In the case of Scotland, use of a blue background for the Saint Andrew's Cross is said to date from at least the 15th century, with the first certain illustration of a flag depicting such appearing in Sir David Lyndsay of the Mount 's Register of Scottish Arms, circa 1542.
Dennis Johnson, a brilliant defensive player who helped propel the Seattle SuperSonics and the to N.B.A. championships, died yesterday in Austin, Tex. He was 52. The cause was a heart attack, the National Basketball Association said.
Jack Johnson was 68 when he died on June 10, 1946 in a crash near Raleigh, N.C. Harry Chapin, a 1970s folk-rock composer and performer, was killed when the car he was driving was hit from behind by a tractor-trailer on the Long Island Expressway in Jericho, N.Y., on July 16, 1981. He was 38 years old.