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List of events
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 )
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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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