* 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 – 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 )

* Maurice Denis ( 1870 – 1943.

* Denis Payton, saxophonist for The Dave Clark Five, was born in Walthamstow 1943.

Denis Sassou Nguesso ( born November 23, 1943 ) is a Congolese politician who has been the President of Congo-Brazzaville since 1997 ; he was previously President from 1979 to 1992.

The memoir emphasised his paranormal interests but was not what readers wanted, so after their mother's death Adrian and Denis grudgingly allowed Hesketh Pearson to write Conan Doyle: His Life and Art ( Methuen, 1943 ).

Denis William Anson Marshall, QSO ( born 23 September 1943 ) is a former New Zealand politician.

Maurice Denis ( November 25, 1870 – November 1943 ) was a French painter and writer, and a member of the Symbolist and Les Nabis movements.

Denis died in Paris of injuries resulting from an automobile accident in November 1943.

A Representative from New York, Denis O ' Leary ( January 22, 1863 – September 27, 1943 ) was born in Manhasset, Long Island, New York.

While convalescing in his Virginia home he wrote a book recording his prison experiences and escape, entitled: They Shall Not Have Me Published originally in ( Helion's ) English by Dutton & Co. of New York, in 1943, the book was received by the press as a work of astonishing literary power and one of the most realistic accounts of World War 2, from the French side.

* 1880 – Radclyffe Hall, English poet, novelist, and activist ( d. 1943 )

* 1943 – Billy J. Kramer, English singer

* 1869 – Laurence Binyon, English poet ( d. 1943 )

* 1943 – Gordon West, English footballer ( d. 2012 )

Helen Beatrix Potter ( 28 July 186622 December 1943 ) was an English author, illustrator, natural scientist and conservationist best known for her imaginative children ’ s books featuring animals such as those in The Tale of Peter Rabbit which celebrated the British landscape and country life.

* Rewald, John, ed., with the assistance of Lucien Pissarro: Camille Pissarro, Lettres à son fils Lucien, Editions Albin Michel, Paris 1950 ; previously published, translated to English: Camille Pissarro, Letters to his son Lucien, New York 1943 & London 1944 ; 3rd revised edition, Paul P Appel Publishers, 1972 ISBN 0-911858-22-9

* 1943 – Tony Hicks, English guitarist ( The Hollies )

* 1943 – Harry Pilling, English cricketer ( d. 2012 )

* 1943 – Gareth Hunt, English actor ( d. 2007 )

* 1943 – Susan Hanson, English actress

* 1943 – Georgie Fame, English singer and pianist ( Bill Wyman's Rhythm Kings )

* 1943 – Reg Presley, English singer-songwriter ( The Troggs )

* 1943 – Malcolm McDowell, English actor

* 1943 – Leslie Howard, English actor ( b. 1893 )

* 1943 – Judith Barker, English actress

* 1943 – Colin Baker, English actor

* 1867 – Fred Tate, English cricketer ( d. 1943 )

* 1943 – Mick Jagger, English singer-songwriter, producer, and actor ( The Rolling Stones and SuperHeavy )

* 1858 – Beatrice Webb, English economist ( d. 1943 )

* 1943 – Christine McVie, English singer-songwriter and musician ( Fleetwood Mac )

* 1943 – Terry Venables, English football manager