1943

__NOTOC__ Year 1943 (MCMXLIII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar.

Events of 1943

:(Below, many events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix.)

January

January 4 – Culbert Olson, 29th Governor of California, is succeeded by Earl Warren.

January 11

* The United States and United Kingdom give up territorial rights in China.

* Roberto María Ortiz dies in Argentina; Ramón Castillo succeeds him.

January 12 – Dutch journalist and writer Jan Campert dies in the Neuengamme concentration camp.

January 13 – Helmut Schenk is the first person to use an ejection seat from an aircraft.

January 14 – The Casablanca Conference, where 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

* WWII: The Japanese are driven off Guadalcanal.

* The world's largest office building, The Pentagon, is dedicated in Arlington, Virginia.

January 18

* WWII: Soviet officials announce they have broken the Wehrmacht's siege of Leningrad.

* The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising begins.

January 23

* WWII: British forces capture Tripoli from the Italians.

* Duke Ellington plays at New York City's Carnegie Hall for the first time.

* Critic and commentator Alexander Woollcott suffers an eventually fatal heart attack during a regular broadcast of the CBS Radio roundtable program "People's Platform".

January 27 – WWII: 50 bombers mount the first all American air raid against Germany (Wilhelmshaven is the target).

January 29 – German police arrest alleged necrophiliac Bruno Ludke.

January 29 – Marine Corps Women's Reserve (MCWR) created.

February

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February 2 – WWII: In Russia, the Battle of Stalingrad comes to an end with the surrender of the German 6th Army.

February 3 – WWII: The Four Chaplains of the U.S. Army are drowned, when their ship (USAT Dorchester) is struck by a German torpedo.

February 7 – WWII: In the United States, it is announced that shoe rationing will go into effect in 2 days.

February 8 – WWII – Battle of Guadalcanal: United States forces defeat Japanese troops.

February 10 – March 3 – Mohandas Gandhi keeps a hunger strike to protest his imprisonment.

February 11 – General Eisenhower is selected to command the Allied armies in Europe.

February 14 – WWII:

* Rostov-na-Donu, Russia is liberated.

* Battle of the Kasserine Pass: German General Erwin Rommel and his Afrika Korps launch an offensive against Allied defenses in Tunisia; it is the United States' first major battle defeat of the war.

February 16 – WWII: The Soviet Union reconquers Kharkov, but is later driven out in the Third Battle of Kharkov

February 18

* In a speech at the Berlin Sportpalast, German Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels declare a "Total War" against the Allies.

* The Nazis arrest the members of the White Rose movement.

February 20

* American movie studio executives agree to allow the Office of War Information to censor movies.

* The Mexican volcano Parícutin is born in a farmer's cornfield.

February 22 – Members of White Rose are executed in Nazi Germany.

February 23 – A fire at St. Joseph's Orphanage, County Cavan, Ireland, kills 36 people (35 of whom are children).

February 27 – The Smith Mine #3 in Bearcreek, Montana, United States explodes, killing 74 men.

February 28 – Operation Gunnerside: 6 Norwegians led by Joachim Ronneberg successfully attack the heavy water plant Vemork.

March

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March 1 – Heinz Guderian becomes the Inspector-General of the Armoured Troops for the German Army.

March 2 – WWII: Battle of the Bismarck Sea – United States and Australian forces sink Japanese convoy ships.

March 3 – 173 people are killed in a crush while trying to enter an air-raid shelter at Bethnal Green tube station in London.

March 4 – The 15th Academy Awards ceremony is held in Los Angeles.

March 8 – WWII: American forces are attacked by Japanese troops on Hill 700 in Bougainville, in a battle that will last 5 days.

March 9 – Şükrü Saracoğlu forms the new government of Turkey. (14th government; Şükrü Saracoğlu had served twice as a prime minister)

March 10 – Banco Bradesco was founded by Amador Aguiar in Marília, São Paulo, Brazil.

March 13

* WWII: On Bougainville, Japanese troops end their assault on American forces at Hill 700.

* Holocaust: German forces liquidate the Jewish ghetto in Kraków.

March 14 – WWII: British submarine HMS Thunderbolt sunk off Sicily by an Italian corvette, the second time this vessel has been lost with all hands.

March 16–March 19 – WWII: 22 ships from Convoys HX 229/SC 122 and one U-boat are sunk in the largest North Atlantic U-boat Wolf pack attack of the war.

March 17 – Éamon de Valera makes the speech "The Ireland That We Dreamed Of", commonly called the "comely maidens" speech.

March 22 – WWII: The entire population of Khatyn in Belarus is burnt alive by the German occupation forces.

March 23 – The drugs Vicodin and Lortab are first produced in Germany.

March 26 – WWII – Battle of the Komandorski Islands: In the Aleutian Islands, the battle begins when United States Navy forces intercept Japanese troops attempting to reinforce a garrison at Kiska.

March 27 – WWII – Escort carrier Dasher was destroyed by an accidental explosion in the Firth of Clyde, killing 379 of the crew of 528.

March 28 – In Italy a ship full of weapons and ammunition explodes in the port of Naples, killing 600.

March 31 – Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma! opens on Broadway, heralds a new era in "integrated" stage musicals, becomes an instantaneous stage classic, and goes on to be Broadway's longest-running musical up to that time (1948).

April

April 3 – Shipwrecked steward Poon Lim is rescued by Brazilian fishermen after being adrift for 130 days.

April 13 – WWII: Radio Berlin announces the discovery by Wehrmacht of mass graves of Poles killed by Soviets in the Katyn massacre.

April 19 – Albert Hofmann self administers the drug LSD for the first time in history, and records the details of his trip.

April 21 – Worst Bombing of Aberdeen in WW2.

April 22 – Albert Hofmann writes his first report about the hallucinogenic properties of LSD (which he first synthesized in 1938).

April 25 – Easter occurs on the latest possible date (last time 1886; next time 2038) in the Western Christian Church.

April 27 – The U.S. Federal Writers' Project is shuttered.

May

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May 6 – WWII: Six U-boats are sunk after sinking 12 ships from Convoy ONS 5 in the last major North Atlantic U-boat Wolf pack attack of the war.

May 9–May 12 – Japanese troops carry out the Changjiao massacre in Changjiao, Hunan, China.

May 11 – WWII: American troops invade Attu in the Aleutian Islands, in an attempt to expel occupying Japanese forces.

May 12 – The Trident Conference begins in Washington, D.C., with Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill taking part.

May 13 – WWII: German Afrika Korps and Italian troops in North Africa surrender to Allied forces.

May 14 – The Australian Hospital Ship Centaur is sunk off the coast of Queensland, by a Japanese submarine.

May 14 – 358th BS, 303rd BG B-17F Hell's Angels is the first AAF bomber to complete 25 missions.

May 15 – The Comintern is dissolved in Moscow.

May 16

* WWII: Operation Chastise by RAF 617 Sqdn are carried out on German dams.

* Holocaust: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising ends.

* Marco Nahon arrives at Auschwitz-Birkenau.

May 17 – WWII:

* The surviving RAF Dam Busters return.

* The United States Army contracts with the University of Pennsylvania's Moore School to develop the computer ENIAC.

* The Memphis Belle's crew becomes the first aircrew in the 8th Air Force to complete its 25-mission tour of duty. The aircraft and crew were the first to return to the U.S. intact for a War Bond drive.

May 19 – Winston Churchill addresses a joint session of the U.S. Congress.

May 24 – Holocaust: Josef Mengele becomes the chief medical officer of Auschwitz.

May 29 – Norman Rockwell's illustration of Rosie the Riveter first appears on the cover of the Saturday Evening Post.

May 31 – The Zoot Suit Riots erupt between military personnel and Mexican American youths in East Los Angeles.

June

June 1 – British Overseas Airways Corporation Flight 777, a DC-3 with registration G-AGBB, (formerly KLM PH-ALI, Ibis), on a scheduled passenger flight, is shot down over the Bay of Biscay by German Junkers Ju 88s, all 17 persons aboard perish, including the actor Leslie Howard. There is speculation that the downing was an attempt to kill British Prime Minister Winston Churchill as the Germans may have had wrong information he was aboard.

June 4 – A military coup d'état in Argentina ousts Ramón Castillo.

June 8 – WWII: Japanese battleship Mutsu was destroyed by an accidental magazine explosion in Hashirajima anchorage, killing 1,121.

June 22 – The U.S. Army 45th Infantry Division lands in North Africa, prior to training at Arzew, French Morocco.

June 30 – CCC abolished.

July

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July 1 – Women's Army Corps (WAC).

July 5 – WWII:

* Battle of Kursk – The largest tank battle in history begins.

* An allied invasion fleet sails to Sicily.

July 6 – WWII: Americans and Japanese fight the Battle of Kula Gulf off Kolombangara.

July 10 – WWII – Allied invasion of Sicily: The allied invasion of Axis-controlled Europe begins with landings on the island of Sicily off mainland Italy, by the Seventh United States Army and the British Eighth Army including the 1st Canadian Infantry Division.

July 11 – United States Army forces assault the village of Piano Lupo, just outside of Gela, Sicily.

July 12 – WWII – Battle of Prokhorovka: The Wehrmacht and the Red Army fight to a draw.

July 13 – WWII: The invasion of Sicily begins with British landings at Augusta on the island's eastern side and American landings to the south.

July 19 – WWII: Rome is bombed by the Allies for the first time in the war.

July 24 – WWII: Operation Gomorrah begins: British and Canadian aeroplanes bomb Hamburg by night, those of the Americans by day. By the end of the operation in November, 9,000 tons of explosives will have killed more than 30,000 people and destroyed 280,000 buildings.

July 25 – In Italy the Gran Consiglio del Fascismo withdraws its support of Mussolini; Mussolini is arrested and the power is given to Maresciallo d'Italia Gen. Pietro Badoglio.

July 28 – WWII: Operation Gomorrah – The British bomb Hamburg, causing a firestorm that kills 42,000 German civilians.

August

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August 1 – Operation Tidal Wave: 177 B-24 Liberator bombers from the U.S. Army Air Force bomb oil refineries at Ploieşti, Romania.

August 2 – WWII: John F. Kennedy's PT-109 is rammed by a destroyer.

August 4 – WWII: The USS Intrepid (CV-11) is launched.

August 5 – WWII: John F. Kennedy and crew are found by Solomon Islanders coastwatchers Biuku Gasa and Eroni Kumana with their dugout canoe.

August 5 – Women's Air Force Service Pilots (WASP) formed consolidating the WAFS and WFTD.

August 6 – WWII – Battle of Vella Gulf: Americans defeat a Japanese convoy off Kolombangara, as the U.S. Army drives the Japanese out of Munda airfield on New Georgia.

August 13 – WWII: Rome is declared an open city.

August 14 – The Quadrant Conference begins in Quebec City; Canadian Prime Minister MacKenzie King meets with Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt.

August 17 – WWII: The US 7th Army under General George S. Patton meets the British 8th Army under Field Marshal Bernard L. Montgomery in Messina, Sicily, completing the Allied conquest of Sicily.

August 23 – The Battle of Kursk ends with a serious strategic defeat for the German forces.

August 24 – WWII: – Heinrich Himmler is named Reichminister of the Interior in Germany .

August 26 – WWII: Lord Louis Mountbatten is named Supreme Allied Commander for Southeast Asia.

August 28 – WWII: King Boris III of Bulgaria dies under peculiar circumstances; his 6-year-old son, Simeon II, ascends to the throne.

August 29 – WWII: Germany dissolves the Danish government after it refuses to deal with a wave of strikes and disturbances to the satisfaction of the German authorities (see Occupation of Denmark).

September

September 3 – WWII: Mainland Italy is invaded by Allied forces under Bernard L. Montgomery, for the first time in the war.

September 5 – WWII: The 503rd Parachute Regiment under American General Douglas MacArthur lands and occupies Nadzab, just east of the port city of Lae in northeastern Papua New Guinea.

September 7 – A fire at the Gulf Hotel in Houston, Texas, kills 55 people.

September 8 – WWII:

* United States General Dwight D. Eisenhower publicly announces the surrender of Italy to the Allies.

* Frascati bombing raid September 8, 1943: The USAAF bombs the German General Headquarters for the Mediterranean zone.

* Czech resistance fighter Julius Fučík is executed by the Nazis.

September 8 – The first classes commence at Grace University.

September 9 – Bertolt Brecht's play Life of Galileo () receives its first theatrical production at the Zurich Schauspielhaus.

September 12 – WWII: German paratroopers rescue Mussolini from imprisonment, in "Operation Oak".

September 16 – WWII: The Salerno Mutiny occurs within the British X Corps.

September 17 – WWII: The Villefranche-de-Rouergue uprising takes place.

September 23 – WWII: The Republic of Salò is founded.

September 27 – WWII: The 4-day Naples Uprising begins.

October

October 1 – WWII: American forces enter liberated Naples.

October 6 – WWII: Americans and Japanese fight the naval Battle of Vella Lavella.

October 7 – WWII: The Naples post office explosion kills 100.

October 10 – The Order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky is instituted in the USSR.

October 13 – WWII: The new government of Italy sides with the Allies and declares war on Germany.

October 17 – WWII: The last commerce raider hilfskreuzer Michel, was sunk off Japan by United States submarine Tarpon.

October 18 – Chiang Kai-shek takes the oath of office as president of China.

October 21 – Lucie Aubrac and others in her French Resistance cell liberate Raymond Aubrac from Gestapo imprisonment.

October 22 – WWII: The RAF delivers a highly destructive airstrike on the German industrial and population center of Kassel.

October 28 – The alleged date of The Philadelphia Experiment, in which the U.S. destroyer escort USS Eldridge was to be rendered invisible to human observers for a brief period.

October 30 – The Merrie Melodies animated short Falling Hare, one of the only shorts with Bugs getting out-smarted, is released in the United States.

November

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November 1 – WWII – Operation Goodtime: United States Marines land on Bougainville in the Solomon Islands.

November 2 – WWII: In the early morning hours, American and Japanese ships fight the inconclusive Battle of Empress Augusta Bay off Bougainville.

November 2 – WWII: 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.

November 15 – Porajmos: German SS leader Heinrich Himmler orders that Gypsies and "part-Gypsies" be put "on the same level as Jews and placed in concentration camps."

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.

November 16 – WWII: A Japanese submarine sinks the surfaced U.S. submarine USS Corvina near Truk.

November 18 – WWII: The Royal Air Force opens its bombing campaign against Berlin, with 440 planes causing only light damage and killing 131. The RAF loses 9 aircraft and 53 aviators.

November 20 – WWII: Battle of Tarawa: United States Marines land on Tarawa and Makin atolls in the Gilbert Islands and take heavy fire from Japanese shore guns.

November 22

* WWII: War in the Pacific: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and ROC leader Chiang Kai-Shek meet at the Cairo Conference to discuss ways to defeat Japan.

* Lebanon gains independence from France.

November 23 – The Deutsche Opernhaus on Bismarckstraße in the Berlin neighborhood of Charlottenburg is destroyed. It is rebuilt in 1961 and called the Deutsche Oper Berlin.

November 25 – WWII: Americans and Japanese fight the naval Battle of Cape St. George between Buka and New Ireland.

November 28 – WWII – Tehran Conference: U.S. 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 establish an agreement concerning a planned June 1944 invasion of Europe codenamed Operation Overlord).

November 29 – The second session of AVNOJ, the Anti-Fascist Council of National Liberation of Yugoslavia, is held in Jajce, Bosnia and Herzegovina, to determine the post-war ordering of the country.

December

December 2 – A Luftwaffe bombing raid on the harbour of Bari, Italy, sinks an American ship with a mustard gas stockpile, causing numerous fatalities (though the exact death toll is unresolved, as the bombing raid itself causes hundreds of deaths too).

December 3 – Edward R. Murrow delivers his classic "Orchestrated Hell" broadcast over CBS Radio, describing a Royal Air Force nighttime bombing raid on Berlin.

December 4

* WWII: In Yugoslavia, resistance leader Marshal Tito proclaims a provisional democratic Yugoslav government in-exile.

* The Great Depression officially ends in the United States: With unemployment figures falling fast due to World War II-related employment, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt closes the Works Progress Administration.

December 20 – A military coup is staged in Bolivia.

December 24 – WWII: U.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower becomes the Supreme Allied Commander in Europe.

December 30 – Subhash Chandra Bose sets up a pro-Japanese Indian government at Port Blair, India.

Undated

Bengal Famine.

The Colossus computer is invented by the British to break German encryption (see History of computing hardware).

The Mondragón Cooperative Corporation begins in Basque Country in Spain.

Arana Hall, Otago is founded in New Zealand.

Jacques-Yves Cousteau co-invents, with Emile Gagnan, the first commercially successful open circuit type of scuba diving equipment, the Aqua-lung..

Publication of Martin Noth's groundbreaking Uberlieferungsgeschischtliche Studien: Die sammelnden und bearbeitenden Geschichtswerke im Alten Testament [Schriften der Konigsberger Gelehrten Gesellschaft: Geisteswissenschaftliche Klasse; 18,2 (trans: "Writings of the Konigsberger Scholarly Society:Spiritual Scientific Class No. 18.2")]: (Halle ["Halle an der Saale"]: M. Niemeyer, 1943)

Ongoing

Japanese occupation of the Philippines (1941–1945)

Second World War (1939–1945)

Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945)

Births

January

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 7 – Sadako Sasaki, Japanese atomic bomb sickness victim (d. 1955)

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 15 – Margaret Beckett, British politician

January 18 – Kay Granger, American politician

January 19

* Janis Joplin, American rock singer (d. 1970)

* Princess Margriet of the Netherlands

January 20 – Mel Hague, English singer and author

January 24 – Sharon Tate, American actress and model "Manson Family" (d. 1969)

January 25 – Tobe Hooper, American film director

January 26 – César Gutiérrez, Venezuelan Major League Baseball player (d. 2005)

January 28 – John Beck, American actor

January 29

* Tony Blackburn, British radio disc jockey

* Rudy Regalado, Venezuelan musician (d. 2010)

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

* Michael Mann, American film director, writer, and producer

* Craig Morton, American football player

February 6 – Fabian, American singer

February 7 – Gareth Hunt, English actor (d. 2007)

February 8 – Creed Bratton, American actor and musician

February 9

* Joe Pesci, American actor

* Joseph E. Stiglitz, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate

February 14 – Maceo Parker, American musician (James Brown, 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

* Antonio Inoki, Japanese professional wrestler

* Jacqueline Pearce, English actress

February 21 – David Geffen, American record executive and film producer

February 23 – Fred Biletnikoff, American football player and coach

February 24 – Hristo Prodanov, Bulgarian mountaineer

February 25 – George Harrison, British musician (The Beatles) (d. 2001)

February 26 – Bill Duke, American actor and director

February 27

* Moshe Cotel, American composer and pianist (d. 2008)

* Morten Lauridsen, American composer

* Graham Bowers, British musician, artist and engineer

March

March – John Leeson, British actor (voice of K-9)

March 1

* Richard H. Price, American physicist

* Gil Amelio, American entrepreneur

March 2

* Peter Straub, American author

* Zygfryd Blaut, Polish footballer (d. 2005)

* Tony Meehan, British drummer (The Shadows) (d. 2005)

March 3 – Trond Mohn, Norwegian billionaire

March 4

* Lucio Dalla, Italian singer and songwriter

* Zoltan Jeney, Hungarian composer

March 8 – Lynn Redgrave, English actress (d. 2010)

March 9

* Bobby Fischer, American chess player (d. 2008)

* Charles Gibson, American television journalist

March 13 – André Téchiné, French film director

March 15

* Sly Stone, American singer

* David Cronenberg, Canadian film director

March 16

* Helen Armstrong, American violinist (d. 2006)

* Kim Mu-saeng, South Korean actor (d. 2005)

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

* 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 rock 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

April 2 – Caterina Bueno, Italian singer

April 5 – Max Gail, American actor

April 8 – Miller Farr, American football player

April 10 – Andrzej Badeński, Polish athlete

April 11 – Harley Race, American professional wrestler

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

* Fighting Harada, Japanese boxer

April 25 – James G. Mitchell, Canadian computer scientist

April 28 – John O. Creighton, American astronaut

April 30 – Frederick Chiluba, former President of Zambia

May

May 1 – Vassal Gadoengin, Nauruan politician (d. 2004)

May 5 – Michael Palin, British comedian

May 10 – Richard (Dick) Darman, American federal government official and businessman

May 13 – Kurt Trampedach, Danish artist

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, Northern Irish political activist, co-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

June 2 – Ilayaraaja, Indian composer

June 3 – John Burgess, Australian game show host and actor

June 4 – Joyce Meyer, Christian author and speaker

June 6 – Richard Smalley, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2005)

June 7 – Chan Hung Lit, Hong Kong actor (d. 2009)

June 7- Nikki Giovanni, American poet

June 8 – Colin Baker, British actor

June 13 – Malcolm McDowell, 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 pop musician

June 21 – Marika Green French-Swedish actress

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 28 – Jens Birkemose, Danish painter

June 29

* Maureen O'Brien, British actress

* Soon-Tek Oh, Japanese actor

July

July 1 – Jeff Wayne, American musician

July 3

* Judith Durham, Australian singer

* Kurtwood Smith, American actor

July 4

* Konrad "Conny" Bauer, German trombonist

* Geraldo Rivera, American reporter and talk show host

July 5 – Curt Blefary, American baseball player (d. 2001)

July 7 – Joel Siegel, American film critic (d. 2007)

July 8 – Guido Marzulli, Italian painter

July 10 – Arthur Ashe, American tennis player (d. 1993)

July 12 – Christine McVie, British rock keyboardist and singer (Fleetwood Mac)

July 15 – Jocelyn Bell Burnell, British astrophysicist

July 16 – Reinaldo Arenas, Cuban writer (d. 1990)

July 19

* David Griffin, British actor

* Han Sai Por, Singaporean sculptor

July 20 – Wendy Richard, British actress (d. 2009)

July 21

* Bob Shrum, political consultant

* Edward Herrmann, American actor

July 23

* Bob Hilton, American game show announcer and host

* Dr. Randall Forsberg, American nuclear freeze advocate (d. 2007)

July 25 – Erika Steinbach, German politician

July 26 – Mick Jagger, English rock singer (The Rolling Stones)

July 28 – Richard Wright, British musician (Pink Floyd) (d. 2008)

August

August 2 – Max Wright, American actor

August 3 – Clarence Wijewardena, Sri Lankan musician (d. 1996)

August 4 – Bjørn Wirkola, Norwegian ski jumper

August 5 – Nelson Briles, American 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

* Yukio Kasaya, Japanese ski jumper

August 18 – Gianni Rivera, Italian footballer

August 20 – Sylvester McCoy, British actor

August 27 – Tuesday Weld, American actress

August 28

* Lou Piniella, American baseball player and manager

* Surayud Chulanont, Thailand's 24th Prime Minister

August 30

* Altovise Davis, American entertainer (d. 2009)

* Jean-Claude Killy, French skier

August 31 – Leonid Ivashov, Russian general

September

September 1 – Don Stroud, American actor

September 5 – Dulce Saguisag, Filipino politician and former DSWD Secretary. (d. 2007)

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

* Neale Donald Walsch, American author of the popular books Conversations with God

September 11

* Gilbert Proesch, Italian-born artist (Gilbert and George)

* Raymond Villeneuve, Canadian terrorist

September 13 – Mildred D. Taylor, American writer

September 14 – Irwin Goodman, Finnish singer (d. 1991)

September 19 – Joe Morgan, American Hall of Fame baseball player

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

* Ian Ogilvy, English actor

October

October 1 – Jean Jacques Annaud, French film director

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 15 – Penny Marshall, American actress and director

October 16 – Paul Rose, Canadian terrorist

October 18 – Birthe Rønn Hornbech, Danish politician

October 27 – Carmen Argenziano, American actor

October 31 – Paul Frampton, English physicist

November

November 1 – Jacques Attali, French economist

November 4 – Chuck Scarborough, American news anchor

November 5

* Friedman Paul Erhardt, German-American pioneering television chef (d. 2007)

* Sam Shepard, American playwright and actor

November 7

* 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 13

* Jay Sigel, American golfer

* Roberto Boninsegna, Italian footballer

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 22

* Peter Adair, American filmmaker

* Yvan Cournoyer, Canadian ice hockey player

* Billie Jean King, American tennis player

November 26 – Marilynne Robinson, American writer

December

December 2 – Wayne Allard, U.S Senator from Colorado

December 5 – Eva Joly, Norwegian-born French magistrate

December 8

* James Douglas "Jim" Morrison, American rock musician (The Doors) (d. 1971)

* Bodo Tümmler, German Olympic middle-distance runner

December 11 – John Kerry, American politician

December 12 – Tridib Mitra, Indian Bengali Poet of the Hungry generation Movement

December 12 – Grover Washington, Jr., American saxophonist (d. 1999)

December 13 – Ferguson Jenkins, Canadian baseball player

December 15 – Lucien den Arend, Dutch sculptor

December 17 – Ron Geesin, British musician and songwriter (Pink Floyd)

December 18 – Keith Richards, English rock 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

* James A. Johnson (businessman), American business leader and philanthropist

December 28

* Keith Floyd, British chef (d. 2009)

* Richard Whiteley, English television presenter (d. 2005)

December 31

* John Denver, American musician (d. 1997)

* Ben Kingsley, British actor

Unknown dates

Kim Tai Chung, Korean martial artist and former actor and Bruce Lee double

Tang Da Wu, Singaporean artist

James Goldstein, LA businessman and NBA basketball aficionado

Deaths

January

January 5 – George Washington Carver, African-American botanist (b. 1864)

January 7 – Nikola Tesla, Croatian-born American scientist (b. 1856)

January 8 – Richard Hillary, Battle of Britain Spitfire pilot, author of The Last Enemy (b. 1919)

January 15 – Eric Knight, American author of Lassie

January 23 – Alexander Woollcott, American critic (b. 1887)

February

February – Bess Houdini, American wife of Harry Houdini

February 4 – Frank Calder, the first NHL President (b. 1877)

February 5 – W.S. Van Dyke, American director (b. 1889)

February 22

* Hans Scholl, German White Rose resistance member (b. 1918)

* Sophie Scholl, German White Rose resistance member (b. 1921)

February 26 – Theodor Eicke, German Nazi official (b. 1892)

March

March 10 – Tully Marshall, American actor (b. 1864)

March 19 – Frank Nitti, Italian-American gangster (suicide) (b. 1888)

March 28 – Sergei Rachmaninoff, Russian composer (b. 1873)

April

April 3 – Conrad Veidt, German actor (b. 1893)

April 7 – Alexandre Millerand, French president (b. 1859)

April 8

* Harry Baur, French actor (b. 1880)

* Richard Sears, American tennis champion (b. 1861)

April 18 – Isoroku Yamamoto, Japanese admiral (b. 1884)

May

May 7 – Fethi Okyar, ex prime minister of Turkey (b.1880)

May 17 – Montague Love, British actor (b. 1877)

May 19 – Kristjan Raud, Estonian painter and drawer (b. 1865)

May 22 – Helen Taft, Wife of President William Howard Taft (b. 1861)

May 26 – Edsel Ford, American President of Ford Motor Company (b. 1893)

May 31 – Helmut Kapp, German Gestapo official

June

June 1 – Leslie Howard, British actor (b. 1893)

June 2 – Nile Kinnick, American athlete and Heisman Trophy winner (b. 1918)

June 4 – Kermit Roosevelt, American explorer and author (b. 1889)

June 26 – Karl Landsteiner, Austrian biologist and physician (b. 1868)

July

July 4 – Wladyslaw Sikorski, Polish politician (b. 1881)

July 8

* Jean Moulin, French resistance fighter (b. 1899)

* Sir Harry Oakes, American-born English gold mine owner (murdered) (b. 1874)

July 12 – Cecilia Loftus, stage actress (b. 1876)

July 13 – Luz Long, German long jump athlete (b. 1913)

July 21 – Charlie Paddock, American athlete (b. 1900)

August

August 9 – Chaim Soutine, Russian painter (born 1893)

August 12 – Bobby Peel, English cricketer (b. 1857)

August 14 – Joe Kelley, American baseball player (b. 1871)

August 21 – Henrik Pontoppidan, Danish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1857)

August 24 – Simone Weil, French philosopher (b. 1909)

August 26 – Ted Ray, British golfer (b. 1877)

August 28 – King Boris III of Bulgaria (b. 1894)

September

September 6 – Reginald McKenna, British Chancellor of the Exchequer 1915–1916 (b. 1863)

September 1 – Charles Atangana, Cameroonian chief

September 23 – Elinor Glyn, British wrtier (b. 1864)

September 24 – John Stone Stone, American physicist and inventor (b. 1869)

October

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)

October 23 – Ben Bernie, American jazz pianist (b. 1891)

October 30 – Max Reinhardt, Austrian director (b. 1873)

November

November 7 – Dwight Frye, American actor (b. 1899)

November 22 – Lorenz Hart, American lyricist (b. 1895)

November 23 – Charles Ray, American actor (b. 1891)

November 24 – Dorie Miller, U.S. sailor, Pearl Harbor survivor (b. 1919)

December

December 1 – Damrong Rajanubhab, Thai prince and historian (b. 1862)

December 9 – Georges Dufrénoy, French post-impressionnist painter (b. 1870)

December 14 – John Harvey Kellogg, American doctor (b. 1852)

December 15 – Fats Waller, African-American jazz pianist (Ain't Misbehavin') (b. 1904)

December 22 – Beatrix Potter, British children's author and illustrator (Peter Rabbit & Jemima Puddle-duck) (b. 1866)

December 27 – Rupert Julian, New Zealand-born film director (b. 1879)

Nobel Prizes

Physics – Otto Stern

Chemistry – George de Hevesy

Physiology or Medicine – Carl Peter Henrik Dam, Edward Adelbert Doisy, Gerhard Domagk

Literature – not awarded

Peace – not awarded

References

1943 Coin Pictures