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List of events
Events from the year 1931 in
Scotland .
Incumbents
Law officers
Judiciary
Events
Births
George Younger
2 January –
James D. Murray , mathematician and academic
[4]
12 January –
Bert Ormond , Scottish-born New Zealand footballer (died
2017 )
26 February –
Ally McLeod , football manager (died
2004 )
13 March
18 March –
John Fraser , actor (died 2020)
29 March –
James Weatherhead , Church of Scotland minister (died
2017 )
27 April –
Alex Campbell , folk singer (died
1987 )
29 April –
Lonnie Donegan ,
skiffle musician (died 2002 in England)
30 April -
William Watson , author, playwright and newspaper editor (died
2005 )
3 May –
Thomas Sutherland , academic and Islamic Jihad hostage (died
2016 in the United States )
6 May –
Sandy Grant Gordon , whisky distiller (died
2020 )
[5]
9 May
11 June –
Kenneth Cameron, Baron Cameron of Lochbroom , lawyer and judge
16 June –
John Grant , footballer (died
2021 )
1 August -
Pat Heywood , actress
2 August –
Karl Miller ,
literary editor (died 2014 in England)
11 September –
Bill Simpson , television actor (died
1993 )
22 September –
George Younger , Conservative politician,
Secretary of State for Scotland (died
2003 )
24 September –
Elizabeth Blackadder , painter (died
2021 )
[6]
September -
Arthur Thompson ,
gangster (died
1986 )
9 December –
Ian McIntyre , journalist and BBC Radio executive (died
2014 )
16 December -
Karl Denver , singer (died 1998 in
Manchester )
29 December –
Bobby Shearer , footballer (died
2006 )
Eric Auld , painter (died
2013 )
Deaths
17 March –
James Stewart , Labour Party politician, MP for Glasgow St. Rollox 1922–1931 (born
1863 )
27 May –
Norah Neilson Gray , portrait painter (born
1882 )
5 August –
Archibald Barr , mechanical engineer (born
1855 )
3 December -
Frederick Walters , architect, notable for his Roman Catholic churches (born 1849 in London)
7 December –
Leslie Hunter , painter (born
1877 )
David Hay Fleming , historian and antiquary (born
1849 )
Ronald Campbell Macfie , medical doctor, poet and science writer (born
1867 )
Andrew Seth Pringle-Pattison , philosopher (born
1856 )
The arts
See also
References
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