fires in Pakistan. 2012 – The U.S. embassy in Benghazi, Libya is attacked, resulting in four deaths. 2015 – A crane collapses onto the Masjid al-Haram mosque in Saudi Arabia, killing 111 people and injuring 394 others. Births Pre-1600 600 – Yuknoom Ch'een II, Mayan ruler 1182 – Minamoto no Yoriie, Japanese shōgun (d. 1204) 1318 – Eleanor of Lancaster, countess of Arundel (d. 1372) 1465 – Bernardo Accolti, Italian poet (d. 1536) 1476 – Louise of Savoy, French regent (d. 1531) 1494 – Elisabeth of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Duchess of Guelders (1518–1538) (d. 1572) 1522 – Ulisse Aldrovandi, Italian ornithologist and botanist (d. 1605) 1524 – Pierre de Ronsard, French poet and author (d. 1585) 1525 – John George, Elector of Brandenburg (d. 1598) 1557 – Joseph Calasanz, Spanish priest and founder of Piarists (d. 1648) 1572 – Daniyal, Imperial Prince of the Royal House of Timur (d. 1604) 1578 – Vincenzo Maculani, Catholic cardinal (d. 1667) 1601–1900 1611 – Henri de la Tour d'Auvergne, Vicomte de Turenne, French general (d. 1675) 1681 – Johann Gottlieb Heineccius, German academic and jurist (d. 1741) 1700 – James Thomson, Scottish poet and playwright (d. 1748) 1711 – William Boyce, English organist and composer (d. 1779) 1723 – Johann Bernhard Basedow, German author and educator (d. 1790) 1751 – Princess Charlotte of Saxe-Meiningen (d. 1827) 1764 – Valentino Fioravanti, Italian organist and composer (d. 1837) 1771 – Mungo Park, Scottish surgeon and explorer (d. 1806) 1786 – Friedrich Kuhlau, German-Danish pianist and composer (d. 1832) 1798 – Franz Ernst Neumann, German mineralogist and physicist (d. 1895) 1800 – Daniel S. Dickinson, American lawyer and politician, 13th Lieutenant Governor of New York (d. 1866) 1816 – Carl Zeiss, German lens maker, created the Optical instrument (d. 1888) 1825 – Eduard Hanslick, Bohemian-Austrian musicologist and critic (d. 1904) 1829 – Thomas Hill, American painter (d. 1908) 1836 – Fitz Hugh Ludlow, American journalist, author, and explorer (d. 1870) 1838 – John Ireland, Irish-American archbishop (d. 1918) 1847 – Mary Watson Whitney, American astronomer and academic (d. 1921) 1859 – Vjenceslav Novak, Croatian author and playwright (d. 1905) 1860 – James Allan, New Zealand rugby player (d. 1934) 1861 – Juhani Aho, Finnish author and journalist (d. 1921) 1862 – Julian Byng, 1st Viscount Byng of Vimy, English field marshal and politician, 12th Governor General of Canada (d. 1935) 1862 – Hawley Harvey Crippen, American physician (d.