* 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 Barker, English actress

* 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.

The Italian garrison surrendered, and the company was quickley reinforced by men from the Durham Light Infantry and RAF Regiment, before being withdrawn on 25 September and in December 1943, the 11th Battalion rejoined the division in England.

The book was first delivered as a series of three evening lectures at King's College, Newcastle, part of the University of Durham, as the Riddell Memorial Lectures on February 24 – 26, 1943.

* Peter ' Peanut ' Langford ( born 10 April 1943, Durham, County Durham, England ) – Rhythm Guitarist / Vocalist

In movies, Cary Grant's character teaches rhyming slang to his female companion in the film Mr. Lucky ( 1943 ) and describes it as Australian rhyming slang.

A similar defense comes from Australian Philosopher Frank Jackson ( born 1943 ) who revived the theory of Epiphenomenalism which argues that mental states do not play a role in physical states.

* Ross Free ( born 1943 ), Australian politician

* 1943 – Peter Jensen, Australian archbishop

* 1858 – Tom Garrett, Australian cricketer ( d. 1943 )

* 1943 – World War II: Australian and American forces finally defeat the Japanese army in Papua.

* Johnny Brown ( rugby league ) ( born 1943 ), Australian rugby league footballer

*, an Australian patrol boat operational between 1938 and 1943

* 1943 – World War II: Battle of the Bismarck Sea – United States and Australian forces sink Japanese convoy ships.

* 1943 – Peter Carey, Australian author

* 2006 – Richard Carleton, Australian reporter ( b. 1943 )

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

* 1857 – Alice Henry, Australian suffragist, journalist and trade unionist ( d. 1943 )

The offensives in Papua and New Guinea of 1943 – 44 were the single largest series of connected operations ever mounted by the Australian armed forces.

* 1898 – Alma Moodie, Australian violinist ( d. 1943 )

Australian and Dutch prisoners of war at Tarsau in Thailand, 1943

Bernard Salt places the Australian baby boom between 1943 and 1960.

* Phil Hawthorne ( 1943 – 1994 ), Australian rugby footballer

He played a Victorian butler in Forever and a Day ( 1943 ) and an Australian bar-owner in The Man from Down Under ( 1943 ).

Count Folke Bernadotte ( left ) talking to Australian prisoners of war in Germany, 1943.

His Prime Ministerial predecessor and 1943 election Coalition leader, Arthur Fadden of the Country Party wrote: " I do not care who knows it but in my opinion there was no greater figure in Australian public life in my lifetime than Curtin.

Curtin is credited with leading the Australian Labor Party to its best federal election success in history, with a record 55. 1 percent of the primary half-senate vote, winning all seats, and a two party preferred lower house estimate of 58. 2 percent at the 1943 election, winning two-thirds of seats.