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List of events
Events from the year 1928 in
Scotland .
Incumbents
Law officers
Judiciary
Events
Births
1 January –
Iain Crichton Smith , poet (died
1998 )
17 January –
Matt McGinn , folk singer (died
1977 )
29 February –
Irene Sunters , actress (died
2005 )
10 March –
Alex McAvoy , actor (died
2005 )
11 March –
Sandy Mactaggart , Scottish-Canadian educator and philanthropist (died
2017 )
4 April –
Jimmy Logan , born James Allan Short, entertainer (died
2001 )
24 April –
Tommy Docherty , footballer and manager (died
2020 in England )
7 April –
Gael Turnbull , poet (died
2004 )
11 April –
Duncan Williamson , storyteller and singer (died
2007 )
22 May –
John Mackenzie , film director (died
2011 )
27 May –
Thea Musgrave , classical composer
2 June –
Calum Kennedy , singer (died
2006 )
[10]
5 June –
James Kennaway , novelist and screenwriter (died 1968 in England)
29 June –
Ian Bannen , actor (died
1999 )
[11]
16 July –
Bryden Thomson , orchestral conductor (died
1991 in Ireland )
8 August –
Peter Keenan , boxer (died
2000 )
21 September –
Con Devitt , Scottish-born New Zealand trade unionist (died
2014 )
6 October –
Flora MacNeil , singer in Scottish Gaelic (died
2015 )
[12]
9 October –
Joseph Brady , actor (died 2001 in London)
28 October –
Lawrie Reilly , international footballer (died 2013)
7 December -
Kay Matheson , Gaelic scholar and one of four students involved in the
1950 removal of the Stone of Scone (died 2021)
[13]
11 December –
Andy MacMillan , architect (died
2014 )
27 November – Sir
Arnold Clark billionaire car dealer (died
2017 )
28 December –
Ian Steel , road racing cyclist (died
2015 )
John Maxwell Anderson , consultant surgeon (died
1982 )
Deaths
2 January –
Thomas McMillan , footballer (born
1866 )
14 January –
Andrew MacLeish , businessman (born
1838 )
13 April –
Charles Sims , painter (born 1873 in England; suicide)
26 May –
John Burnet , classicist (born
1863 )
28 May –
Sir James William Beeman Hodsdon , Scottish surgeon, president of the
Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh , (born
1858 )
26 August –
Colin Campbell , film director (born
1859 )
[14]
29 October –
John Macintyre , laryngologist and pioneer radiographer (born
1857 )
13 November –
Alexander William Mair , academic (born
1875 ; house fire)
[15]
10 December –
Charles Rennie Mackintosh , architect, designer and watercolourist (born
1868 ; died in London)
24 December –
Thomas Corsan Morton , painter (born
1859 )
The arts
See also
References
^
a
b
"Notable Dates in History" . The Flag in the Wind . The Scots Independent. Archived from
the original on 23 May 2014. Retrieved 21 July 2014 .
^ Inglis, Simon (1996). Football Grounds of Britain . London: CollinsWillow. p. 432.
ISBN
0-00-218426-5 .
^ "Forfarshire's New Name".
The Times . No. 45032. London. 24 October 1928. p. 8. It was last May that the Forfarshire County Council passed a resolution...
^ Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History . London: Century Ltd. pp. 369–370.
ISBN
0-7126-5616-2 .
^ The Hutchinson Factfinder . Helicon. 1999.
ISBN
1-85986-000-1 .
^ Chapman, Matthew (2010). The Snail and the Ginger Beer: the story of Donoghue v Stevenson . London: Wildy, Simmons & Hill.
ISBN
0-85490-049-7 .
^
"Accident at Dinwoodie - Wamphray on 25th October 1928" . Railways Archive . Retrieved 6 August 2014 .
^ Kermack, W. R. (1944). 19 Centuries of Scotland . Edinburgh: Johnston. p. 92.
^ Shaw, Alan (29 September 2005).
"Kelvin to Weir, and on to GB SYS 2005" (PDF) .
Royal Society of Edinburgh . Archived from
the original (PDF) on 4 March 2009. Retrieved 10 January 2011 .
^ Wilson, Brian (21 April 2006).
"Obituary: Calum Kennedy" .
The Guardian . London. Retrieved 23 February 2018 .
^
"Ian Bannen" . the Guardian . 5 November 1999. Retrieved 17 September 2022 .
^
"Flora MacNeil obituary" . The Guardian . 20 May 2015. Retrieved 24 December 2020 .
^
"Obituary: Kay Matheson, teacher" . www.scotsman.com . Retrieved 22 September 2021 .
^ Donald W. McCaffrey; Christopher P. Jacobs (1999).
Guide to the Silent Years of American Cinema . Greenwood Publishing Group. pp.
65 –.
ISBN
978-0-313-30345-6 .
^ John Venn (15 September 2011).
Alumni Cantabrigienses: A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900 . Cambridge University Press. p. 293.
ISBN
978-1-108-03614-6 .
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