Year (''' MCMXLIII ''') was a Common Year Starting On Friday (the link will display full 1943 calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar .
:: ''(Below, many events of World War II have the " WWII " prefix.)''
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- , United States Marines land on Bougainville in the Solomon Islands .
- November 2 - WWII :
- ---In the early morning hours, American and Japan ese ships fight the inconclusive Battle Of Empress Augusta Bay off Bougainville .
- ---British troops, in Italy, reach the Garigliano River .
- November 14 - Leonard Bernstein , substituting at the last minute for ailing principal conductor Bruno Walter , directs the New York Philharmonic in its regular Sunday afternoon broadcast concert over CBS Radio. The event receives front page coverage in the New York Times the following day.
- 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."
- November 16 - WWII :
- ---After flying from Britain , 160 American bombers strike a Hydro-electric Power facility and Heavy Water factory in German -controlled Vemork , Norway .
- ---Japanese Submarine 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 Tawara and Makin atolls in the Gilbert Islands and take heavy fire from Japan ese shore guns.
- November 22
- --- - 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 .
- --- 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 1 - Don Novello , American actor
- January 2 - Barış Manço , Turkish singer and television personality (d. 1999 )
- 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 )
- --- Princess Margriet Of The Netherlands
- January 20 - Mel Hague , English singer and author
- January 24 - Sharon Tate , American actress and murder victim (d. 1969 )
- January 25 - Tobe Hooper , American film director
- January 26 - César Gutiérrez , Venezuelan Major League Baseball player (d. 2005 )
- January 29 - Tony Blackburn , British radio disc jockey
- 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
- --- Michael Mann , American film director, writer, and producer
- --- Craig Morton , American football player
- February 6 - Fabian , American singer
- February 7 - Gareth Hunt , English actor
- February 9
- --- Joe Pesci , American actor
- --- Joseph E. Stiglitz , American economist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 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
- --- 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 24
- --- George Harrison , British musician ( The Beatles ) (d. 2001 )
- --- Hristo Prodanov , Bulgarian mountaineer
- February 26 - Bill Duke , American actor and director
- February 27
- --- Morten Lauridsen , American composer
- --- Graham Bowers , British musician, artist and engineer
- March - John Leeson , British actor
- March 1
- --- Richard H. Price , American physicist
- --- Gil Amelio , American entrepreneur
- March 2
- --- Peter Straub , American author
- --- Zygfryd Blaut , Polish footballer
- March 3 - Trond Mohn , Norwegian billionaire
- March 4
- --- Lucio Dalla , Italian singer and songwriter
- --- Zoltan Jeney , Hungarian composer
- March 8 - Lynn Redgrave , English actress
- March 9
- --- Bobby Fischer , American chess player
- --- Charles Gibson , American television journalist
- March 15 - David Cronenberg , Canadian film director
- March 16 - Helen Armstrong , American violinist
- March 18 - Kevin Dobson , American actor
- March 19
- --- Mario J. Molina , Mexican chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
- --- Mario Monti , Italian member of the European Commission
- March 20
- --- Gerard Malanga , American poet and photographer
- --- Naima Neidre , Estonian graphic artist
- March 21
- --- Ellen Cannon Reed , American witch and author, (d. 2003 )
- --- Vivian Stanshall , English comedian, writer, artist, broadcaster, and musician (d. 1995 )
- --- István Gyulai , Hungarian sports official (d. 2006 )
- March 22
- --- Bruno Ganz , Swiss actor
- --- Keith Relf , British musician ( The Yardbirds ) (d. 1976 )
- March 26 - Bob Woodward , American journalist
- March 29
- --- Eric Idle , English actor, writer, and composer
- --- John Major , Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom
- --- Vangelis , Greek musician and composer
- March 31 - Christopher Walken , American actor
- April 2 - Frank Feather , British-born international business futurist and author
- April 5 - Max Gail , American actor
- April 8 - Miller Farr , American football player
- April 10 - Andrzej Badeński , Polish athlete
- April 20 - John Eliot Gardiner , English conductor
- April 22 - Louise Glück , American poet and 12th US Poet Laureate
- April 23
- --- Hervé Villechaize , French-born actor (d. 1993 )
- --- Dominik Duka , Czech Roman Catholic bishop and theologian
- --- Frans Koppelaar , Dutch painter
- April 28 - John O. Creighton , astronaut
- May 5 - Michael Palin , British comedian
- May 8
- --- Paul Samwell-Smith , British musician ( The Yardbirds )
- --- Toni Tennille , American singer
- May 10 - Richard (Dick) Darman , American federal government official and businessman
- May 14
- --- Jack Bruce , British musician and songwriter
- --- 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 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
- --- Sharon Gless , American actress
- June 2
- --- Fil Villarreal , CMS, USAF/Retired
- --- Ilayaraaja , Indian composer
- June 4 - Joyce Meyer , Christian author and speaker
- June 6 - Richard Smalley , American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
- June 7 - Nikki Giovanni , American poet
- June 8 - Colin Baker , British actor
- June 14 - Jim Sensenbrenner , American politician
- June 15
- --- Johnny Hallyday , French singer and actor
- --- Poul Nyrup Rasmussen , Prime Minister Of Denmark
- June 16 - Joan Van Ark , American actress
- June 17
- --- Newt Gingrich , American politician
- --- Barry Manilow , American musician
- June 23 - James Levine , American conductor
- June 26
- --- John Beasley , American actor
- --- Klaus Von Klitzing , German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
- June 27 - Rico Petrocelli , baseball player
- June 29
- --- Maureen O'Brien , British actress
- --- Soon-Tek Oh , Japanese actor
- July 3 - Kurtwood Smith , American actor
- July 4
- --- Konrad "Conny" Bauer , German trombonist
- --- Geraldo Rivera , American reporter and talk show host
- July 5 - Curt Blefary , baseball player (d. 2001 )
- July 10 - Arthur Ashe , American tennis player (d. 1993 )
- July 12 - Christine McVie , British musician ( Fleetwood Mac )
- July 15 - Jocelyn Bell Burnell , Irish astrophysicist
- July 16 - Reinaldo Arenas , Cuban writer (d. 1990 )
- July 20 - Wendy Richard , British actress
- July 21 - Edward Herrmann , American actor
- July 23 - Bob Hilton , American game show host and announcer
- July 25 - Jim McCarty , British musician ( The Yardbirds )
- July 26 - Mick Jagger , English singer ( Rolling Stones )
- July 28 - Rick Wright , English keyboardist ( Pink Floyd )
- July 31 - Sab Shimono , American actor
- August 2
- --- Patrick Adiarte , American actor and dancer
- --- Kathy Lennon , American singer ( The Lennon Sisters )
- August 4 - Bjørn Wirkola , Norwegian ski jumper
- August 5 - Nelson Briles , baseball player (d. 2005 )
- August 6 - Jim Hardin , former Baltimore Orioles , New York Yankees and Atlanta Braves pitcher (d. 1991 )
- August 7 - Dino Valente , American musician (d. 1994 )
- August 11
- --- Abigail Folger , American heiress and murder victim (d. 1969 )
- --- Pervez Musharraf , Pakistani general and leader
- August 14 - Jimmy Johnson , American football coach and television analyst
- August 17 - Robert De Niro , American actor
- August 18 - Gianni Rivera , Italian footballer
- 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 1 - Don Stroud , American actor
- September 6
- --- Richard J. Roberts , English biochemist and molecular biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine
- --- Roger Waters , English musician ( Pink Floyd )
- September 9 - Art LaFleur , American actor
- September 10 - Daniel Truhitte , American actor
- September 11
- --- Gilbert Proesch , Italian-born artist ( Gilbert And George )
- --- 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
- October - Judy Graubart , American actress
- October 2 - Franklin Rosemont , American poet
- October 6 - Michael Durrell , American actor
- October 8 - Chevy Chase , American comedian and actor
- October 14 - Lois Hamilton , American model, actress, and artist (d. 1999 )
- October 16 - Paul Rose , Canadian terrorist
- October 31 - Paul Frampton , English physicist
- November 1 - John McEnery , English actor
- November 4 - Chuck Scarborough American News Anchor on NBC
- November 5 - Sam Shepard , American playwright and actor
- November 7
- --- Michael Byrne , English actor
- --- Joni Mitchell , Canadian musician
- --- Michael Spence , American economist, Nobel Prize laureate
- --- Stephen Greenblatt , American literary critic
- November 11 - Doug Frost , Australian swimming coach
- November 12 - Wallace Shawn , American actor
- November 14 - Peter Norton , American software engineer and businessman
- November 19 - Aurelio Monteagudo , Cuban Major League Baseball player (d. 1990 )
- November 20 - Mie Hama , Japanese actress
- November 21 - Larry Mahan , American rodeo cowboy
- November 26 - Marilynne Robinson , American writer
- December 2 - Wayne Allard U.S Senator from Colorado - Senior Senator
- 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 19 - Ross M. Lence , American political scientist (d. 2006 )
- December 23 - Harry Shearer , American actor and writer
- December 24 - Tarja Halonen , President Of Finland
- December 27 - Peter Sinfield , British lyricist and producer
- December 28 - Richard Whiteley , English television presenter (d. 2005 )
- December 31
- --- John Denver , American musician (d. 1997 )
- --- Ben Kingsley , British actor
- January 5 - George Washington Carver , American botanist (b. 1864 )
- January 7 - Nikola Tesla , Serbian-born American scientist (b. 1856 )
- January 8 - Richard Hillary , Battle Of Britain Spitfire pilot, author of '' The Last Enemy '' (b. 1919 )
- February - Bess Houdini , wife of Harry Houdini
- February 4 - Frank Calder , the first NHL President (b. 1877 )
- March 28 - Sergei Rachmaninov , Russian composer (b. 1873 )
- April 18 - Isoroku Yamamoto , Japanese admiral (b. 1884 )
- June 1 - Leslie Howard , British actor (b. 1893 )
- June 4 - Kermit Roosevelt , American explorer and author (b. 1889 )
- July 4 - Wladyslaw Sikorski , Polish politician (b. 1881 )
- 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 6 - Reginald McKenna , British Chancellor Of The Exchequer 1915–1916 (born 1863 )
- 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 14 - John Harvey Kellogg , American doctor (b. 1852 )
- December 15 - Fats Waller , American jazz pianist (b. 1904 )
- December 22 - Beatrix Potter , British children's author and illustrator (b. 1866 )
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