* 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 )

Delmore Schwartz's confessional long poem Genesis had been published in 1943, and John Berryman had written a sonnet sequence in 1947 about an adulterous affair he'd had with a woman named Chris while he was married to his first wife, Eileen ( however, since publishing the sonnets would have revealed the affair to his wife, Berryman didn't actually publish the sequenc, titled Berryman's Sonnets, until 1967, after he divorced from his first wife ).

Christine Ann " Chris " Gallus ( born 6 April 1943 ), Australian politician, was a Liberal member of the Australian House of Representatives since March 1990, representing the Division of Hawker, South Australia 1990-93 and for Hindmarsh, South Australia 1993-2004.

* Fired Wife ( 1943 ) as Chris McClelland

Chris Boucher ( born 1943 ) is a British television writer, best known for his frequent contributions to two genres, science fiction and crime dramas.

* Chris Brand ( born 1943 ), British psychologist

The Battle of Ortona ( December 20 – 28, 1943 ) was a small, yet extremely fierce, battle fought between a battalion of German Fallschirmjäger ( paratroops ) from the German 1st Parachute Division under Generalleutnant Richard Heidrich, and assaulting Canadian forces from the 1st Canadian Infantry Division under Major General Chris Vokes.

* Chris Green ( railway manager ) ( born 1943 ), British railwayman

Founding members are Chris Karrer, Dieter Serfas, Falk Rogner ( b. 14 September 1943 ), John Weinzierl and Renate Knaup ( b. Renate Aschaver-Knaup, 1 July 1948 ).

Most of the films, like the Maria Montez vehicle White Savage ( 1943 ), were B-movie musicals ; the most notable was Arthur Lubin's Phantom of the Opera ( 1943 ).

He is notable for having made six popular Technicolor adventure films with Maria Montez: Arabian Nights ( 1942 ), White Savage ( 1943 ), Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves ( 1944 ), Cobra Woman ( 1944 ), Gypsy Wildcat ( 1944 ), and Sudan ( 1945 ).

He starred alongside Jon Hall and Maria Montez in three films for Universal Pictures: Arabian Nights ( 1942 ), White Savage ( 1943 ) and Cobra Woman ( 1944 ).

* 1943 – Sharon Baird, American actress and dancer

* 1943 – Woody Peoples, American football player ( d. 2010 )

* 1943 – Deborah Walley, American actress ( d. 2001 )

* 1943 – Hugh Wilson, American director, writer, and actor

* 1943 – Nelson DeMille, American novelist

* 1943 – Larry Coryell, American jazz guitarist ( The Free Spirits and The Eleventh House )

* 1943 – Lou Piniella, American baseball player and manager

* 1943 – Dick Halligan, American musician and composer ( Blood, Sweat & Tears )

* 1943 – Robert Crumb, American illustrator and writer

* 1943 – Richard Allen Epstein, American lawyer

* 1943 – Abigail Folger, American heiress and activist ( d. 1969 )

* 1943 – World War II: American bomber aircraft accidentally cause more than 900 civilian deaths, including 209 children, and 1300 wounded among the civilian population of the Belgian town of Mortsel.

* 1943 – Jimmy Griffin, American singer-songwriter and guitarist ( Bread, Black Tie, and The Remingtons ) ( d. 2005 )

* 1943 – Michael Mantler, American trumpeter and composer ( Jazz Composer's Orchestra )

* 1943 – Ronnie Spector, American singer-songwriter ( The Ronettes )

In USA in July 1943, as a result of the American Federation of Musicians boycott of US recording studios, the a cappella vocal group The Song Spinners had a best-seller with " Comin ' In On A Wing And A Prayer ".