1907 in Scotland
1907 in Scotland |
Years |
1905 | 1906 | 1907 | 1908 | 1909 |
See also |
1906-07 in Scottish football |
1907-08 in Scottish football |
Events from 1907 in Scotland
Incumbents
Events
Births
- 2 January - Robert Wilson, tenor (died 1964)
- 4 January - Walter Donaldson, snooker player (died 1973 in England)
- 28 January - Robert McLellan, playwright (died 1985)
- 4 February - James McIntosh Patrick, landscape painter (died 1998)
- 16 April - Martin Boddey, film and television actor (died 1975 in London)
- 22 May - Huw Lorimer, sculptor (died 1993)
- 13 August - Sir Basil Spence, architect (died 1976 in Yaxley, Suffolk)
- 7 October - Helen MacInnes, espionage novelist (died 1985 in the United States)
- 2 October - Alexander R. Todd, biochemist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (died 1997 in Cambridgeshire, England)
- 4 November - Ferguson Rodger, physician (died 1978)
- 5 December - William Barclay, Professor of Divinity (died 1978)
- 25 December - Andrew Cruickshank, actor (died 1988 in England)
- Jameson Clark, character actor, (died 1984)
- Dr Catherine Gavin, academic historian, war correspondent, and historical novelist (died 2001)
- Tom Hanlin, novelist (died 1953)
- Betty Henderson, actress (died 1979)
Deaths
- 21 January - John Hunt, cleric, theologian and historian (born 1829)
- 4 April - Alexander Macbain, philologist (born 1855)
- 13 May - Alexander Buchan, meteorologist oceanographer and botanist (born 1827)
- 26 June - William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, mathematical physicist and engineer (born 1827, in Belfast)
- 19 July - William Gunion Rutherford, classicist (born 1853)
- 30 August - James Adam, classicist (born 1860)
- 6 October - David Masson, literary critic and historian (born 1822)
- 4 November - Rev. Dr. Robert Blair, minister of religion and Gaelic scholar (born 1837)
- 6 November - James Hector, geologist, naturalist and surgeon (born 1834)
- 17 December - William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, physicist (born 1824 in Ireland)
- Jane Arthur, feminist and activist (born 1827)
See also
References
- ↑ "Andrew Carnegie - Scottish connections". Scotcities.com. Retrieved 2015-03-24.
- ↑ Peach, B. N. et al. The Geological Structure of the North-West Highlands of Scotland. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of Great Britain, Scotland. Glasgow: H.M.S.O.