On this day in 1915
Alexander Nove was born.

On this day in 1891
Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton died.

On this day in 1876
Duncan Harkness Weir died.

On this day in 1870
David Bayne was born.

On this day in 1850
James MacFadyen died.

On this day in 1869
James Morton MacLauchlan was born.

On this day in 1862
Andrew Wingate Meikle was born.

On this day in 1915
Thomas Gibson was born.

On this day in 1873
Thomas Baird was born.

On this day in 1877
John Brown was born.

On this day in 1883
Robert Mackie Brown was born.

On this day in 1889
Jean McKenzie Parker Chisolm was born.

On this day in 1880
Alexander Dick was born.

On this day in 1881
James Henderson Marr was born.

On this day in 1884
Alister Argyle Campbell McNeill was born.

On this day in 1887
Charles Douglas Mottram was born.

On this day in 1884
William Angus Munro was born.

On this day in 1882
Grace Oliphant was born.

On this day in 1870
John Edgar Sugden Otty was born.

On this day in 1877
William Robertson was born.

On this day in 1866
William Scott was born.

On this day in 1887
Janet Davidson Steele was born.

On this day in 1878
Thomas Struthers Symington was born.

On this day in 1872
Hector McEwan Thomson was born.

On this day in 1874
Robert Burns Young was born.

On this day in 1884
John Cattell Robertson was born.

On this day in 1861
Francis Laing died.

On this day in 1911
Colonel William Melville McCutcheon was born.

On this day in 1892
Archibald Milne was born.

On this day in 1890
Archibald Neil was born.

On this day in 1890
Grace Birrell Whish was born.

On this day in 1891
Anna Jane Wilson was born.

On this day in 1894
Margaret Agnes Ruth Dickson was born.

On this day in 1894
Mary Dick Miller was born.

On this day in 1942
Sir Billy Connolly CBE was born.