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October 9, 1943

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Notable Births

Douglas Kirby

1943Douglas Kirby, American psychologist and author (died 2012)[†]

Douglas Bernard Kirby was senior research scientist for ETR Associates in Scotts Valley, California, and one of the world’s leading experts on the effectiveness of school and community programs in the reduction of adolescent sexual risk-taking behaviors. In recent years he had also undertaken research and analysis on the impact of HIV/AIDS prevention programs in Uganda under the auspices of the World Health Organization, USAID, and other organizations.

Jimmy Montgomery

1943Jimmy Montgomery, English footballer and coach[†]

Jimmy Montgomery BEM is an English retired footballer who played as a goalkeeper. He made a record 627 appearances for his hometown club Sunderland with 537 of these appearances being in the league, after joining the club as a youngster in 1960.

1943Mike Peters, American cartoonist[†]

Michael Bartley Peters is an American Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist and the creator of the comic strip Mother Goose and Grimm.

Notable Deaths

Pieter Zeeman

1943Pieter Zeeman, Dutch physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1865)[†]

Pieter Zeeman was a Dutch experimental physicist who shared the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physics with Hendrik Lorentz for their discovery and theoretical explanation of the Zeeman effect.