1943
Wang Houjun, Chinese footballer and manager (died 2012)
Wang Houjun was a Chinese international football player and coach.
Wang Houjun, Chinese footballer and manager (died 2012)
The 1940s
Explore 4729 historical events from 1940–1949.
1943
James Alan McPherson, American short story writer and essayist (died 2016)
James Alan McPherson was an American essayist and short-story writer. He was the first African-American writer to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and was included among the fir…
James Alan McPherson, American short story writer and essayist (died 2016)
1943
André Boudrias, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (died 2019)
André Gerard Boudrias was a Canadian professional ice hockey centre who spent 12 seasons in the National Hockey League as well as two more years in the World Hockey Association bet…
André Boudrias, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (died 2019)
1943
Joe Morgan, American baseball player (died 2020)
Joe Leonard Morgan was an American professional baseball second baseman who played 22 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Houston Colt .45s / Astros, Cincinnati Reds, Sa…
Joe Morgan, American baseball player (died 2020)
1943
Joe Simon, American singer-songwriter and producer, and preacher (died 2021)
Joseph Simon was an American soul and R&B musician. He began as a gospel artist singing with the Golden West Singers in the Bay Area in California. A consistent presence on the US …
Joe Simon, American singer-songwriter and producer, and preacher (died 2021)
1943
Isoroku Yamamoto, Japanese admiral (born 1884)
Isoroku Yamamoto was an admiral of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) and the commander of the Combined Fleet during World War II. He commanded the fleet from 1939 until his death i…
Isoroku Yamamoto, Japanese admiral (born 1884)
1943
Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko, Russian director, producer, and playwright (born 1858)
Vladimir Ivanovich Nemirovich-Danchenko was a Soviet and Russian theatre director, writer, pedagogue, playwright, producer and theatre administrator, who founded the Moscow Art The…
Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko, Russian director, producer, and playwright (born 1858)
1943
Joseph Achron, Russian composer and violinist (born 1886)
Joseph Yulyevich Achron, also seen as Akhron was a Russian composer and violinist, who settled in the United States. His preoccupation with Jewish elements and his desire to develo…
Joseph Achron, Russian composer and violinist (born 1886)
1943
Ricardo Viñes, Spanish pianist (born 1875)
Ricardo Viñes y Roda was a Spanish pianist. He gave the premieres of various works by Ravel, Debussy, Satie, Falla and Albéniz. He was the piano teacher of the composer Francis Pou…
Ricardo Viñes, Spanish pianist (born 1875)
1943
Eddy Hamel, American footballer (born 1902)
Eddy Hamel was an American soccer player who played as a right winger for Dutch club AFC Ajax. Hamel was the first Jewish player for Ajax. He was murdered by the Nazis in 1943 in A…
Eddy Hamel, American footballer (born 1902)
1943
Otto Jespersen, Danish linguist and academic (born 1860)
Jens Otto Harry Jespersen was a Danish linguist who worked in foreign-language pedagogy, historical phonetics, and other areas, but is best known for his description of the grammar…
Otto Jespersen, Danish linguist and academic (born 1860)
1943
Beatrice Webb, English sociologist and economist (born 1858)
Martha Beatrice Webb, Baroness Passfield, was an English sociologist, economist, feminist and social reformer. She was among the founders of the London School of Economics and play…
Beatrice Webb, English sociologist and economist (born 1858)
1943
Johan Oscar Smith, Norwegian religious leader, founded the Brunstad Christian Church (born 1871)
Johan Oscar Smith was a Norwegian Christian leader who founded the evangelical non-denominational fellowship now known as Brunstad Christian Church.
Johan Oscar Smith, Norwegian religious leader, founded the Brunstad Christian Church (born 1871)
1943
Harry Miller, American engineer (born 1875)
Harold Arminius Miller, commonly called Harry, was an American race car designer and builder who was most active in the 1920s and 1930s. Griffith Borgeson called him "the greatest …
Harry Miller, American engineer (born 1875)
1943
Fethi Okyar, Turkish colonel and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Turkey (born 1880)
Ali Fethi Okyar was a Turkish diplomat and politician, who also served as a military officer and diplomat during the last decade of the Ottoman Empire. He was also the second Prime…
Fethi Okyar, Turkish colonel and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Turkey (born 1880)
1943
Mordechai Anielewicz, Polish commander (born 1919)
Mordechai Anielewicz was the Polish leader of the Jewish Combat Organization during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising; the largest Jewish resistance movement during the Second World War. …
Mordechai Anielewicz, Polish commander (born 1919)
1943
Henri La Fontaine, Belgian lawyer and author, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1854)
Henri La Fontaine, was a Belgian international lawyer and president of the International Peace Bureau. He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1913 because "he was the effective leade…
Henri La Fontaine, Belgian lawyer and author, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1854)
1943
Ōnishiki Daigorō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 28th Yokozuna (born 1883)
Ōnishiki Daigorō was a Japanese professional sumo wrestler. He was the sport's 28th yokozuna.
Ōnishiki Daigorō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 28th Yokozuna (born 1883)
1943
Alfred Hoche, German psychiatrist and academic (born 1865)
Alfred Erich Hoche was a German psychiatrist known for his writings about eugenics and euthanasia and his later recanting thereof.
Alfred Hoche, German psychiatrist and academic (born 1865)
1943
Kristjan Raud, Estonian painter and illustrator (born 1865)
Kristjan Raud was an Estonian symbolist painter and illustrator who was one of the founders of the Estonian National Museum. Folklore elements figure heavily in his subject matter …
Kristjan Raud, Estonian painter and illustrator (born 1865)
1943
Nils von Dardel, Swedish painter (born 1888)
Nils Elias Kristofer von Dardel, sometimes known as Nils de Dardel, was a 20th-century Swedish Post-Impressionist painter and grandson of the famous Swedish painter Fritz von Darde…
Nils von Dardel, Swedish painter (born 1888)
1943
Johanna Elberskirchen, German author and activist (born 1864)
Johanna Elberskirchen was a feminist writer and activist for the rights of women, gays and lesbians as well as blue-collar workers. She published books on women's sexuality and hea…
Johanna Elberskirchen, German author and activist (born 1864)
1943
Nigger, black labrador retriever belonging to Wing Commander Guy Gibson of the Royal Air Force, and the mascot of No
Nigger was a male black labrador retriever belonging to Wing Commander Guy Gibson of the Royal Air Force, and the mascot of No. 617 Squadron. Gibson owned the dog when he was previ…
Nigger, black labrador retriever belonging to Wing Commander Guy Gibson of the Royal Air Force, and the mascot of No
1943
Edsel Ford, American businessman (born 1893)
Edsel Bryant Ford was an American business executive and philanthropist, who was the only child of pioneering industrialist Henry Ford and his wife, Clara Jane Bryant Ford. He was …
Edsel Ford, American businessman (born 1893)