1923 in Scotland
Events from the year 1923 in Scotland .
Incumbents
Law officers
Judiciary
Events
Births
15 January
19 March – Bobby Brown , international football goalkeeper and manager (died 2020 )
23 March – Roddy McMillan , actor and playwright (died 1979 )
24 April – Cordelia Oliver , journalist, painter and art critic (died 2009 )[ 7]
15 May – James Gilbert , television producer (died 2016)
18 May – Willie McRae , Scottish National Party politician and lawyer (died 1985 )
May – Pat Smythe , jazz pianist (died 1983 in London)
25 August – Dorothy Dunnett , historical novelist (died 2001 )
9 September – Mitchell Downie , footballer (died 2001 )
18 October – James Gowan , architect known for his post-modernist designs (died 2015 in London )
21 October – David Brand, Lord Brand , advocate, sheriff and Senator of the College of Justice (died 1996 )
25 October – Bobby Thomson , professional baseball player (died 2010 in Savannah, Georgia )
26 October – Norman Wylie, Lord Wylie , politician (died 2005 )
14 December – Janet Brown , actress, comedienne and impressionist, famous for impersonations of Margaret Thatcher (died 2011 in Hove )
19 December – Gordon Jackson , screen actor (died 1990 )
Deaths
27 March – James Dewar , chemist and physicist (born 1842 )
4 May – William Robertson Nicoll , Free Church minister, journalist, editor and man of letters (born 1851 )
4 June – Hume Nisbet , writer and artist (born 1849 )
25 June – John Annan Bryce , businessman and Liberal politician (born 1841 )
29 June – Sir James Reid, 1st Baronet , physician (born 1849)
17 July – William Paton Ker , scholar and essayist (born 1855 )
26 September – Sir Mark MacTaggart-Stewart , Conservative politician (born 1834 )
28 September – William York Macgregor , landscape painter (born 1855 )
30 November – John Maclean , Marxist (born 1879 )
26 December – James Stout Angus , Shetland writer (born 1830 )
William Robertson , industrialist (born 1856 )
The arts
See also
References
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