* 1943 – World War II: The discovery of a mass grave of Polish prisoners of war killed by Soviet forces in the Katyń Forest Massacre is announced, causing a diplomatic rift between the Polish government in exile in London from the Soviet Union, which denies responsibility.

* 1943 – Yakov Dzhugashvili, Soviet soldier, the oldest child of Joseph Stalin ( b. 1907 )

In the summer of 1943 the Wehrmacht launched another combined forces offensive operation – Zitadelle ( Citadel ) – against the Soviet salient at Kursk.

By 1943, the Partisan resistance movement had gained the upper hand, against the odds, and in 1945, with help from the Soviet Red Army ( passing only through small parts such as Vojvodina ), expelled the Axis forces and local supporters.

* 1943 – World War II: Attempting to completely lift the Siege of Leningrad, the Soviet Red Army engages German troops and Spanish volunteers in the Battle of Krasny Bor.

Nazi Germany faced multiple losses and steady Soviet and Western Allied offensives from 1943 to 1945.

* 1943 – World War II: The Battle of Stalingrad comes to conclusion as Soviet troops accept the surrender of 91, 000 remnants of the Axis forces.

Soviet partisans hanged by German forces in January 1943

Soviet military industrial output also had increased substantially from late 1941 to early 1943 after Stalin had moved factories well to the East of the front, safe from German invasion and air attack.

During 1943, as the Soviet armies advanced towards the borders of the Reich, the western Allies developed the ability to launch devastating air raids on most German cities, including Berlin.

* 1943 – World War II: The Soviet counter-offensive at Voronezh begins.

* 1943 – World War II: German forces begin a massive offensive against the Soviet Union at the Battle of Kursk.

* 1943 – World War II: Battle of Prokhorovka – German and Soviet forces engage in the largest tank engagement of all time.

The failure to maximize production immediately after the failures in the Soviet Union and North Africa ensured the Luftwaffe's effective defeat in the period of September 1943 – February 1944.

* 1943 – World War II: Third Battle of Kharkov – the Germans retake the city of Kharkov from the Soviet armies in bitter street fighting.

* 2009 – Vladimir Fedotov, Soviet football striker and manager ( b. 1943 )

The Partisans managed to form a communist Yugoslav state called Democratic Federal Yugoslavia in liberated territories in 1943 and by 1944, with the assistance of Soviet forces, seized control of Yugoslavia, entrenching a communist regime in Yugoslavia.

Soviet forces rebounded in 1943 with the victories at the Battle of Stalingrad and the Battle of Kursk, and from 1943 to 1945 they pushed back German forces and sieged Berlin in 1945.

* 1943 – World War II: Tehran Conference – U. S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin meet in Tehran, Iran to discuss war strategy.

* 1943 – World War II: the Soviet Red Army recaptures Kiev.

#: The Three Governments have taken note of the discussions which have been proceeding in recent weeks in London between British, United States, Soviet and French representatives with a view to reaching agreement on the methods of trial of those major war criminals whose crimes under the Moscow Declaration of October, 1943 have no particular geographical localization.

Already heavily damaged Tartu was liberated by Soviet forces on 27 January 1943, 26 February 1944, 7 – 8 March 1944, and 25 – 26 March 1944.

After years of working on numerous films as an assistant director and scriptwriter, he made his debut as a director in 1943, during World War II with the popular action film Sanshiro Sugata ( a. k. a. Judo Saga ).

Virtually all productions today, however, use the original ending, as do nearly all of the film versions of this play, including Dariush Mehrjui's Sara ( the Argentine version, made in 1943 and starring Delia Garcés, does not ; it also modernizes the story, setting it in the early 1940s ).

In movies, Cary Grant's character teaches rhyming slang to his female companion in the film Mr. Lucky ( 1943 ) and describes it as Australian rhyming slang.

These existed alongside more flamboyant films like Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp ( 1943 ), A Canterbury Tale ( 1944 ) and A Matter of Life and Death ( 1946 ), as well as Laurence Olivier's 1944 film Henry V, based on the Shakespearean history Henry V. The success of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs allowed Disney to make more animated features like Pinocchio ( 1940 ), Fantasia ( 1940 ), Dumbo ( 1941 ) and Bambi ( 1942 ).

The term Neorealism was used for the first time for Luchino Visconti ’ s Ossessione ( 1943 ): it is considered by many to be the first Italian neorealist film.

* 1943 – Michael Mann, American film director

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

Hawks completed initial shooting of the film in early 1941, but due to perfectionism and battles with the Hollywood Production Code, Hughes continued to re-shoot and re-edit the film until it was finally released in 1943, with Hawks uncredited as director.

After making the World War II film Air Force in 1943 starring John Garfield, Hawks made two films with Hollywood and real life lovers Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall.

* John Ford Noonan ( born 1943 ), American actor and writer for theater, film and television ; authored over 30 plays during 1970s, 1980s and 1990s ( A Coupla White Chicks Sitting Around Talking, 1979 )

* 1943 – Tobe Hooper, American film director

* 1943 – Subhash Ghai, Indian film director

* 1943 – Walter Murch, American film editor and sound designer

* 1943 – Petchara Chaowarat, Thai film actress

The film was a critical success and a box office sensation, having earned some $ 2 million for Universal by 1943.

The characters that he played onscreen during this period ranged from a serial killer in Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt ( 1943, opposite Teresa Wright ) to an eager police detective in Gaslight ( 1944, with Ingrid Bergman, Charles Boyer, and Angela Lansbury in her film debut ).

The two neighbors took the first ex-aequo prize of the Congress of Documentary Film in 1943, for the first French underwater film: Par dix-huit mètres de fond ( 18 meters deep ), made without breathing apparatus the previous year in the Embiez islands ( Var ) with Philippe Tailliez and Frédéric Dumas, using a depth-pressure-proof camera case developed by mechanical engineer Léon Vèche ( engineer of Arts and Métiers and the Naval College ).

In 1943, they made the film Épaves ( Shipwrecks ), in which they used two of the very first Aqua-Lung prototypes.

* Henry Daniell in the 1943 United States propaganda film Mission to Moscow

* Kirin Kiki ( born 1943 ), Japanese TV and film actress

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.

Klaus Maria Brandauer ( born 22 June 1943 ) is an Austrian actor, film director, and professor at the Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna.

Michael Kenneth Mann ( born February 5, 1943 ) is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer.