* 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 )

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.

* 1943 – Peter Sinfield, British lyricist and producer

* 1943 – Peter Eggert, German footballer

* 1943 – Peter Jensen, Australian archbishop

* 1943 – Peter Hyams, American director

* 1943 – Peter Struck, German politician

* 1943 – Peter Carey, Australian author

* 1943 – Peter Adair, American filmmaker

Peter Guralnick ( born December 15, 1943, in Boston, Massachusetts ) is an American music critic, writer on music, and historian of US American popular music, who is also active as an author and screenwriter.

* July 28 – Beatrix Potter, English children's author ( Peter Rabbit & Jemima Puddle-Duck ) ( d. 1943 )

Frank Heynick has argued from a study of the journal notes of Ayn Rand made in the late 1930s and of incidents in her 1943 novel The Fountainhead, that Raymond Hood's career and works provided fodder for her fictional architect Peter Keating.

Other German dramatic treatments include Georg Kaiser's posthumously published Double Amphitryon ( Zweimal Amphitryon, 1943 ) and Peter Hacks's Amphitryon ( 1968 ).

His two brothers Franc Melik ( born 1885 ), and Ivan Melik ( born 1894 ) were killed in a grove known as Kozler's Thicket (, named after its former owner, Peter Kozler ) on November 25, 1943 together with 12 other victims by a unit of the collaborationist Slovenian Home Guard militia under the command of Franc Frakelj.

* Peter Plantec ( born 1943 ), writer, digital artist and software designer.

* Peter Kellogg ( born 1943 ), tied for number 278 on Forbes Magazine's 2006 Billionaires List, with a net worth of $ 2. 6 billion ; director of the Wall Street investment firm Spear, Leeds & Kellogg, which was sold to Goldman Sachs in 2000 for $ 5. 5 billion.

* 1943 Peter Pan ( Peter ), Cambridge Theatre

In 1943 Tippett met Benjamin Britten and his partner, the tenor Peter Pears.

* Blow Your Own Trumpet, a comedy by Peter Ustinov, ( directed ), Playhouse Theatre August 1943

Edna gave birth to their son, Peter Magana, in 1943.

He had one son, Peter Magana Kenyatta ( born 1943 ) from his short marriage with Edna Clarke.

Simon was raised in the Riverdale neighborhood of the Bronx, New York City and has two older sisters, Joanna ( b. 1940 ) and Lucy ( b. 1943 ), and a younger brother, Peter ( b. 1947 ).

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.