1943 deaths

Serbian-American engineer and inventor (1856–1943)

German mathematician (1862–1943)

Dutch physicist (1865–1943)

French philosopher, writer, and social activist (1909–1943)

Russian composer, pianist and conductor (1873–1943)

Danish writer, Nobel Laureate

Jewish-Austrian biologist, physician and Nobel Prize laureate

British children's writer and illustrator (1866–1943)

Japanese Marshal Admiral (1884–1943)

German resistance fighter during the Nazi regime, member of the White Rose (1921-1943)

African American botanist and inventor (1864-1943)

French lawyer and statesman (1859–1943)

Russian (Soviet) agronomist, botanist and geneticist (1887-1943)

king of Bulgaria (1894–1943)

Belgian lawyer, politician and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate (1854-1943)

French sculptor (1864–1943)

Czech journalist and revolutionary (1903–1943)

Danish linguist (1860–1943)

Polish military and political leader (1881-1943)

Hungarian-British archaeologist (1862-1943)

Belarusian-French painter (1893–1943)

British actor (1893–1943)

theatre director and actor (1873-1943)

Russian politician and historian (1859-1943)

first child of Josef Stalin (1907–1943)

French resistance fighter and civil servant (1899-1943)

American jazz pianist and composer (1904–1943)

Norwegian sculptor (1869–1943)

Founder of three Soviet Russian all-female air regiments (1912-1943)

German actor (1893–1943)

Austro-Hungarian psychologist (1880–1943)

German SS general, commander of concentration camp Dachau and inspector of the concentration camps (1892–1943)

English sociologist, economist, socialist, and social reformer (1858–1943)

Swiss-French physician and bacteriologist

First Lady of the United States from 1909 to 1913

Soviet flying ace

Russian theatre director (1858-1943)

Norwegian author (1902–1943)

German painter, sculptor, designer and choreographer (1888–1943)

British historian and philosopher (1889–1943)

Greek poet

French actor and director (1858–1943)

Finnish forest scientist and politician (1879-1943)

German pacifist, executed by Nazi Germany (1918–1943)

Japanese politician and general (1876–1943)

Bosnian Serb writer and diplomat

American physician (1852–1943)

Armenian writer (1878–1943)

Aspazija was the pen name of Elza Johanna Emilija Lizete Pliekšāne (née Elza Rozenberga; 16 March 1865 – 5 November 1943), a Latvian poet and playwright. Aspazija is the Latvian transliteration of Aspasia.

British poet and author (1880–1943)

former President of Argentina (1876-1943)

German-Jewish physician, sociologist and political economist (1864-1943)

Austrian martyr and conscientious objector (1907–1943)

Serbian communist partisan (1925-1943)

Swiss artist (1889–1943)

Italian general (1880-1943)

leader of the anti-Nazi Jewish Combat Organization (1919–1943)

SA Stabschef (1890-1943)

Hero of the Soviet Union (1924–1943)

Jewish diarist (1914-1943)