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 - Ramon 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.
- 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).
February
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October
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-controlled 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
Undated
Ongoing
Year in Topic
Births
January
- January 2 - Baris Manco, Turkish celebrity
- January 4 - Doris Kearns Goodwin, writer
- January 6 - Terry Venables, football (soccer) manager
- January 10 - Jim Croce, singer (d. 1973)
- January 11 - Jim Hightower, radio host, author
- January 16 - Brian Ferneyhough, composer
- January 18 - Kay Granger, American politician
- January 19 - Janis Joplin, blues singer (d. 1970)
- January 19 - Princess Margriet of the Netherlands
- January 24 - Sharon Tate, actress (d. 1969)
- January 25 - Tobe Hooper, director
- January 26 - César Gutiérrez, Major League Baseball player (d. 2005)
- January 30 - Marty Balin, musician
February
- February 2 - Erkan Genis, impressionist artist
- February 3 - Blythe Danner, actress
- February 5 - Nolan Bushnell, video game pioneer
- February 5 - Craig Morton, US football star
- February 6 - Fabian Forte, singer
- February 7 - Gareth Hunt. actor
- February 9 - Joe Pesci, actor
- February 10 - Frank-Patrick Steckel, theater director
- February 11 - Ian Cameron, British brigadier
- February 12 - Samuel Karokikki, Nauruan athlete
- February 13 - Geoff Edwards, game show host
- February 14 - Maceo Parker, musician (P-Funk)
- February 15 - Elke Heidenreich, journalist and writer
- February 18 - Graeme Garden, writer, comedian, actor
- February 20 - Mike Leigh, director
- February 21 - David Geffen, producer
- February 23 - Fred Biletnikoff, US football star, coach
- February 24 - George Harrison, musician, member of The Beatles (d. 2001)
- February 24 - Hristo Prodanov, Bulgarian mountaineer
- February 26 - Bill Duke, actor
- February 27 - Morten Lauridsen, composer
March
- March 1 - Gil Amelio, former CEO of National Semiconductor and Apple Computer, now a venture capitalist
- 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, director
- March 19 - Mario Monti, aka "Super Mario"
- March 22 - Bruno Ganz, actor
- March 26 - Bob Woodward, American journalist
- March 29 - Evangelos Odysseas Papathanassiou, aka Vangelis, new age musician
- March 29 - Eric Idle, actor, writer, composer
- March 29 - John Major, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
- March 31 - Christopher Walken, actor
April
May
- May 8 - Toni Tennille, singer
- May 10 - Richard (Dick) Darman, government bureaucrat and businessman
- May 14 - Jack Bruce, bass guitarist
- May 14 - Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, president of Iceland
- May 17 - Tuanku Syed Sirajuddin, later Raja of Perlis and Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia.
- May 22 - Betty Williams, politician, recipient of the 1976 Nobel Prize for Peace
- May 23 - John Newcombe, tennis player
- May 31 - Joe Namath, American football quarterback
- May 31 - Sharon Gless, actress
June
July
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September
October
November
- November 7 - Joni Mitchell, musician
- November 19 - Aurelio Monteagudo, Major League Baseball player (d. 1990)
- December 8 - James Douglas Morrison, later known as Jim Morrison, US singer, songwriter, poet (d. 1971)
- December 11- John Kerry, politician
- December 13 - Ferguson Jenkins, Baseball Hall of Famer
- December 17 - Ron Geesin, musician
- December 18 - Keith Richards, guitarist for The Rolling Stones
- December 23 - Harry Shearer, actor, voice actor
- December 24 - Tarja Halonen, President of Finland
- December 31 - John Denver, American musician
Deaths
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October
December
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