Thursday 4th of April 1675 (x) — Soldier and adventurer Francis Charteris is baptised.
Charteris was born in Edinburgh in about 1665, the exact date is unknown.
Sunday 24th of February 1732 (-) — Soldier and adventurer Francis Charteris dies of natural causes.
Wednesday 28th of January 1829 (-) — Serial killer William Burke is executed by hanging.
Burke was hanged in front of a crowd possibly as large as 25.000; views from windows in the tenements overlooking the scaffold were hired at prices ranging from 5 to 20 shillings. Burke's skeleton was given to the Anatomical Museum of the Edinburgh Medical School where it remains. His death mask and a book said to be bound with his tanned skin can be seen at Surgeons' Hall Museum.
Wednesday 3rd of March 1847 (+) — Scientist, inventor, engineer and innovator Alexander Graham Bell is born.
Thursday 8th of December 1859 (-) — Writer Thomas De Quincey dies of unknown causes.
Wednesday 1st of October 1913 (-) — Double murderer Patrick Higgins is executed by hanging by John Ellis.
Higgins drowned his 2 sons, 6-year-old William and 4-year-old John at Hopetoun Quarry, Abercorn, West Lothian on 25 October 1911.
Sunday 23rd of June 1940 (+) — Musician Stuart Sutcliffe is born.
Wednesday 6th of May 1953 (+) — Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Tony Blair is born.
Saturday 15th of October 1977 (-) — 17-year-old Christine Eadie and 17-year-old Helen Scott are beaten, gagged, tied up, raped and strangled by Serial killer Angus Sinclair .
On 25 November 2004 Sinclair's DNA matched. On 31 March 2005 Sinclair was arrested. At a trial in 2007 Sinclair was acquitted by lack of evidence. At a second trial in 14 November 2014 Sinclair was found guilty of the murders and sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum term of 37 years.
Saturday 29th of January 2005 (-) — Guitarist Eric Griffiths dies of pancreatic cancer.
