* 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 )

David Paul Cronenberg, OC, FRSC ( born March 15, 1943 ) is a Canadian filmmaker, screenwriter and actor.

* 1943 – David Geffen, American record producer

* 1943 – David Nolan, American political activist ( d. 2010 )

* Rudgers, David F. Creating the Secret State: The Origins of the Central Intelligence Agency, 1943 – 1947 ( Lawrence, KS: University of Kansas Press, 2000 )

We will now follow the strategy of David Hilbert ( 1862 – 1943 ) who gave a simplification of the original proof of Charles Hermite.

* 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 ).

* John David Kennedy ( born 1943 ), chemist and professor of inorganic chemistry at the University of Leeds, UK

In 1943, Zack Schwartz, David Hilberman, and Stephen Bosustow formed a studio called first Industrial Film & Poster Service and later United Productions of America, where they were free to apply their concepts.

* Walter Brookfield Hendrickson, David Dale Owen: Pioneer Geologist of the Middle West, Indiana Historical Bureau, Indianapolis, 1943.

In 1943 John Hubley left Screen Gems and formed a studio with former Disney animators Stephen Bosustow, David Hilberman, and Zachary Schwartz, who — like Hubley — had left Walt's nest during the animator's strike.

* David Douglas-Home, 15th Earl of Home ( Born 1943 ), heir general to the House of Douglas

Reporting thence to the Naval Training School for diesel engineers at the Madison campus of the University of Wisconsin, for instruction, David ultimately reported for duty at the Naval Training Station, Naval Operating Base, Norfolk, before he traveled to Orange, Texas to assist in fitting out the destroyer escort, which was commissioned at the Consolidated Steel Corporation yard on June 7, 1943.

They had three children: Katherine ( 1938 – 1945 ), who died of an allergic reaction on March 18, 1945, David ( 1943 – 1994 ), and Julie ( born 1946 ), the latter two later becoming actors themselves.

* Kenny Kramer ( born 1943 ), lived in a Hell's Kitchen apartment across the hall from Larry David and became the inspiration for the Cosmo Kramer character on Seinfeld.

It has been claimed that formalists, such as David Hilbert ( 1862 – 1943 ), hold that mathematics is only a language and a series of games.

David Fraser Nolan ( November 23, 1943 – November 21, 2010 ) was an American activist and politician.

All three of Arnold's surviving sons were graduates of West Point ( Henry Harley Jr., 1939 ; Willam Bruce, June 1943 ; and David Lee, 1949 ) and reached the grade of colonel.

* David Howard Hitchcock ( 1861 – 1943 ), an American / Hawaiian painter

The couple had six children: Julia Romana Howe ( 1844 – 1886 ) married Michael Anagnos, a Greek scholar who succeeded Dr. Howe as director of the Perkins Institute ; Florence Marion Howe ( 1845 – 1922 ), an author, she wrote a well-known treatise on manners and was married to lawyer David Prescott Hall ; Henry Marion Howe ( 1848 – 1922 ), a metallurgist who lived in New York ; Laura Elizabeth Howe ( 1850 – 1943 ), a Pulitzer prize-winning author, she was married to Henry Richards and lived in Maine ; Maud Howe ( 1855 – 1948 ), a Pulitzer prize-winning author, she was married to an English muralist and illustrator, John Elliott ; Samuel Gridley Howe, Jr. ( 1858 – 1863 ).

David McClure Brinkley ( July 10, 1920 – June 11, 2003 ) was an American newscaster for NBC and ABC in a career lasting from 1943 to 1997.

The first platypus bred in captivity was born at the Sanctuary in 1943 when it was managed by David Fleay.

David Frank Bellotti ( born 13 August 1943 ) is a Liberal Democrat politician in the United Kingdom who was Member of Parliament ( MP ) for the Eastbourne constituency from 1990 to 1992.

David Robert Peterson, PC, O. Ont ( born December 28, 1943 ) was the 20th Premier of the Province of Ontario, Canada, from June 26, 1985 to October 1, 1990.