Robert Fergusson Scottish Poet, Died.

Rev Henry Duncan, founder of the first savings bank, born in the Manse at Lochrutton.

Poet and song writer Robert Allan was born in Kilbarchan, Renfrewshire.

When Robert Burns arrived in Edinburgh in 1786, he made a pilgramage to the Canongate kirkyard to pay his respects to the young man who had inspired his poetry and whose grave lay unmarked for 12 years since his death at the age of 24 in October 177