* 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 )

* 2004 – Elena Souliotis, Greek soprano ( b. 1943 )

* Sant ' Elena piccola isola ( 1943 )

# Princess Maria Beatrice Caroline of Savoy ( Given names: Maria Beatrice Elena Margherita Ludovica Caterina Ramona di Savoia ), born in 1943 in Naples, Italy.

* 1912 – Elias Degiannis, Greek navy officer and Resistance fighter ( d. 1943 )

* 1859 – Kostis Palamas, Greek poet ( d. 1943 )

* 1943 – Vicky Moscholiou, Greek singer ( d. 2005 )

* 1943 – Dionysis Simopoulos, Greek physicist and astronomer

* 1943 – Toula Grivas, Greek actress

* 1943 – Aristotelis Pavlidis, Greek politician

* 1943 – Takis Ikonomopoulos, Greek footballer

Evangelos Odysseas Papathanassiou ( ; born 29 March 1943 ) is a Greek composer of electronic, progressive, ambient, jazz, pop rock and orchestral music, under the artist name Vangelis.

* July 10 – Evangelos Florakis, Greek military officer ( b. 1943 )

Parnussusians took refuge in the cave from the Persians ( Herodotus, 8. 36 ) in the 5th century BC, the Turks during the Greek War of Independence, and from the Germans in 1943.

However, on orders from London to create a diversion during the fighting in Italy, in September 1943 he organised an unsuccessful attempt to occupy the small Greek islands of Kos, Leros and Samos.

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 ).

In summer 1943 the Greek Squadrons participated in the attack against the German Wehrmacht on the island of Crete.

Awad, a Palestinian Christian ( a member of the Greek Orthodox Church ), was born in 1943 in Jerusalem when it was under the British Mandate.

He is best known for his work against genocide, a word he coined in 1943 from the root words genos ( Greek for family, tribe, or race ) and-cide ( Latin for killing ).

The " Historical issue " was withdrawn from circulation in 1941 ( the King George and King Constantine issues ) and 1943 ( the Greek civilization set ).

Mac Low received his associate's degree from the University of Chicago in 1943, where he continued study in philosophy and literature into 1945, and his bachelor's degree in Ancient Greek from Brooklyn College in 1953.

In 1943 Pope Pius XII issued an encyclical letter, Divino Afflante Spiritu, which encouraged Roman Catholics to translate the Scriptures from the original Hebrew and Greek, rather than from Jerome's Latin Vulgate.

* Fifteen Greek Plays ( 1943 ) with others

* MERCOURIS, George S. ( 1886 – 1943 ) Founder of the Greek National Socialist Party.

George S. Mercouris (, 1886 – December 1943 ) was a Greek politician who founded the Greek National Socialist Party.

One of the largest attacks was on the Greek Navy's flagship, the Queen Olga, sunk by German bombers on Sunday September 26, 1943, along with HMS Intrepid, while they were anchored in Portolago.