* 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 – Fred Biletnikoff, American football player and coach

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

* 1943 – Fred Turner, Canadian bass player ( Bachman – Turner Overdrive )

* Annotated Justinian Code English translation ( from the Mommsen and Krueger edition ) by Fred H. Blume, 1943 ; revised by Timothy Kearley, 2005-2009 ( greatly preferable to Scott's translation )

A World War II-era movie called Flight for Freedom ( 1943 ) starring Rosalind Russell and Fred MacMurray furthered a myth that Earhart was spying on the Japanese in the Pacific at the request of the Franklin Roosevelt administration.

* Fred L. Lowery ( born 1943 ), Southern Baptist pastor

She first wed Fred Losee in 1943, but the union was brief, ending in 1944.

* They Go Wild, Simply Wild, Over Me, words by Joe McCarthy ( 1885 – 1943 ), music by Fred Fisher, McCarthy & Fisher ( pub ) ( 1917 )

Other wartime films with an AVG angle included The Sky's the Limit ( 1942, starring Fred Astaire ); God is My Co-pilot, ( 1943, with Dennis Morgan as Robert Lee Scott, Raymond Massey as Chennault, and John Ridgely as Tex Hill ); Hers to Hold ( 1943, with Joseph Cotten ); and China's Little Devils ( 1945 ).

Minden, a small city, produced other successful athletes too, including David Allen Lee ( born 1943 ), the punter for the Baltimore Colts from 1966 – 1978, and Fred Haynes ( 1946 – 2006 ), the holder of many football records as the quarterback at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge during the late 1960s.

His parents ; Jean ( Weiner ) Rosenberg and Fred Rosenberg, moved to Detroit, Michigan one week prior to the race riots of 1943.

Its English counterpart was the Labor-Progressive Party which, federally, elected Fred Rose to the Canadian House of Commons from the Montreal riding of Cartier in 1943.

Frederick S. " Fred " Biletnikoff ( born February 23, 1943 ) is a former American football wide receiver and coach.

While on the Professional Tour from 1935 until 1943, Dick played and defeated these top world-class players: Bill Tilden, Don Budge, Ellsworth Vines, Fred Perry, Bobby Riggs, Karel Kozeluh, Vinnie Richards, Frank Kovacs, Welby Van Horn, Bruce Barnes, Wayne Sabin, and Les Stoeffen.

He was succeeded as Director of the AMN by other three US Army senior officers, Brigadier-General Fred T. Cruse ( 1942 – 1943 ), Brigadier-General Lee Roy Bartlet ( 1943 – 1946 ) and Brigadier-General John F. Greco ( 1947 ) until GN Infantry Colonel Anastasio Somoza Debayle was appointed its first Nicaraguan-born Director in 1948.

* Fred Tompkins ( b. 1943 ), American jazz flautist

Fred Astaire told the brothers that their dazzling footwork, leaps and splits in the Jumpin ’ Jive dance in Stormy Weather ( 1943 ) produced the greatest movie musical number he had ever seen.

Fred Waitzkin ( born in 1943 in Massachusetts ) is an American novelist and writer for The New York Times Sunday Magazine, New York, and Esquire.

* Fred Conlon ( 1943 – 2005 ), Irish sculptor

* 1943 – Fred Apostoli

Frederick William Owen Potts VC ( 18 December 1892 – 3 November 1943 ), more commonly known as Fred Potts, was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

Fred died on 3 November 1943 at the age of 50.