Events from the year 1799 in Scotland.
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- 6 February – George Arnott Walker-Arnott, botanist (died 1868)
- 13 February – Robert Willis, physician (died 1878 in London)
- 17 February – John Baird, evangelical minister (died 1861)
- 8 June – John Wilson, promoter of British Israelism (died 1870 in England)
- 25 June – David Douglas, botanist (died 1834 in Hawaii)
- 6 September – Peter Allan, eccentric (died 1849 in Co. Durham)
- 8 September – James Bowman Lindsay, inventor (died 1862)
- 5 November – Robert Carruthers, writer (died 1878)
- 18 December – Charles Macfarlane, travel writer and novelist (died 1858 in London)
- 21 December – David Don, botanist (died 1841 in London)
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- Approximate date – William Simson, painter best known as a landscapist (died 1847)
- 5 January – John Swinton, Lord Swinton, judge (born 1723)
- 19 January – Peter Williamson ("Indian Peter"), tavern keeper, printer, postmaster, inventor, showman and sometime slave in America (born 1730)
- 26 January
- 26 May – James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, judge and comparative linguist (born 1714)
- 30 May – Robert McQueen, Lord Braxfield, hanging judge (born 1722)
- 1 June – James Tassie, engraver (born 1735)
- 14 June – Sir Patrick Warrender, 3rd Baronet, of Lochend, army officer and politician (born 1739)
- 15 August – Duncan Davidson, merchant and politician (born 1733)
- 6 December – Joseph Black, physician and chemist (born 1728)
- William Cunninghame of Lainshaw, tobacco merchant
- Lachlan McGillivray, fur trader and planter in the Province of Georgia (born 1718/19)
Browne, James (1854). A History of the Highlands and of the Highland Clans. Vol. 4 (New ed.). Edinburgh: A. Fullarton and Co.