Famous people and celebrities who died in February 1943

This page is dedicated to commemorating the celebrities and famous people who passed away in February 1943. This month marked the loss of influential and beloved figures whose contributions spanned various fields and touched many lives. Explore our detailed list to remember and celebrate their enduring legacies and the remarkable impact they had on the world

• Feb. 1 Foy Draper
• Feb. 1 Paolo Signorini
• Feb. 1 Émile Forgue
• Feb. 3 Rudolf Herzog
• Feb. 4 Frank Calder

  English-canadian ice hockey player and journalist (b. 1877).

• Feb. 4 Rudolf Rittner
• Feb. 4 Ferenc Weisz
• Feb. 5 W. S. Van Dyke
• Feb. 5 Pieter Helbert Damsté
• Feb. 9 Henri Richard
• Feb. 9 Adolphe Kégresse
• Feb. 9 Martin Theodoor Houtsma
• Feb. 14 David Hilbert

  Prussian mathematician, author, and professor at gottingen between 1895 and the end of his days.

• Feb. 14 Dora Gerson

  German actress and singer (b. 1899).

• Feb. 15 Victor Prouvé
• Feb. 15 Charles Bennett
• Feb. 18 Robert Ranulph Marett
• Feb. 20 Paul Boucherot
• Feb. 20 Bruno Staffa
• Feb. 22 Hans Scholl

  Hans Scholl was a courageous German student and key member of the White Rose resistance movement, which nonviolently opposed the Nazi regime...

• Feb. 22 Sophie Scholl

  Sophie Scholl was a courageous young German student and resistance fighter against the Nazi regime, who was part of the White Rose...

• Feb. 22 Christoph Probst

  German resistance fighter (that weisse rose), dies.

• Feb. 23 Oleksandr Matvijovyč Matrosov
• Feb. 26 Theodor Eicke

  German inspector of concentration camps and ss guard forms.

• Feb. 27 Kostis Palamas

  Greek poet twice nominated to the nobel prize (born in 1859).

• Feb. 28 Fausto Lavizzari
• Feb. 28 Leonhard Hess Stejneger