 June 1943 ) was an Italian mathematician, known for Fubini's theorem and the Fubini – Study metric.

* George C. Papanicolaou ( born 1943 ), American mathematician

* James W. Cannon ( born 1943 ), American mathematician working in geometric group theory and low-dimensional topology

* January 23-David Hilbert ( died 1943 ), German mathematician.

Juliusz Paweł Schauder ( September 21, 1899, Lemberg, Austria-Hungary ( now Lviv, Ukraine ) – September 1943, Lemberg, Occupied Poland ) was a Polish mathematician of Jewish origin, known for his work in functional analysis, partial differential equation and mathematical physics.

Nikola Tesla ( 1856 – 1943 ) was a Serb-American physicist, mathematician, inventor, and electrical engineer.

Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov ( also spelled Mikhael Gromov or Michael Gromov ; ; born 23 December 1943 ), is a French-Russian mathematician known for important contributions in many different areas of mathematics.

* Tom Lehrer 1943 – musical satirist, entertainer, and mathematician

* Melvin Hochster ( born 1943 ), American mathematician

* Scott W. Williams ( born 1943 ), American mathematician

Masahiko Fujiwara ( Japanese: 藤原 正彦 Fujiwara Masahiko ; born July 9, 1943 in Shinkyo, Manchukuo ) is a Japanese mathematician, who is best known as an essayist.

Eduard Helly ( June 1, 1884, Vienna – 1943, Chicago ) was a mathematician and the eponym of Helly's theorem, Helly families, Helly's selection theorem, Helly metric, and the Helly – Bray theorem.

Eliot Roy Weintraub ( born March 22, 1943 ) is an American mathematician, economist, and, since 1976, professor of economics at Duke University.

John Stone Stone ( September 24, 1869 – May 20, 1943 ) was an American mathematician, physicist and inventor.