* 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 – Mary Woronov, American actress

Mary Pickford War Funds bungalow, 1943

* 1943 – Mary Wells, American singer-songwriter ( d. 1992 )

* 1998 – Mary Frann, American actress ( b. 1943 )

* Married: Mary Esta Jennings ( 1933 – 1943 ), Marjorie Greenblatt Mazia ( 1945 – 1953 ), Anneke van Kirk ( 1953 – 1954 )

* September 23 – Mary Frann, American actress ( b. 1943 )

* July 26 – Mary Wells, American singer ( b. 1943 )

* Mary Ellen, ( 1856 – 1908 ) who married the mathematician and author Charles Howard Hinton and had four children: George ( 1882 – 1943 ), Eric (* 1884 ), William ( 1886 – 1909 ) and Sebastian ( 1887 – 1923 ) inventor of the Jungle gym.

John Herbert Dillinger, Jr. was born on June 22, 1903, in the Oak Hill section of Indianapolis, Indiana, the younger of two children born to John Wilson Dillinger ( July 2, 1864 – November 3, 1943 ) and Mary Ellen " Mollie " Lancaster ( 1860 – 1907 ).

Arc de Triomphe ( 1943 ), a musical vehicle for Mary Ellis, was only a modest success, but Perchance to Dream ( 1945 ) was immensely successful, running for 1, 022 performances.

Boris III the Unifier, Tsar of Bulgaria ( 30 January 1894 – 28 August 1943 ), originally Boris Klemens Robert Maria Pius Ludwig Stanislaus Xaver ( Boris Clement Robert Mary Pius Louis Stanislaus Xavier ), son of Ferdinand I, came to the throne in 1918 upon the abdication of his father, following the defeat of the Kingdom of Bulgaria during World War I.

The Song of Bernadette is a 1943 drama film which tells the story of Saint Bernadette Soubirous, who from February to July 1858 in Lourdes, France, reported eighteen visions of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

Mrs. Mary Winder served as Morton's first postmistress ( 1924 – 1943 ).

* Mary Frann ( 1943 – 1998 ), actress

In 1943, when she was elected as Royal Bencher, Queen Mary became the first female Bencher in any Inn.

Mary Elizabeth Hartman ( December 2, 1943 – June 10, 1987 ) was an American actress, best known for her performance in the 1965 film A Patch of Blue, playing a blind girl named Selina D ' Arcy, opposite Sidney Poitier, a role for which she won the Golden Globe Award for New Star Of The Year-Actress and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress and Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama.

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.

Margaret Mary Beckett ( née Jackson ; born 15 January 1943 ) is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Derby South since 1983, rising to become the Deputy Leader of the Labour Party under John Smith, from 18 July 1992 to 12 May 1994, and briefly serving as Leader of the Party following Smith's death.

Alvin Cullum York was born in a two-room log cabin near Pall Mall, Tennessee, on December 13, 1887, the third of eleven children born to Mary Elizabeth Brooks ( 8 August 1866-21 May 1943 ) and William Uriah York ( 15 May 1863 – 17 November 1911 ).

In April 1908 Bresee accepted Edgar P. Ellyson, president of the Holiness University of Texas of Peniel, Texas, his wife, Mary Emily Ellyson ( 1869 – 1943 ), and many leaders and members of the Holiness Association of Texas into the Pentecostal Church of the Nazarene, with Emily Ellyson elected pastor of the new congregation at Peniel.

Mary Genevieve Gaudron, QC ( born 5 January 1943 ), Australian lawyer and judge, was the first female Justice of the High Court of Australia.

His financial independence was secured by The Rise of American Civilization ( 1927 ), and its two sequels, America in Midpassage ( 1939 ), and The American Spirit ( 1943 ), all written with his wife, Mary.

* Mary Jane Rathbun ( 1860 – 1943 ), American zoologist

* Una Mary Ross, 26th Baroness de Ros ( 1879 – 1956 ) ( abeyance terminated 1943 ; abeyant 1956 )