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On This Day: 23rd of May
Births and Deaths
On this day in 1718
William Hunter was born.
On this day in 1900
Thomas Ferguson was born.
On this day in 1867
Archibald Alison 1st Baronet died.
On this day in 1721
Robert Findlay was born.
On this day in 1917
Ernest Best was born.
On this day in 1979
Sir Ernest Bullock died.
On this day in 1927
Ian Boyd was born.
On this day in 1861
James Cook was born.
On this day in 1865
Mathew Dunning was born.
On this day in 1862
Joseph Liddle King was born.
On this day in 1912
Sir Samuel Crowe Curran was born.
On this day in 1885
Charles Edward Duff was born.
On this day in 1883
Robert Alexander Houstoun was born.
On this day in 1880
Wm. Macshimming Lindsay was born.
On this day in 1889
James Mackie was born.
On this day in 1876
Thomas Neilson was born.
On this day in 1877
Graham Park was born.
On this day in 1880
Richard Dunn Robertson was born.
On this day in 1886
Francis Mackenzie Smith was born.
On this day in 1870
Merbai Ardesir Vakil was born.
On this day in 1887
Margaret Louisa Stuart was born.
On this day in 2005
Alexander Baba Gwan-Nulla died.