* 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 )

Pervez Musharraf (; born: 11 August 1943 ), is a retired four-star general and a politician who served as the tenth President of Pakistan from 2001 until 2008.

* Pervez Musharraf ( born 1943 ), former President of Pakistan

* 1943 – Shafqat Rana, Pakistani cricketer

* 1943 – Ashraf Aman, first Pakistani to reach the summit of K2

Tariq Ali ( Punjabi, ), ( born 21 October 1943 ), is a British Pakistani historian, novelist, journalist, filmmaker, public intellectual, political campaigner, activist, and commentator.

Khaled Ahmed ( Punjabi, Urdu: < big > خالد احمد </ big >), born 21 December 1943, is a best known Pakistani political analyst, his weekly column appears in Pakistan's newspaper The Friday Times.

Asif Iqbal Razvi ( Urdu: آصف اقبال رضوی ) ( born 6 June 1943 ) is a Pakistani cricketer who captained Pakistan and Kent CCC.

* 1943 – World War II: in Denmark, a general strike against the Nazi occupation is started.

* 1884 – Isoroku Yamamoto, Japanese naval marshal general ( d. 1943 )

Baron Ernst von Weizsäcker, ( the State Secretary 1938 – 1943 ) opposed the general trend in German foreign policy towards attacking Czechoslovakia: he feared that it might cause a general war that Germany would lose.

But in general, from late 1943 to mid-1944, the Foreign Office was second only to the SS in terms of power in France.

* 1942 – The completion of the Alaska Highway ( also known as the Alcan Highway ) is celebrated ( however, the highway is not usable by general vehicles until 1943 ).

* 1943 – Boris Gromov, Russian general

* November 21 – The completion of the Alaska Highway ( also known as the Alcan Highway ) is celebrated ( however, the " highway " is not usable by general vehicles until 1943 ).

* May 20 – Władysław Sikorski, Polish general and politician ( d. 1943 )

In 1943, Patton became a lieutenant general one month after Eisenhower was promoted to full ( four-star ) general.

From 1943 on, it was clear that a consensus existed in the German Army officer corps that of all Allied ground force commanders, the enemy general they feared the most was Patton.

In general this conforms to the first theorem in extreme value theory ( Fisher and Tippett, 1928 ; Gnedenko, 1943 ).

The PRC's UN Ambassador, Wang Yingfan ( Chinese 王英凡 ), has stated multiple times in the UN general committee: " Taiwan is an inseparable part of China's territory since antiquity " and " both the 1943 Cairo Declaration and the 1945 Potsdam Declaration have reaffirmed in unequivocal terms China's sovereignty over Taiwan as a matter of international law.

On 13 July 1943, he became a commander of the High Command of the Slovene partisan army with the rank of lieutenant general ( generallajtnant ), which he held up to his death.

This British military operation was originally planned for the night of 9 / 10 February 1943 as a set of simultaneous raids on Herm, Jethou and Brecqhou to take prisoners and gain general information about the situation in the occupied Channel Islands.

" He lost his seat at the general election of 1943, but regained it when de Valera called a snap election in 1944.

* David Douglas-Home, 15th Earl of Home ( Born 1943 ), heir general to the House of Douglas

He was elected to Dáil Éireann at the 1943 general election and sat in opposition alongside his father.

To the surprise of his family, Liam decided to seek election to Dáil Éireann in the 1943 general election and was elected as a Teachta Dála ( TD ) for Dublin County at the age of 23, sitting in the 11th Dáil alongside his father W. T. Cosgrave who was one of the founders of the Irish Free State in the 1920s.

In February 1941, he was promoted to ( wartime ) temporary rank of brigadier general ( bypassing the rank of colonel ) ( this rank was made permanent in September, 1943 ).

For the front line command Bradley was promoted to temporary lieutenant general in March 1943 and succeeded Patton as head of II Corps in April, directed it in the final Tunisian battles of April and May.

He consolidated his reputation with a one-volume general history of England, The Spirit of English History ( 1943 ), but his most important work was the historical trilogy The Elizabethan Age: The England of Elizabeth ( 1950 ), The Expansion of Elizabethan England ( 1955 ), and The Elizabethan Renaissance ( 1971 – 72 ), respectively examine the society, overseas exploration, and culture of late 16th-century England.