* 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 )

Ten of his songs were nominated for the Oscar, many written with Cahn, including " I've Heard That Song Before " (# 1 for 13 weeks for Harry James and His Orchestra in 1943 ), " I'll Walk Alone ", " It's Magic " ( a # 2 hit for Doris Day in 1948 ) and " I Fall in Love Too Easily ".

She was selected to play " Pilar " in the 1943 film For Whom the Bell Tolls, winning an Oscar and a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress-Motion Picture.

* 1871 – Johan Oscar Smith, Norwegian religious leader ( d. 1943 )

* Oscar winners: Rebecca ( 1940 ), How Green Was My Valley ( 1941 ), Mrs. Miniver ( 1942 ), Casablanca ( 1943 ), Going My Way ( 1944 ), The Lost Weekend ( 1945 ), The Best Years of Our Lives ( 1946 ), Gentleman's Agreement ( 1947 ), Hamlet ( 1948 ), All the King's Men ( 1949 ).

Carmen Jones is a 1943 Broadway musical with music by Georges Bizet ( orchestrated for Broadway by Robert Russell Bennett ) and lyrics and book by Oscar Hammerstein II.

Even though she had not made a picture in five years, Arthur accepted the part at the request of George Stevens with whom she had worked in two earlier films, The Talk of the Town ( 1942 ) and The More the Merrier ( 1943 ) for which she received her only Oscar nomination.

In 1943, he was awarded an Honorary Oscar Certificate for " progressive cultural achievement " in establishing the French Research Foundation in Los Angeles as a source of reference ( certificate ).

Sir Ben Kingsley, CBE ( born Krishna Pandit Bhanji ; Gujarati: ક ૃ ષ ્ ણ ા પ ં ડ િ ત ભ ા ણજ ી; 31 December 1943 ) is an English actor who has won an Oscar, BAFTA, Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild awards in his career.

* 1943: Oscar winner for 49th Parallel as Best Writing, Original Story

* 1943: Oscar nominated for 49th Parallel as Best Writing, Screenplay.

* 1943: Oscar nominated for One of Our Aircraft Is Missing for Best Writing, Original Screenplay.

She started a fashion business in 1943 with notable designers like Charles James and Oscar de la Renta on staff.

* Oscar Tingelstad ( 1928 – 1943 )

She received one Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress, for the 1943 film So Proudly We Hail !, but did not win.

* 1943 – Oscar Niemeyer completes his Pampulha project in Brazil.

* I Couldn't Sleep a Wink Last Night nominated for an Oscar for Best Song, also featured in the 1943 film Higher and Higher, sung by Frank Sinatra

Oscar Hartzell ( 1876 – 1943 ) was an American con man who convinced many people in North America to join him in a fraudulent lawsuit against the British government.

She then returned to the West End ( briefly returning to the Old Vic to play Emilia in their 1938 Othello ), notably playing Edith Gunter in Dodie Smith's Autumn Crocus ( Lyric, 1931 ), the Countess of Rousillon in All's Well That Ends Well ( Arts, 1932 ), Lady Strawholme in Ivor Novello's Fresh Fields ( Criterion, 1933 ), Liz Frobisher in John Van Druten's The Distaff Side ( Apollo, 1933 ), Barbara Dawe in Clemence Dane's Moonlight is Silver ( Queen's, 1934 ), Theodora in Elmer Rice's Not for Children ( Fortune, 1935 ), Masha in Chekhov's The Seagull ( New Theatre, 1936 ), the Mother in an English-language version of Garcia Lorca's Bodas de sangre entitled Marriage of Blood ( Savoy, 1939 ), Léonie in Jean Cocteau's Les Parents terribles ( Gate, 1940 ), Mrs Cheveley in Oscar Wilde's An Ideal Husband ( Westminster, 1943 ), and Cornelia in John Webster's The White Devil ( Duchess, 1947 ).

In 1943 he was commissioned to create the title painting for Albert Lewin's film adaptation of Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray.

* Marcus Wallenberg ( senior ) (" Häradshövdingen ") ( 1864 – 1943 ), son of André Oscar Wallenberg, banker, industrialist and politician.

In the following decade, he appeared in such films as The Buccaneer ( 1938 ), The Great McGinty ( 1940 ), The Corsican Brothers ( 1941 ), Tortilla Flat ( 1942 ), Five Graves to Cairo ( 1943 ), His Butler's Sister ( 1943 ), For Whom the Bell Tolls ( 1943 ), for which he received another Oscar nomination, and The Miracle of Morgan's Creek ( 1944 ).

* Oklahoma !, 1943 Broadway, 1947 London, m Richard Rodgers, lb Oscar Hammerstein II, ( 2, 212, the longest-running Broadway show in history, until My Fair Lady )