List of Famous people who died at 43

Paula Frans Rumokoy was an Indonesian actress, model, and dancer who was active in the 1960s and 1970s. She along with Suzan Tolani earned the nickname of "most popular Indonesian star" in the 1970s.

Dirceu José Guimarães, known as Dirceu, was a football player from Brazil. He played as an attacking midfielder with many teams, in particular Botafogo and the Brazilian national team, as well as numerous Italian teams in the 1980s–early 1990s.

Hiroyuki Kanno was a Japanese video game designer who wrote and directed visual novels and eroge adventure games starting in the 1990s. Some of his most well-known games include Xenon, Desire, Eve Burst Error and YU-NO, which had a major influence on the visual novel genre. He was friends with Ryu Umemoto, who often worked closely with him and composed music for the games. In December 1997, he founded Abel corporation and became its CEO. In 2011, Kanno died due to cerebral infarction and brain hemorrhage.

Joseph Barboza Jr., nicknamed "the Animal", was an American mobster and notorious mob hitman for the Patriarca crime family during the 1960s.