October 31, 1943

1943Elliott Forbes-Robinson, American race car driver^[†]

Elliott Forbes-Robinson is an American road racing race car driver. He is known for his race wins and championships in many different series, including the American Le Mans Series (ALMS), Super Vee, Trans-Am Series, CanAm, IMSA GTU, and the World Challenge. He is known in NASCAR circles as a road course ringer. He is also a founder of the Legends Cars of 600 Racing and he designed their original car.

1943Paul Frampton, English-American physicist and academic^[†]

Paul Howard Frampton is an English theoretical physicist who works in particle theory and cosmology. From 1996 until 2014, he was the Louis D. Rubin, Jr. Distinguished Professor of physics and astronomy, at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. After a well-publicized hiatus involving being victimized by a romance scam, convicted of drug smuggling in Argentina, and fired by UNC, he later became affiliated with the Department of Mathematics and Physics of the University of Salento, in Italy.

1943Aristotelis Pavlidis, Greek politician, 13th Greek Minister for the Aegean and Island Policy (died 2022)^[†]

Aristotelis Pavlidis was a Greek politician. He was Minister for the Aegean and Island Policy from 2004 until 2007.

1943Brian Piccolo, American football player (died 1970)^[†]

Louis Brian Piccolo was an American professional football player who was a halfback for the Chicago Bears of the National Football League (NFL) for four years. He played college football for the Wake Forest Demon Deacons. He died at age 26 from embryonal cell carcinoma, an aggressive form of germ cell testicular cancer, first diagnosed after it had spread to his chest cavity.