* 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 – Jim Kale, Canadian bassist ( The Guess Who )

* 1943 – Jim Morrison, American singer ( The Doors ) ( d. 1971 )

* 1943 – Jim Guy Tucker, American politician, 43rd Governor of Arkansas

* 1943 – Jim Hightower, American radio host, author, and activist

* 1971 – Jim Morrison, American singer-songwriter, musician, poet, and actor ( The Doors and Rick & the Ravens ) ( b. 1943 )

* 1943 – Jim Risch, American politician

* 1943 – Jim Weatherly, American singer-songwriter

* July 3 – Jim Morrison, American rock singer, songwriter, and poet ( b. 1943 )

** Jim Croce, American songwriter ( b. 1943 )

* Jim Quick ( born 1943 ), Major League Baseball umpire

* Jim Murray ( ice hockey ) ( born 1943 ), Canadian ice hockey player

* Jim Kearney ( born 1943 ), American football player

* Rear Admiral George Stephen Morrison ( January 7, 1919-November 17, 2008 ) grew up in Leesburg and was the father of Jim Morrison ( James Douglas Morrison ) ( December 8, 1943 – July 3, 1971 ) of The Doors ( 60's Rock band )

* Jim Saxton ( born 1943 ), former representative from.

* Jim Hightower, former commissioner of the Texas Department of Agriculture and a liberal commentator and author, was born in Denision in 1943.

* Jim Clark ( Alaska ) ( born 1943 ), former chief of staff to Alaska Governor Frank Murkowski

James Allen " Jim " Hightower ( born January 11, 1943 ) is an American syndicated columnist, liberal political activist, and author who served from 1983 to 1991 as the elected commissioner of the Texas Department of Agriculture.

* Jim Butler ( American football ) ( aka Jim " Cannonball " Butler, born 1943 ), former American football player

Jim Marrs ( born 5 December 1943 ) is an American former newspaper journalist and New York Times best-selling author of books and articles on a wide range of alleged cover ups and conspiracies.

* Jim Craig ( Scottish footballer ) ( born 1943 ), retired footballer who played as a fullback

* Jim Hardin ( 1943 – 1991 ), American baseball player

It includes areas currently fashionable ( the Chern-Simons theory arising from a 1974 paper written jointly with Jim Simons ), perennial ( the Chern-Weil theory linking curvature invariants to characteristic classes from 1944, after the Allendoerfer-Weil paper of 1943 on the Gauss-Bonnet theorem ), the foundational ( Chern classes ), and some areas such as projective differential geometry and webs that have a lower profile.

Hugh James " Jim " Saxton ( born January 22, 1943 ) is an American Republican Party politician.