Lista de Personas Famosas que murieron en 1943
John W. Brady
John W. Brady was an American lawyer. He served as a county attorney from 1902 to 1910, the assistant attorney general for the state, and a judge on the Texas Third Court of Civil Appeals. In 1929 he was convicted of murder, and sentenced to three years in prison.
Helene Stöcker
Helene Stöcker fue una pacifista, feminista y publicista alemana.
Lloyd Allan Trigg
Flying Officer Lloyd Allan Trigg VC DFC, of Houhora, New Zealand, was a pilot in the RNZAF during World War II. He was a posthumous recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy for British and Commonwealth armed forces, and received the award for pressing home an attack on a German U-boat in August 1943. He was killed in the action. His award is unique, as it was awarded on evidence solely provided by the enemy, for an action in which there were no surviving Allied witnesses to corroborate his gallantry.
Boris III
Boris III de Bulgaria fue el penúltimo zar de Bulgaria. Fue un monarca muy popular entre sus súbditos, además de una de las figuras clave en los Balcanes durante el periodo de entreguerras y la Segunda Guerra Mundial.
John P. Cromwell
Captain John Philip Cromwell was the most senior submariner awarded the Medal of Honor in World War II and one of the three submarine officers who received it posthumously. In some ways similar to his fellow honoree, Howard Gilmore, Cromwell consciously chose to sacrifice his own life to safeguard the lives of others, in a combat action which took place in November 1943.
Henri Fertet
Henri Claude Fertet was a French schoolboy and resistance fighter who was executed by the German occupying forces during World War II. He was posthumously awarded several national honours. He is known for the letter he wrote to his parents on the morning of his execution, and he has become one of those who symbolise the French Resistance.
Vahida Maglajlić
Vahida Maglajlić was a Yugoslav Partisan recognized as a People's Hero of Yugoslavia for her part in the struggle against the Axis powers during World War II. She was the only Bosnian Muslim woman to receive the order.
Ruth M. Gardiner
Second Lieutenant Ruth M. Gardiner was a nurse in the United States Army Nurse Corps, the first American nurse to lose her life in the line of duty during World War II. An Army hospital was named in her honor.
Carl Brigham
Carl Campbell Brigham was a eugenicist and professor of psychology at Princeton University's Department of Psychology and a pioneer in the field of psychometrics. He sat on the advisory council of the American Eugenics Society and his early writings heavily influenced the eugenics movement and anti-immigration legislation in the United States. He later disowned these views toward the end of his life. He created the SAT for College Board.
Jimmy Matthews
Thomas James Matthews was an Australian Test cricketer. Bowling leg breaks, he is the only player to have taken two hat-tricks in the same Test match.