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[edit] Birth date
http://www.thepeerage.com/p10978.htm
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&ct=res&cd=1&url=http%3A//worldroots.com/foundation/britain/williamdouglasdesc1634.htm&ei=4aSeQ8jdHba4ar-FoLMP&sig2=aB79WTer9rQfY79boZ4tcQ
and The Illustrated Almanac of Science, Technology and Invention by Raymond L Francis (Plenum Press, 1997) give the birth date of Sir William Hamilton as 13 December.