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This is an article about the year 1943. For the arcade and video game, see 1943 .
1943 is a common year starting on Friday .
Events
January
January 4 - End of term for Culbert Olson , 29th Governor of California . He is succeeded by Earl Warren .
January 11 - The United States and United Kingdom give up territorial rights in China .
January 11 - General Juanto dies in Argentina - Ramón Castillo succeeds him
January 12 - Jan Campert , Dutch journalist and writer, dies in Neuengamme concentration camp
January 13 - Richard Moll , actor
January 14 - Franklin D. Roosevelt becomes the first President of the United States to travel by airplane while in office (Miami, Florida to Morocco to meet with Winston Churchill to discuss World War II ).
January 15 - World War II : Japanese are driven off Guadalcanal .
January 15 - The world's largest office building, The Pentagon , is dedicated (Arlington, Virginia ).
January 18 - World War II : Soviet officials announce they have broken the Wehrmacht 's siege of Leningrad .
January 18 - The Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto rise up for the first time, starting the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising .
January 23 - World War II : British forces capture Tripoli from the Nazis .
January 23 - In Spearfish, South Dakota , temperature rises from -20 to +7 degrees Celsius in two minutes
January 23 - Duke Ellington plays at New York City 's Carnegie Hall for the first time.
January 24 - World War II: Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill conclude a conference in Casablanca .
January 27 - World War II: 50 bombers mount the first all American air raid against Germany (Wilhelmshaven was the target).
January 29 - German police arrests necrophiliac Bruno Ludke
February
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October
declares war on Germany .
November
November 1 - World War II: In Operation Goodtime, United States Marines land on Bougainville in the Solomon Islands .
November 2 - World War II: In the early morning hours, American and Japanese ships fight the inconclusive Battle of Empress Augusta Bay off Bougainville .
November 2 - World War II: British troops, in Italy, reach the Garigliano River .
November 15 - Porajmos : German SS leader Heinrich Himmler orders that Gypsies and "part-Gypsies" were to be put "on the same level as Jews and placed in concentration camps ."
November 16 - World War II: After flying from Britain , 160 American bombers strike a hydro-electric power facility and heavy water factory in German ontrolled Vemork , Norway .
November 16 - World War II: Japanese submarine sinks surfaced USA submarine USS Corvina near Truk
November 18 - World War II: 440 Royal Air Force planes bomb Berlin causing only light damage and killing 131. The RAF lost nine aircraft and 53 aviators.
November 20 - World War II: Battle of Tarawa begins - United States Marines land on Tarawa and Makin atolls in the Gilbert Islands and take heavy fire from Japanese shore guns.
November 22 - World War II: War in the Pacific - 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 .
November 25 - World War II : Americans and Japanese fight the naval Battle of Cape St. George between Buka and New Ireland .
November 28 - World War II: Tehran Conference - 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.
December
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Births
January
January 2 - Baris Manco , Turkish celebrity
January 4 - Doris Kearns Goodwin , American writer
January 6 - Terry Venables , English football manager
January 10 - Jim Croce , American singer (d. 1973 )
January 11 - Jim Hightower , American radio host and author
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 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
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 - 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 12 - Samuel Karokikki , Nauruan athlete (d. 2004 )
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 20 - Mike Leigh , Britsh 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
March - John Leeson , British actor
March 1 - Gil Amelio , American entrepreneur
March 2 - Peter Straub , American author
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 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
April
May
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 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
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 - Klaus von Klitzing , German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
June 27 - Rico Petrocelli , baseball player
June 29 - Maureen O'Brien , British actress
July
August
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
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
October
November
December
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 24 - Tarja Halonen , President of Finland
December 28 - Richard Whiteley , English television presenter (d. 2005 )
December 31 - John Denver , American musician (d. 1997 )
Deaths
January-June
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 )
July-December
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 )
Nobel Prizes
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