* 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 – Judith Durham, Australian singer-songwriter and musician ( The Seekers )

* Judith Durham ( born 1943 ), Australian singer, member of The Seekers

Anderson used the award money to establish a singing competition to help support young singers ; recipients of which include Camilla Williams ( 1943, 1944 ), Nathaniel Dickerson ( 1944 ), Louise Parker ( 1944 ), Rawn Spearman ( 1949 ), Georgia Laster ( 1951 ), Betty Allen ( 1952 ), Shirlee Emmons ( 1953 ), Judith Raskin ( 1952, 1953 ), Miriam Holman ( 1954 ), Shirley Verrett ( 1957 ), and Joyce Mathis ( 1967 ).

In 1943, he met Judith Malina ( born 1926 ) and quickly came to share her passion for theatre ; they founded The Living Theatre in 1947.

* Judith Scott ( 1943 – 2005 ) was born deaf and with Down Syndrome.

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.

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.

Judith Scott ( May 1, 1943 – March 15, 2005 ) was an internationally renowned American fiber artist.

Judith Forst ( born 1943 ) is a Canadian mezzo-soprano who was made an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1991.

Judith Palfrey ( born 1943 ) is the T. Berry Brazelton Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and the author of Community Child Health: An Action Plan for Today ( 1995 ) and Child Health In America: Making A Difference Through Advocacy ( 2006 ), and co-author of the Disney Encyclopedia of Baby and Childcare ( 1999 ).

Judith Anne Adams ( 11 April 1943 – 31 March 2012 ) was a New Zealand-born Australian politician, midwife, nurse, and farmer, who served as a member of the Australian Senate between 2005 and 2012, representing the state of Western Australia.

In 1982, he married Judith Mazor Rounick ( b. 1943 as Jehudit Mazor ), the daughter of a paste jewelry importer-exporter and a former Miss Israel in 1962.

Two years later, in 1943, during the height of the war, she sailed to the United Kingdom to join Barker.

* Lieutenant-Colonel D Barker ( Jul 1942-Jul 1943 )

* New York Times ; August 16, 1943 ; page 01 ; " Gloria Gould Barker is drowned in swim pool at Arizona "

While convalescing in his Virginia home he wrote a book recording his prison experiences and escape, entitled: They Shall Not Have Me Published originally in ( Helion's ) English by Dutton & Co. of New York, in 1943, the book was received by the press as a work of astonishing literary power and one of the most realistic accounts of World War 2, from the French side.

* 1880 – Radclyffe Hall, English poet, novelist, and activist ( d. 1943 )

* 1943 – Billy J. Kramer, English singer

* 1869 – Laurence Binyon, English poet ( d. 1943 )

* 1943 – Gordon West, English footballer ( d. 2012 )

Helen Beatrix Potter ( 28 July 186622 December 1943 ) was an English author, illustrator, natural scientist and conservationist best known for her imaginative children ’ s books featuring animals such as those in The Tale of Peter Rabbit which celebrated the British landscape and country life.

* 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 – Tony Hicks, English guitarist ( The Hollies )

* 1943 – Harry Pilling, English cricketer ( d. 2012 )

* 1943 – Gareth Hunt, English actor ( d. 2007 )

* 1943 – Susan Hanson, English actress

* 1943 – Georgie Fame, English singer and pianist ( Bill Wyman's Rhythm Kings )

* 1943 – Reg Presley, English singer-songwriter ( The Troggs )

* 1943 – Malcolm McDowell, English actor

* 1943 – Leslie Howard, English actor ( b. 1893 )

* 1943 – Colin Baker, English actor

* 1867 – Fred Tate, English cricketer ( d. 1943 )

* 1943 – Mick Jagger, English singer-songwriter, producer, and actor ( The Rolling Stones and SuperHeavy )

* 1858 – Beatrice Webb, English economist ( d. 1943 )

* 1943 – Christine McVie, English singer-songwriter and musician ( Fleetwood Mac )

* 1943 – Terry Venables, English football manager