1943
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"In April 1943, members of the Belgian Resistance held up the twentieth convoy train to Auschwitz, and freed 231 people (115 of whom escaped the Holocaust)." --Sholem Stein |
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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.
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Art and culture
- LSD discovered by Albert Hofmann (see History of lysergic acid diethylamide)
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Art
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Visual art
- Broadway Boogie-Woogie by Mondrian
- Les Yeux du silence by Max Ernst begun
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Literature
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Non-Fiction
- Air and Dreams by Bachelard
- Being and Nothingness by Sartre
- Inner Experience by Georges Bataille
- Meshes of the Afternoon by Maya Deren
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Fiction
- Our Lady of the Flowers by Jean Genet
- Malpertuis by Jean Ray
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Film
- Shadow of a Doubt by Hitchcock
- Ossessione by Luchino Visconti
- I Walked with a Zombie by Jacques Tourneur
- La Main du diable by Maurice Tourneur
- Hangmen Also Die by Fritz Lang
- The Seventh Victim by Mark Robson
- The Outlaw by Howard Hughes and Howard Hawks (uncredited)
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Music
- Let's Get Lost by Jimmy McHugh and lyrics by Frank Loesser
- "El Cumbanchero" by Rafael Hernández Marín
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Births
- January 9 - Scott Walker, American singer (d. 2019)
- January 26 - Thom Bell, American composer (d. 2022)
- March 2 – Peter Straub, American author and poet (d. 2022)
- David Cronenberg
- Robert Crumb
- Sharon Tate
- Larry Clark
- Mary Woronov
- Soledad Miranda
- Bo Arne Vibenius
- Catherine Deneuve
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Deaths
- January 7 – Nikola Tesla, born in Croatia American scientist (b. 1856)
- February 5 – W.S. Van Dyke, American director (b. 1889)
- March 28 – Sergei Rachmaninoff, Russian composer (b. 1873)
- April 3 – Conrad Veidt, German actor (b. 1893)
- June 9 – Jane Avril, French can-can dancer (b. 1868)
- June 12 – Hanns Heinz Ewers, German writer, actor, poet and philosopher (b. 1871)
- July 21 - Louis Vauxcelles, French art critic (b. 1870)
- August 9 – Chaim Soutine, Russian painter (born 1893)
- August 24 – Simone Weil, French philosopher (b. 1909)
- September 23 – Elinor Glyn, British writer (b. 1864)
- October 19 – Camille Claudel, French sculptor (b. 1864)
- October 30 – Max Reinhardt, Austrian director (b. 1873)
- December 9 – Georges Dufrénoy, French post-impressionnist painter (b. 1870)
- December 14 – John Harvey Kellogg, American doctor (b. 1852)
- December 15 – Fats Waller, African-American jazz pianist (Ain't Misbehavin') (b. 1904)
- December 22 – Beatrix Potter, British children's author and illustrator (Peter Rabbit & Jemima Puddle-duck) (b. 1866)
- December 27 – Rupert Julian, New Zealand-born film director (b. 1879)
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