Famous Deaths for Year 1943
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Deaths 1 - 150 of 229
Jan 1st - Colonel Andrew Summers Rowan, U.S. military officer who gave "a message to Garcia" (b. 1857)
Jan 3rd - Sir Walter James, Premier of Western Australia (b. 1863)
Jan 5th - George Washington Carver, famous black scientist, dies at 81
Jan 7th - Nikola Tesla, Yugoslavian physicist (tesla motor), dies at 86
Jan 8th - Richard Hillary, Australian Spitfire pilot and author (b. 1919)
Jan 9th - Robin G Collingwood, English philosopher (Roman Britain), dies at 53
Jan 10th - Agustin P Justo y Rolon, pres Argentina (1931-38), dies at 66
Jan 10th - J Arthur S Berson, Austrian meteorologist, dies at 83
Jan 11th - Carlo Tresca, NY's Italian newspaper editor/anti-fascist, murdered
Jan 12th - Jan R T Campert, Dutch resistance fighter/poet (18 Dead), dies at 40
Jan 13th - Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Swiss artist (b. 1889)
Jan 14th - Adolf Sandberger, composer, dies at 78
Jan 16th - Franz Courtens, Flemish painter (Sunny Lane), dies at 88
Jan 20th - Giacomo Benvenuti, composer, dies at 57
Jan 21st - Otakar Sini, composer, dies at 61
Jan 23rd - Alexander Woollcott, critic, dies of a heart attack on radio, at 56
Jan 24th - John Burns, English minister of Local Government (1905-14), dies
Jan 26th - Nikolai Vavilov, geneticist, Saratovv labour camp, dies
Jan 26th - Harry H. Laughlin, American eugenicist (b. 1880)
Feb 3rd - Alexander Goode, rabbi who surrended his life jacket, drowns
Feb 4th - Frank Calder, 1st NHL president, dies
Feb 5th - Wim Gertenbach, Dutch resistance fighter (Slogan), shot by Nazis
Feb 6th - HA Seyffardt, Dutch lt-gen/NSB "minister", dies at 71
Feb 9th - ... Reydons, wife of General Reydons, shot to death by resistance
Feb 10th - Wa'er, shot dead by Defiance
Feb 13th - William Walraven, journalist/writer (Neglected Grouser), dies at 55
Feb 14th - David Hilbert, German mathematician (Hilbert Space), dies at 81
Feb 14th - Frieda Reiss, French 11 month old baby, murdered in Auschwitz
Feb 14th - Dora Gerson, German actress, cabaret singer, and Holocaust victim (b. 1899)
Feb 15th - William Victor Harris, composer, dies at 73
Feb 17th - Armand J. Piron, American jazz violinist and composer (b. 1888)
Feb 17th - Konstantin Bogaevsky, Russian painter (b. 1872)
Feb 18th - Henri Polak, Dutch union leader/politician (soc-dem), dies at 74
Feb 22nd - Christoph Probst, German resistance fighter (That Weisse Rose), dies
Feb 22nd - Hans Scholl, German resistance fighter (White Rose), beheaded at 24
Feb 22nd - Sophie Scholl, German resistance fighter (Die Weisse Rose), beheaded
Feb 26th - Theodor Eicke, Nazi official (b. 1892)
Feb 27th - Kostis Palamas, Greek poet, twice nominated for the Nobel prize (b. 1859)
Mar 2nd - Alexandre Yersin, Swiss bacteriologist (bacteria plague), dies at 79
Mar 3rd - George Thomson, cricketer (all-rounder-6 Tests for Eng 1909-10), dies
Mar 4th - Nikolaos "Sokrates" Politis, Greek foreign minister, dies at 71
Mar 4th - Pieter C Boutens, Dutch poet (Beatrijs), dies at 73
Mar 9th - Oskar Hêks, Czech marathon runner/antifascist, dies in Auschwitz
Mar 10th - Tully Marshall, actor (Let's Go, Red Dust), dies at 78
Mar 12th - Gustav Vigeland, Norwegian sculptor (b. 1869)
Mar 13th - Stephen Vincent Benét, American author (b. 1898)
Mar 19th - Vicente Ripolles, composer, dies at 75
Mar 19th - Frank Nitti, American gangster (b. 1883)
Mar 23rd - Andre Lichtenberger, French Sudan writer (Le Petit Roi), dies at 72
Mar 23rd - Joseph Moiseyevich Schillinger, composer, dies at 47
Mar 27th - Grigori Yakovlevich Bakhchivangi, test pilot (BI-1), killed in crash
Mar 28th - Sergei Vasilievitch Rachmaninov, Russian composer/pianist, dies at 69
Mar 30th - Jan Bytnar, Polish activist (b. 1921)
Mar 30th - Maciej Aleksy Dawidowski, Polish activist (b. 1920)
Apr 3rd - Conrad Veidt, German/US actor (Cabinet of Dr Calgary), dies at 50
Apr 4th - Oskar Schlemmer, German painter/sculptor, dies at 54
Apr 4th - Raoul Laparra, composer, dies at 66
Apr 5th - Aleš Hrdlička, Czech anthropologist (b. 1869)
Apr 7th - Jovan Ducic, Serbian poet (Blue Legends), dies at 72
Apr 7th - Alexandre Millerand, President of France (b. 1859)
Apr 8th - Paul Colin, Belgian journalist/collaborator, executed
Apr 8th - Richard Sears, 1st to win US amateur national tennis match, dies at 81
Apr 14th - Asser B Kleerekoper, SDAP-Second-Member of parliament, dies at 62
Apr 14th - Geoffrey Turton Shaw, composer, dies at 63
Apr 15th - Raffaele Casimiro Casimiri, composer, dies at 62
Apr 15th - Aristarkh Lentulov, Russian artist (d. 1882)
Apr 18th - I Yamamoto, admiral of Japanese fleet, dies
Apr 19th - Alexander Schmorell, German resistance fighter, beheaded
Apr 19th - Gustave Doret, composer, dies at 76
Apr 19th - Kurt Huber, German resistance fighter, beheaded
Apr 19th - Willy Graf, German resistance fighter, beheaded
Apr 24th - Gerardus H de Hare, socialist vicar, dies at 63
Apr 25th - Vladimir Ivanovich Nemirovich-Danchenko, playwright/director, dies
Apr 29th - Joseph Achron, Latvian violinist/composer (Golem suite), dies at 56
Apr 29th - Karl Adrian Wohlfart, composer, dies at 68
Apr 29th - Sidney A K Keyes, English poet (Foreign Gate), dies at 20
Apr 30th - Beatrice Potter Webb, British writer (My Apprenticeship), dies at 85
Apr 30th - Etty Hillesum, Dutch diarist, dies in Auschwitz
Apr 30th - Otto Jespersen, Danish philologist (b. 1860)
May 1st - Johan Oscar Smith, Norweigian Christian leader and founder of Smith's Friends (b.1871)
May 3rd - Leslie Heward, composer, dies at 45
May 8th - Mordicai Anielewicz, commander of Warsaw ghetto uprising, killed
May 10th - Andre Bertulot, Belgian resistance fighter, hanged
May 10th - Arnaud/Armand Fraiteur, Belgian resistance fighter, hanged
May 10th - Maurice-Albert Raskin, Belgian resistance fighter, hanged
May 12th - Albert Stoessel, composer, dies at 48
May 14th - Henri La Fontaine, Belgian Nobel Peace Prize laureate (b. 1854)
May 16th - Alfred Hoche, German psychiatrist (b. 1865)
May 17th - Montagu Love, actor (Wind), dies at 65
May 19th - Kristjan Raud, Estonian painter (b. 1865)
May 24th - Vladimir I Nemirovitch-Dantshenko, Russian playwright, dies at 84
May 25th - Nils von Dardel, Swedish post-impressionist painter (b. 1888)
May 26th - Edsel Ford, owner (Ford Motor Company), dies at 49
May 29th - Hermann Hans Wetzler, composer, dies at 72
Jun 1st - Leslie Howard, actor (Romeo & Juliet), Nazis shot down his plane at 50
Jun 1st - Wilfrid B. Israel, Jewish activist
Jun 3rd - Folkert E Posthuma, Min of Agriculture, dies
Jun 4th - Jean du Bela, singer/actor (Sobibor), dies at 39
Jun 6th - Karl Landsteiner, Austrian/US pathologist (Nobel 1930), dies at 74
Jun 11th - Sam[uel] de Vries, actor (Boefje, In Sobibor), dies at 50
Jun 13th - Kočo Racin, Macedonian poet (b. 1908)
Jun 15th - Cecil Parkin, cricketer (32 wkts in 10 Tests for Eng 1920-24), dies
Jun 25th - Spencer Charters, actor (Big Town Girl, St Louis Kid), dies at 68
Jun 26th - Fritz Schmidt, Nazi commissioner in Holland, commits suicide at 39
Jul 1st - Auguste Reitsma, Dutch resistance fighter (census director), executed
Jul 1st - C Bakker, Dutch resistance fighter (census bureau), executed
Jul 1st - C L Barentsen, Dutch resistance fighter (census bureau), executed
Jul 1st - Coos Hartogh, Dutch resistance fighter (census bureau), executed
Jul 1st - Cor Roos, Dutch resistance fighter (census bureau), executed
Jul 1st - Henri Halberstadt, Dutch resistance fighter (census dir), executed
Jul 1st - Johan Brouwer, hispanist/writer/Dutch resistance fighter, executed
Jul 1st - Koen Limperg, Dutch resistance fighter (census bureau), executed
Jul 1st - Sam Bloemgarten, Dutch resistance fighter (census bureau), executed
Jul 1st - Willem Arondeus, Dutch resistance fighter (census bureau), executed
Jul 1st - Willem Brouwer, Dutch resistance fighter (census bureau), executed
Jul 4th - Wladyslaw Sikorski, gen/PM of Poland in exile (1939-43), dies at 62
Jul 8th - Harry Oakes, Canadian ruler of Bahamas, murdered
Jul 8th - Jean "Max" Moulin, French resistance fighter, executed
Jul 10th - Arthur Finlay Nevin, composer, dies at 72
Jul 13th - Kurt Huber, German philosopher/resistance fighter, dies at 50
Jul 14th - Johannes F "Frits" Bakker Sr, actor, dies at 74%
Jul 21st - Charles William Paddock, 100m runner (Olympic-gold-1920), dies at 42
Jul 23rd - Emanuel Querido, publisher (Sobibor), dies
Jul 23rd - Meijer de Hond, [Emanuel Querido], rabbi (Sobibor), dies
Jul 27th - Godfrey Cripps, cricketer (1st Currie Cup-winning captain), dies
Jul 27th - H B G Austin, cricketer (capt of 1923 WI team to England), dies
Jul 30th - Benjamin James Dale, composer, dies at 58
Jul 31st - Hedley Verity, cricketer (144 wickets in 40 Tests), dies in POW camp
Aug 1st - Ismar Elbogen, German/US learned/rabbi (Jewish Lexicon), dies at 68
Aug 5th - Adam Kuckhoff, writer, dies at 55
Aug 6th - Tom Garrett, cricketer (last survivor of 1st Test in 1877), dies
Aug 7th - Gustav Schmidt, German lt-general, dies in battle
Aug 10th - C Bergsma, Dutch resistance fighter (Waalsdorpervlakte), dies
Aug 10th - J Janzen, Dutch resistance fighter (Waalsdorpervlakte), dies
Aug 10th - J Posthuma, Dutch resistance fighter (Waalsdorpervlakte), dies
Aug 12th - Georges Martin Witkowski, composer, dies at 76
Aug 14th - Joe Kelley, American baseball player (b. 1871)
Aug 18th - Hans Jeschonnek, German air force general/chief-staff, commits suicide
Aug 18th - Ali-Agha Shikhlinski, Russian-Azerbaijani general (b. 1865)
Aug 21st - Henrik Pontoppidan, writer (Peter Gelukkige, Nobel 1917), dies at 86
Aug 23rd - Johann P Zilcher, German composer, dies at 88
Aug 24th - Ernst Ottwalt, writer, dies
Aug 24th - Simone Weil, French philosopher and social activist (b. 1909)
Aug 27th - Otto Selz, German psychologist (In Auschwitz), dies
Aug 28th - Boris III, of Saksen-Coburg, King of Bulgaria (1918-43), dies
Aug 30th - A[braham] [P] Merritt, author (Moon Pool, Creep Shadow!), dies at 58
Sep 1st - Charles Atangana, Cameroonian chief (b. 1880)
Sep 7th - J. P. Morgan, Jr., American financier (b. 1867)
Sep 15th - Hans Ulrich Humpert, composer, dies at 2
Sep 17th - Dick Tyldesley, cricketer (7 Tests for England), dies
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