October 19, 1943

1943Robin Holloway, English composer and academic^[†]

Robin Greville Holloway is an English composer, academic and writer.

1943Takis Ikonomopoulos, Greek footballer and coach (died 2025)^[†]

Panagiotis "Takis" Ikonomopoulos was a Greek professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper, spending most of his career with Panathinaikos. He made 25 appearances for the Greece national team. He was nicknamed "The Bird" (Greek: "Το Πουλί") after his impressive dives he did during his career.

1943The cargo vessel Sinfra is attacked by Allied aircraft at Crete and sunk. Two thousand and ninety-eight Italian prisoners of war drown with it.^[†]

Sinfra was a cargo ship built in 1929 as Fernglen by Akers Mekaniske Verksted in Oslo, Norway, for a Norwegian shipping company. The ship was sold to Swedish owners in 1934 and to a French company in 1939, on the last occasion having her name changed to Sinfra.

1943Streptomycin, the first antibiotic remedy for tuberculosis, is isolated by researchers at Rutgers University.^[†]

Streptomycin is an antibiotic medication used to treat a number of bacterial infections, including tuberculosis, Mycobacterium avium complex, endocarditis, brucellosis, Burkholderia infection, plague, tularemia, and rat bite fever. For active tuberculosis it is often given together with isoniazid, rifampicin, and pyrazinamide. It is administered by injection into a vein or muscle.