List of Famous people who died in 1943

Emil Kellenberger of Walzenhausen was born April 3, 1864, to Emil Kellenberger. He was active as an embroidery draftsman, later operated a Rideaux manufacturing firm in Walzenhausen until 1903, and finally he managed a store. He belonged to the county council, the church administration, and the canton synod. As a boy, he enjoyed handling firearms. He would follow the adults' shooting practices, and was introduced to the art of shooting at St. Gallen as a member of the field shot organization. His greatest shooting successes were the 1898 champion at the shooting festival, two great championship awards at Aaran in 1924, and four world championships. He participated in Shooting at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris and won three olympic medals, two gold medals in the Military Rifle 3 positions and team categories and a silver medal in the Military Rifle (kneeling). However, his silver medal was tied with the Danish shooter Anders Peter Nielsen. The additional world championships were located in Lucerne in 1901, in Rome in 1902, and in Buenos Aires in 1903. Emil also published a book by the name of Schweizer Schuetzenfahrt nach Argentinien, more commonly known as Swiss Shooting Trip to Argentina.

Joseph Gordon Coates served as the 21st Prime Minister of New Zealand from 1925 to 1928. He was the third successive Reform prime minister since 1912.

Daisy, Princess of Pless was a noted society beauty in the Edwardian period, and during her marriage a member of one of the wealthiest European noble families. Daisy and her husband Hans Heinrich XV were the owners of large estates and coal mines in Silesia which brought the Hochbergs enormous fortune.

Count Hirohide Fushimi of Japan, was a member of a collateral branch of the Japanese imperial family and a career officer in the Imperial Japanese Navy who was killed in the line of duty in World War II.

Wilhelm Biltz was a German chemist and scientific editor.