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1943 in Portugal 
Summary
Events in the year 1943 in Portugal.
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Incumbents edit
Events edit
- August – Luso-British agreement is signed, leasing air basis in the Azores to the UK.[1]
Arts and entertainment edit
- 28 November – First issue of the weekly newspaper O Benfica
Sports edit
- GD Bragança founded
- Santa Maria FC founded
Births edit
- 5 February – Manuel Luís dos Santos, footballer
- 19 February – Amandio Malta da Silva, footballer
- 22 February – Antônio Lino da Silva Dinis, Bishop of Itumbiara (died 2013).[2]
- 20 March – Alice Vieira, children's writer.[3]
- 25 June – Serafim Pereira, footballer (died 1994)
- 3 September – Marinho, footballer
- 2 October – Eduardo Serra, cinematographer
- 28 October – João Aguiar, journalist and novelist (died 2010)
- 18 November – Manuel António Pina, journalist and poet (died 2012)
Deaths edit
- 10 January – Manuel Maria Coelho, military officer and politician (born 1857)
- 11 March – Infanta Maria Josepha of Portugal (born 1857)
- May – Dom Aleixo, war hero of East Timor (born 1886)