is automated and its keepers and their families depart. Equality Network established to campaign for LGBT rights in Scotland. Births 17 January – Charithra Chandran, actress 6 May – Duncan Scott, swimmer 11 August – Sarah Clelland, footballer Deaths 22 January – Billy Mackenzie, singer, by suicide (born 1957) 29 June – Marjorie Linklater, campaigner for the arts and environment of Orkney (born 1909) 4 September – Belle Stewart, traditional singer (born 1906) Angus McPhee, outsider artist (born 1916) The arts Wigtown and Dalmellington become book towns. Anne MacLeod publishes her first poetry collection, Standing by Thistles. See also 1997 in Northern Ireland References Scotland Years of the 20th century in Scotland 1990s in Scotland