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(''' MCMXLIII ''') was a Common Year Starting On Friday (the link is to a full 1943 calendar).
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- , United States Marines land on Bougainville in the Solomon Islands .
- and Japan ese ships fight the inconclusive Battle Of Empress Augusta Bay off Bougainville .
- .
- SS leader Heinrich Himmler orders that Gypsies and "part-Gypsies" were to be put "on the same level as Jew s and placed in Concentration Camp s."
- , 160 American bombers strike a Hydro-electric Power facility and Heavy Water factory in German -controlled Vemork , Norway .
- sinks surfaced USA submarine USS Corvina near Truk
- planes bomb Berlin causing only light damage and killing 131. The RAF lost nine aircraft and 53 aviators.
- begins - United States Marines land on Tarawa and Makin atolls in the Gilbert Islands and take heavy fire from Japan ese shore guns.
- - US President Franklin D. Roosevelt , British Prime Minister Winston Churchill , and ROC leader Chiang Kai-Shek meet in Cairo , Egypt , to discuss ways to defeat Japan .
- November 22 - Lebanon gains independence from France .
- November 23 - The Deutsche Opernhaus on Bismarckstraße in the Berlin neighborhood of Charlottenburg was destroyed. It was rebuilt in 1961 and called the Deutsche Oper Berlin .
- s and Japan ese fight the naval Battle Of Cape St. George between Buka and New Ireland .
- - US President Franklin D. Roosevelt , British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet Leader Joseph Stalin meet in Tehran to discuss war strategy (on November 30 they established an agreement concerning a planned June 1944 invasion of Europe codenamed Operation Overlord ).
- November 29 - Second session of AVNOJ , the Anti-fascist council of national liberation of Yugoslavia , is held in Jajce , Bosnia And Herzegovina , determining the post-war ordering of the country.
- January 2 - Baris Manco , Turkish singer and television personality
- January 4 - Doris Kearns Goodwin , American writer
- January 6 - Terry Venables , English football manager
- January 9 - Freddie Starr , English comedian and singer
- January 10 - Jim Croce , American singer (d. 1973 )
- January 11 - Jim Hightower , American radio host and author
- January 13 - Richard Moll , American actor
- January 16 - Brian Ferneyhough , British composer
- January 18 - Kay Granger , American politician
- January 19 - Janis Joplin , American singer (d. 1970 )
- January 19 - Princess Margriet Of The Netherlands
- January 20 - Mel Hague , English country music singer and author
- January 24 - Sharon Tate , American actress (d. 1969 )
- January 25 - Tobe Hooper , American film director
- January 26 - César Gutiérrez , Venezuelan Major League Baseball player (d. 2005 )
- January 30 - Marty Balin , American musician
- February 2 - Erkan Genis , Turkish artist
- February 3 - Blythe Danner , American actress
- February 4 - Alberto João Jardim , Portuguese politician
- February 5 - Nolan Bushnell , American video game pioneer
- February 5 - Michael Mann , American film, director, writer, producer
- February 5 - Craig Morton , American football player
- February 6 - Fabian , American singer
- February 7 - Gareth Hunt . English actor
- February 9 - Joe Pesci , American actor
- February 9 - Joseph E. Stiglitz , American economist, Nobel Prize laureate
- February 13 - Geoff Edwards , American game show host
- February 14 - Maceo Parker , American musician ( P-Funk )
- February 18 - Graeme Garden , Scottish writer, comedian, and actor
- February 19 - Tim Hunt , British biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine
- February 19 - Homer Hickam American author and retired NASA Engineer
- February 20 - Mike Leigh , British film director
- February 21 - David Geffen , American record executive and film producer
- February 23 - Fred Biletnikoff , American football player and coach
- February 25 - George Harrison , English musician ( The Beatles ) (d. 2001 )
- February 24 - Hristo Prodanov , Bulgarian mountaineer
- February 26 - Bill Duke , American actor and director
- February 27 - Morten Lauridsen , American composer
- March - John Leeson , British actor
- March 1 - Gil Amelio , American entrepreneur
- March 2 - Peter Straub , American author
- March 4 - Lucio Dalla , Italian singer-songwriter
- March 8 - Lynn Redgrave , English actress
- March 9 - Bobby Fischer , American chess player
- March 9 - Charles Gibson , American television journalist
- March 15 - David Cronenberg , Canadian film director
- March 19 - Mario J. Molina , Mexican chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
- March 19 - Mario Monti , Italian member of the European Commission
- March 21 - Vivian Stanshall , English comedian, writer, artist, broadcaster, and musician (d. 1995 )
- March 21 - István Gyulai , Hungarian General Secretary of the IAAF (d. 2006 )
- March 22 - Bruno Ganz , Swiss actor
- March 22 - Keith Relf , British musician ( The Yardbirds ) (d. 1976 )
- March 26 - Bob Woodward , American journalist
- March 29 - Eric Idle , English actor, writer, and composer
- March 29 - John Major , Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom
- March 29 - Vangelis , Greek musician and composer
- March 31 - Christopher Walken , American actor
- May 8 - Toni Tennille , singer
- May 10 - Richard (Dick) Darman , American federal government official and businessman
- May 14 - Jack Bruce , British musician and songwriter
- May 14 - Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson , President Of Iceland
- May 17 - Tuanku Syed Sirajuddin , King of Malaysia
- May 22 - Betty Williams , Irish politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
- May 23 - John Newcombe , Australian tennis player
- May 25 - Jessi Colter , American singer and composer
- May 26 - Erica Terpstra , Dutch swimmer, politician and president of the Dutch Olympic Committee
- May 27 - Bruce Weitz , American actor
- May 30 - James Chaney , American civil rights worker (d. 1964 )
- May 31 - Joe Namath , American football player
- May 31 - Sharon Gless , American actress
- June 2 - Ilayaraja , Music Composer, Tamil Nadu , India
- June 6 - Richard Smalley , American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
- June 8 - Colin Baker , British actor
- June 15 - Poul Nyrup Rasmussen , Prime Minister Of Denmark
- June 17 - Newt Gingrich , American politician
- June 17 - Barry Manilow , American musician
- June 23 - James Levine , American conductor
- June 26 - John Beasley , American actor
- June 26 - Klaus Von Klitzing , German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
- June 27 - Rico Petrocelli , baseball player
- June 29 - Maureen O'Brien , British actress
- August 4 - Bjørn Wirkola , Norwegian ski jumper
- August 5 - Nelson Briles , baseball player (d. 2005 )
- August 7 - Dino Valente , American musician, (d. 1994 )
- August 11 - Pervez Musharraf , Pakistani general and leader
- August 14 - Jimmy Johnson , American football coach and television analyst
- August 17 - Robert De Niro , American actor
- August 20 - Sylvester McCoy , British actor
- August 24 - John Cipollina , American musician, (d. 1989 )
- August 28 - Lou Piniella , baseball player and manager
- August 30 - Jean-Claude Killy , French skier
- September 6 - Richard J. Roberts , English biochemist and molecular biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine
- September 6 - Roger Waters , English musician
- September 11 - Gilbert Proesch , Italian-born artist ( Gilbert And George )
- September 11 - Raymond Villeneuve , Canadian terrorist
- September 22 - Toni Basil , American musician and video artist
- September 28 - J. T. Walsh , American actor (d. 1998 )
- September 29 - Lech Wałęsa , President Of Poland , recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
- September 30 - Johann Deisenhofer , German biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate
- September 30 - Ian Ogilvy , English actor
- December 5 - Eva Joly , Norwegian-born French magistrate
- December 8 - James Douglas "Jim" Morrison , American musician (d. 1971 )
- December 11 - John Kerry , American politician
- December 12 - Grover Washington, Jr. , American saxophonist (d. 1999 )
- December 13 - Ferguson Jenkins , baseball player
- December 17 - Ron Geesin , British musician and songwriter ( Pink Floyd )
- December 18 - Keith Richards , English guitarist and songwriter ( The Rolling Stones )
- December 23 - Harry Shearer , American actor and writer
- December 27 - Peter Sinfield , British lyricist and producer
- December 24 - Tarja Halonen , President Of Finland
- December 28 - Richard Whiteley , English television presenter (d. 2005 )
- December 31 - John Denver , American musician (d. 1997 )
- December 31 - Ben Kingsley , English actor
- January 5 - George Washington Carver , American educator, activist, and botanist
- January 23 - Alexander Woollcott , American bon vivant (b. 1887 )
- January 26 - Harry H. Laughlin , American eugenicist (b. 1880 )
- February 14 - David Hilbert , German mathematician (b. 1862 )
- February 17 - Armand J. Piron , American musician and composer (b. 1888 )
- March 3 - George Thompson , English cricketer (b. 1877 )
- March 12 - Gustav Vigeland , Norwegian sculptor (b. 1869 )
- March 13 - Stephen Vincent Benet , American poet (b. 1898 )
- March 28 - Sergei Rachmaninoff , Russian composer and pianist (b. 1873 )
- April 18 - Isoroku Yamamoto , Japanese admiral (b. 1884 )
- May 14 - Henri La Fontaine , Belgian lawyer and activist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1854 )
- May 26 - Edsel Ford , son of Henry Ford (b. 1893 )
- June 26 - Karl Landsteiner , Austrian biologist and physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine (b. 1868 )
- July 21 - Charlie Paddock , American athlete (b. 1900 )
- August 12 - Bobby Peel , English cricketer (b. 1857 )
- August 14 - Joe Kelley , baseball player (b. 1871 )
- August 21 - Henrik Pontoppidan , Danish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1857 )
- August 28 - King Boris III Of Bulgaria (b. 1894 )
- September 1 - Charles Atangana , Cameroonian chief
- September 24 - John Stone Stone , American physicist and inventor (b. 1869 )
- October 5 - Leon Roppolo , American musician (b. 1902 )
- October 9 - Pieter Zeeman , Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1865 )
- October 19 - Camille Claudel , French sculptor (b. 1864 )
- December 1 - Damrong Rajanubhab , Thai prince and historian (b. 1862 )
- December 7 - Per Imerslund , "The aryan idol" (b. 1912 )
- December 15 - Fats Waller aka Thomas Wright Waller , African-American Jazz Pianist (b. 1904 )
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