On this day in 1640
William Alexander 1st Earl of Stirling died.

On this day in 1778
Robert Ord died.

On this day in 1883
Mary Campbell Biggar was born.

On this day in 1865
William Ramsay died.

On this day in 1873
Guy Steel Peebles was born.

On this day in 1870
Horatio Scott Carslaw was born.

On this day in 1866
Alexander Duncan was born.

On this day in 1864
Alfred William Johnston was born.

On this day in 1949
Abraham Levine died.

On this day in 1911
Archibald Alexander Swan died.

On this day in 1866
Martin Whyte was born.

On this day in 1883
Mary Campbell Biggar was born.

On this day in 1879
Alexander Slater Dunlop was born.

On this day in 1882
James Nash Gourlay was born.

On this day in 1879
Robert Grant was born.

On this day in 1877
William Hyslop was born.

On this day in 1868
William Jamieson was born.

On this day in 1880
John Laing Kinloch was born.

On this day in 1873
William Rennie McCracken was born.

On this day in 1890
Robert Nichol was born.

On this day in 1875
James Ballantyne Strang was born.

On this day in 1890
Christina Louisa Maclennan was born.

On this day in 1890
Gregor McGregor was born.

On this day in 1663
Cotton Mather was born.

On this day in 1891
Margaret McIntyre was born.

On this day in 1892
Norman Wallis Sammon was born.

On this day in 1990
Katrina Henrietta Schlomka died.

On this day in 1895
John Downie Bryce died.

On this day in 1892
Marion Wilson Lindsay was born.

On this day in 1893
Elizabeth Downie Hewitt was born.