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On This Day: 4th of August
On this day in 1861:
Joseph Lister's Appointment
Joseph Lister, Professor of Surgery at the University from 1860 until 1869, was appointed a surgeon at Glasgow Royal Infirmary.
Births and Deaths
On this day in 1888
Sir Stanley Norie-Miller was born.
On this day in 1828
George Boyle Alexander was born.
On this day in 1853
James Andrew Brown was born.
On this day in 1857
George Skeen Illingworth was born.
On this day in 1863
Robert Fergusson MacArthur was born.
On this day in 1870
Percy George McReddie was born.
On this day in 1874
Jeanie Auld was born.
On this day in 1874
Thomas Bullough Calland was born.
On this day in 1875
David Curr Douglas was born.
On this day in 1885
Annie Kerr was born.
On this day in 1883
Renwick Hutson Leitch was born.
On this day in 1890
John William Mackay was born.
On this day in 1875
Alexander Dickie Morton was born.
On this day in 1879
Jane Reid Shaw was born.
On this day in 1887
James Stewart Weir was born.
On this day in 1877
James Young Wilson was born.
On this day in 1889
Alexander Rae was born.
On this day in 1913
Upton Augustus McAnuff was born.
On this day in 1891
Jeanie Mackenzie Loudon was born.
On this day in 1891
George Gibson Cooper was born.
On this day in 1894
John Alexander Buchanan was born.