1904 in Scotland

Events from the year 1904 in Scotland.

Incumbents

28 June – the Danish liner {{SS|Norge}} is wrecked off Rockall with the loss of 635 lives.{{cite book|first=Per Kristian|last=Sebak|title=Titanic's Predecessor: the S/S Norge Disaster of 1904|location=Laksevaag|publisher=Seaward|year=2004|isbn=82-996779-0-4}}
1 August – a judgement on appeal to the House of Lords in the case of Bannatyne v Overtoun (in which the minority Free Church of Scotland challenged the new United Free Church of Scotland) is delivered.
17 September – new St Columba Church of Scotland, Glasgow, opened.
31 December – Glasgow-registered cargo steamers Stromboli and Kathleen collide and sink at Garvel Point, Greenock.{{cite web|title=Notable Dates in History|url=http://www.scotsindependent.org/dates1-f.htm|work=The Flag in the Wind|publisher=The Scots Independent|access-date=2014-09-01|url-status=usurped|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141205083554/http://www.scotsindependent.org/dates1-f.htm|archive-date=2014-12-05}}
Hyskeir Lighthouse completed.
The Edinburgh Museum of Science and Art is renamed as the Royal Scottish Museum.
Boroughmuir High School, Edinburgh, founded.
First West Highland White Terrier breed club set up.

4 January – Erik Chisholm, composer (died 1965 in South Africa)
26 April – Jimmy McGrory, international footballer and manager (died 1982)
28 May – Anne Gillespie Shaw, engineer and businesswoman (died 1982){{cite web|title=Scottish Engineering Hall of Fame|url=http://www.engineeringhalloffame.org/profile-shaw-temp.html|website=www.engineeringhalloffame.org|access-date=28 February 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171021220236/http://www.engineeringhalloffame.org/profile-shaw-temp.html|archive-date=21 October 2017|url-status=dead}}
25 June – Patrick Balfour, 3rd Baron Kinross, historian and biographer (died 1976)
14 August – Lindley Fraser, academic economist and broadcaster (died 1963 in London)
23 August – William Primrose, violist (died in Provo, Utah 1982)
20 October – Tommy Douglas, Premier of Saskatchewan and pioneer of medicare (died 1986 in Canada)
3 November – Jennie Lee, politician (died 1988)
20 November – John MacCormick, lawyer and advocate of Home Rule for Scotland (died 1961)
Edward Baird, painter (died 1949)
Margaret MacDonald, royal servant (died 1993)
Alex Moffat, miner, trade unionist and communist activist (died 1967)

16 April – Samuel Smiles, author and reformer (born 1812)
25 May – David Sime Cargill, industrialist (born 1826)
7 October – Isabella Bird, traveller (born 1831 in Yorkshire)
12 November – George Lennox Watson, naval architect (born 1851)
25 December – James Brown, poet and essayist, known as J. B. Selkirk (born 1832)

29 February – the Pavilion Theatre, Glasgow, opens as a music hall.
12 September – the King's Theatre, Glasgow, opens.
27 December – J. M. Barrie's stage play Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up premières at the Duke of York's Theatre in London.{{cite book|title=Penguin Pocket On This Day|publisher=Penguin Reference Library|isbn=0-14-102715-0|year=2006}}
Hill House, Helensburgh, designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh, is completed.{{cite web|first=Armin|last=Grewe|title=C. R. Mackintosh: Hill House in Helensburgh|url=http://www.armin-grewe.com/crm/crm-hillhouse.htm|work=The Armin Grewe Homepage|location=Aldermaston|date=2001–2006|access-date=2010-07-07|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100623144333/http://www.armin-grewe.com/crm/crm-hillhouse.htm|archive-date=23 June 2010|url-status=live}}