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 , painter2 February – Roger Hynd , footballer (died 2017 )21 February – Magnus Linklater , journalist22 February – John Kerr, Baron Kerr of Kinlochard , diplomat24 February – Stuart Henry , disc jockey (died 1995 in Luxembourg )27 February – Aimi MacDonald , actress and dancer12 April – Bill Bryden , theatre director28 April – Geoffrey Hosking , historian8 May – Norman Lamont , Conservative politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer14 May – Prentis Hancock , actor24 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 )[ 8] 12 July – Tam White , actor and musician (died 2010 )8 August – Dennis Canavan , politician12 August – Iain Blair , actor and author (using the pen name Emma Blair) (died 2011 England)23 October – Douglas Dunn , poet and academic16 November – Willie Carson , jockey 24 November – Billy Connolly , comedian9 December – Billy Bremner , international footballer (died 1997 )10 December – Ann Gloag , born Ann Souter, entrepreneur12 December – Morag Hood , actress (died 2002 London)13 December – Hamish Wilson , actor22 December – Irvine Laidlaw, Baron Laidlaw , businessman27 December – Mike Heron , psychedelic rock musician (The Incredible String Band)Albert Watson , photographer
Deaths
The arts
See also
References
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