1943

1943 (MCMXLIII) was a common year beginning on a Friday of the Gregorian calendar.

Events

January

• January 1st: In the framework of the Second World War, the long battle of Guadalcanal ends, with the victory of the Americans over the Japanese.
• January 11: The United Kingdom and the United States renounce their extraterritoriality rights in China.
• 10 January: In Tandil the Calvary of Tandil was inaugurated.
• January 15: The pentagon headquarters is opened.
• January 18: In the framework of the Second World War, in the course of the Chispa operation, the Red Army partially breaks the site of Leningrad by opening a narrow corridor, just ten kilometers wide, through the German defensive lines.
• January 19: in Mexico, the IMSS (Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social) is created.
• 21 January: in Rosario (Argentina) the highest temperature in the history of that city is recorded: 42.2 °C

February

• 2 February: in the framework of the Second World War in the Eastern Front, the Battle of Stalingrad ends in the Soviet Union (the most bloody in the history of humanity) meaning a decisive Soviet victory and the turning point of the conflict in the European theater, as the axis powers would begin to retreat in all the Eastern European fields.
• February 3: Finland engages in negotiations with the Soviet Union to seek peace.
• February 4: Nazi German submarines sank thirteen allied ships from a convoy loaded with weapons.
• February 5: In New York, boxer Jake LaMotta gets to beat Sugar Ray Robinson for points.
• February 9: The Japanese leave Guadalcanal for the strong pressure of the U.S. army.
• February 10: In India, Mahatma Gandhi began a hunger strike to protest his arrest.
• 11 February: In North Africa, U.S. General Eisenhower takes over the allied armies.
• 14 February: In Tunisia the Nazis perform a counter-offensive (led by General Hans von Arnim) against the Allies.
• February 15: In the premises of the Falange de la Glorieta de Cuatro Caminos (Madrid) there is a bomb attack.
• February 15: In Finland, Risto Ryti is re-elected as president.
• February 16: In Tunisia, Battle of the Kasserine Pass in which the Nazis try to stop the Allied Advance in North Africa.
• February 18: In Germany, the Nazis arrest the members of the White Rose movement.
• February 18: In Germany, Joseph Goebbels gave the speech of Sportpalast.
• February 18: In Kharkov the Nazis perform a counter-offensive.
• February 20: Mexico forms the Paricutín volcano.
• 21 February: In Madrid the metropolitan stadium is inaugurated.
• 21 February: In France, the German Nazi authorities suspended the demarcation line between the two French areas.
• February 21: In Japan, General Hideki Tōjō is appointed Chief of the Imperial General Staff in the World War.
• 25 February: in England. born George Harrison, ex-integrant of The Beatles

March

• 1 March: General Alfredo Baldomir gave the presidency to Juan José Amézaga in Uruguay, and the new Constitution, approved in plebiscite on 29 November 1942, entered into force.
• March 1st: The British Royal Air Force systematically bombed the European railway lines.
• March 1st: The Union of Polish Patriots was founded in Moscow.
• March 3: In India, Mahatma Gandhi ceased in his hunger strike (sign of protest against the British presence in India).
• March 3: In the Bismarck Archipelago, a naval battle between Japanese and Americans.
• March 3: Elvira Dávila Ortiz, a pioneer in nursing and blood banks in Colombia.
• March 3: Spain recalled the ban on the celebration of Carnival.
• March 7: Mexico founded the Universidad Iberoamericana Ciudad de México.
• 25 March: in Japan it is successfully premiered The legend of the great Judo, first film directed by Akira Kurosawa.

April

• April 6: An 8.2 earthquake shakes the Coquimbo Region in Chile leaving a balance of 11 people dead.
• April 7: In Solomon Islands, the Japanese army carries out an offensive.
• April 7: Bolivia declares war on the Axis powers.
• 7 April: Hitler and Mussolini meet at the Kelheim Palace.
• April 9: Mexico founded the Red Shark of Veracruz.
• 16 April (Friday): in the Sandoz laboratories of Basel (Switzerland), the Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann (1906-2008), while studying the alkaloids produced by the rye cornezuelo, involuntarily experiences its psychotropic effects of lysergic acid diethylamid (LSD). The following Monday will voluntarily consume more quantity.
• April 19: In Poland, the Germans enter the ghetto of Warsaw for the deportation of Jews to the concentration camp of Treblinka. Begins the Jewish sublevacyon.
• April 19: In the Sandoz laboratories of Basel (Switzerland), the Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann (1906-2008), while studying the alkaloids produced by the cornezuelo of the rye, voluntarily consumes 0.25 mg of lysergic acid diethylamid (LSD) to investigate its psychotropic effects.
• 30 April: on the Spanish coast near Huelva (Spain), the body that begins Operation Mincemeat is deposited in the waters.

May

• 2nd of May: in Chile, the final of the Chilean Champions Championship is played, with the Santiago Morning Club crowning champion.
• 9 May: In Changjiao (Hunan Province) the Japanese Expeditionary Army led by General Shunroku Hata killed 30,000 men, women and children (Masacre of Chang Shiao).
• 13 May: In Tunisia, the Axis forces collapsed and surrendered, 275 000 German and Italian soldiers fell, and the Afrika Korps was destroyed.
• May 15: German troops begin, east of Bosnia, Operation Schwarzwith the aim of annihilating the partisan bases and their leader, Tito.
• 17 May: In Ruhr, Germany, the British Royal Air Force bombs the German dams.
• May 17: Memphis Belle (B-17) completes its 25th mission after bombing a factory in Bremen.
• 17 May: in Barcelona the film is released Mail of Indiasled by Edgar Neville.
• May 24: In Poland occupied by the Germans, Josef Mengele is appointed chief medical officer of the Auschwitz concentration camp.

June

• 4 June: in Argentina, the military carried out a coup d’état, self-proclaimed “Revolution Nacional” that defeats conservative President Ramón Castillo. The almost unknown colonel Juan Domingo Perón is placed at the head of the National Labor Department. Ends the “Infame Decade” (1930-1943)
• 9 June: In the Indonesian island of Sumatra there are two earthquakes of 7.5 and 7.8 causing several damages.
• June 13: Real Madrid gets 11-1 in front of FC Barcelona in the Cup of the Generalísimo.
• June 16: In Bosnia, partisan troops waged against the Wehrmacht the Battle of Sutjeska and managed to break the German siege, marking a turning point in the development of the war in the Balkans.
• 20 June: in the Turkish province of Sakarya there is an earthquake of 6.6.
• June 30: The German Reich is declared free of Jews (judenrein).

July

• July 5: As part of the Second World War, the Battle of Kursk begins in the Soviet Union, the biggest tank battle ever.
• 10 July: British and American troops land southeast of Sicily Island (Operation Husky) and occupy it in just over a month
• July 14: in Sicily, Italy. the massacre of Biscari occurs.
• July 23: In the Indonesian island of Java there is an earthquake of 7.0 that leaves 213 dead, nearly 4,000 wounded and more than 12,000 ruined houses.
• 25 July: in Italy, Mussolini is deposed by the Great Fascist Council.

August

• 4 August: In Daugavpils (Latvia), the highest temperature is recorded in the history of that country: 36.4 °C (97.5 °F).

September

• September 3: Italy capitulates to the allies.
• September 3: Allied troops cross the Strait of Mesina and begin the invasion of Italy and begin to advance along the peninsula of Calabria.
• 6 September: in Mexico, the businessman Eugenio Garza Sada founded the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey
• 9 September: Allied forces land in Salerno and attempt to head towards Rome.
• 10 September: In the prefecture of Tottori, Japan, an earthquake of 7.0 leaves over 1,000 dead, destroying hundreds of buildings and producing fires.
• September 12: In Grand Sasso, Otto Skorzeny runs the operation that liberates Benito Mussolini from his prison.
• 23 September: Mussolini forms the first Government of the Italian Social Republic.
• September 30: In the Soviet Union, the composer and orchestra director Mikhail Nosyrev is arrested by the NKVD and sentenced to death.

October

• 19 October: the scientist Albert Schatz (1922-2005) discovers streptomycin (antibiotic to combat tuberculosis). His boss, Selman Waksman (1888-1973), attributes the discovery, and will therefore win the Nobel Prize in Medicine of 1952.

November

• 27 November: an earthquake of 7.7 sascude the Turkish city of Kastamonu leaving a balance of 2,500 dead and 5,000 wounded.
• 28 November-3 December: Tehran Conference.
• Colombia declared the "state of belligerent", against Germany, after the Kriegsmarine produced in the Caribbean Sea, the sinking of three ships: The Resolution, The Roamar and The Ruby

December

• December 1st: Chile begins the first phase of CORFO companies, with the creation of Endesa (Chile).
• December 20: American soldiers land on the Gilbert Islands.
• December 23: Chile founded the City of the Child "President Juan Antonio Ríos".

Births

January

• January 2: Emilio Disi, Argentine actor and humorist (f. 2018).
• January 4: Doris Kearns Goodwin, American writer and historian.
• January 4: Jesús Torbado, Spanish writer and journalist (f. 2018).
• 4 January: Horacio Serpa, a Colombian politician (f. 2020).
• January 6: Osvaldo Soriano, Argentine writer and journalist (f. 1997).
• January 6: Terry Venables, ex-player and British football coach.
• January 7: Sadako Sasaki, a Japanese girl who is referring to pacifist movements (will die in 1955 of leukemia caused by the American atomic bomb).
• January 11: Eduardo Mendoza, Spanish writer.
• January 14: Holland Taylor, American actress.
• January 14: Silvia Montanari, Argentine actress (f. 2019).
• January 14: José Luis Rodríguez «El Puma», Venezuelan singer and actor
• January 17: Chris Montez, American musician of Hispanic origin.
• January 19: Janis Joplin, American singer-songwriter (f. 1970).
• January 24: Sharon Tate, American actress (assisited in 1969).

February

• 4 February: Willie Maldonado, locutor and television presenter of Guatemalan origin.
• February 8: Ricardo Prieto, playwright, poet and Uruguayan narrator (f. 2008).
• February 9: Enrique Guzmán, Mexican singer of Venezuelan origin.
• February 9: Joe Pesci, American actor, singer and comic, Oscar Prize winner.
• February 9: Joseph E. Stiglitz, American economist and writer, Alfred Nobel Prize in Economics in Memory in 2001.
• 9 February: Víctor Sueiro, journalist, writer and presenter of Argentine television (f. 2007).
• February 10: Joaquín Bedoya, Colombian singer and composer (f. 2014).
• 11 February: Gabriela Aberastury, Argentine painter.
• 11 February: Joselito, Spanish singer and actor.
• February 14: Maceo Parker, American jazz saxophoneist and funk.
• February 14: Sergio Méndez, Salvadoran footballer (f. 1976).
• February 20: Mike Leigh, British film director.
• February 20: Alejandro Ángel López Samper, Spanish keeper.
• February 20: Roberto Jordan, Mexican singer.
• February 21: David Geffen, producer and editor of American records.
• February 22: Horst Köhler, German president.
• February 24: Pablo Milanés, Cuban musician (f. 2022).
• February 24: Gilberto Correa, animator and Venezuelan locutor.
• February 25: George Harrison, British guitarist, of the band The Beatles (f. 2001).
• February 27: Carlos Alberto Parreira, Brazilian football coach.

March

• March 1st: Felipe Alcaraz, a Spanish communist politician.
• 1 March: Ana María Giunta, an Argentine actress (f. 2015).
• March 3: Mario Poggi, character, psychiatrist and Peruvian writer (f. 2016).
• March 5: Lucio Battisti, Italian singer (f. 1998).
• March 8: Valerio Massimo Manfredi, Italian writer.
• March 9: Bobby Fischer, an Icelandic chessist of American origin (f. 2008).
• March 10: Pedro Juan Moreno, a Colombian businessman, engineer and politician (f. 2006).
• March 15: David Cronenberg, filmmaker and Canadian actor.
• March 16: Maruja Torres, a Spanish journalist and writer.
• March 18: Pachi Armas, Argentine actor (f. 2010).
• March 19: Mario Molina, Mexican scientist, nobel chemistry award in 1995 (f. 2020).
• March 20: Jaime Chávarri, Spanish actor and screenwriter.
• March 22: George Benson, American guitarist.
• March 22: Keith Relf, British singer and musician, vocalist of The Yardbirds (f. 1976).
• March 23: María Luisa Alcalá, Spanish actress (f. 2016).
• March 23: Corto Buscaglia, musician, actor, journalist and Uruguayan politician (f. 2006).
• March 28: Conchata Ferrell, American actress (Berta in Two and a Half Men(f. 2020).
• March 29: John Major, British politician.
• March 29: Vangelis Papathanassiou, Greek instrumental musician.
• March 29: José Pablo Feinmann, Argentine philosopher and teacher.
• March 31st: Christopher Walken, American actor.

April

• April 7: Joaquín Agostinho, Portuguese cyclist.
• April 8: Chango Nieto, Argentine singer and bomber (f. 2008).
• April 8: Luis Fernando Orozco, Colombian actor (f. 2020).
• April 10: Julio Estrada, Mexican-Spanish musical creator.
• April 20: John Eliot Gardiner, director of British orchestra and musician.
• April 20: Edie Sedgwick, American actress and model (f. 1971).
• April 20: Marta Varela, pianist, director of orchestra and Argentine professor.
• April 20: Jaerock Lee, Christian pastor and South Korean author.
• April 23: Hervé Villechaize, a French actor, represented the dwarf character Tatoo in The island of fantasy (f. 1993).

May

• May 4: María del Carmen Martínez-Villaseñor, ventrílocua española.
• May 5: Ignacio Ramonet, Spanish journalist.
• May 5: Raphael, Spanish singer.
• May 10: Lucinda Worsthorne, British writer, photographer, producer and television driver.
• May 13: Kurt Trampedach, Danish painter.(f. 2013).
• May 14: Jack Bruce, British bassist, from the Cream band(f. 2014).
• May 14: Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, Icelandic president.
• May 14: Tania León, director of orchestra, pianist and Cuban composer.
• 14 May: Antonio Pérez de la Cruz Blanco, lawyer and Spanish jurist.(f. 2009).
• May 14: José Manuel Urtain, Spanish boxer (f. 1992).
• May 19: Marisol Ayuso, Spanish actress.
• May 20: Al Bano, Italian singer.
• May 21st: Hilton Valentine, British guitarist, The Animals band (f. 2021).
• May 22: Betty Williams, a British pacifist awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1976 (f. 2020).
• May 27: Eduardo Bautista, Spanish singer.
• May 30: Antonio Burgos, Spanish journalist and writer.
• May 30: Narcís Serra, a Spanish socialist politician.
• May 31: Ramón Montesinos, Spanish footballer (f. 2010).

June

• June 4: Víctor Hugo Morant, Colombian actor.
• June 5: Hermes Binner, a doctor and an Argentine politician.
• June 9: Joe Haldeman, American writer.
• June 10: Zamba Quipildor, Argentine folk singer and guitarist.
• June 11: Antônio Wilson Vieira Honório (coutinho), Brazilian football player and coach (n. 2019).
• June 13: Malcolm McDowell, British actor.
• 14 June: Piet Keizer, Dutch footballer (f.2017)
• June 15: Johnny Hallyday, French singer (f. 2017).
• June 17: Barry Manilow, American singer.
• June 18: Raffaella Carrà, singer and Italian TV host. (f. 2021)
• June 23: Albert Pintat Santolària, president of the Government of Andorra.
• June 28: Klaus von Klitzing, German physicist, nobel prize of physics in 1985.
• June 29: Hugo Fattoruso, Uruguayan musician.

July

• 7 July: Toto Cutugno, Italian singer.
• 7 July: Miguel Vila Luna, Dominican architect and painter (f. 2005).
• July 9: Margareta Pâslaru, singer, composer and Romanian actress.
• July 11: Oscar D'León, Venezuelan singer.
• July 13: Carlos Borcosque, director of film and Argentine screenwriter.
• July 14: Christopher Priest, British novelist.
• July 15: Jocelyn Bell, astrophysicist from the north of the Netherlands who discovered the first radio signal of a pulsar.
• July 16: Reinaldo Arenas, Cuban writer (f. 1990).
• July 16: Rubén Rada, Uruguayan musician.
• July 18th Marisa González, Spanish multimedia artist.
• 21 July: Edward Herrmann, American actor (f. 2014).
• July 21: Lucrecia Méndez de Penedo, professor, literary criticism and Guatemalan essayist.
• July 23: Hugo Arana, Argentine actor.
• July 26: Mick Jagger, British vocalist of The Rolling Stones.
• July 28: Mike Bloomfield, American musician, The Electric Flag (f. 1981).
• July 28: Bill Bradley, American basketball and politician.
• July 28: Héctor Pedro Vergez, an Argentine ex-military, delinquent during the civic-military dictatorship (1976-1983).
• July 28: Richard Wright, British keynote player, Pink Floyd.
• July 29: Héctor Luis Ayala, singer and Argentine guitarist of folk music, from the band Vivencia (f. 2016).
• July 29: Michael Holm, German singer.
• 29 July: Antoni Torres, Spanish footballer (f. 2003).

August

• August 2: Max Wright, American actor (f. 2019).
• August 3: Elio Roca, Argentine singer (f. 2021).
• August 17: Robert De Niro, American actor.
• August 18: Norma Pons, an actress and an Argentine exvedette (f. 2014).
• August 18: Gianni Rivera, former football player and Italian politician.
• August 23: Pino Presti, bassist, arranger, composer, director and Italian producer.
• August 24: Irma Lozano, Mexican actress (f. 2013).
• August 26: Héctor Manuel Vidal, Uruguayan theatre director (f. 2014).
• August 28: Surayud Chulanont, Thai military.

September

• September 6: Roger Waters, bassist, singer and composer of the English progressive rock band Pink Floyd.
• September 7: Gloria Gaynor: American singer
• September 10: Jorge Pinchevsky, Argentine violinist rock (f. 2003).
• September 12, Michael Ondaatje, Canadian writer and poet
• 13 September: Luis Eduardo Aute cantautor español.
• 14 September: Tanguito, Argentinean rocker (f. 1972).
• September 16: Keiichi Noda, Japanese voice actor.
• September 23: Julio Iglesias cantante español.
• September 28: Hughes Dufourt, French composer.
• September 29: Luis Carlos Galán, a Colombian liberal politician (f. 1989).

October

• October 1st: Jean-Jacques Annaud, French film director.
• October 1: Garth L. Nicolson, American biochemical.
• October 3: Leonel Hernández, Costa Rican footballer.
• 4 October: Daniel Mendoza, Argentine journalist (f. 1992).
• October 4: Edwin Schal, a Surinamese footballer.
• October 8: María Julia Alsogaray, Argentinean engineer and policy (f. 2017).
• October 8: Chevy Chase, American comic and actor.
• October 8: R. L. Stine, American writer.
• 14 October: Seyyyed Mohammad Jatamí, President of Iran between 1997 and 2005.
• October 17: Henry Ramos Allup, Venezuelan politician.
• October 17: Ciro Fogliatta, Argentine rock keyboard.
• October 18: Andréi Baiuk, an Argentine economist of Slovenian origin, Prime Minister of Slovenia in 2000 (f. 2011).
• October 19: Adolfo Aristarain, filmmaker and Argentine writer.
• October 22: Jan de Bont, Dutch filmmaker.
• October 22: Catherine Deneuve, French actress.
• October 28: Charo López, Spanish actress.

November

• November 1st: Jacques Attali, French economist.
• November 1st: Salvatore Adamo, singer-songwriter ílo-belga.
• November 1: Alfio Basile, footballer and Argentine coach.
• 1 November: José Ignacio García Hamilton, Argentine historian (f. 2009).
• November 3, Malén Aznárez, a Spanish journalist (f. 2017).
• 5 November: Mariano Etkin, Argentine composer.(f. 2016).
• November 5: Norma Lazareno, Mexican actress.
• 7 November: Miguel Rellán, Spanish actor.
• 7 November: Joni Mitchell, Canadian singer.
• November 8: Juan Ferrara, Mexican actor.
• November 9: Horacio Pagani, Argentine sports journalist.
• November 15: Marisa Porcel, Spanish actress (f. 2018).
• November 17: Lauren Hutton, American model and actress.
• November 18: Manuel António Pina, writer, poet, playwright, translator, screenwriter and Portuguese journalist, winner of the 2011 Camões Award (f. 2012).
• November 18: Daniel Rabinóvich, Argentine musician and humorist, member of Les Luthiers (f. 2015).
• November 19: Margalida Castro, Colombian actress.
• 25 November: Dante Caputo, a politician and an Argentine politician (f. 2018).
• November 26: Juan Giménez, Argentine hysterist.
• November 28: Randy Newman, composer, arranger, American singer and pianist.
• November 28: Massimo Tamburini, Italian motorcycle designer (f. 2014).
• 29 November: Maurizio Berlincioni, Italian photographer.

December

• December 2: Carlos Castro, a musician and an Argentine teacher (f. 2010).
• December 2: Elisa Ramírez, Spanish actress.
• December 6: Santo Biasatti, Argentine journalist.
• December 6: Miguel Angel Lunghi, a pediatrician and Argentine mayor.
• December 8: José Carbajal, singer, Uruguayan (f. 2010).
• December 8: Jim Morrison, American singer, The Doors band (f. 1971).
• December 13: Soledad Bravo, Venezuelan singer of Spanish origin.
• 13 December: Gösta Winbergh, Swedish tenor (f. 2002).
• December 17: Bert Hawthorne, a New Zealand motor racing pilot (f. 1972).
• December 18: Keith Richards, British guitarist.
• December 18: Marystell Molina, Mexican actress.
• December 22: Juan Martin Mujica, footballer and Uruguayan coach (f.2016)
• December 23: Harry Shearer, American filmmaker.
• December 24: Javier Jesús Olmedo, general inspector and Mexican teacher (f. 2016).
• December 25: María Noel Genovese, model and Uruguayan actress.
• December 27: Joan Manuel Serrat, Spanish singer.
• December 28: Juan Luis Cipriani Thorne, Peruvian Archbishop.
• December 29: Judy Henríquez, Colombian actress.
• December 31: John Denver, American singer, composer, musician and actor (f. 1997).
• December 31: Ben Kingsley, British actor.
• December 31: Yawovi Agboyibo, a Togolese politician (f. 2020).

Deaths

January

• January 5: George Washington Carver, American educator (n. 1860).
• January 7: Nikola Tesla, physicist, mathematician, electrical engineer and American inventor of Austrian origin (n. 1856).
• 11 January: Augustine Pedro Justo, militar, diplomat and politician, dictator between 1932 and 1938 (n. 1876).
• January 11: Carlo Tresca, Italian anarchist (n. 1879).
• January 13: Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Swiss painter and sculptor (n. 1889).
• 14 January: Tomás Soley Güell, economist and Costa Rican historian (n. 1875).
• January 23: Alexander Woollcott, theatrical critic (n. 1887).
• January 26: Nikolái Vavílov, Russian botanist and geneticist (n. 1887).

February

• February 3: Refugio Reyes Rivas, Mexican architect (n. 1862).
• February 5: W. S. Van Dyke, American director (n. 1889).
• 14 February: David Hilbert, German mathematician (n. 1862).
• February 22: Christoph Probst (23), a medical student and a member of the White Rose, an organization that fought against Nazism; Guillotinate (n. 1919).
• February 22: Hans Scholl (24), German anti-Nazi activist, one of the pillars of the Rosa Blanca group; guillotinedo (n. 1918).
• February 22: Sophie Scholl (21), an anti-Nazi leader and activist of the Rosa Blanca movement in Nazi Germany; Guillotinada (n. 1921).
• 26 February: Theodor Eicke, commander of the concentration camp of Dachau (n. 1892).
• February 27: Kostís Palamas, Greek poet and playwright, author of the letter Olympic hymn(n. 1859).
• February 28: Leonhard Hess Stejneger, Norwegian zoologist (n. 1851).

March

• 13 March: Stephen Vincent Benét, American writer, poet and novelist (n. 1898).
• March 10: Otto Modersohn, German landscape painter (n. 1865).
• March 23: Joseph Schillinger, Russian-Ukrainian composer and theorist (n. 1895).
• March 28: Serguéi Rajmáninov, outstanding composer, pianist and director of Russian orchestra.
• 1 March: Alexandre Emile John Yersin, Swiss doctor and bacteriologist.

April

• April 3: Conrad Veidt, German actor (n. 1893).
• April 7: Alexandre Millerand, lawyer and politician, prime minister and president of France (n. 1859).
• April 8: Harry Baur, French actor (n. 1880).
• April 11: Gustav Vigeland, Norwegian sculptor (n. 1869).
• April 16: Carlos Arniches, Spanish comediagraph (n. 1866).
• April 18: Isoroku Yamamoto, admiral of the Japanese fleet (n. 1884).

May

• May 8: Mordechai Anielewicz, commander of the Jewish Fighting Organization during the uprising of the Warsaw Ghetto (n. 1919).
• May 8: Pat Barker, British writer.
• May 8: Paul Samwell-Smith, British bassist, from The Yardbirds.
• 14 May: Henri La Fontaine, a Belgian politician, a Nobel Peace Prize in 1913 (n. 1854).
• May 23: Piotr Nilus, Russian painter and impressionist writer (n. 1869).
• May 26: Edsel Bryant Ford, American businessman, son of businessman Henry Ford (n. 1893).
• May 30: Jorge de Baviera, military and ecclesiastical Bavarian (n. 1880)

June

• 1 June: Leslie Howard, British actor (n. 1893).
• June 15: José Gil Fortoul, lawyer, writer, sociologist and Venezuelan historian (n. 1861).
• 17 June: Vincent McNabb, Irish priest and scholar (n. 1868).
• June 21: Elise Richter, Austrian philosopher and professor murdered by the Nazis (n. 1865).
• 22 June: Eloísa D’Herbil, composer of Spanish tango (n. 1842).
• June 26: Karl Landsteiner, a pathologist of Austrian origin, a nobel medical prize in 1930 (n. 1868).

July

• 4 July: Władysław Sikorski, Polish military and political (n. 1881).
• 8 July: Jean Moulin, director of the National Council of Resistance during the occupation of France at the hands of Nazi Germany (n. 1899).
• July 8: Guillermo Valencia, Colombian poet, diplomat and politician (n. 1873).
• July 9: Francisco Rodríguez Marín, was a poet, folklorist, paremiologist, lexicologist and Spanish cervantist (n.1855).
• July 13: Lorenzo Barcelata, Mexican composer (n. 1889).
• July 19: Katya Budanova, Soviet Air Force fighter during World War II (n. 1916).
• July 21: Charlie Paddock, American athlete (n. 1900).
• July 26: Luis Barros Borgoño, politician, Minister of State and Chilean Vice President (n. 1858).

August

• August 1st: Lydia Litvyak was a Soviet Air Force fighter during World War II (n. 1921).
• August 9: Chaïm Soutine, Russian painter (n. 1893).
• August 20: Tadeusz Zawadzki, Polish scout leader, Polish resistance activist (n. 1921).
• August 21: Henrik Pontoppidan, Danish writer, nobel literature award in 1917 (n. 1857).
• August 24: Antonio Alice, Argentine painter (n. 1886).
• August 24: Simone Weil, French philosopher (n. 1909).
• 25 August: Pierre-Georges Latécoère, engineer and entrepreneur in French aviation (n. 1883).
• August 28: Boris III, zar of Bulgaria (1918-1943) (n. 1894).
• August: Rutka Laskier, a teenage Jewish writer.

September

• September 1st: W. W. Jacobs, a humorist, a novelist and a British accountant (n. 1863).
• 5 September: Aleš Hrdlička, Czech anthropologist (n. 1869).
• 13 September: Francisco Vidal and Barraquer, Spanish ecclesiastical, Archbishop of Tarragona (n. 1868).
• September 23: Salvo D'Acquisto, police and lay Italian Catholic (n. 1920).
• September 28: Félix Aguilar, astronomer and Argentine engineer (n. 1884).
• September 30: Franz Oppenheimer, a German sociologist and political economist (n. 1864).

October

• October 3: Emilio Cebrián Ruiz, director of orchestra and Spanish composer (n. 1900).
• 7 October: Radclyffe Hall, a British poet and writer (n. 1880).
• October 8: Arturo Rawson, Argentinean military and dictator (n. 1885).
• October 9: Pieter Zeeman, a Dutch physicist, a nobel physics award in 1902 (n. 1865).
• 10 October: Charlotte Salomon, a Jewish painter of German origin, killed by gas in the concentration camp of Auschwitz (n. 1917).
• October 12: Max Wertheimer, one of the founders of psychology Gestalt (n. 1880).
• 15 October: Sabá H. Sueyro (54 years old), militar and «vice-president» (de facto) Argentinean (n. 1883).
• October 18: Benedictus Hubertus Danser, Dutch botanist (n. 1891).
• October 19: Camille Claudel, French sculptor (n. 1864).
• October 26: Marc Aurel Stein, archaeologist and British synologist of Austrian origin (n. 1862).
• October 31: Max Reinhardt, director of American theatre and cinema of Austro-Hungarian origin (n. 1873).
• October 31: Albert Armitage, Scottish Antarctic explorer (n. 1864).

November

• November 15: Alice Liddell, inspiration for the character of books Alice in Wonderland and Alicia through the mirror (n. 1852).
• 30 November: Etty Hillesum, Dutch Jewish nurse and writer murdered in Auschwitz (n. 1914).

December

• December 6: Ricardo León and Román, a Spanish writer (n. 1877).
• December 14: John Harvey Kellogg, American Doctor (n. 1852).
• December 15: Fats Waller, American jazz pianist (n. 1904).
• December 22: Beatrix Potter, British writer and illustrator of child literature (n. 1866).
• Jaume Aiguader, doctor, politician and writer.
• Berty Albrecht, a French activist, a member of the French Resistance during the Nazi occupation of France.
• Dionisio Baixeras Verdaguer, Spanish painter.
• Matteo Bartoli, Italian linguist.
• Luis Cuervas-Mons, Spanish painter.
• Eustace Edward, British colonial administrator.
• Adriá Gual, playwright and Spanish theatre entrepreneur.
• Otto Jespersen, linguist and Danish philosopher.
• Luis Lucia-Lucía, lawyer, minister and journalist democristiano valenciano, father of the filmmaker Luis Lucía Mingarro (n. 1888).
• Kostis Palamas, Greek poet.
• Loreto Prado, Spanish actress.
• Francisco Rodríguez Marín, poet, scholar, folklorist, paremiologist, lexicologist and Spanish cervantist.
• Otto Rühle, German communist.
• Gustavo Sosa Escalada, creator of Paraguay's guitar school.
• Josef Szombathy, Austrian archaeologist, discoverer of the Venus of Willendorf.
• Saul Alejandro Taborda, Argentine pedagogue.
• Giuseppe Terragni, Italian architect.
• Froylán Turcios, writer, journalist and Honduran politician.
• Ricardo Viñes, Spanish pianist.
• Beatrice Webb, British economist and social reformer.
• Clifford Whittingham Beers, American psychiatrist.
• Frank Worsley, New Zealand sailor and explorer.

Art and literature

• Antoine de Saint-Exupéry publica The Little Prince.
• David Alfaro Siqueiros (Mexican painter, 1896-1974): Allegory of equality of races.
• Upton Sinclair (American writer, 1878-1968): Wide is the door.
• George Orwell (British writer, 1903-1950): Rebellion on the farm.
• Hermann Hesse: The game of the beads.
• Ayn Rand: The spring.
• Roald Dahl: The gremlins.
• Bertolt Brecht: The Good Soul of Szechwan.
• Albert Camus: The misunderstanding.
• Jean-Paul Sartre: The flies, Being and nothing.
• Stefan Zweig: The world of yesterday (posthumously published).

Music

• On June 1, the singer and actor Frank Sinatra signed a contract with the Columbia Records label as soloist.

Science and technology

• The U.S. army, with a subsidy of half a million dollars, begins the Project PX to create the ENIAC, the first computer.
• The American Endodoncia Association is founded in the city of Chicago in order to share experiences among clinicians in the field, as well as to promote the highest levels of quality and hygiene in the procedure.

Sports

• July 30: Fundación del CF Salmantino, historical subsidiary of the UD Salamanca.

Cinema

• Love called twice (The More the Merrier)George Stevens.
• The song of Bernadette (The song of Bernadette)Henry King.
• Five graves in Cairo (Five Graves to Cairo)Billy Wilder.
• Human comedy (The Human Comedy)Clarence Brown.
• The desperate (The Awakening)Charles Vidor.
• Destination: Tokyo (Destination Tokyo)Delmer Daves.
• The devil said no (Heaven can wait)Ernst Lubitsch.
• Dies rae (Vredens dag)Carl Theodor Dreyer.
• The outlaw (The Outlaw)Howard Hughes.
• Forging of soulsEusebio Ardavin.
• Incident in Ox-Bow (The Ox-Bow Incident)William A. Wellman.
• The legend of the great Judo (Sugata SanshiroAkira Kurosawa.
• The New Legend of the Great Judo (Sugata Sanshiro), Akira Kurosawa.
• Who's the bell ringing for? (For whom the bell tolls?)Sam Wood.
• This land is mine. (This Land is Mine)Jean Renoir.
• Sahara (Sahara)Zoltan Korda.
• The shadow of a doubt (Shadow of a Doubt)Alfred Hitchcock.
• After the rising sun (Behind the Rising Sun)Edward Dmytryk.
• Life and death of Colonel Blimp (The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp)Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger.
• I walked with a zombie (I Walked with A Zombie)Jacques Tourneur.
• Titanic Herbert Selpin.

Television

Nobel laureates

• Physics: Otto Stern.
• Chemistry: George de Hevesy.
• Medicine: Henrik Carl Peter Dam and Edward Adelbert Doisy.
• Literature: 1/3 for the Main Fund and 2/3 for the Special Fund of this section of the award.
• Peace: 1/3 for the Main Fund and 2/3 for the Special Fund of this section of the award.