• Secretary of State for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal – Sir Godfrey Collins until 29 October; then Walter Elliot

Law officers edit

• Lord Advocate – Thomas Mackay Cooper
• Solicitor General for Scotland – Albert Russell until June; then James Reid

Judiciary edit

• Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General – Lord Normand
• Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Aitchison
• Chairman of the Scottish Land Court – Lord MacGregor Mitchell

• 27–31 January – The Combined Scottish Universities by-election sees former UK Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald returned to the House of Commons
• March – Scottish Ornithologists' Club founded
• 8 March – Cartoon characters The Broons and Oor Wullie first appear in The Sunday Post
• 7 June – First outdoors radio broadcast in Gaelic, a religious service from Iona Abbey, transmitted by the BBC^[1]
• 10 June – First timetabled service to Barra Airport, on Traigh Mhòr beach, offered by Northern & Scottish Airways^[2]
• 23 September – Prince Albert and his wife, the Duchess of York, open a new wing of Aberdeen Royal Infirmary while his brother Edward VIII meets Wallis Simpson at Aberdeen railway station en route to Balmoral Castle^[3]
• 29 October – Kincardine Bridge opened across the Firth of Forth
• November – Punjabi-born Dr. Jainti Dass Saggar becomes the first non-White local authority councillor in Scotland, being elected for the Labour Party in Dundee
• 20 November – The Maybury roadhouse opens on the outskirts of Edinburgh, a notable example of Art Deco by Paterson & Broom

• 7 January – Hunter Davies, writer
• 10 February
  • James Alexander Gordon, radio announcer (died 2014 in England)
  • Euan MacKie, archaeologist and anthropologist (died 2020)
• 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 singer
• 24 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, politician
• 8 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, actress
• 21 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 actress
• 26 December – Tormod MacGill-Eain, Scottish Gaelic comedian, novelist, poet, musician and broadcaster (died 2017)
• Stewart Conn, poet and playwright
• Brian Quinn, economist and Chairman of Celtic F.C.

• 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)
• 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)

• Edwin Muir publishes Scott and Scotland.

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