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List of events
Events from the year 1944 in
Scotland .
Incumbents
Law officers
Judiciary
Events
Births
23 January –
John McCluskey , boxer (died
2015 )
31 January –
Robin Murray , psychiatrist
19 February –
Ron Mathewson , jazz double bassist and bass guitarist (died
2020 )
25 February –
Campbell Armstrong (born Thomas Campbell Black), novelist (died
2013 in Ireland )
2 March –
Stuart McGugan , actor
11 March –
Graham Lyle , singer-songwriter
23 March –
Maoilios Caimbeul (Myles Campbell) writer of poetry, prose and children's literature in Scottish Gaelic
19 April –
Andrew Welsh ,
Scottish National Party politician (died
2021 )
3 May –
Carl Forgione , actor (died 1998 in England)
13 May –
Vivien Heilbron , actress
17 May –
Jimmy Boyle , sculptor, writer and murderer
5 June –
Jim Brogan , footballer (died
2018 )
3 July –
Paul Young , actor
7 July –
George Logan , entertainer (died
2023 in France )
8 August –
Robert Smith, Baron Smith of Kelvin , businessman, chairman of the
Green Investment Bank
11 August –
Ian McDiarmid , actor
17 August –
Bobby Murdoch , international footballer (died
2001 )
22 August –
Tom Leonard , poet (died
2018 )
13 September –
Leslie Harvey , rock guitarist (died
1972 )
21 September –
Susan Fleetwood , stage, film and television actress (died 1995 in England)
21 September –
Christopher Harvie , historian and
Scottish National Party politician
23 September –
Eric Bogle , folk singer-songwriter in Australia
30 September –
Jimmy Johnstone , international footballer (died
2006 )
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3 October –
Harry Hood , footballer (died
2019 )
17 November –
Malcolm Bruce ,
Liberal politician
23 November –
Christopher Rush , writer
28 November –
James Smillie , actor and singer
12 December –
Kenneth Cranham , actor
29 December –
Gilbert Adair , novelist, poet, film critic and journalist (died 2011 in London)
Alison Fell , poet and novelist
Shena Mackay , novelist
Deaths
8 February –
John Watson , advocate and sheriff, Solicitor General for Scotland 1929–31 (born
1883 ; dies on train to Scotland)
29 February -
Durward Lely , opera singer and actor (born
1852 )
16 March –
David Prain , botanist (born
1857 )
23 June -
J. Storer Clouston , author and historian (born 1870 in
Cumberland )
5 July –
Robert William Hamilton ,
Liberal politician and MP (born
1867 )
6 July -
Alexander Lorne Campbell , architect (born
1871 )
11 July – Sir
Daniel Macaulay Stevenson , shipbroker, Liberal politician and philanthropist (born
1851 )
11 August –
William Fife , yacht designer (born
1857 )
16 August –
Walter Robberds ,
Bishop of Brechin and
Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church (born 1863 in the
British Raj )
27 September –
David Dougal Williams , painter (born
1888 in England)
See also
References
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