* 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 )

She was the John Harvey, one of those Atlantic sea-horses that had sailed to Bari to bring beans, bombs, and bullets to the U.S. Fifteenth Air Force, to Field Marshal Montgomery's Eighth Army then racing up the calf of the boot of Italy in that early December of 1943.

This hereditary title passed to Ian St John Lawson Johnston in 1943 and to Arthur Charles St John Lawson Johnston in 1996.

* Rewald, John, ed., with the assistance of Lucien Pissarro: Camille Pissarro, Lettres à son fils Lucien, Editions Albin Michel, Paris 1950 ; previously published, translated to English: Camille Pissarro, Letters to his son Lucien, New York 1943 & London 1944 ; 3rd revised edition, Paul P Appel Publishers, 1972 ISBN 0-911858-22-9

* 1943 – A Luftwaffe bombing raid on the harbour of Bari, Italy, sinks numerous cargo and transport ships, including an American Liberty ship, the John Harvey, with a stockpile of World War I-era mustard gas.

* 1852 – John Harvey Kellogg, American surgeon and advocate ( d. 1943 )

On 24 December 1943, Tribune published, under the authorship of " John Freeman " – possibly in reference to the British politician – the short essay " Can Socialists Be Happy?

After making the World War II film Air Force in 1943 starring John Garfield, Hawks made two films with Hollywood and real life lovers Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall.

Built under the direction of John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert at the University of Pennsylvania, ENIAC's development and construction lasted from 1943 to full operation at the end of 1945.

* John Joseph Ford ( 1907 – 1982 ), American jurist who served on Los Angeles County Courts ( 1943 – 59 ) and California Second District Court of Appeal ( 1959 – 77 ); elevated to Presiding Justice in 1966

* John Ford Noonan ( born 1943 ), American actor and writer for theater, film and television ; authored over 30 plays during 1970s, 1980s and 1990s ( A Coupla White Chicks Sitting Around Talking, 1979 )

* 1943 – John Beasley, American actor

* 1943 – John Casper, American astronaut

Sir John Major, ( born 29 March 1943 ) is a British Conservative politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1990 to 1997.

* John Walker ( musician ) ( 1943 – 2011 ), born John Maus, member of the 1960s singing group The Walker Brothers

Their first three children, Josephine, John, and Dudley Thomas, were born between 1941 and 1943.

* 1981 – John Knight, Australian politician ( b. 1943 )

* 1943 – John McEnery, English actor

* 1943 – John Nettles, English actor

File: John Major 1996. jpg | Sir John Major < BR > KG CH PC ACIBserved 1990 – 1997, born 1943

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