* 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 )

For decades preceding and immediately after the Second World War Billy Rose was a major force in entertainment, with shows, such as Jumbo ( 1935 ), Billy Rose's Aquacade, and Carmen Jones ( 1943 ), his Diamond Horseshoe nightclub, and the Ziegfeld Theatre influencing the careers of many stars.

George Washington Carver National Monument is a unit of the National Park Service located about two miles west of Diamond, Missouri ; the national monument was founded on July 14, 1943, by Franklin Delano Roosevelt who dedicated $ 30, 000 US to the monument.

He graduated from Wentworth Military Academy in Lexington, Missouri in 1943.

Waller contracted pneumonia and died on a cross country train trip near Kansas City, Missouri on December 15, 1943, after making a final recording session with an interracial group in Detroit that included white trumpeter Don Hirleman.

He attended college and law school at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, and built a solid reputation practicing law in St. Louis between 1928 and 1943.

In 1943, German and Italian prisoners of World War II were brought to Missouri and other Midwest states as a means of solving the labor shortage caused by American men serving in the war effort.

In 1943, German and Italian prisoners of World War II were brought to Missouri and other Midwest states as a means of solving the labor shortage caused by American men serving in the war effort.

The Army Air Corps established its Map Unit, which was renamed ACP in 1943 and was located in St. Louis, Missouri.

After returning and completing his Master's at Peabody in 1938, he taught at Stephens College, in Columbia, Missouri, from 1938 to 1943.

An aviator in the 110th Observation Squadron of the Missouri National Guard ( 1923 – 1943 ) became the most famous Guard pilot during the interwar period: Captain Charles A. Lindbergh.

Bradley was born on July 28, 1943 in Crystal City, Missouri, the only child of Warren ( d. 1994 ), who despite leaving high school after a year had become a bank president, and Susan " Susie " ( née Crowe ) Bradley ( d. 1995 ), a teacher and former high school-basketball player.

Wolf began his teaching career at the University of Missouri in 1934, remaining there until 1943, when he took a position at the University of Minnesota.

Born in March 1943 in Sedalia, Missouri, Fleming entered military service at Pullman, Washington.

The Church of Christ " With the Elijah Message ," Established Anew 1929 is a denomination of the Latter Day Saint movement, headquartered in Jackson County, Missouri, which split from the Church of Christ ( Fettingite ) in 1943 in a dispute over claimed revelations given to its founder William A. Draves.

Adams headed the drama department at Stephens College in Missouri from 1937 to 1943, becoming well known as an inspiring teacher in the arts of acting.

He produced Shakespeare plays as a guest professor at the University of Washington in 1943 and 1946, the University of Iowa in 1943, the University of Missouri in 1948, the University of Colorado in 1953, the University of Michigan in 1954, San Diego State University 1949 – 52, Allan Hancock College, California in 1968, and the Banff School of Fine Arts, Banff, Alberta, Canada 1959 – 1963.

In DeVoto's later years, he gained fame for his popular histories of the West: The Year of Decision: 1846 ( 1943 ), Across the Wide Missouri ( 1947 ), The Course of Empire ( 1952 ), and a popular abridged edition of The Journals of Lewis and Clark ( 1953 ).

Cohen resigned his position with the federal government in 1943, then located in St. Louis, Missouri as the federal government dispersed federal agencies around the country to forestall an enemy attack on them in World War II, to prepare to enter the US Army.

After the ERO closed he returned in 1939 to Missouri, where he resided until his death on January 26, 1943.

Sunday, October 10, 1943 at Sportsman's Park ( III ) in St. Louis, Missouri

Monday, October 11, 1943 at Sportsman's Park ( III ) in St. Louis, Missouri

Froug attended, and graduated from, the renowned Journalism School at the University of Missouri, Columbia in 1943 before enlisting in the U. S. Navy.

Born in St. Louis, Missouri in 1943, Beardslee was the oldest of three children and his father died when he was 11.

Hatch joined the Navy in 1943 ; after his tour of duty, he relocated to Kansas City, Missouri in 1946.