* 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 – Robin Williamson, Scottish musician

* Robin Bush ( 1943 – 2010 ) of Channel 4's archaeological series Time Team was born in Hayes

Robin ( Dick Grayson ) was portrayed by Douglas Croft and Johnny Duncan, respectively, in the 1943 and 1949 fifteen chapter Batman serials.

She and Wilson had two sons, Robin ( born 1943 ) and Giles ( born 1948 ).

* " A Journey to a Star " ( 1943 ) w. Leo Robin for The Gang's All Here

* " No Love, No Nothin '" ( 1943 ) w. Leo Robin for The Gang's All Here

Robin George Collingwood ( 22 February 1889 – 9 January 1943 ) was a British philosopher and historian.

He studied sculpture with Emmy Steinbock ( 1943 ), attended the St. Anna Painting School where he studied under Professor Fröhlich ( 1944 ), and entered the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna ( 1945 ) where he began his studies under Professor Robin C. Anderson, later moving to the class of Albert Paris von Gütersloh.

* Robin Shaw – vocals ( born Robin George Scrimshaw, 6 October 1943, Hayes, Middlesex ) – later with White Plains, and First Class

Bernie Naylor Medalists: 1940: George Moloney ( 129 ), 1943: Robin Farmer ( 97 ), 1976: Norm Uncle ( 91 ), 1981: Warren Ralph ( 127 ), 1982: Warren Ralph ( 115 ), 1983: Warren Ralph ( 128 ), 1991: John Hutton ( 100 ), 2001: Paul Medhurst ( 78 ), 2009: Chad Jones ( 77 ), 2010: Chad Jones ( 85 )

Robin James Wilson ( born 5 December 1943 ) is a professor in the Department of Mathematics at the Open University, a Stipendiary Lecturer at Pembroke College, Oxford and,, Professor of Geometry at Gresham College, London, where he has also been a visiting professor.

Louisiana Public Service Commissioner Clyde Holloway, a resident of nearby Forest Hill, was born in Lecompte in 1943.

Norah Elam and her husband Dudley escorted Mitford to see Diana and Oswald Mosley in Holloway on 18 March 1943.

Sir Oswald and Lady Mosley were released from detention at HMP Holloway on 16 November 1943, provoking widespread public protests.

In 1943, when Labor won large majorities in both houses of the Parliament, Holloway became Minister for Labour and National Service.

* 1943 – World War II: The U. S. Seventh Army under General George S. Patton arrives in Messina, Italy, followed several hours later by the British 8th Army under Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, thus completing the Allied conquest of Sicily.

The British developed their own SPAAGs throughout the war mounting multiple machine guns and light cannon on various tank and armoured car chassis and by 1943, the Crusader AA tanks, which mounted the Bofors 40 mm gun or two-three Oerlikon 20 mm cannon.

In 1943, during World War II, the Portuguese rules António de Oliveira Salazar leased air and naval bases in the Azores to the British Empire.

The occupation of these facilities in October 1943 was codenamed Operation Alacrity by the British.

From May 1943 onwards there was very close cooperation between the British and American military intelligence organisations.

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.

In February 1943, his authority was extended as commander of AFHQ across the Mediterranean basin to include the British 8th Army, commanded by General Bernard Law Montgomery.

* 1943 – Peter Sinfield, British lyricist and producer

* 1943 – Tim Hunt, British biochemist, Nobel laureate

* 1943 – Terry Eagleton, British literary critic and philosopher

* 1997 – Barry Evans, British actor ( b. 1943 )

On 24 December 1943, Tribune published, under the authorship of " John Freeman " – possibly in reference to the British politician – the short essay " Can Socialists Be Happy?

In his reply ( dated 15 November 1943 ) to an invitation from the Duchess of Atholl to speak for the British League for European Freedom, he stated that he didn't agree with their objectives.

* Undercover ( 1943 ), a British film produced by Ealing Studios, released in the US by Columbia pictures as Underground Guerrillas.

In 1943 the USSR released the Revisionist Zionist leader, Menachem Begin from the Gulag and he went to Palestine, taking command of the Etzel organization with a policy of increased conflict against the British.

Allied leaders of the Sicilian campaign in North Africa ; ( front row, left to right ) General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder, 1st Baron Tedder | Arthur Tedder, General Sir Harold Alexander, Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope | Andrew Cunningham, ( top row, left to right ) Harold Macmillan, Major General Walter Bedell Smith, and unidentified British officers ; 1943

The Big Three: Stalin, President of the United States | U. S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom | British Prime Minister Winston Churchill at the Tehran Conference, November 1943.

* 1943 – World War II: The British destroyers and sink the Italian submarine Ascianghi in the Mediterranean after she torpedoes the cruiser.

* 1943 – British Overseas Airways Corporation Flight 777 is shot down over the Bay of Biscay by German Junkers Ju 88s, killing actor Leslie Howard and leading to speculation the downing was an attempt to kill British Prime Minister Winston Churchill.

* 1943 – World War II: Operation Gomorrah begins: British and Canadian aeroplanes bomb Hamburg by night, those of the Americans by day.

Sir John Major, ( born 29 March 1943 ) is a British Conservative politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1990 to 1997.

* 1870 – Lord Gordon Hewart, British judge ( d. 1943 )

* 1943 – Richard Armstrong, British conductor