The year 1943 (MCMXLIII) predates the launch of the Transformers brand by forty-one years.

For further information, see: Transformers timeline

Fiction

Generation 1

• During World War II, a battle on Guadalcanal results in a number of wrecked military vehicles being left lying around. Starscream's Brigade

2005 IDW continuity

• While in Kalistan, Sgt. Savage and his Screaming Eagles encounter a platoon of strange, robotic soldiers in the employ of the Axis. The Secret of the Mummy's Tomb

Non-Fiction

Births

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• Arnim André, Peter Bertram, Ulrich Frank, Alfred J. Verrecchia

January

• January 23 — Gil Gerard
• January 29 — Steve Skeates

February

• February 9 — Lajos Kránitz

March

• March 1 — Leonardo José
• March 26 — Byeong-gwan Kim
• March 29 — Eric Idle

April

• April 11 — Michihiro Ikemizu
• April 22 — Madison Mason

June

• June 6 — Mario Santander, Enrico Carabelli
• June 12 — Carlos Gesteira

July

• July 18 — Roberto Colombo

August

• August 8 — Charlie Elvegård
• August 13 — Hervé Jolly
• August 18 — Jocelyne Darche

September

• September 16 — Keiichi Noda
• September 27 — Enrico Bertorelli

October

• October 5 — Ernie Guanlao
• October 10 — Reent Reins, Frank-Otto Schenk
• October 31 — Melendy Britt

November

• November 6 — Jean-Paul Dermont

December

• December ?? — Katsutoshi Sasaki
• December 6 — Anne Kerylen
• December 12 — Buster Jones
• December 29 — Jürgen Kluckert

Deaths

• January 7 — Nikola Tesla