Historical figures in 1943

The atlas holds 82 people and 146 moments here, in 1943. The most recorded lives are Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Benito Mussolini and John F. Kennedy. Among them Political Leaders, Writers and Performers.

Notable people

1. Louis Armstrong

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   1 moment here

   American jazz trumpeter, vocalist, bandleader, and entertainer whose career transformed jazz solo performance and made him an international cultural…

2. Ludwig Wittgenstein

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   1 moment here

   Austro-British philosopher whose work in logic, language, mathematics, and mind shaped twentieth-century analytic philosophy.…

3. Margaret Thatcher

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   British stateswoman Margaret Hilda Thatcher (née Roberts) was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990, the first woman to hold the…

4. Marlene Dietrich

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   German-American actress and singer Marlene Dietrich (Marie Magdalene Dietrich) was born in Berlin and achieved international fame through stage,…

5. Marlon Brando

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   1 moment here

   American actor and activist whose stage and screen career ranged from Broadway in the 1940s to major films through the early 2000s.…

6. Max Planck

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   1 moment here

   German theoretical physicist and originator of quantum theory. Planck’s documented life moved from Kiel to Munich, Berlin, Kiel again, and Berlin,…

7. Mohammad Reza Pahlavi

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   1 moment here

   Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (1919–1980) was the last shah of Iran, reigning from 1941 until the Iranian Revolution of 1979.…

8. Muhammad Ali Jinnah

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   1 moment here

   Muhammad Ali Jinnah was a barrister and political leader who led the All-India Muslim League and became Pakistan’s first governor-general after…

9. Nelson Mandela

   in 1943

   1 moment here

   South African anti-apartheid revolutionary, lawyer and statesman. Mandela helped lead the African National Congress, co-founded its armed wing,…

10. Niels Bohr

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    6 moments here

    Danish theoretical physicist whose work on atomic structure and quantum theory earned the 1922 Nobel Prize in Physics.…

11. Nikita Khrushchev

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    1 moment here

    Soviet Communist Party leader and chairman of the Council of Ministers. Khrushchev rose from industrial work in the Donbas through party posts in…

12. Nikola Tesla

    in 1943

    1 moment here

    Serbian-American engineer and inventor best known for foundational work on alternating-current power systems, the induction motor, high-frequency…

13. Octavio Paz

    in 1943

    1 moment here

    Mexican poet, essayist, editor, and diplomat whose international postings and teaching appointments connected Mexico City, the United States, Europe,…

14. Olav V

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    1 moment here

    Olav V of Norway (born Prince Alexander of Denmark) was King of Norway from 1957 until his death in 1991.…

15. Pablo Neruda

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    2 moments here

    Chilean poet, diplomat, senator, Communist political figure, and 1971 Nobel laureate. Born Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto, he lived and…

16. Pervez Musharraf

    in 1943

    1 moment here

    Pakistani military officer and politician who served as Pakistan’s chief executive after the 1999 coup and as president from 2001 to 2008.…

17. P. L. Travers

    in 1943

    1 moment here

    Pamela Lyndon Travers, born Helen Lyndon Goff, was an Australian-British writer, actress, journalist, and creator of the Mary Poppins books.…

18. Pope Benedict XVI

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    4 moments here

    Joseph Alois Ratzinger (1927–2022), Pope Benedict XVI, was a German Catholic theologian, archbishop, cardinal, prefect of the Congregation for the…

19. Ram Narayan

    in 1943

    1 moment here

    Indian sarangi player who established the sarangi as a solo concert instrument in Hindustani classical music.…

20. Richard Feynman

    in 1943

    2 moments here

    American theoretical physicist known for foundational work in quantum electrodynamics, the path-integral formulation of quantum mechanics, and…

21. Richard Nixon

    in 1943

    3 moments here

    Richard Milhous Nixon was an American lawyer, naval officer, congressman, senator, vice president, and the 37th president of the United States.…

22. Rosa Parks

    in 1943

    1 moment here

    American civil-rights activist whose lifelong work against racial segregation included local NAACP organizing in Montgomery, the 1955 bus protest and…

23. Sadako Sasaki

    in 1943

    1 moment here

    Japanese schoolgirl and Hiroshima atomic-bomb survivor. Aged two when the bomb detonated over Hiroshima, she later developed leukemia, was…

24. Satyajit Ray

    in 1943

    1 moment here

    Indian film director, screenwriter, author, illustrator, calligrapher, and composer. Ray was born and died in Calcutta (now Kolkata), made his career…

Moments

1. 1943 Marriage in Tetecala Pablo Neruda
2. 1943 South Pacific Combat Air Transport Command Richard Nixon
3. 1943 Detention on La Maddalena Benito Mussolini
4. 1943 Imprisonment at Hotel Campo Imperatore Benito Mussolini
5. 1943 Berlin tour departure Édith Piaf
6. 1943 Guadalcanal hospital visits Eleanor Roosevelt
7. 1943 Attends First Quebec Conference Franklin Delano Roosevelt
8. 1943 Led Guizhou–Guangxi border investigation Huang Xianfan
9. 1943 PT-109 rammed in Blackett Strait John F. Kennedy
10. 1943 Swam to Plum Pudding Island John F. Kennedy
11. 1943 Birth in Delhi Pervez Musharraf
12. 1943 First Quebec Conference Winston Churchill
13. 1943 Departure from Pratica di Mare Benito Mussolini
14. 1943 Meeting Hitler at Rastenburg Benito Mussolini
15. 1943 Overnight stay in Vienna Benito Mussolini
16. 1943 Rescue at Gran Sasso Benito Mussolini
17. 1943 Residence near Gargnano Benito Mussolini
18. 1943 Transit through Munich after rescue Benito Mussolini
19. 1943 Wartime American negotiations John Maynard Keynes
20. 1943 Escape to Sweden Niels Bohr
21. 1943 Second Philippine Republic inauguration Emilio Aguinaldo
22. 1943 Chemistry student at Somerville Margaret Thatcher
23. 1943 Hollywood Canteen anniversary Marlene Dietrich
24. 1943 Arrival in Scotland Niels Bohr
25. 1943 Tube Alloys office Niels Bohr
26. 1943 Cairo Conference Chiang Kai-shek
27. 1943 X-10 reactor criticality Enrico Fermi
28. 1943 Arrives for First Cairo Conference Franklin Delano Roosevelt
29. 1943 Attends Tehran Conference Franklin Delano Roosevelt
30. 1943 Disembarks at Oran Franklin Delano Roosevelt
31. 1943 Settles into American legation in Tehran Franklin Delano Roosevelt
32. 1943 Stops in Tunis to meet Eisenhower Franklin Delano Roosevelt
33. 1943 Greater East Asia Conference Hideki Tojo
34. 1943 Rescued Marines off Choiseul John F. Kennedy
35. 1943 Returned to Tulagi hospital John F. Kennedy
36. 1943 Meets the Allies at Tehran Joseph Stalin
37. 1943 Cairo Conference arrival Soong Mei-ling
38. 1943 Meeting with Roosevelt at Cairo Conference Soong Mei-ling
39. 1943 Seventeen-day Japanese tour Sukarno
40. 1943 Meets Stalin and Roosevelt at Tehran Winston Churchill
41. 1943 Re-embarks at Dakar Franklin Delano Roosevelt
42. 1943 Returns to Cairo for second conference Franklin Delano Roosevelt
43. 1943 Visits Allied installations in Malta Franklin Delano Roosevelt
44. 1943 Visits Castelvetrano installations Franklin Delano Roosevelt
45. 1943 Birth in Melbourne Jim Morrison
46. 1943 Manhattan Project consultation Niels Bohr

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