* 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 )

* 1943 – Brian Ferneyhough, British composer

* 1943 – Brian Hyland, American singer

Brian John Peter Ferneyhough (, born 16 January 1943 ) is an English composer, and the foremost representative of the New Complexity.

* 29 May 1943-3 June 1943 Lieutenant General Brian Horrocks

J. Charles ( Chuck ) Guité ( born 1943 or 1944 in Dugas, Quebec, on the Gaspé peninsula ), raised in Campbellton, New Brunswick, is a former Canadian civil servant, appointed by Brian Mulroney's Progressive Conservative government.

* Brian Moore ( politician ) ( born 1943 ), Socialist Party USA and Liberty Union Party nominee for president

Brian Aldiss, in his preface to the 1962 edition, acknowledges the deep impression on him-and considerable influence on his own later writing-of Stapledon's book, which he encountered in 1943 while a British soldier fighting the Japanese in Burma-" An appropriately unusual period of life at which to encounter a vision so far outside ordinary experience ".

* Farrell, Brian P. " Symbol of paradox: The Casablanca Conference, 1943 ," Canadian Journal of History, ( April 1993 ) 28 # 1 pp 21 – 40

Louis Brian Piccolo ( October 31, 1943 – June 16, 1970 ) was a professional football player for the Chicago Bears for four years.

* Brian Keenan ( musician ) ( 1943 – 1985 ), United States musician

Brian Perkins ( born September 11, 1943 in Wanganui, New Zealand ) is a senior newsreader on BBC Radio 4.

* Brian Kelly ( footballer ) ( born 1943 ), English professional footballer active in the 1960s

Brian Wilson MLA ( born 1943 ) is an Independent politician in Northern Ireland.

* Brian Murphy ( Cork Gaelic footballer ) ( born 1943 ), Irish retired sportsperson

After her death in 1943 he married, secondly, Clare Josephine O ' Brian, on 1 July 1944.

Brian Edmund Peter Keenan ( January 28, 1943 – October 5, 1985 ) was an American musician, best known as the drummer for The Chambers Brothers.

* Brian James ( rugby league ) ( born 1943 ), Australian rugby league footballer