* 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 )

Other familiar titles are: Anzio by Edward Dmytryk, in 1968, his last Hollywood film appearance ; The North Star ( 1943 ), directed by Lewis Milestone with a script by playwright Lillian Hellman, with Erich von Stroheim ; Edge of Darkness ( 1943 ), also by Milestone, his first film role, where he played his first film German soldier role, opposite Judith Anderson ; Wilson ( 1944 ), where he played the German ambassador to Washington, D. C. during World War I, Count von Bernstorff ; The Cross of Lorraine ( 1943 ), with Gene Kelly ; The Hitler Gang, playing the Nazi official Alfred Rosenberg and Romanoff and Juliet ( 1961 ), written, directed and starring Peter Ustinov, and an Italian-American adaptation of Homer's Iliad, Helen of Troy ( 1956 ), directed by Robert Wise, with Rossanna Podesta, Jacques Sernas, and in two featured roles, Tonio Selwart playing opposite a then almost unknown Brigitte Bardot, in 1956.

In 1943, an Italian-American woman, Rita Zucca also began broadcasting to American troops from Rome, using the name “ Sally .” Often the two women were thought to be one and the same.

In July, 1943 Poletti was assigned to serve as a U. S. Army civil affairs officer in Italy, selected largely because as a first-generation Italian-American who was fluent in Italian and had served as a state governor, he had an understanding of the local culture and had sufficient stature to earn the respect of the Sicilian people.

John Zerzan ( born 1943 ) is an American anarchist and primitivist philosopher and author.

Jeremy John Ratter ( born 8 June 1943, Northwood, England ), better known under his pseudonym of Penny Rimbaud, is a drummer, writer, poet, former member of performance art groups EXIT and Ceres Confusion, and co-founder of the anarchist punk band Crass with Steve Ignorant in 1977.

* Max Baginski ( 1864 – 1943 ), German-American anarchist

In 1943, Genovese allegedly ordered the murder of Carlo Tresca, the publisher of an anarchist newspaper in New York and an enemy of Mussolini.

Pietro Umberto Acciarito ( 1871 – 1943 ) was an Italian anarchist.

Ben Lewis Reitman ( 1879 – 1943 ) was an American anarchist and physician to the poor (" the hobo doctor ").

* Carlo Tresca ( 1879 – 1943 ), Italian-born American anarchist

John ZerzanJohn Zerzan ( born 1943 ) is an American anarchist and primitivist philosopher and author.

* 1885 – Carlo Wieth, Danish actor ( d. 1943 )

* October 24 – Carlo Bergamini, Italian admiral ( d. 1943 )

by Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia ( 1943 )

Carlo Tresca ( March 9, 1879 – January 11, 1943 ) was an Italian-born American newspaper editor, orator, and labor organizer who was a leader of the Industrial Workers of the World during the decade of the 1910s.

The eponymous square is named after politician and Resistance fighter Carlo Mierendorff ( 1897 – 1943 ).

René Blum ( 13 March 1878 – 30 April 1943 ), theatrical impresario, was the founder of the Ballet de l ' Opéra at Monte Carlo and was brother of Prime Minister Léon Blum.

As a consequence of these irredentism ideals, during World War II all the coastal area between Italy and Monte Carlo was occupied and administered by the Kingdom of Italy until September 1943.

In 1943, Galante allegedly murdered Carlo Tresca, the publisher of an anti-fascist newspaper in New York.

* France: From June 1940 to September 1943, the Menton riviera ( between Monte Carlo and the Italian border ).

On 5 April 1943 he was relieved of command and replaced by Carlo Bergamini.

A eulogy at Carlo Tresca's memorial service in 1943 was delivered by Angelica Balabanoff, the socialist activist and former Bolshevik.

* Carlo Benetton ( born 26 December 1943 ) is deputy chairman of both Edizione S. r. l.