* 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 – Richard Allen Epstein, American lawyer

Obersturmbannführer Rudolf Höss was overall commandant of the Auschwitz complex from May 1940 – November 1943 ; Obersturmbannführer Arthur Liebehenschel from November 1943 – May 1944 ; and Sturmbannführer Richard Baer from May 1944 – January 1945.

William Hearst died in 1951, at age 88, and was succeeded by Richard E. Berlin as chief executive officer ; Berlin had served as president of the company since 1943.

* 1943 – Richard Armstrong, British conductor

* 1943 – Richard Wright, English keyboard player and songwriter ( Pink Floyd ) ( d. 2008 )

* 1943 – Richard Moll, American actor

* 1943 – Richard H. Price, American physicist

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

Several researchers, including Nobel Prize winner Dr. Richard Smalley ( 1943 – 2005 ), attacked the notion of universal assemblers, leading to a rebuttal from Drexler and colleagues, and eventually to an exchange of letters.

* 1986 – Richard Manuel, Canadian musician ( The Band ) ( b. 1943 )

Richard Errett Smalley ( June 6, 1943 – October 28, 2005 ) was the Gene and Norman Hackerman Professor of Chemistry and a Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Rice University, in Houston, Texas.

* April 20 – Richard Hillary, British pilot and author ( d. 1943 )

** Richard Manuel, Canadian musician ( The Band ) ( b. 1943 )

In 1943, at the age of eighteen, Richard Burton ( who had now taken his teacher's surname but would not change it by deed poll for several years ), was allowed into Exeter College, Oxford for a special term of six months study, made possible because he was an air force cadet obligated to later military service.

Richard and Frances Hughes had five children: Robert Elyston-Glodrydd ( born 1932 ), Penelope ( 1934 ), Lleky Susannah ( 1936 ), Catherine Phyllida ( 1940 ) and Owain Gardner Collingwood ( 1943 ).

* Richard Quick ( 1943 – 2009 ), American swimming coach

Her second husband, whom she married ( at age 39 ) in 1943, was Richard Ney ( 1916 – 2004 ), the younger actor ( 27 years old ) who played her son in Mrs. Miniver.

Richard played the full 1943 – 44 season, and scored 32 goals and 54 points and was named to the Second All-Star team.

Gary Richard Burghoff ( born May 24, 1943 ) is an American actor, known for playing Charlie Brown in the 1967 Off-Broadway musical You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown, and the character Corporal Walter Eugene " Radar " O ' Reilly in the M * A * S * H movie and TV series.

* Guadalcanal Diary, 1943 book by Richard Tregaskis

* Richard Sterban ( born 1943 ), bass singer for The Oak Ridge Boys and former vocalist with Elvis Presley.

In 1943, the First Presidency discovered apostle Richard R. Lyman was cohabitating with a woman other than his legal wife.

They had two children, Richard J. Marshall, Jr., who died on 2 March 1943 in World War II, and Harriette Marshall Olsen, who married John E. Olson, who survived the Bataan Death March.