1943
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1943 was the 72nd year after the founding of the city of Birmingham.
Events
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Government
Education
Media
Religion
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Individuals
Births
- January 6: Seng-jaw Soong, cancer researcher
- January 9: Jerry Yester, folk musician, songwriter and record producer
- January 15: Glen Browder, U.S. Representative and Alabama Secretary of State
- January 31: Richard Quick, swimming coach
- February 1: Edouard Bruchac, photojournalist
- February 3: Dennis Edwards, singer
- February 3: Robert Bentley, dermatologist and Governor of Alabama
- February 4: Barry Beckett, pianist and record producer
- February 5: Howell Raines, newspaper editor and author
- February 23: Mac Parsons, Jefferson County Circuit Court Judge and Alabama State Senator
- March 16: McNeil Robinson, organist and composer
- March 23: Winston Groom, novelist
- March 23: Lee May, baseball player and coach
- March 28: Joe Minter, artist
- April 9: U. W. Clemon, Alabama State Senator and U.S. District Court judge
- April 25: Cleopatra Kennedy, singer
- April 29: Cleopatra Tucker, New Jersey State Assembly member
- May: Allen Pate, Alabama Department of Labor commissioner and City of Hoover executive director
- May 19: Steve Whitman, social epidemiologist and public health researcher
- May 20: Shorty Long, singer, songwriter and record producer
- May 31: Joe Namath, football player and club owner
- June 8: Thales McReynolds, basketball player
- June 10: Larry Lemak, orthopaedic surgeon
- June 14: James Roberson Sr, educator
- July: Larry House, medical executive
- July 17: Frank Limehouse, Episcopal priest
- August 3: Larry Drummond, vice-chair of Drummond Company
- August 16: Woody Peoples, football player and coach
- September 12: Tennant McWilliams, historian and dean of the UAB School of Social and Behavioral Sciences
- September 17: Charles Ezell, restaurateur
- September 26: Karl Seitz, newspaper editor
- September 29: Lorenzo Pace, artist and author
- October 8: Priscilla Dunn, educator and Alabama State Senator
- October 11: George McMillan, Lieutenant Governor of Alabama and City Stages founder
- November 2: David Vest, pianist, writer and activist
- November 9: Robert Brissie, Jefferson County Coroner
- November 21: Butch Ridley, police detective
- November 24: Margaret Tolbert, chemist
- November 28: Jackie Sherrill, football coach
- December 13: Roberta Baumgardner, tennis player and philanthropist
- December 29: David Barnes, Birmingham Municipal Court judge
- December: Ron Blankenship, shoe repairer and former candidate for Jefferson County Sheriff
- Sara Garden Armstrong, artist and art instructor
- John L. Carroll, dean of the Cumberland School of Law
- Wilson Fallin Jr, Baptist minister and educator
- Eddie Fowler, printer
- Bob Friedman, talk show host and Housing Authority of the Birmingham District commissioner
- John Garrett, traffic engineer
- John Loper, Pentecostal preacher
- Bryan Noe, biologist and dean of the UAB Graduate School
- George Perdue, Alabama State Representative and UAB administrator
- Samuel Pettagrue, Baptist minister
- Bob Rosser, engraver
- Kenneth Spencer, Birmingham Police Department officer
- Bunny Stokes, banker and real estate executive
- Marti Turnipseed, Civil Rights activist
- Van Williams, U.S. Pipe supervisor
Graduations
Marriages
Awards
Retirements
Deaths
- March 8: George Watson, Medal of Honor recipient
- March 10: John A. Carroll, furniture dealer and namesake of John Carroll Catholic High School
- April 18: W. W. Walker Sr, founder of Walker Drug Co.
- May 13: A. D. Smith, President of Howard College
- August 29: Erwin McCrossin, engineer and mine safety inspector
- October 14: Nimrod Scott, Mayor of Ensley
- November 22: Henry Steagall, U.S. Representative
- See also: List of homicides in 1943 and List of Birmingham homicides in 1943
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