1943

Feature films

 * February 3 - 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
 * July 30 - Victory Vehicles
 * August 27 - Reason & Emotion
 * October 15 - Figaro and Cleo
 * November 5 - The Old Army Game
 * November 26 - Home Defense
 * December 17 - Chicken Little

Character Debuts

 * January 15 - Little Hans, Little Hans' Mother, Witch (Education for Death)
 * February 3 - José Carioca, Pedro
 * April 2 - Chip and Dale
 * August 27 - Reason, Emotion, Miss Reason, Miss Emotion
 * December 17 - Chicken Little, Foxy Loxy, Henny Penny, Cocky Locky, Turkey Lurkey, Ducky Lucky, Goosey Poosey, Jitterbirds

Births

 * January 1 - Don Novello (writer, film director, producer, actor, singer, and comedian)
 * January 14 - Holland Taylor (actress)
 * February 18 - Steve Schatzberg (voice actor)
 * February 28 - Alan F. Horn (chairman of the Walt Disney Studios)
 * March 8 - Lynn Redgrave (actress)
 * March 28 - Conchata Ferrell (actress)
 * March 29 - Eric Idle (actor)
 * March 31 - Christopher Walken (stage and screen actor)
 * April 3 - Doreen Tracey (Mouseketeer)
 * April 6 - Susan Tolsky (actress and voice actress)
 * May 25 - Leslie Uggams (actress and singer)
 * May 31 - Lonnie Burr (actor and mouseketeer)
 * June 2 - Charles Haid (voice actor and director)
 * June 13 - Malcolm McDowell (voice actor)
 * June 22 - Klaus Maria Brandauer (actor, film director, and professor)
 * June 23 - James Levine (conductor and pianist)
 * July 21 - Edward Herrmann (actor)
 * August 6 - Michael Anderson, Jr. (actor)
 * August 12 - Jeff Bleckner (director)
 * August 16 - Sharon Baird (actress, dancer, and mouseketeer)
 * August 17 - Robert De Niro (actor, director, and producer)
 * August 18 - Martin Mull (actor, comedian, painter, and musician)
 * August 19 - Edwin Hawkins (musician)
 * October 8 - Chevy Chase (actor)
 * November 12 - Wallace Shawn (actor, voice actor, playwright, comedian)
 * November 25 - Beverly Washburn (actress)
 * November 28 - Randy Newman (composer)
 * December 1 - Takehiro Koyama (Japanese voice actor)
 * 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 24 - Suzy Menkes (journalist, head fashion reporter, and fashion editor)
 * December 31 -
 * John Denver (singer-songwriter, activist, and actor)
 * Ben Kingsley (actor)