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