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- 1048: death of Poppo of Deinze, saint, abbot of Stavelot, the first recorded Flemish pilgrim to the Holy Land
- 1139: death of Godfrey I of Leuven, Landgrave of Brabant and Margrave of Antwerp
- 1801: birth of Jean-Baptist David, professor Dutch and history, president of twe first two "taelcongressen" (language congresses)
- 1899: birth of Paul-Henri Spaak (pictured signing the Treaty of Rome), Prime Minister of Belgium from 1938 to 1939, in 1946 and from 1947 to 1949, Secretary General of NATO from 1957 to 1961 and President of the United Nations General Assembly during its first session from 1946 to 1947
- 1917: birth of Ilya Prigogine, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1977
- 1962: birth of Georges Grün, soccer player, played 77 times for the Belgium national football team