1936 in Scotland
Events from the year 1936 in Scotland .
Incumbents
Law officers
Judiciary
Events
Births
7 January – Hunter Davies , writer10 February
11 February – Sylvia Wishart , landscape artist (died 2008 )4 March – Jim Clark , motor racing driver (killed 1968 in motor racing accident at Hockenheimring , Germany)26 March – John Malcolm , film and television actor (died 2008 )17 April – Rona Lightfoot , bagpiper and singer24 April – Davie Sneddon , footballer (died 2020 )26 April – Pat Quinn , footballer (died 2020 )28 April – Kenneth White , poet, academic and writer (died 2023 )5 May – John Maxton , politician8 May – George Mulhall , footballer (died 2018 in England)17 May – James Gordon, Baron Gordon of Strathblane , businessman and politician (died 2020 )27 May – Eric Anderson , born William Kinloch Anderson, educator, Provost of Eton College (died 2020 )10 June – Marion Chesney , novelist (died 2019 )25 June – Roy Williamson , folk musician (died 1990 )26 June – Robert Maclennan , Liberal Democrat politician (died 2020 )27 June – Robin Hall , folk singer (died 1998 )5 July – James Mirrlees , economist, winner of the 1996 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (died 2018 in England)9 July – Richard Wilson , actor[ 4] 18 September – Hugh Fraser , retailer (died 1987 )6 October – Sandra Voe , actress21 November – James A. Mackay , writer and philatelist (died 2007 )25 November – William McIlvanney , novelist, short story writer and poet (died 2015 )1 December – Crawford Fairbrother , high jumper (died 1986 )2 December – Eileen McCallum actress26 December – Tormod MacGill-Eain , Scottish Gaelic comedian, novelist, poet, musician and broadcaster (died 2017 )Stewart Conn , poet and playwrightBrian Quinn , economist and Chairman of Celtic F.C.
Deaths
6 February – Charles Bellany Thomson , international footballer (born 1878 )23 February – William Adamson , trade unionist and politician, Leader of the Labour Party (1917–1921) and Secretary of State for Scotland in 1924 and 1929-1931 (born 1863 )2 March – Donald Alexander Mackenzie , journalist and folklorist (born 1873 )20 March – Cunninghame Graham , politician (first president of the Scottish National Party ), adventurer and writer (born 1852 ; died in Argentina)9 April – William Beardmore, 1st Baron Invernairn , industrialist (born 1856 )25 May – Sir Robert Sangster Rait , historian, Historiographer Royal (born 1874 )4 November – John Henry Lorimer portrait and genre painter (born 1856 )22 November – Sir Fitzroy Maclean, 10th Baronet , soldier and clan chief (born 1835 )2 December – Dugald Christie , missionary in China, founder of the Shengjing Clinic and Mukden Medical College (born 1885 )Joseph Morris Henderson , Glaswegian landscape, portrait, genre and coastal scenery oil and watercolour painter (born 1863 )
The arts
See also
References
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