1943

1943 was the 72nd year after the founding of the city of Birmingham.

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

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

Context

1940s

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