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List of events
Events from the year 1942 in
Scotland .
Incumbents
Law officers
Judiciary
Events
Births
5 January –
Henry John Burnett , murderer, last man
hanged in Scotland (died
1963 )
24 January –
Sheila Mullen , painter
2 February –
Roger Hynd , footballer (died
2017 )
21 February –
Magnus Linklater , journalist
22 February –
John Kerr, Baron Kerr of Kinlochard , diplomat
24 February –
Stuart Henry ,
disc jockey (died 1995 in
Luxembourg )
27 February –
Aimi MacDonald , actress and dancer
12 April –
Bill Bryden , theatre director
28 April –
Geoffrey Hosking , historian
8 May –
Norman Lamont , Conservative politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer
14 May –
Prentis Hancock , actor
24 May –
Fraser Stoddart , Scottish-born scientist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Chemistry
7 June –
Aonghas MacNeacail ,
Gaelic poet (died
2022 )
18 June –
John Bellany , painter (died
2013 )
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12 July –
Tam White , actor and musician (died
2010 )
8 August –
Dennis Canavan , politician
12 August –
Iain Blair , actor and author (using the
pen name Emma Blair) (died 2011 England)
23 October –
Douglas Dunn , poet and academic
16 November –
Willie Carson ,
jockey
24 November –
Billy Connolly , comedian
9 December –
Billy Bremner , international footballer (died
1997 )
10 December –
Ann Gloag , born Ann Souter, entrepreneur
12 December –
Morag Hood , actress (died 2002 London)
13 December –
Hamish Wilson , actor
22 December –
Irvine Laidlaw, Baron Laidlaw , businessman
27 December –
Mike Heron , psychedelic rock musician (The Incredible String Band)
Albert Watson , photographer
Deaths
The arts
See also
References
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