1999 Event 128th British Golf Open: at Camoustie Scot 1975 Birthday Scot Pollard, NBA center, Detroit Pistons 1958 Death Waverley John Anderson, Scot, viscount/governor of Bengal, dies at 75 1957 Birthday Stuart "Woody" Wood, Scot, guitarist, Bay City Rollers-Saturday Night 1953 Birthday Midge Ure, Glasgow Scot, rocker, Dear God, Ultravox-We Came to Dance 1935 Death John J R Macleod, Scot/Canadian physiologist (Nobel 1923), dies at 58 1933 Birthday David McCallum, Glasgow Scot, actor, Ilyla Kuryakin-Man From UNCLE 1928 Birthday Thea Musgrave, Barnton Midlothian Scot, composer, Mary Queen of Scots 1910 Event 50th British Golf Open: James Braid shoots a 299 at St. Andrews Scot 1903 Birthday William Primrose, Glasgow Scot, violist, Method for Violin and Viola 1883 Death Montgomery Blair, lawyer (Dred Scot V Sandford), dies at 70 1879 Event North British Railway's train falls as Firth bridge collapses (Scot) 1832 Birthday John Kirk Barry, Scot, Dr/companion to explorer David Livingstone 1831 Birthday James Maxwell, Edinburgh Scot, physicist, Treatise on Electricity 1813 Birthday Montgomery Blair, Franklin County, Kentucky, lawyer, Dred Scot V Sandford 1761 Birthday Michael A Barclay de Tolly, Scot/Russian minister of War 1723 Birthday Adam Smith, Kirkcaldy Scot, economist, Wealth of Nations, baptized 1702 Death Willem III Henry, Dutch William, king of England/Scot, dies at 51 1567 Event Battle at Carberry Scot: Protestant troops beat Earl Bothwells army
