Famous People Who Died in 1943

• Benét, Stephen Vincent

  He wrote "The Devil And Daniel Webster"

• Carver, George Washington

  America's great peanut innovator

• Miller, Doris "Dorie"

  African-American naval hero of Pearl Harbor

• Potter, Beatrix

  Creator of the Peter Rabbit children's books

• Rachmaninoff, Sergei

  The Russian pianist who composed Prelude in C-sharp Minor

• Taft, Helen "Nellie"

  President William Howard Taft's wife

• Tesla, Nikola

  The electrical genius who invented alternating current

• Veidt, Conrad

  The villainous Major Strasser in Casablanca

• Waller, Fats

  The joyous piano player who wrote the song "Ain't Misbehavin'"

• Yamamoto, Isoroku

  Japanese admiral who planned the attack on Pearl Harbor

See famous people born in 1943

See all years of death