page_title: 1943
section_title: March
hierarchical_section_title: 1943 / Deaths / March
caption_attribution_description: English: Sergei Rachmaninoff, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly right
context_page_description: 1943 was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1943rd year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 943rd year of the 2nd millennium, the 43rd year of the 20th century, and the 4th year of the 1940s decade.
context_section_description: March 2 – Gisela Januszewska, Austrian physician (in Theresienstadt concentration camp) (b. 1867)
  March 3 – Rafael López Nussa, Puerto Rican physician (b. 1885)
  March 6 – Jimmy Collins, American baseball player, MLB Hall of Famer (b. 1870)
  March 8
  Alma del Banco, German painter (suicide) (b. 1862)
  Tjipto Mangoenkoesoemo, Indonesian independence leader (b. 1886)
  March 9 – Otto Freundlich, German painter, sculptor (killed in Majdanek concentration camp) (b. 1878)
  March 10 – Tully Marshall, American character actor (b. 1864)
  March 12
  Czesława Kwoka, Polish Roman Catholic religious sister and blessed (killed in Auschwitz concentration camp) (b. 1928)
  Gustav Vigeland, Norwegian sculptor (b. 1869)
  March 13 – Jaap Nunes Vaz, Dutch journalist, writer and editor (killed in Sobibór extermination camp) (b. 1906)
  March 14 – Mervyn Herbert, Viscount Clive, British peer, army officer (killed on active service in aviation accident) (b. 1904)
  March 19 – Frank Nitti, Italian-born American gangster (suicide) (b. 1886)
  March 20
  Lizika Jančar, Slovene Partisan, national hero (killed by militia) (b. 1919)
  Heinrich Zimmer, German-born Indologist, historian (pneumonia) (b. 1890)
  March 22 – Hans Woellke, German Olympic athlete (killed by partisans) (b. 1911)
  March 27 – George Monckton-Arundell, 8th Viscount Galway, British politician, 5th Governor-General of New Zealand (b. 1882)
  March 28
  Ben Davies, British tenor (b. 1858)
  Lorenzo Gasparri, Italian admiral (killed on active service in accidental explosion) (b. 1894)
  Edward Heron-Allen, British polymath, lawyer, scientist and scholar (b. 1871)
  Robert W. Paul, British film director (b. 1869)
  Sergei Rachmaninoff, Soviet composer (b. 1873)
  March 30 – Maria Restituta Kafka, German Roman Catholic religious sister and blessed (executed) (b. 1894)
  March 31 – Pavel Milyukov, exiled Russian politician, founder and leader of the Constitutional Democratic Party (b. 1859)
caption: Sergei Rachmaninoff
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