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List of events
Events from the year 1948 in
Scotland .
Incumbents
Law officers
Judiciary
Events
Births
8 January –
Gillies MacKinnon , film director
11 January –
Joe Harper , international footballer
3 February –
Maev Alexander , television and stage actress
9 February –
David Hayman , actor and director
24 February –
Walter Smith , football manager (died
2021 )
26 February –
Malcolm MacDonald , classical music critic (died 2014 in England)
3 March –
Rosemary Byrne ,
Scottish Socialist Party then
Solidarity MSP (2003–2007)
7 March -
Adam McLean , writer on alchemical texts
25 March –
Lynn Faulds Wood , television consumer affairs presenter and health campaigner (died 2020 in England)
29 March –
Marjorie Ritchie , animal researcher and animal surgeon, part of team who cloned
Dolly the sheep (died
2015 )
8 April –
Barbara Young , public servant and Labour peer
20 April –
Merlin Hay, 24th Earl of Erroll , colonel and politician,
Lord High Constable of Scotland
28 April –
Scott Fitzgerald , born William McPhail, singer and musical actor
11 May –
Fiona Woolf , born Catherine Fiona Swain, lawyer and Lord Mayor of London
21 May –
Denis MacShane , born Denis Matyjaszek, journalist and Labour Party MP
8 June –
Lorna Heilbron , actress
10 June –
Brian Adam , politician and biochemist (died
2013 )
[6]
15 June –
Henry McLeish , footballer, Labour Party MP (1987–2001), MSP (1999–2001) and
First Minister of Scotland (2000–2001)
19 June –
David MacLennan , theatre actor and producer (died
2014 )
20 June –
Alan Longmuir , pop guitarist with the
Bay City Rollers (died
2018 )
18 July –
Jim Watt , lightweight boxer
5 August –
Gordon Jackson , Labour Party MSP (1999–2007) and lawyer
11 August –
Don Boyd , film director, producer, screenwriter and novelist
24 October –
Frank McPhee , gangland boss (died
2000 )
3 November –
Lulu , born Marie McDonald McLaughlin Lawrie, singer
[7]
24 November –
Barry Simmons , quiz player
29 November –
David Rintoul , actor
8 December –
Peter Blake , actor (died 2018)
13 December –
Brian Wilson , Labour Party MP (1987–2005)
31 December –
Sandy Jardine , international footballer and manager (died 2014)
David Annand , sculptor
James Cosmo , actor
James Hunter , historian
John Kay , economist
Edward McGuire , composer
Robert Mone , murderer
John Lowrie Morrison , artist
Janet Paisley , writer (died 2018)
Tom Russell , rock
disc jockey
Deaths
31 January –
Oscar Slater , acquitted of murder (born 1872 in Silesia)
21 February –
Frederic Lamond , classical pianist and composer, pupil of
Franz Liszt (born
1868 )
9 March -
William J. Watson , toponymist (born
1865 )
27 March -
Douglas Ainslie , poet, translator, critic and diplomat (born
1865 )
28 May –
Unity Mitford , socialite and fascist (born 1914 in England)
1 June –
David Anderson, Lord St Vigeans , Scottish advocate and judge,
Chairman of the Scottish Land Court 1918–34 (born
1862 )
21 June –
D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson , biologist (born
1860 )
17 July –
Joseph Westwood , Labour MP (1922–31, 1935-1948) (born
1884 )
19 November –
Charles Jarvis , soldier,
Victoria Cross recipient (born
1881 )
24 November -
O. Douglas , novelist (born
1877 )
The arts
See also
References
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