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List of events
Events from the year 1916 in
Scotland .
Incumbents
Law officers
Judiciary
Events
Births
11 May –
Edward Boyd , screenwriter (died
1989 )
20 May –
John McIntyre , theologian and
Church of Scotland minister (died
2005 )
16 June –
John Young , actor (died
1996 )
10 July –
Harry Gourlay , Labour MP from 1959 (died
1987 )
11 August –
Benny Lee , comedy actor and singer (died
1995 )
18 October –
Anthony Dawson , actor (died
1992 )
22 October –
Peter Brodie , Church of Scotland minister, Moderator of the General Assembly (died
1996 )
28 October –
Jessie Kesson , born Jessie Grant McDonald, writer and radio producer (died
1994 )
21 November –
David Syme Russell , theologian and author (died 2010 in
Bristol )
7 November –
Ian Niall , born John McNeillie, author (died 2002 in England)
18 December –
Douglas Fraser , union leader (died
2008 in the United States )
Angus McPhee ,
outsider artist (died
1997 )
Deaths
21 January –
David Finlay , soldier, recipient of the
Victoria Cross ; killed in action in Mesopotamia (born
1893 )
6 March – Sir
James Key Caird , jute manufacturer and benefactor (born
1837 )
6 April –
Andrew Ross , Scotland rugby union international and merchant seaman; killed in action in France (born c. 1880)
3 May –
William Hardie , classical scholar, Professor of Humanity at
Edinburgh University from 1895 (born
1862 )
27 May –
William Leiper , architect (born
1839 )
1 July –
James Youll Turnbull , soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross; killed in action in France (born
1883 )
23 July –
William Ramsay , recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1904 (born
1852 )
3 October –
James Burgess , archaeologist active in India (born
1832 )
26 November –
Alexander Robertson MacEwen , writer, minister, professor and
Moderator of the
United Free Church of Scotland (born
1851 )
The arts
See also
References
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