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On This Day: 12th of March
On this day in 1819:
Robert Watt died
Robert Watt, author of the Bibliotheca Britannica, died. Watt had been a lecturer at the University on the Theory and Practice of Medicine and a physician at Glasgow Royal Infirmary, 1814-1817.
Births and Deaths
On this day in 1988
Martin Smellie died.
On this day in 1766
Claudius Buchanan was born.
On this day in 1859
James Ritchie Dalrymple was born.
On this day in 1871
William Moffat Holmes was born.
On this day in 1869
Thomas Holtrum Lillie was born.
On this day in 1871
Elizabeth Dorothea Lyness was born.
On this day in 1873
John Rankin was born.
On this day in 1865
Alexander Roxburgh was born.
On this day in 1871
William Sharpe was born.
On this day in 1860
William Alexander Stewart was born.
On this day in 1879
William Anderson was born.
On this day in 1881
William Dunlop Borland was born.
On this day in 1890
James Burns Cameron was born.
On this day in 1888
Robert Paul Fairlie was born.
On this day in 1875
James William Johnstone was born.
On this day in 1887
Joseph Norman McConochie was born.
On this day in 1883
William Miller was born.
On this day in 1881
David Robertson Mitchell was born.
On this day in 1878
Gavin Denholme Muir was born.
On this day in 1879
Leyton Price Richards was born.
On this day in 1875
Andrew Boyd Scott was born.
On this day in 1886
John Martin Taylor was born.
On this day in 1873
Thomas Mitchell Walker was born.
On this day in 1889
John William Fairburn was born.
On this day in 1868
Yosohachi Nakajima was born.
On this day in 1892
Janet Kennedy Robertson was born.
On this day in 1917
Joseph Patrick Harkin was born.
On this day in 1767
James Stevenson was born.
On this day in 1899
John Liddle King Gifford was born.
On this day in 1889
William Hugh Robba was born.
On this day in 1891
Agnes Kirkpatrick Anderson was born.
On this day in 1878
Humphrey Ewing Crum Ewing died.
On this day in 1892
Janet Kennedy Gartshore was born.
On this day in 1892
Andrew Davidson was born.
On this day in 1895
Kathleen Josephine Doyle was born.
On this day in 2019
Alan Stuart died.