1901 in Scotland
1901 in Scotland |
Years |
1899 | 1900 | 1901 | 1902 | 1903 |
See also |
1900-01 in Scottish football |
1901-02 in Scottish football |
Events from 1901 in Scotland
Incumbents
Events
Births
- 13 February - Lewis Grassic Gibbon, writer (died 1935)
- 3 April - Charles Finnigan, dental surgeon, Honorary Dental Surgeon to the Queen (died 1967)
- 18 May - Isabella Gordon, carcinologist (died 1988 in Carlisle)
- 29 June - Frieda Inescort, actress (died 1976 in Los Angeles)
- 17 August - Malcolm MacDonald, politician and diplomat (died in 1981 in Maidstone)
- 29 August - Anna Zinkeisen, artist (died 1976 in London)
- 1 September - John Bannerman, Baron Bannerman of Kildonan, farmer, rugby union international and Liberal politician (died 1969 in England)
- 22 September - George McKenzie, bantamweight boxer (died 1941)
- 24 October - Moultrie Kelsall, actor (died 1980)
- 1 December - Jane Gray, supercentenarian in Australia
- 13 December - Arthur Donaldson, leader of the Scottish National Party from 1960 to 1969 (died 1993)
- Cezaro Rossetti, Esperanto writer (died 1950)
Deaths
- 15 January - John Burnet, architect (born 1814)
- 12 February - John Burns, 1st Baron Inverclyde, ship owner, chairman of the Cunard Line (born 1829)
- 19 February - Duncan Cameron, owner of The Oban Times, inventor of the Waverley Pen, (born 1825)
- 8 April - James Chalmers, missionary, murdered on Goaribari Island (born 1841)
- 12 April - Richard Henry Brunton, "Father of Japanese lighthouses" (born 1841)
- 4 July - Peter Guthrie Tait, mathematical physicist (born 1831)
- 26 December - Sir Joseph Noel Paton, artist (born 1821)
The Arts
See also
References