An overview of all Disney-related events that occurred in the year 1943.
Theatrical releases
Feature films
- February 6 - Saludos Amigos premiered in Boston, Massachusetts.
- February 13 - Saludos Amigos
- July 17 - Victory Through Air Power
Shorts
- January 1 - Der Fuehrer's Face
- January 4 - The Grain That Built a Hemisphere
- January 7 - The Spirit of '43
- January 15 - Education for Death
- January 29 - Donald's Tire Trouble
- February 19 - Pluto and the Armadillo
- March 12 - The Flying Jalopy
- April 2 - Private Pluto
- April 23 - Fall Out-Fall In
- May 1 - Water, Friend or Enemy
- July 30 - Victory Vehicles
- August 27 - Reason and Emotion
- October 15 - Figaro and Cleo
- November 5
- November 26 - Home Defense
- December - Defense Against Invasion
- December 17 - Chicken Little
Character debuts
- Neighbor Jones
- January 15 - Little Hans
- March 12 - Ben Buzzard
- April 2 - Chip and Dale
- December 17 - Chicken Little, Foxy Loxy, Cocky Locky, Turkey Lurkey
People
Births
- January 1 - Don Novello (writer, film director, producer, actor, singer, and comedian)
- January 14 - Holland Taylor (actress)
- February 3 - Blythe Danner (actress and voice actress)
- February 9 - Joe Pesci (actor, comedian, musician, singer, and producer)
- February 25 - George Harrison (musician)
- March 8 - Lynn Redgrave (actress)
- March 29 - Eric Idle (comedian, actor, voice actor, author, musician, writer, singer-songwriter, and comedic composer)
- March 31 - Christopher Walken (actor and voice actor)
- April 3 - Doreen Tracey (Mouseketeer)
- April 6 - Susan Tolsky (actress and voice actress)
- May 31 - Lonnie Burr (actor, dancer/choreographer, singer, director, author, and Mouseketeer)
- June 13 - Malcolm McDowell (actor and voice actor)
- July 3 - Kurtwood Smith (actor)
- July 21 - Edward Herrmann (actor, director, writer, and comedian)
- July 28 - Richard Wright (musician, composer, singer, and songwriter)
- August 16 - Sharon Baird (actress, voice actress, singer, dancer, puppeteer, and Mouseketeer)
- August 18 - Martin Mull (actor, comedian, painter, and musician)
- August 30 - John Kani (actor, director, and playwright)
- September 6 - Roger Waters (singer, songwriter, composer, record producer, and bassist)
- September 21 - Jerry Bruckheimer (producer)
- October 8 - Chevy Chase (comedian, actor, and writer)
- November 12 - Wallace Shawn (actor, voice actor, comedian, playwright, and essayist)
- November 16 - Wai Ching Ho (actress)
- November 28 - Randy Newman (singer-songwriter, arranger, composer, and pianist)
- December 18 - Keith Richards (musician, singer, songwriter, record producer, and actor)
- December 23 - Harry Shearer (actor, voice actor, comedian, screenwriter, musician, author, radio host, director, and producer)
- December 31
- Ben Kingsley (actor)
- John Denver (singer-songwriter, musician, record producer, actor, activist, and humanitarian)
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