* 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 – Joan Van Ark, American actress

Joni Mitchell, CC ( born Roberta Joan Anderson ; November 7, 1943 ) is a Canadian musician, singer songwriter, and painter.

* Della Street: Mason's confidential secretary ( originated in 1943 by Joan Alexander on radio ,) whom was played by Barbara Hale in Perry Mason and all of the TV Movies listed below.

He next appeared opposite the seventeen-year-old Joan Leslie in the wartime drama The Sky's the Limit ( 1943 ), where he introduced Arlen and Mercer's " One for My Baby " while dancing on a bar counter in a dark and troubled routine.

He co-starred with Katharine Hepburn in Alice Adams ( 1935 ), with Joan Crawford in Above Suspicion ( 1943 ), and with Carole Lombard in four films, Hands Across the Table ( 1935 ), The Princess Comes Across ( 1936 ), Swing High, Swing Low ( 1937 ), and True Confession ( 1937 ).

A third adaptation in 1943 featured Charles Boyer, Joan Fontaine and Alexis Smith.

York was born Susannah Yolande Fletcher in Chelsea, London, in 1939, the younger daughter of Simon William Peel Vickers Fletcher ( 1910 – 2002 ), a merchant banker and steel magnate, and his first wife, the former Joan Nita Mary Bowring – they married in 1935 and divorced prior to 1943.

Hitchcock continued to perfect his recognizable brand of suspense-thriller, directing Foreign Correspondent ( 1940 ), the haunting Oscar-winning Rebecca ( 1940 ), which is about the unusual romance between a young woman ( Joan Fontaine ) and an emotionally-distant rich widower ( Laurence Olivier ) – overshadowed by a vindictive housekeeper ( Judith Anderson ), Suspicion ( 1941 ) about a woman in peril from her own husband ( Cary Grant ), Saboteur ( 1942 ) and Shadow of a Doubt ( 1943 ), which was Hitchcock's own personal favorite and based upon the actual case of a 1920s serial killer known as The Merry Widow Murderer.

The couple had three children: Joan ( b. 1931 ), Jane ( b. 1933 ), and Ralph ( b. 1943 ).

Dame Joan Ruddock, DBE, MP ( née Joan Mary Anthony ; born 28 December 1943, Pontypool, Torfaen ) is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Lewisham Deptford since 1987.

* Minotaur ( 1943 ) Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona

Joan Van Ark ( born June 16, 1943 ) is an American actress, most notable for her role as Valene Ewing, which she originated on the CBS series Dallas and continued for thirteen seasons on its spin-off, Knots Landing.

Joan Manuel Serrat i Teresa () ( 27 December 1943 ) is a Spanish singer.

Introduced by Dennis Morgan and Joan Leslie in the 1943 film Thank Your Lucky Stars

August Sangret ( 28 August 1913 – 29 April 1943 ) was a French-Canadian soldier of First Nations birth, convicted of murdering Joan Wolfe in Surrey, England and hanged.

While in London in 1943, he wrote the lyrics for the song La complainte du partisan, ( known in English translation as The Partisan ( recorded by Leonard Cohen, Joan Baez, and doubtless many others ).

Films shown in roadshow format before 1953 included silent epics such as The Birth of a Nation ( 1915 ), Intolerance ( 1916 ), The Covered Wagon ( 1923 ), The Hunchback of Notre Dame ( 1923 ), The Ten Commandments ( 1923 ), Ben-Hur ( 1925 ), The Big Parade ( 1925 ), and other films such as The Phantom of the Opera ( 1925 ), the first Oscar winner Wings ( 1927 ), the very first feature length part-talkie The Jazz Singer ( 1927 ), the silent film Chicago ( 1927 ) ( based on the play that inspired the Kander and Ebb Broadway musical and Oscar-winning film ), Show Boat ( 1929 ) ( a part-talkie based not on the 1927 stage musical but on Edna Ferber's original novel from which the musical was adapted ), The Desert Song ( 1929 ), Rio Rita ( also 1929 ), Cecil B. DeMille's The Sign of the Cross ( 1932 ), the all-star Oscar winning Grand Hotel ( 1932 ), the Oscar-winning biopic The Great Ziegfeld ( 1936 ), the classic films Lost Horizon ( 1937 ), Gone with the Wind ( 1939 ), Fantasia ( 1940 ), For Whom the Bell Tolls ( 1943 ) and The Song of Bernadette ( 1943 ), the wartime tear-jerker Since You Went Away ( 1944 ), Samuel Goldwyn's Oscar-winning postwar epic The Best Years of Our Lives ( 1946 ), the flamboyant Western Duel in the Sun ( also 1946 ), and the biopic Joan of Arc starring Ingrid Bergman ( 1948 ), as well as some other DeMille epics, such as Samson and Delilah ( 1949 ).

With the work of film preservationists and restoration, such roadshow flops as the 1935 A Midsummer Night's Dream, Joan of Arc ( 1948 ), and Fantasia ( 1940 ), along with the hugely successful films For Whom the Bell Tolls ( 1943 ), Spartacus, Lawrence of Arabia, and Around the World in 80 Days, all of which had significant footage missing, have been restored in recent years to match the filmmakers ' original intent.

Her career there proved rather disappointing, apart from Joan of Paris opposite Paul Henreid in 1942, Higher and Higher opposite Frank Sinatra in 1943.

She " joined Joan Davis and Jinx Falkenberg in Two Senoritas from Chicago " ( 1943 ), and starred ( as a brunette ) in the first of several outings with Tom Neal in Klondike Kate ( 1943 ).

* Lone Star Trail ( 1943 ) .... Joan Winters