2005 Robin Cook, Scottish Politician
2001 Dorothy Dunnett, Scottish Novelist
1996 W. H. Murray, Scottish Athlete
1995 Lord Lovat, [Shimi], Scottish landowner, dies at 83
1995 Alexander Gibson, British conductor/founder (Scottish Opera), dies at 68
1994 Matt Busby, Scottish soccer coach (Manchester United), dies at 84
1992 James Stirling, Scottish D-Day parachutist/architect, dies
1992 George Mann MacBeth, Scottish journalist/poet (A War Quartet), dies
1991 William Sinnot, Scottish pop musician (Shamen), dies at 30
1987 Alistair Maclean, Scottish Novelist
1987 Norman McLaren, Scottish Artist
1985 Jock Stein, Scottish Celebrity
1984 Paul Gallagher, Scottish Athlete
1981 Bill Shankly, Scottish Athlete
1978 William Barclay, Scottish Theologian
1976 Frieda Inescort, Scottish actress (Meet Corliss Archer), dies at 74
1976 Basil Spence, Scottish Architect
1975 John Higgins, Scottish Celebrity
1972 Jared Kaaiohelo, WLAF running back for the Scottish Claymores
1972 Willy Tate, NFL/WLAF tight end, Kansas City Chiefs, Scottish Claymores
1972 Joe O'Brien, WLAF defensive tackle for the Scottish Claymores
1972 Jim Ballard, NFL/WLAF quarterback, Scottish Claymores, Buffalo Bills
1972 Tom Barndt, NFL/WLAF guard for the Kansas City Chiefs, Scottish Claymores
1971 Bryan Proby, NFL/WLAF defensive tackle, Kansas City Chiefs, Scottish Claymores
1971 Robert Flickinger, WLAF defensive end for the Scottish Claymores
1971 Lee Gissendaner, NFL/WLAF receiver, Minnesota Vikings, Scottish Claymores
1971 Emmett Waldron, WLAF linebacker for the Scottish Claymores
1971 Ron Dickerson, WLAF running back, Scottish Claymores, London Monarchs
1971 Khari Jones, CFL/WLAF quarterback, BC Lions, Scottish Claymores
1971 Yo Murphy, WLAF receiver for the Scottish Claymores
1971 Randy Bierman, WLAF tackle for the Scottish Claymores
1971 Ewan McGregor, born in Scottish, actor, Trainspotting
1971 Gail Porter, Scottish Celebrity
1971 Jukka-Pekka Nummi, WLAF cornerback for the Scottish Claymores
1971 Karmeeleyah McGill, WLAF linebacker for the Scottish Claymores
1970 John DeWitt, WLAF defensive end for the Scottish Claymores
1970 Purvis Hunt, NFL/WLAF guard, Houston Oilers, Scottish Claymores
1970 Steve Matthews, NFL/WLAF quarterback, Kansas City Chiefs, Scottish Claymores
1970 James Williams, WLAF cornerback for the Scottish Claymores
1970 Shannon Jones, WLAF linebacker for the Scottish Claymores
1970 Sean LaChapelle, NFL/WLAF receiver, Kansas City Chiefs, Scottish Claymores
1970 Markus Thomas, WLAF running back for the Scottish Claymores
1970 Arnold Ale, WLAF linebacker for the Scottish Claymores
1970 David Wilson, WLAF safety for the Scottish Claymores
1970 Scott Couper, WLAF receiver for the Scottish Claymores
1970 George Coghill, WLAF safety for the Scottish Claymores
1969 Chris Dausin, WLAF corner/guard for the Scottish Claymores
1969 David Webb, WLAF defensive end for the Scottish Claymores
1969 Jerold Jeffcoat, WLAF defensive tackle for the Scottish Claymores
1969 Mark Millar, Scottish Writer
1969 Gerard Butler, Scottish Actor
1969 Frank Robinson, WLAF defensive back for the Scottish Claymores
1968 Billy Boyd, Scottish Actor
1968 Siran Stacy, WLAF running back for the Scottish Claymores
1968 Mark Sander, WLAF linebacker, Scottish Claymores
1967 Lance Zeno, NFL/WLAF corner, Rams, Scottish Claymores
1966 Shirley Manson, Scottish Musician
1966 Gordon Ramsay, Scottish Celebrity
1965 Vince Alcalde, WLAF offensive assistant for the Scottish Claymores
1965 Ben Torriero, WLAF running back, Scottish Claymores
1965 Alan Cumming, Scottish Actor
1964 Justin Currie, Scottish rock vocalist/bassist, Del Amitri
1964 Longest bridge in Europe opens (Scottish 4th Road Bridge)
1963 Jason Buck, WLAF defensive end for the Scottish Claymores
1962 Michael Kenny, WLAF offensive assistant for the Scottish Claymores
1962 Iain Harvie, Scottish rock guitarist, Nothing Ever Happens
1962 Craig Ferguson, Scottish Comedian
1962 Gavin Hastings, WLAF kicker for the Scottish Claymores
1961 Irvine Welsh, Scottish Novelist
1961 Colin Angus, Scottish pop musician, Shamen, Ebeneezer Goode
1961 Robert Carlyle, Scottish Director
1961 U.S. nuclear submarine Patrick Henry arrives at Scottish naval base of Holy Loch from South Carolina in a record underseas journey of 66 days 22 hrs
1960 William Sinnot, Scottish pop musician, Shamen-Move Any Mountain
1959 Charlie Burchill, Scottish pop guitarist, Simple Minds-Breakfast Club
1959 Edwin Muir, Scottish Poet
1958 Mike Scott, Scottish rocker, Blues Inc, Waterboys-Rainbow Warrior
1958 Robert W. Service, Scottish Poet
1958 Fish, [Derek William Dick], Scottish vocalist, Marillion-Sugar Mice
1958 Marie Carmichael Stopes, Scottish Author
1957 William A Craigie, Scottish lexicographer, dies at 90
1956 Azhar Cachalia, Scottish/South Africa leader, United Democratic Front
1955 Eddie Campbell, Scottish Artist
1955 Alan Hansen, Scottish Athlete
1954 Ken MacLeod, Scottish Writer
1954 Iain Banks, Scottish Writer
1951 Joe Jordan, Scottish soccer star
1950 Robbie Coltrane, Scottish Actor
1950 Harry Lauder (Maclennan), Scottish comic/singer, dies at about 75
1948 Walter Smith, Scottish Athlete
1946 Ian McGeechan, Scottish rugby player
1946 Robin Cook, Scottish Politician
1945 Eric Liddell, Scottish runner (Olympic-gold 1924), dies at 43
1945 Scottish 52nd Lowland division occupies Heinsberg
1945 Scottish 52nd land division/1st Commando brigade-assault at Heinsberg
1944 Scottish Highlanders liberate Waalwijk
1943 William E "Bill" Gibb, Scottish fashion designer
1942 12th day of battle at El Alamein: Scottish assault
1942 Douglas Dunn, Scottish Poet
1941 James G. Frazer, Scottish Scientist
1940 Jim Criner, WLAF head coach for the Scottish Claymores
1940 John Gilmour, Scottish Politician
1940 Barbara Kelly, CEO, Scottish Consumer Council
1939 Murray Rose, Scottish Athlete
1938 Ian St. John, Scottish Athlete
1938 Russell Hillhouse, under-sect Scottish Office
1938 Ian Brady, Scottish Criminal
1937 12th duke of Argyll, Scottish Campbell-captain/large landowner
1937 James M Barrie, Scottish writer (Dear Brutus/Peter Pan), dies
1937 Donald MacKay, CEO, Scottish Enterprise
1936 John Menzies, Scottish publisher/banker/multi-millionaire
1935 Vincent Weir 3rd baron Inverforth, Scottish shipping magnate
1934 Duncan Thompson, keeper, Scottish National Portrait Gallery
1934 William Lithgow, Scottish industrialist/multi-millionaire
1933 John Henry Mackay, Scottish/German author (Der Schwimmer), dies at 69
1933 Alan Devereux, CEO, Scottish Tourist Board
1933 6th marquess of Bute, Scottish large landowner/bibliophile
1932 Kenneth Grahame, Scottish Author
1931 Raymond Miquel, chairman, Scottish Sports Council
1931 Thomas Lipton, Scottish Businesman
1929 Magnus Magnusson, Scottish Journalist
1928 Scottish inventor J. Blaird demonstrates color-TV
1927 R. D. Laing, Scottish Psychologist
1927 Donald Miller, CEO, Scottish Power
1926 Michael Joughin, CEO, Scottish Hydro-Electric
1926 James Stirling, Scottish D-day-parachutist/architect/knight
1926 Alexander Gibson, British conductor/founder, Scottish Opera
1925 Ian Hamilton Finlay, Scottish Poet
1924 William Archer, Scottish critic/playwright (Green Goddess), dies at 68
1924 James W. Black, Scottish Scientist
1923 Dorothy Dunnett, Scottish Novelist
1923 James Dewar, Scottish Scientist
1922 Scottish worker begins hunger march from Glasgow on London
1922 Alexander Graham Bell, Scottish/US physicist (telephone), dies
1922 Alistair Maclean, Scottish Novelist
1922 Jock Stein, Scottish Celebrity
1921 John B Dunlop, Scottish inventor air tire (Dunlop Rubber), dies at 81
1919 Alwyn Farquharson, Scottish clan-captain/large landowner
1915 George Chisholm, Scottish jazz trombonist
1914 Norman McLaren, Scottish Artist
1914 David Gill, Scottish Scientist
1913 Bill Shankly, Scottish Athlete
1913 W. H. Murray, Scottish Athlete
1912 Andrew Long, Scottish author, Blue Book of Fairy Tales
1912 Francis David Charteris, earl of Wemyss and March/Scottish landowner
1911 Lord Lovat, [Shimi], Scottish cattle breeder/leader of clan Fraser
1909 Matt Busby, Scottish soccer coach, Manchester United
1908 Ian Peebles, cricketer, Scottish leg-spinner, England 1927-31
1907 Basil Spence, Scottish Architect
1907 William Barclay, Scottish Theologian
1906 Gilbert Highet, Scottish Writer
1904 Samuel Smiles, Scottish Author
1903 Alexander Bain, Scottish Philosopher
1897 31st Belmont: J Scherrer aboard Scottish Cheiftain wins in 2:23
1897 Henry Drummond, Scottish geologist/evangelist, dies at 45
1895 John Stuart Blackie, Scottish Writer
1894 William Robertson Smith, Scottish Scientist
1892 Archibald Scott, Scottish chemist, dies at 60
1890 James Nasmyth, Scottish Inventor
1887 Edwin Muir, Scottish Poet
1885 Thomas Davidson, Scottish Scientist
1882 Waverley John Anderson, Scottish viscount/governor of Bengal
1880 Robert Fortune, Scottish Scientist
1880 Marie Carmichael Stopes, Scottish Author
1879 James C. Maxwell, Scottish Mathematician
1878 Robert Stirling, Scottish Inventor
1878 Alexander Duff, Scottish Clergyman
1876 John J R Macleod, Scottish/Canadian physiologist, Nobel 1923
1876 John Gilmour, Scottish Politician
1874 Robert W. Service, Scottish Poet
1871 Robert Chambers, Scottish Writer
1870 Thomas Erskine, Scottish Theologian
1867 William A. Craigie, Scottish lexicographer, Skotlands Rimur
1867 Archibald Alison, Scottish historian, dies at 74
1867 Alexander Smith, Scottish Poet
1866 Arthur Keith, Scottish anthropologist
1864 John Henry Mackay, Scottish/German author and poet, Anarchists
1859 Scottish National Gallery opens in Edinburgh
1859 William Strang, Scottish painter/engraver
1856 George Adam Smith, Scottish Clergyman
1854 John Wilson, Scottish Writer
1854 James G. Frazer, Scottish Scientist
1851 Henry Drummond, Scottish geologist/evangelist
1850 Scottish explorer Edward Eyre reaches Albany, W-Australia
1850 Jane Porter, novelist (Scottish Chiefs), dies at 74
1850 Thomas Lipton, Scottish Businesman
1846 William Robertson Smith, Scottish Scientist
1843 David Gill, Scottish Scientist
1843 William Wallace, Scottish mathematician (rights of Wallace), dies
1842 Allan Cunningham, Scottish Poet
1842 James Dewar, Scottish chemist/physicist, Dewarfles/cordiet
1842 1st performance of Felix Mendelssohn's 3rd "Scottish" Symphony
1839 John Galt, Scottish writer (Last of the Lairds), dies at 59
1838 Anne Grant, Scottish Poet
1835 Andrew Carnegie, Scottish/US industrialist/philanthropist
1834 Edward Irving, Scottish Clergyman
1832 Walter Scott, Scottish attorney/poet/writer (Ivanhoe), dies
1831 James C. Maxwell, Scottish Mathematician
1831 Archibald Scott, Scottish chemist
1830 Alexander Smith, Scottish Poet
1828 Dugald Stewart, Scot philosopher (Scottish common sense), dies at 74
1825 Scottish factory owner Robert Owen buys 30,000 acres in Indiana as site for New Harmony utopian community
1824 George Gordon Byron, Scottish Poet
1823 George JD Campbell, Scottish/Brit Minister to Indies, 1868-74/80-85
1819 John Playfair, Scottish geologist/mathematician, dies
1818 Alexander Bain, Scottish Philosopher
1817 Thomas Davidson, Scottish Scientist
1816 Adam Ferguson, Scottish sociologist/historian, dies at 92
1813 Robert Fortune, Scottish Scientist
1809 John Stuart Blackie, Scottish Writer
1808 James Nasmyth, Scottish Inventor
1806 Alexander Duff, Scottish Clergyman
1803 James Beattie, Scottish poet/philosopher (Essay on Truth), dies at 67
1802 Robert Chambers, Scottish Writer
1800 Hugh Blair, Scottish Theologian
1799 Joseph Black, Scottish medical/chemist/physicist, dies at 71
1797 William Motherwell, Scottish civil servant/poet
1796 Robert Burns, Scottish poet (Auld Lang Syne), dies at 37
1795 Walter Geikie, Scottish painter
1792 Archibald Alison, Scottish historian, History of Europe
1792 Edward Irving, Scottish Clergyman
1792 Robert Adam, Scottish architect (Syon House, Middlesex), dies at 63
1790 Adam Smith, Scottish Economist
1790 Robert Stirling, Scottish Inventor
1788 John Logan, Scottish conductor (Ode to the Cuckoo), dies at about 40
1788 George Gordon Byron, Scottish Poet
1788 Thomas Erskine, Scottish Theologian
1785 John Wilson, Scottish Writer
1784 Allan Cunningham, Scottish Poet
1779 James Cook, Scottish explorer, killed in fracas with Hawaiian
1776 David Hume, Scottish Philosopher
1774 Robert Fergusson, Scottish songwriter (Scottish Poems), dies
1773 Scottish settlers arrive at Pictou, Nova Scotia (Canada)
1771 Walter Scott, Scottish Novelist
1768 William Wallace, Scottish mathematician, Rights of Wallace
1764 Robert Haldane, Scottish theologist/philanthropist
1758 John Pinkerton, Scottish historian
1758 Allan Ramsay Sr, Scottish poet (Gentle Shepherd), dies at 71
1755 Anne Grant, Scottish Poet
1753 Dugald Stewart, Edinburgh Scot, philosopher, Scottish common sense
1750 Robert Fergusson, Scottish poet, Scots poems
1746 Robert Blair, Scottish poet (Grave), dies at 46
1744 David Allan, Scottish painter
1735 Thomas Coutts, Scottish banker
1729 John Law, Scottish financier, dies at about 57
1728 Joseph Zwart, Scottish chemist/physicist
1723 Adam Ferguson, Scottish sociologist/historian
1721 Tobias Smollett, Scottish writer
1718 Hugh Blair, Scottish Theologian
1716 Scottish pretender to the throne James III Edward returns to France
1715 Battle at Sheriffmuir: English army beats Scottish earl of Mar
1711 David Hume, Scottish Philosopher
1709 Hamilton, Scottish general (Malplaquet), dies in battle
1709 Alexander Selkirk, Scottish seaman is rescued after 4+ years from Fernandez Island (inspiration for Daniel Defoe's "Robinson Crusoe")
1707 English/Scottish parliament accept Act of Union, form Great Britain
1701 William Kidd, Scottish pirate, hanged at London's Execution Dock
1699 Robert Blair, Scottish poet, Grave
1689 Jacobite Scottish Highlanders defeat royal force at Killiecrankie
1685 Archibald Campbell, Scottish politician, beheaded at about 55
1679 Battle at Bothwell Bridge on Clyde: Duke of Monmouth beats Scottish
1667 John Arbuthnot, Scottish writer, Alexander Pope
1661 Archibald Campbell, Scottish politician, beheaded at about 53
1650 James G, Marquis of Montrose, Scottish general, hanged
1650 Scottish general Montrose defeated
1648 Battle at Preston, Lancashire: Henry Ireton beats Scottish
1647 Scottish Presbyterians sell captured Charles I to English parliament
1638 Scottish Presbyterians sign National Convent, Greyfriars, Edinburgh
1617 John Napier, Scottish mathematician/inventor (logarithms), dies
1603 Scottish king James VI becomes King James I of England
1600 John Craig, Scottish church reformer/James VI's court vicar, dies
1587 Mary Queen of Scots, Scottish Royalty
1585 William Drummond, Scottish Poet
1582 John Barclay, Scottish satirist/poet, Euphormio's Satyricon
1582 John Barclay, Scottish satirist/Latin poet, Argenis
1572 John Knox, Scottish preacher, dies at about 67
1568 English queen Elizabeth I arrests Scottish queen Mary
1559 Scottish Protestants under John Knox uprise against queen-mother Mary
1557 1st Covenant of Scottish protestants form
1542 Battle at Solway Moss: English beat Scottish King James
1542 Mary Queen of Scots, Scottish Royalty
1528 Patrick Hamilton, Scottish protestant martyr, burned at stake
1495 Scottish king James IV receives bedrieger Perkin Warbeck
1356 Scottish king Edward Baliol resigns
1332 Battle of Dupplin Moor; Scottish dynastic battle
1308 Duns Scotus, Scottish philosopher (coined the word dunce), dies at 42
1305 William Wallace, Scottish patriot, hanged, disemboweled and beheaded
1297 Battle at Stirling Bridge, Scottish rebel Wm Wallace beats English
1291 Scottish nobles recognize authority of English king Edward I
1174 Scottish King William captured
1093 Margaret, widow of Scottish king Malcolm III, dies
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