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On This Day: 21st of December
On this day in 1730:
Anatomy classes
The Faculty granted Glasgow surgeon John Paisley the use of the old Humanity classroom for teaching Anatomy, and permitted him to keep the key to the room.
Births and Deaths
On this day in 1805
Thomas Graham was born.
On this day in 1804
Benjamin Disraeli Earl of Beaconsfield was born.
On this day in 2018
Tom Leonard died.
On this day in 1860
Robert Chalmers Anderson was born.
On this day in 1868
James Chalmers was born.
On this day in 1873
John McAusland Dickie was born.
On this day in 1866
Robert Alexander Duff was born.
On this day in 1919
Walter Buchanan Hastings died.
On this day in 1864
Matthew James Morrison was born.
On this day in 1864
Archibald Black Scott was born.
On this day in 1905
James Stewart died.
On this day in 1882
George Victor Anderson was born.
On this day in 1889
William Anderson was born.
On this day in 1879
Helen Ormiston Blackwood was born.
On this day in 1877
John Lambie was born.
On this day in 1872
William Fullerton McEwen was born.
On this day in 1882
Charles Robinson Murray was born.
On this day in 1879
John Steel Nicholson was born.
On this day in 1876
Robert Niven was born.
On this day in 1876
Robert Walter Rogerson Shearer was born.
On this day in 1866
Alexander Stevenson was born.
On this day in 1883
Agnes Helen Walkinshaw was born.
On this day in 1886
Adam Brown was born.
On this day in 1889
George Arthur Stevenson was born.
On this day in 1890
George Murray Davidson Short was born.
On this day in 1884
Margaret Anderson Ramsay was born.
On this day in 1982
Chi-Wang Yun died.
On this day in 1799
George Finlay was born.
On this day in 1914
Maria Alexandra Ratzer was born.
On this day in 1885
George Philip was born.
On this day in 1891
Marion Brooks Douglas was born.
On this day in 1892
Jules Steinmetz Martin was born.
On this day in 1891
Andrew Climie was born.
On this day in 1893
John Gilchrist Hotchkis was born.
On this day in 1954
Robert Robson was born.
On this day in 1895
Lizzie Chalmers was born.
On this day in 1893
Clarence Lorraine Somerville was born.