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List of events
Events from the year 1905 in
Scotland .
Incumbents
Law officers
Judiciary
Events
Births
6 April –
Johnny Ramensky , career criminal, employed as a
commando for his
safe-cracking abilities (died
1972 )
19 April –
Jim Mollison , aviator (died
1959 )
12 May –
Alex Jackson , international footballer (died
1946 )
12 July –
John Maxwell ,
landscape painter (died
1962 )
19 July –
Robert Hurd , influential conservation architect (died 1963)
20 August –
Duncan Macrae , actor (died
1967 )
6 September –
William McEwan Younger , brewer and
Unionist politician (died 1992 in England)
4 October –
Leslie Mitchell , announcer (died 1985 in London)
9 December –
Janet Adam Smith , writer and mountaineer (died
1999 )
Norman Cameron ,
poet (born in Bombay; died 1953 in London)
Fred Hartley , light music composer and conductor (died
1980 )
Deaths
21 January –
Robert Brough , painter, died in a railway disaster (born
1872 )
5 August –
Alexander Asher , Liberal politician and
Solicitor General for Scotland (born
1834 )
16 August –
Jamie Anderson , golfer (born
1842 )
22 August –
David Binning Monro ,
Homeric scholar (born
1836 )
18 September –
George MacDonald , author, poet and Christian minister (born
1844 )
8 October –
Allan MacDonald , Roman Catholic priest, poet, folklore collector and activist (born
1859 )
27 October –
Ralph Copeland ,
Astronomer Royal for Scotland (born 1837 in England)
7 November –
Lady Florence Caroline Dixie , traveller,
war correspondent , writer and
feminist (born
1855 )
12 December –
William Sharp , poet and literary biographer (born
1855 )
The arts
See also
References
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