in Bangkok, Thailand. 2006 – The oil tanker MT Solar 1 sinks off the coast of Guimaras and Negros Islands in the Philippines, causing the country's worst oil spill. 2012 – At least 306 people are killed and 3,000 others injured in a pair of earthquakes near Tabriz, Iran. 2017 – At least 41 people are killed and another 179 injured after two passenger trains collide in Alexandria, Egypt. Births Pre-1600 1086 – Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1125) 1384 – Yolande of Aragon (d. 1442) 1472 – Nikolaus von Schönberg, Catholic cardinal (d. 1537) 1510 – Margaret Paleologa, Sovereign Marchioness of Montferrat (d. 1566) 1601–1900 1673 – Richard Mead, English physician and astrologer (d. 1754) 1718 – Frederick Haldimand, Swiss-English general and politician, 22nd Governor of Quebec (d. 1791) 1722 – Richard Brocklesby, English physician (d. 1797) 1748 – Joseph Schuster, German composer (d. 1812) 1778 – Friedrich Ludwig Jahn, Prussian gymnast, educator, and politician (d. 1852) 1794 – James B. Longacre, American engraver (d. 1869) 1807 – David Rice Atchison, American general, lawyer, and politician (d. 1886) 1808 – William W. Chapman, American lawyer and politician (d. 1892) 1816 – Frederick Innes, Scottish-Australian politician, 9th Premier of Tasmania (d. 1882) 1833 – Robert G. Ingersoll, American soldier, lawyer, and politician (d. 1899) 1833 – Kido Takayoshi, Japanese samurai and politician (d. 1877) 1836 – Warren Brown, American historian and politician (d. 1919) 1837 – Marie François Sadi Carnot, French engineer and politician, 4th President of the French Republic (d. 1894) 1855 – John Hodges, Australian cricketer (d. 1933) 1858 – Christiaan Eijkman, Dutch physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1930) 1860 – Ottó Bláthy, Hungarian engineer and chess player (d. 1939) 1870 – Tom Richardson, English cricketer (d. 1912) 1874 – Princess Louise Charlotte of Saxe-Altenburg (d. 1953) 1877 – Adolph M. Christianson, American lawyer and judge (d. 1954) 1878 – Oliver W. F. Lodge, English poet and author (d. 1955) 1881 – Aleksander Aberg, Estonian wrestler (d. 1920) 1884 – Hermann Wlach, Austrian-Swiss actor (d. 1962) 1885 – Stephen Butterworth, English physicist and engineer (d. 1958) 1891 – Stancho Belkovski, Bulgarian architect and educator (d. 1962) 1891 – Edgar Zilsel, Austrian historian and philosopher of science, linked to the Vienna Circle (d. 1944) 1892 – Hugh MacDiarmid, Scottish poet and linguist (d. 1978) 1892 – Eiji Yoshikawa, Japanese author (d. 1962) 1897 – Enid Blyton,