Explore 1843 historical events from 1940–1949.
Éva Marton is a Hungarian dramatic soprano, particularly known for her operatic portrayals of Puccini's Turandot and Tosca, and Wagnerian roles.
Éva Marton, Hungarian soprano and actress
Isoroku Yamamoto was an admiral of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) and the commander of the Combined Fleet during World War II. He commanded the fleet from 1939 until his death i…
Isoroku Yamamoto, Japanese admiral (born 1884)
Elbert Leander "Burt" Rutan is an American retired aerospace engineer and entrepreneur noted for his originality in designing light, strong, unusual-looking, and energy-efficient a…
Burt Rutan, American engineer and pilot
Raffaella Maria Roberta Pelloni, known professionally as Raffaella Carrà and sometimes mononymously as Raffaella, was an Italian singer, dancer, actress, television presenter and m…
Raffaella Carrà, Italian singer, dancer, and actress (died 2021)
Vladimir Ivanovich Nemirovich-Danchenko was a Soviet and Russian theatre director, writer, pedagogue, playwright, producer and theatre administrator, who founded the Moscow Art The…
Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko, Russian director, producer, and playwright (born 1858)
Joseph Yulyevich Achron, also seen as Akhron was a Russian composer and violinist, who settled in the United States. His preoccupation with Jewish elements and his desire to develo…
Joseph Achron, Russian composer and violinist (born 1886)
Ricardo Viñes y Roda was a Spanish pianist. He gave the premieres of various works by Ravel, Debussy, Satie, Falla and Albéniz. He was the piano teacher of the composer Francis Pou…
Ricardo Viñes, Spanish pianist (born 1875)
Eddy Hamel was an American soccer player who played as a right winger for Dutch club AFC Ajax. Hamel was the first Jewish player for Ajax. He was murdered by the Nazis in 1943 in A…
Eddy Hamel, American footballer (born 1902)
Jens Otto Harry Jespersen was a Danish linguist who worked in foreign-language pedagogy, historical phonetics, and other areas, but is best known for his description of the grammar…
Otto Jespersen, Danish linguist and academic (born 1860)
Martha Beatrice Webb, Baroness Passfield, was an English sociologist, economist, feminist and social reformer. She was among the founders of the London School of Economics and play…
Beatrice Webb, English sociologist and economist (born 1858)
Johan Oscar Smith was a Norwegian Christian leader who founded the evangelical non-denominational fellowship now known as Brunstad Christian Church.
Johan Oscar Smith, Norwegian religious leader, founded the Brunstad Christian Church (born 1871)
Harold Arminius Miller, commonly called Harry, was an American race car designer and builder who was most active in the 1920s and 1930s. Griffith Borgeson called him "the greatest …
Harry Miller, American engineer (born 1875)
Ali Fethi Okyar was a Turkish diplomat and politician, who also served as a military officer and diplomat during the last decade of the Ottoman Empire. He was also the second Prime…
Fethi Okyar, Turkish colonel and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Turkey (born 1880)
Mordechai Anielewicz was the Polish leader of the Jewish Combat Organization during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising; the largest Jewish resistance movement during the Second World War. …
Mordechai Anielewicz, Polish commander (born 1919)
Henri La Fontaine, was a Belgian international lawyer and president of the International Peace Bureau. He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1913 because "he was the effective leade…
Henri La Fontaine, Belgian lawyer and author, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1854)
Johanna Elberskirchen was a feminist writer and activist for the rights of women, gays and lesbians as well as blue-collar workers. She published books on women's sexuality and hea…
Johanna Elberskirchen, German author and activist (born 1864)
Ōnishiki Daigorō was a Japanese professional sumo wrestler. He was the sport's 28th yokozuna.
Ōnishiki Daigorō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 28th Yokozuna (born 1883)
Alfred Erich Hoche was a German psychiatrist known for his writings about eugenics and euthanasia and his later recanting thereof.
Alfred Hoche, German psychiatrist and academic (born 1865)
Nigger was a male black labrador retriever belonging to Wing Commander Guy Gibson of the Royal Air Force, and the mascot of No. 617 Squadron. Gibson owned the dog when he was previ…
Nigger, black labrador retriever belonging to Wing Commander Guy Gibson of the Royal Air Force, and the mascot of No
Kristjan Raud was an Estonian symbolist painter and illustrator who was one of the founders of the Estonian National Museum. Folklore elements figure heavily in his subject matter …
Kristjan Raud, Estonian painter and illustrator (born 1865)
Nils Elias Kristofer von Dardel, sometimes known as Nils de Dardel, was a 20th-century Swedish Post-Impressionist painter and grandson of the famous Swedish painter Fritz von Darde…
Nils von Dardel, Swedish painter (born 1888)
Edsel Bryant Ford was an American business executive and philanthropist, who was the only child of pioneering industrialist Henry Ford and his wife, Clara Jane Bryant Ford. He was …
Edsel Ford, American businessman (born 1893)
Alice Charlotta Tegnér was a Swedish music teacher, poet and composer. She is the foremost composer of Swedish children's songs during the late 19th century and the first half of t…
Alice Tegnér, Swedish organist, composer, and educator (born 1864)
Joseph Gordon Coates served as the 21st prime minister of New Zealand from 1925 to 1928. He was the third successive Reform prime minister since 1912.
Gordon Coates, New Zealand soldier and politician, 21st Prime Minister of New Zealand (born 1878)