1943: The Year in People

The Silent Generation · Year of the Goat 🐐 · Born in 1943 turn 83 in 2026

The year in numbers

Gas, per gallon

$0.21

Median home

$3,290

Minimum wage

$0.30/hr

US population

2.35B

US president

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Top song

"I've Heard That Song Before" — Harry James

Top film

For Whom the Bell Tolls

Best Picture

Casablanca

In the news: Allies invade Sicily; Battle of Stalingrad ends

What happened in 1943

1943 (MCMXLIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1943rd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 943rd year of the 2nd millennium, the 43rd year of the 20th century, and the 4th year of the 1940s decade.

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Born in 1943

197 people in our data · most viewed first

Christopher Walken

b. 1943 · March 31

American actor

Chevy Chase

b. 1943 · October 8

American comedian, writer and actor

David Cronenberg

b. 1943 · March 15

Canadian filmmaker

Bobby Fischer

1943–2008 · March 9

American chess grandmaster

Barry Manilow

b. 1943 · June 17

American singer

Carly Simon

b. 1943 · June 25

American musician

David Geffen

b. 1943 · February 21

American media proprietor

Blythe Danner

b. 1943 · February 3

American actress

John Major

b. 1943 · March 29

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1990 to 1997

Billie Jean King

b. 1943 · November 22

American tennis player

Eric Idle

b. 1943 · March 29

English comedian, actor and writer

Gary Burghoff

b. 1943 · May 24

American actor

Conchata Ferrell

1943–2020 · March 28

American actress

Arthur Ashe

1943–1993 · July 10

American tennis player

Bob Woodward

b. 1943 · March 26

American investigative journalist

Dennis Linde

1943–2006 · March 18

American songwriter

Allen Coage

1943–2007 · October 22

American-Canadian judoka and professional wrestler

Cilla Black

1943–2015 · May 27

English singer and media personality

Geraldo Rivera

b. 1943 · July 4

American attorney, journalist and talk show host

Barry Evans (actor)

1943–1997 · June 18

English actor

Antonio Inoki

1943–2022 · February 20

Japanese wrestler and politician

Alan Wilson (musician)

1943–1970 · July 4

American blues rock musician

Bobby Sherman

1943–2025 · July 22

American singer and actor

Max Gail

b. 1943 · April 5

American actor

Died in 1943

Lorenz Hart1895–1943 · American lyricist
Sergei Rachmaninoff1873–1943 · Russian composer and pianist
Isoroku Yamamoto1884–1943 · Japanese admiral
Leslie Howard1893–1943 · English actor and writer
David Hilbert1862–1943 · German mathematician
Conrad Veidt1893–1943 · German and British actor
Camille Claudel1864–1943 · French sculptor and graphic artist
Chaïm Soutine1893–1943 · French, Jewish Belarusian painter
Beatrice Webb1858–1943 · English sociologist, economist, feminist and social reformer
Alexandre Millerand1859–1943 · French lawyer and statesman
Abdelaziz of Morocco1881–1943 · Sultan of Morocco from 1894 to 1908
Alexander Woollcott1887–1943 · American drama critic and commentator