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.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries: 19th century20th century21st century
Decades: 1910s  1920s  1930s 1940s 1950s  1960s  1970s
Years: 1940 1941 194219431944 1945 1946

Events

January - March

April - June

July - September

October - December

Births

January

February

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

Deaths

Movies released

Hit songs

  • "As Time Goes By" by Rudy Vallee
  • "I've Heard That Song Before" by Harry James
  • "In the Blue of the Evening" by Tommy Dorsey
  • "Paper Doll" by Mills Brothers
  • "Pistol Packin' Mama" by Al Dexter
  • "Sunday, Monday or Always" by Bing Crosby
  • "Taking a Chance On Love" by Benny Goodman
  • "There Are Such Things" by Tommy Dorsey
  • "When the Lights Go On Again" by Vaughn Monroe
  • "You'll Never Know" by Dick Haymes

New books

  • Adam of the RoadElizabeth Janet Gray
  • The ApostleSholem Asch
  • Citizen Tom PaineHoward Fast
  • Claudius the GodRobert Graves
  • Crux AnsataH. G. Wells
  • Earth's Last CitadelC. L. Moore
  • The FountainheadAyn Rand
  • GremlinsRoald Dahl
  • A Haunted House and other storiesVirginia Woolf (published anonymously)
  • Le KépiColette
  • The Lady in the LakeRaymond Chandler
  • The Last of SummerKate O'Brien
  • The Little PrinceAntoine de Saint-Exupery
  • The Nature and Destiny of ManReinhold Niebuhr
  • Mr. MirakelE. Phillips Oppenheim
  • The ShipC.S. Forester
  • The RavenChancellor Williams
  • Rhadopis of NubiaNaguib Mahfouz
  • A Tree Grows in BrooklynBetty Smith
  • Victoria GrandoletHenry Bellamann
  • The White FaceCarl Offord

Nobel Prizes

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