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List of events
Events from the year 1924 in
Scotland .
Incumbents
Law officers
Judiciary
Events
Births
29 January –
Bobby Combe , international footballer (died
1991 )
7 March –
Eduardo Paolozzi , artist (died 2005 in London)
11 March –
Anne Macaulay ,
musicologist , author and lecturer (died
1998 )
20 March –
James Barr , biblical scholar (died 2006 in
Claremont, California )
28 March –
Robert James , actor (died 2004 in England)
3 April –
Murray Dickie , tenor opera singer and director (died 1995 in
South Africa )
13 April –
Sammy Cox , international footballer (died
2015 in Canada )
14 April –
Robert Stewart , textile designer (died
1995 )
15 April –
Rikki Fulton , comedian (died
2004 )
18 April –
Buxton Orr , composer (died 1997)
20 May –
Stan Paterson , glaciologist (died
2013 in Canada )
25 May –
Gordon Smith , football player, the only player to win a Scottish league championship with three clubs, Hibernian, Heart of Midlothian and Dundee (died
2004 )
1 June – Rev. Professor
Alexander Campbell Cheyne , scholar of
Church history (died 2006)
9 June –
Peter Heatly ,
diver (died
2015 )
14 June
17 June –
Archibald Hall , serial killer and thief (died 2002 in
HM Prison Kingston )
19 July –
Sir James Fraser , surgeon (died 1997 in England)
15 September –
Piers Mackesy , military historian (died
2014 )
6 October –
Margaret Fulton , cookery writer in Australia (died
2019 )
Deaths
3 February – Major General
William Burney Bannerman ,
military surgeon (born
1858 )
6 February –
Sir John Stewart, 1st Baronet, of Fingask , whisky distiller (born
1877 ; suicide)
17 April –
James Brown Craven ,
ecclesiastical historian (born
1850 )
27 April –
James Salmon , architect (born
1873 )
22 June –
William Macewen , pioneer in brain surgery (born
1837 )
26 July –
William Robert Ogilvie-Grant ,
ornithologist (born
1863 )
4 September –
Constance Gordon-Cumming , travel writer and painter (born
1848 )
17 October –
Hector C. Macpherson , writer and journalist (born
1851 )
24 November –
Peter Milne , missionary to the New Hebrides (born
1834 )
31 December –
James Gardiner , Liberal MP (born
1860 )
John Henderson , painter (born
1860 )
The arts
April – French-born critic
Denis Saurat publishes "Le groupe de la Renaissance Écossaise " in Revue Anglo-Américaine bringing writers of the modern
Scottish Renaissance to wider European notice.
See also
References
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