List of Famous people who died in 1943

Dmitry Nicolajevich Kardovsky was a Russian artist, illustrator and stage designer.

Sir Patrick Duncan, was the sixth Governor-General of the Union of South Africa, holding office from 1937 to 1943.

Henry Valerian George Wellesley, 6th Duke of Wellington, styled as Earl of Mornington between 1912 and 1934 and Marquess of Douro between 1934 and 1941, was a British peer and politician.

Ermenegildo Pellegrinetti was an Italian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church who served as Nuncio to Yugoslavia from 1922 to 1937, and was made a cardinal in 1937.

Infanta Maria José of Portugal, sometimes known in English as Maria Josepha, was a Portuguese infanta, later Duchess in Bavaria by marriage. She was the maternal grandmother of King Leopold III of Belgium.

Henri Focillon was a French art historian. He was the son of the printmaker Victor-Louis Focillon. He was Director of the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Lyon. Professor of Art History at the University of Lyon, at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Lyon, at the Sorbonne, at the Collège de France and then in the United States, where he went into exile and taught at Yale University. A poet, printmaker, and teacher, Focillon trained generations of art historians including George Kubler. He remains best known for his works on medieval art, most of which were translated into English.

Martha Beatrice Webb, Baroness Passfield,, was an English sociologist, economist, socialist, labour historian and social reformer. It was Webb who coined the term collective bargaining. She was among the founders of the London School of Economics and played a crucial role in forming the Fabian Society.

Guido Fubini was an Italian mathematician, known for Fubini's theorem and the Fubini–Study metric.