1943
1943 (
MCMXLIII) was a
common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1943 calendar).
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 -
Herr Schenke makes the first
emergency ejection from an aircraft
*
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 -
Duke Ellington plays at
New York City's
Carnegie Hall for the first time.
*
January 27 - World War II: 50 bombers mount the first all American
air raid against
Germany (
Wilhelmshaven was the target).
*
January 29 - German police arrest
necrophiliac Bruno LudkeFebruary
*
February 2 - World War II: In
Russia, the
Battle of Stalingrad comes to an end with the surrender of the German 6th Army.
*
February 3 - World War II: The death of the
Four Chaplains when their ship was struck by a
torpedo.
*
February 7 - World War II: In the
United States, it is announced that
shoe rationing will go into effect in two days.
* February 8 - World War II:
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 -
World War II:
Rostov-na-Donu,
Russia is liberated.
*
February 14 - World War II:
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 -
World War II:
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 Propagandaminister (Propaganda Minister) Joseph Goebbels declare a "
Total War" against the allies
*
February 18 - 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.
*
February 22 - Members of
White Rose are executed in
Nazi Germany.
*
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-April
*
March 1 -
Heinz Guderian becomes the Inspector-General of the Armoured Troops for the
German Army.
*
March 2 -
World War II:
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 8 - World War II: American forces are attacked by
Japanese troops on Hill 700 in
Bougainville in a battle that will last five days.
*
March 13 - World War II: On
Bougainville,
Japanese troops end their assault on
American forces at Hill 700.
*
March 13 -
Holocaust:
German forces liquidate the Jewish ghetto in
Kraków.
*
March 22 - World War II: The entire population of
Khatyn in
Belarus is burnt alive by the German occupation forces.
*
March 26 - World War II:
Battle of Komandorski Islands - In the
Aleutian Islands the battle begins when
United States Navy forces intercept
Japanese attempting to reinforce a garrison at
Kiska.
*
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 3 - Shipwrecked steward
Poon Lim is rescued by
Brazilian fishermen after he has been adrift for 130 days
*
April 13 - World War II: Radio Berlin announces the discovery by
Wehrmacht of mass graves of Poles killed by Soviets in the
Katyn massacre.
*
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.
*
April 27 - The U.S.
Federal Writers' Project is shuttered.
May-June
*
May 11 -
World War II:
American troops invade
Attu in the
Aleutian Islands in an attempt to expel occupying
Japanese forces.
*
May 12 -
Trident Conference begins in
Washington, D.C. with
Franklin D. Roosevelt and
Winston Churchill taking part.
*
May 13 - World War II:
German Afrika Korps and
Italian troops in
North Africa surrender to
Allied forces.
*
May 14 - Sinking of the
Australian Hospital Ship Centaur off the coast of
Queensland, by a Japanese submarine.
*
May 15 -
Comintern is dissolved.
*
May 16 - World War II: The
Dambuster Raids by
RAF 617 Sqdn on German dams.
*
May 16 -
Holocaust: The
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising ends.
*
May 17 -
World War II: Surviving RAF
Dam Busters return.
*
May 17 - The
United States Army contracts with the
University of Pennsylvania's Moore School to develop the
ENIAC.
*
May 19 -
Winston Churchill addresses a joint session of the
U.S. Congress.
*
May 24 -
Holocaust:
Josef Mengele becomes Chief Medical Officer in
Auschwitz.
*
June 4 - Military
Coup d'état in
Argentina ousts
Ramón Castillo.
*
June 22 -
U.S. Army 45th Infantry Division land in North Africa prior to training at Arzew, French Morocco while serving in
World War II.
July
*
July 5 -
World War II:
Battle of Kursk - The largest tank battle in history begins.
*
July 5 - World War II: An Allied invasion fleet sails to
Sicily.
*
July 6 -
World War II:
Americans and
Japanese fight the
Battle of Kula Gulf off
Kolombangara.
*
July 10 - World War II: The
Allied invasion of Sicily marks the beginning
allied invasion of
Axis-controlled
Europe with landings on the island of
Sicily, off mainland
Italy by the
U.S. Army 45th Infantry Division.
*
July 12 -
World War II: the
Wehrmacht and the
Red Army fight the
Battle of Prokhorovka - the greatest tank battle in history.
*
July 19 - World War II:
Rome is bombed by the
Allies for the first time in the war.
*
July 24 - World War II:
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 retires its consent to
Mussolini; Mussolini is arrested and the power is given to Maresciallo d'Italia Gen.
Pietro Badoglio.
*
July 28 - World War II:
Operation Gomorrah - The
British bomb
Hamburg causing a
firestorm that kills 42,000
German civilians.
August-September
*
August 1 -
Operation Tidal Wave: 177
B-24 Liberator bombers from the
U.S. Army Air Force bomb oil refineries at
Ploiesti, Romania.
*
August 6 -
World War II:
Americans and
Japanese fight the
Battle of Vella Gulf off
Kolombangara.
*
August 14 -
Quadrant Conference begins in
Quebec City. Canadian
Prime Minister MacKenzie King meets with
Winston Churchill and
Franklin D. Roosevelt.
*
August 17 - World War II: The
US 7th Army under General
George S. Patton arrive in
Messina, Italy followed several hours later by the
British 8th Army under Field Marshal
Bernard L. Montgomery, thus completing the
Allied conquest of
Sicily.
*
August 23 - The
Battle of Kursk ends with a heavy defeat for the German forces.
*
August 29 - World War II: 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 3 - World War II: Mainland
Italy is invaded by
Allied forces under
Bernard L. Montgomery, for the first time in the war.
*
September 5 - World War II: 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 - World War II:
United States General
Dwight D. Eisenhower publicly announces the surrender of
Italy to the
Allies and the USAAF bombed the German General Headquarter for the Mediterranean zone
Frascati bombing raid September 8, 1943.
*
September 8 - World War II:
Julius Fucik is executed by
Nazis.
*
September 8 - First classes commence at
Grace University.
*
September 23 - World War II:
Republic of Salò is founded.
October
*
October 6 -
World War II:
Americans and
Japanese fight the naval
Battle of Vella Lavella.
*
October 7 -
World War II:
Naples post office explosion*
October 13 - World War II: The new government of
Italy sides with the
Allies and declares war on
Germany.
*
October 18 -
Chiang Kai-shek took 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 - World War II:
RAF delivers a highly destructive airstrike on the German industrial and population center of
KasselNovember
*
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
*
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 - World War II: In
Yugoslavia, resistance leader
Marshal Tito proclaims a provisional democratic Yugoslav government in-exile.
*
December 4 -
Great Depression ends in the
United States: With unemployment figures falling fast due to
World War II-related employment, US President
Franklin D. Roosevelt closes the
Works Progress Administration.
*
December 18 -
Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards was born.
*
December 20 -
Military coup in
Bolivia*
December 24 - World War II: US General
Dwight D. Eisenhower becomes the Supreme Allied Commander in Europe.
*
December 30 -
Subhash Chandra Bose raises the flag of
Indian independence at
Port Blair.
Undated
*Development of the
Colossus computer by British to break German encryption (see
History of computing hardware).
*
Mondragón cooperative begins in
Basque Country in Spain
*
Arana Hall, Otago founded.
*
Jacques-Yves Cousteau co-invents, with
Emile Gagnan, the first commercially successful open circuit type of
SCUBA diving equipment, the
aqua-lung.
["Year by Year 1943" -- History Channel International].
Ongoing
*
Second World War (
1939-
1945)
*
Sino-Japanese War (
1937-
1945)
January
*
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 29 -
Tony Blackburn, British radio DJ
*
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 -
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 24 -
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
*
February 27 -
Graham Bowers, British musician, artist and engineer
March
* March -
John Leeson, British actor
*
March 1 -
Gil Amelio, American entrepreneur
*
March 2 -
Peter Straub, American author
* March 2 -
Zygfryd Blaut, Polish football player
*
March 3 -
Trond Mohn, Norwegian billionaire
*
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 16 -
Helen Armstrong , American Concert Violinist
*
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
April
*
April 2 -
Frank Feather, UK-born Canadian 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 23 -
Dominik Duka, Czech Catholic bishop and theologian
*
April 23 -
Frans Koppelaar, Dutch painter
*
April 28 -
John O. Creighton, American
astronautMay
*
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 -
Ã"lafur Ragnar GrÃmsson,
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
*May 31 -
Sharon Gless, American actress
June
*
June 2 -
Ilayaraaja, 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
July
*
July 4 -
Konrad "Conny" Bauer, German trombonist
*
July 4 -
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 15 -
Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Irish astrophysicist
*
July 20 -
Wendy Richard, British actress
*
July 26 -
Mick Jagger, English singer (
Rolling Stones)
August
*
August 2 -
Kathy Lennon, American singer,
The Lennon Sisters*
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 -
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
October
*
October 2 -
Franklin Rosemont, American poet
*
October 6 -
Michael Durrell, American 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
*
November 7 -
Joni Mitchell, Canadian musician
*
November 7 -
Michael Spence, American economist,
Nobel Prize laureate
*
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 21 -
Larry Mahan, Champion Rodeo Cowboy
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 19 -
Ross M. Lence, American political scientist (d.
2006)
*
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-June
*
January 5 -
George Washington Carver, American educator, activist, and botanist
*
January 7 -
Nikola Tesla, World famous Serbian origined scientist
*
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-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 14 -
Jacob Gens, head of
Vilna Ghetto's
judenrat*
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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December 22 -
Potter, Beatrix, a
British children's book author and
illustrator (b.
1866)
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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
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1943 Coin Pictures
