Who Was Alive in 1943
174 of 492 historical figures were alive in 1943
Nikola TeslaAge 87
George Bernard ShawAge 87
Max PlanckAge 85
David HilbertAge 81
Henry FordAge 80
Edvard MunchAge 80
H.G. WellsAge 77
Frank Lloyd WrightAge 76
Mahatma GandhiAge 74
Henri MatisseAge 74
Orville WrightAge 72
Bertrand RussellAge 71
Winston ChurchillAge 69
Carl JungAge 68
Albert SchweitzerAge 68
Thomas MannAge 68
Lise MeitnerAge 65
Joseph StalinAge 65
Albert EinsteinAge 64
Helen KellerAge 63
Pablo PicassoAge 62
Alexander FlemingAge 62
Igor StravinskyAge 61
Franklin D. RooseveltAge 61
Coco ChanelAge 60
Benito MussoliniAge 60
John Maynard KeynesAge 60
Eleanor RooseveltAge 59
Harry S. TrumanAge 59
Niels BohrAge 58
Diego RiveraAge 57
Erwin SchrödingerAge 56
Georgia O'KeeffeAge 56
Chiang Kai-shekAge 56
Le CorbusierAge 56
T. S. EliotAge 55
Charlie ChaplinAge 54
Jawaharlal NehruAge 54
Adolf HitlerAge 54
Ludwig WittgensteinAge 54
Ho Chi MinhAge 53
Agatha ChristieAge 53
Dwight D. EisenhowerAge 53
Charles de GaulleAge 53
Haile SelassieAge 51
J.R.R. TolkienAge 51
Mao ZedongAge 50
Aldous HuxleyAge 49
Nikita KhrushchevAge 49
Babe RuthAge 48
Buster KeatonAge 48
Golda MeirAge 45
C. S. LewisAge 45
Duke EllingtonAge 44
Ernest HemingwayAge 44
Jorge Luis BorgesAge 44
Alfred HitchcockAge 44
Humphrey BogartAge 44
Antoine de Saint-ExupéryAge 43
Werner HeisenbergAge 42
Louis ArmstrongAge 42
Walt DisneyAge 42
Enrico FermiAge 42
HirohitoAge 42
Marlene DietrichAge 42
George OrwellAge 40
Bob HopeAge 40
Robert OppenheimerAge 39
Salvador DalíAge 39
Pablo NerudaAge 39
Jean-Paul SartreAge 38
Hannah ArendtAge 37
Frida KahloAge 36
Rachel CarsonAge 36
Simone de BeauvoirAge 35
Lyndon B. JohnsonAge 35
Kwame NkrumahAge 34
Dorothy HodgkinAge 33
Mother TeresaAge 33
Akira KurosawaAge 33
Jacques CousteauAge 33
Ronald ReaganAge 32
Naguib MahfouzAge 32
Alan TuringAge 31
Jackson PollockAge 31
Rosa ParksAge 30
Jesse OwensAge 30
Richard NixonAge 30
Albert CamusAge 30
Gerald FordAge 30
Hedy LamarrAge 29
Orson WellesAge 28
Frank SinatraAge 28
Billie HolidayAge 28
Ingrid BergmanAge 28
Roald DahlAge 27
John F. KennedyAge 26
Ella FitzgeraldAge 26
Indira GandhiAge 26
Ingmar BergmanAge 25
Nelson MandelaAge 25
Richard FeynmanAge 25
Eva PerónAge 24
Edmund HillaryAge 24
Jackie RobinsonAge 24
Rosalind FranklinAge 23
Pope John Paul IIAge 23
Toshiro MifuneAge 23
Stan LeeAge 21
Marlon BrandoAge 19
James BaldwinAge 19
Jimmy CarterAge 19
George H. W. BushAge 19
Patrice LumumbaAge 18
Margaret ThatcherAge 18
B.B. KingAge 18
Malcolm XAge 18
Marilyn MonroeAge 17
Fidel CastroAge 17
Elizabeth IIAge 17
Gabriel García MárquezAge 16
Pope Benedict XVIAge 16
James WatsonAge 15
Andy WarholAge 15
Stanley KubrickAge 15
Maya AngelouAge 15
Che GuevaraAge 15
Vera RubinAge 15
Noam ChomskyAge 15
Anne FrankAge 14
Martin Luther King Jr.Age 14
Audrey HepburnAge 14
Grace KellyAge 14
Chinua AchebeAge 13
Neil ArmstrongAge 13
Ray CharlesAge 13
Tu YouyouAge 13
James DeanAge 12
Desmond TutuAge 12
Toni MorrisonAge 12
Mikhail GorbachevAge 12
Johnny CashAge 11
Elizabeth TaylorAge 11
Sylvia PlathAge 11
Yoko OnoAge 10
Wole SoyinkaAge 9
Yuri GagarinAge 9
Carl SaganAge 9
Jane GoodallAge 9
Dalai LamaAge 8
Elvis PresleyAge 8
Woody AllenAge 8
Pope FrancisAge 7
Jack NicholsonAge 6
Saddam HusseinAge 6
Kofi AnnanAge 5
Francis Ford CoppolaAge 4
PeléAge 3
Bruce LeeAge 3
John LennonAge 3
Wangari MaathaiAge 3
Bob DylanAge 2
Muhammad AliAge 1
Aretha FranklinAge 1
Jimi HendrixAge 1
Stephen HawkingAge 1
Paul McCartneyAge 1
Muammar GaddafiAge 1
Joe BidenAge 1
Billie Jean KingAge 0
George HarrisonAge 0
Janis JoplinAge 0
Jim MorrisonAge 0
Lech WałęsaAge 0
Born in 1943
Lech Wałęsa
Solidarity leader and president of Poland
Jim Morrison
The Doors, Light My Fire
George Harrison
The Beatles, My Sweet Lord
Janis Joplin
Piece of My Heart, rock and blues
Billie Jean King
Tennis champion, gender equality advocate
Also Born in 1943
President of Poland from 1990 to 1995
American actor (born 1943)
American chess grandmaster (1943–2008)
President of Pakistan from 2001 to 2008
President of Iran from 1997 to 2005
American politician and diplomat (born 1943)
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1990 to 1997
American poet and Nobel laureate (1943–2023)
English musician and songwriter (born 1943)
President of Germany from 2004 to 2010
Finnish politician, President of Finland (born 1943)
French actress (born 1943)
Died in 1943
Nikola Tesla
AC electricity, visionary inventor
David Hilbert
German mathematician of Hilbert's problems
Also Died in 1943
German mathematician (1862–1943)
Dutch physicist (1865–1943)
French philosopher (1909–1943)
Russian composer and pianist (1873–1943)
Danish writer, Nobel Laureate
English writer and illustrator (1866–1943)
Austrian-American immunologist (1868–1943)
Japanese admiral (1884–1943)
German anti-Nazi student activist (1921–1943)
American botanist and inventor (1864–1943)
French lawyer and statesman (1859–1943)
Russian botanist and geneticist (1887–1943)
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- 1943 — Wikipedia. Births, deaths and events of the year
- Nikola Tesla — Wikipedia
- George Bernard Shaw — Wikipedia
- Max Planck — Wikipedia
- David Hilbert — Wikipedia
- Henry Ford — Wikipedia
- Edvard Munch — Wikipedia
- H. G. Wells — Wikipedia
- Frank Lloyd Wright — Wikipedia
- Mahatma Gandhi — Wikipedia
- Henri Matisse — Wikipedia
- Wright brothers — Wikipedia
- Bertrand Russell — Wikipedia
- Winston Churchill — Wikipedia
- Carl Jung — Wikipedia
- Albert Schweitzer — Wikipedia
- Thomas Mann — Wikipedia
- Lise Meitner — Wikipedia
- Joseph Stalin — Wikipedia
- Albert Einstein — Wikipedia
- Helen Keller — Wikipedia
- Pablo Picasso — Wikipedia
- Alexander Fleming — Wikipedia
- Igor Stravinsky — Wikipedia
- Franklin D. Roosevelt — Wikipedia
- Coco Chanel — Wikipedia
- Benito Mussolini — Wikipedia
- John Maynard Keynes — Wikipedia
- Eleanor Roosevelt — Wikipedia
- Harry S. Truman — Wikipedia
- Niels Bohr — Wikipedia
- Diego Rivera — Wikipedia
- Erwin Schrödinger — Wikipedia
- Georgia O'Keeffe — Wikipedia
- Chiang Kai-shek — Wikipedia
- Le Corbusier — Wikipedia
- T. S. Eliot — Wikipedia
- Charlie Chaplin — Wikipedia
- Jawaharlal Nehru — Wikipedia
- Adolf Hitler — Wikipedia
- Ludwig Wittgenstein — Wikipedia
- Ho Chi Minh — Wikipedia
- Agatha Christie — Wikipedia
- Dwight D. Eisenhower — Wikipedia
- Charles de Gaulle — Wikipedia
- Haile Selassie — Wikipedia
- J. R. R. Tolkien — Wikipedia
- Mao Zedong — Wikipedia
- Aldous Huxley — Wikipedia
- Nikita Khrushchev — Wikipedia
- Babe Ruth — Wikipedia
- Buster Keaton — Wikipedia
- Golda Meir — Wikipedia
- C. S. Lewis — Wikipedia
- Duke Ellington — Wikipedia
- Ernest Hemingway — Wikipedia
- Jorge Luis Borges — Wikipedia
- Alfred Hitchcock — Wikipedia
- Humphrey Bogart — Wikipedia
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry — Wikipedia
- Werner Heisenberg — Wikipedia
- Louis Armstrong — Wikipedia
- Walt Disney — Wikipedia
- Enrico Fermi — Wikipedia
- Hirohito — Wikipedia
- Marlene Dietrich — Wikipedia
- George Orwell — Wikipedia
- Bob Hope — Wikipedia
- J. Robert Oppenheimer — Wikipedia
- Salvador Dalí — Wikipedia
- Pablo Neruda — Wikipedia
- Jean-Paul Sartre — Wikipedia
- Hannah Arendt — Wikipedia
- Frida Kahlo — Wikipedia
- Rachel Carson — Wikipedia
- Simone de Beauvoir — Wikipedia
- Lyndon B. Johnson — Wikipedia
- Kwame Nkrumah — Wikipedia
- Dorothy Hodgkin — Wikipedia
- Mother Teresa — Wikipedia
- Akira Kurosawa — Wikipedia
- Jacques Cousteau — Wikipedia
- Ronald Reagan — Wikipedia
- Naguib Mahfouz — Wikipedia
- Alan Turing — Wikipedia
- Jackson Pollock — Wikipedia
- Rosa Parks — Wikipedia
- Jesse Owens — Wikipedia
- Richard Nixon — Wikipedia
- Albert Camus — Wikipedia
- Gerald Ford — Wikipedia
- Hedy Lamarr — Wikipedia
- Orson Welles — Wikipedia
- Frank Sinatra — Wikipedia
- Billie Holiday — Wikipedia
- Ingrid Bergman — Wikipedia
- Roald Dahl — Wikipedia
- John F. Kennedy — Wikipedia
- Ella Fitzgerald — Wikipedia
- Indira Gandhi — Wikipedia
- Ingmar Bergman — Wikipedia
- Nelson Mandela — Wikipedia
- Richard Feynman — Wikipedia
- Eva Perón — Wikipedia
- Edmund Hillary — Wikipedia
- Jackie Robinson — Wikipedia
- Rosalind Franklin — Wikipedia
- Pope John Paul II — Wikipedia
- Toshiro Mifune — Wikipedia
- Stan Lee — Wikipedia
- Marlon Brando — Wikipedia
- James Baldwin — Wikipedia
- Jimmy Carter — Wikipedia
- George H. W. Bush — Wikipedia
- Patrice Lumumba — Wikipedia
- Margaret Thatcher — Wikipedia
- B. B. King — Wikipedia
- Malcolm X — Wikipedia
- Marilyn Monroe — Wikipedia
- Fidel Castro — Wikipedia
- Elizabeth II — Wikipedia
- Gabriel García Márquez — Wikipedia
- Pope Benedict XVI — Wikipedia
- James Watson — Wikipedia
- Andy Warhol — Wikipedia
- Stanley Kubrick — Wikipedia
- Maya Angelou — Wikipedia
- Che Guevara — Wikipedia
- Vera Rubin — Wikipedia
- Noam Chomsky — Wikipedia
- Anne Frank — Wikipedia
- Martin Luther King Jr. — Wikipedia
- Audrey Hepburn — Wikipedia
- Grace Kelly — Wikipedia
- Chinua Achebe — Wikipedia
- Neil Armstrong — Wikipedia
- Ray Charles — Wikipedia
- Tu Youyou — Wikipedia
- James Dean — Wikipedia
- Desmond Tutu — Wikipedia
- Toni Morrison — Wikipedia
- Mikhail Gorbachev — Wikipedia
- Johnny Cash — Wikipedia
- Elizabeth Taylor — Wikipedia
- Sylvia Plath — Wikipedia
- Yoko Ono — Wikipedia
- Wole Soyinka — Wikipedia
- Yuri Gagarin — Wikipedia
- Carl Sagan — Wikipedia
- Jane Goodall — Wikipedia
- 14th Dalai Lama — Wikipedia
- Elvis Presley — Wikipedia
- Woody Allen — Wikipedia
- Pope Francis — Wikipedia
- Jack Nicholson — Wikipedia
- Saddam Hussein — Wikipedia
- Kofi Annan — Wikipedia
- Francis Ford Coppola — Wikipedia
- Pelé — Wikipedia
- Bruce Lee — Wikipedia
- John Lennon — Wikipedia
- Wangarĩ Maathai — Wikipedia
- Bob Dylan — Wikipedia
- Muhammad Ali — Wikipedia
- Aretha Franklin — Wikipedia
- Jimi Hendrix — Wikipedia
- Stephen Hawking — Wikipedia
- Paul McCartney — Wikipedia
- Muammar Gaddafi — Wikipedia
- Joe Biden — Wikipedia
- Billie Jean King — Wikipedia
- George Harrison — Wikipedia
- Janis Joplin — Wikipedia
- Jim Morrison — Wikipedia
- Lech Wałęsa — Wikipedia