Portal:Belgium/Anniversaries/October

These are the selected anniversaries for October that appear on the Belgium portal. The "edit" links edit the portal subpages that are displayed as sections here.

October 1

856: marriage of Judith Martel and Ethelwulf, King of Wessex
1189: death of Gerard de Ridefort, Grand Master of the Knights Templar from 1184 on
1532: death of Jan Mabuse, painter
1570: death of Frans Floris, painter
1578: death of John of Austria, Governor of the Habsburg Netherlands
1638: death of Jan Snellinck, painter and art collector
1875: birth of Eugeen Van Mieghem, painter, social artist, best known for depicting the harbour and scenes from World War I
1943: birth of Raymond Langendries, politician, Minister of State
1945: first German language broadcast of the Belgian "National Institute for Radio", which would in 1977 lead to the creation of the Belgischer Rundfunk, aimed at the German speaking minority in the East of Belgium
1956: death of Stan Ockers, cyclist, World Champion in 1955, finished sescond in the Tour de France in 1950 and 1952

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October 2

1900: marriage of Albert I of Belgium and Elisabeth of Bavaria
1917: birth of Christian de Duve, recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1974
1943: birth of Paul Van Himst, soccer player for R.S.C. Anderlecht and the Belgium national football team, winner of a record 4 Golden Shoe awards
1947: Nero, a Flemish comic strip character drawn by Marc Sleen, appears in a newspaper for the first time

1957: birth of Janry, comics artist of Spirou et Fantasio and Le Petit Spirou
1958: birth of Laurette Onkelinx, minister of Justice in the Belgian federal government
1998; death of Olivier Gendebien, race car driver, four times winner of the 24 hours of Le Mans
1984: first attack by the Communist Combatant Cells or CCC, a terrorist organization, notable for mainly targeting property and trying to avoid humans
2005: death of Bert Eriksson, neo-nazi
2005: tennis player Kim Clijsters wins the tournament of Luxembourg City for the fifth time

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October 3

818: death of Ermengarde of Hesbaye, wife of Louis the Pious, mother of Lothar I, grandmother of Charles the Bald
1871: birth of Stijn Streuvels, writer
1944: birth of Pierre Deligne (picture), mathematician
1980: death of Albéric O'Kelly de Galway, World Champion in correspondence chess between 1959 and 1962
2001: Belgian airline SABENA filed for legal protection

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October 4

1276: birth of Margaret of Brabant, Queen of Germany
1798: birth of Constantin Wesmael, entomologist
1830: creation of the state of Belgium after separation from The Netherlands
1917: the Allied forces capture the location of the later Tyne Cot Cemetery (pictured) from the Germans during World War I
1932: birth of Étienne Davignon, businessman, former Vice President of the European Commission, current chairman of the Bilderberg conference
1947: birth of Christian Piot, soccer player, goalkeeper for Standard Liège and the Belgium national football team
2002: death of André Delvaux, Belgian film director and screenwriter
2005: birth of Prince Emmanuel of Belgium, third child of heir apparent Prince Philippe and Princess Mathilde
2005: death of André Waterkeyn, architect and engineer of the Atomium

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October 5

877: death of Charles the Bald, King of West Francia
1111: death of Robert II, Count of Flanders
1112: death of Sigebert of Gembloux, monk and historian
1524: death of Joachim Patinir, landscape painter
1564: death of Pierre de Manchicourt, Renaissance composer
1911: birth of Robert Triffin, economist
1914: during the Siege of Antwerp, German troops broke through the Belgian defences in Lier and reached Dendermonde, almost blocking the retreat of the Belgian troops to the West
1948: birth of Marcel Otte, professor of Prehistory
1965: death of Georges Vantongerloo, sculptor and painter, founding member of De Stijl
1994: death by suicide of Luc Jouret, cult leader of the Order of the Solar Temple, followed by mass suicide of his followers

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October 6

1577: birth of Ferdinand of Bavaria, prince-bishop of Prince-Bishopric of Liège
1819: Wilrijk receives its coat of arms from King William I of the Netherlands
1912: death of Auguste Marie Francois Beernaert, co-winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1909
1960: birth of Yves Leterme, current Minister-President of Flanders
1977: death of Jotie T'Hooft, neo-romantic poet, committed suicide at the age of 21
1978: Birth of Carl Hoefkens, soccer player with Stoke City F.C. and the Belgium national football team

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October 7

1520: the first public burning of books in the Low Countries happens in Leuven
1555: death of Louis of Praet, knight of the Golden Fleece, ambassador in England and France for Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
1895: birth of Maurice Grevisse, grammarian
1921: birth of Raymond Goethals, soccer coach, winner of the Champions League with Olympique de Marseille in 1993, European Coach of the Year in 1991
1955: death of Rodolphe Seeldrayers, athlete, president of the FIFA from 1954 to 1955
1960: birth of Viktor Lazlo, singer and presenter of the 1987 Eurovision Song Contest
1969: death of Léon Scieur, cyclist, winner of the 1921 Tour de France
1980: death of Jan Cox, painter

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October 8

1436: death of Jacqueline, Countess of Hainaut, last ruler of Hainaut and Holland before they became part of the Duchy of Burgundy
1621: birth of Maximilian Henry of Bavaria, prince-bishop of the Prince-Bishopric of Liège
1848: birth of Pierre De Geyter, socialist, later communist, and woodcarver, composer of The Internationale
1890: birth of Philippe Thys, cyclist, 3 times winner of the Tour de France
1947: birth of Miel Puttemans, long distance runner, former world record holder at 3000m and 5000m
1960: discovery of the Queen Fabiola Mountains in Antarctica by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition
1998: death of Zhang Chongren, friend of Hergé and the model for Tchang in The Blue Lotus and Tintin in Tibet
2006: municipal and provincial elections

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October 9

680: death of Saint Ghislain, confessor and anchorite in the current village Saint-Ghislain
1212: death of Philip I of Namur, margrave of Namur
1623: birth of Ferdinand Verbiest, Jesuit missionary in China, famous as astronomer, scientist and inventor
1817: foundation of the Ghent University
1914: World War I: Siege of Antwerp - Antwerp falls to German troops
1937: death of August de Boeck, impressionist composer
1939: birth of Pierre Mertens, writer
1957: birth of Herman Brusselmans, writer
1977: death of Placide Tempels, missionary, author of Bantu Philosophy
1978: death of Jacques Brel, songwriter and actor, on the Marquesas Islands in French Polynesia
1985: death of Ludo Coeck, soccer player, played 46 times for the Belgium national football team

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October 10

1903: birth of Prince Charles of Belgium (pictured), Prince Regent of Belgium from 1944 to 1950
1914: end of the Siege of Antwerp after capitulation by mayor Jan De Vos to the German troops
1916: birth of Bernard Heuvelmans, cryptozoologist
1970: birth of Mohammed Mourhit, athlete, broke the European records of 3000, 5000 and 10000 meters in 2000
1983: birth of Jelle Van Damme, soccer player with R.S.C. Anderlecht and the Belgium national football team
1985: birth of Dominique Cornu, cyclist, U23 World Champion Time trial

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October 11

1347: death of Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor, Count of Hainaut
1746: at the Battle of Rocoux, near Liège, the French army defeated the Austrian forces
1850: death of Louise-Marie of France, first Queen of the Belgians, wife of Leopold I
1918: birth of Gommar DePauw, priest, founder of the Catholic Traditionalist Movement
1927: birth of Joséphine-Charlotte of Belgium, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg
1978: Prime minister Leo Tindemans announces the demission of the government over the failure of the Egmont pact
1995: birth of Princess Luisa Maria of Belgium, Archduchess of Austria-Este, the fourth child and second daughter of Princess Astrid of Belgium and Prince Lorenz

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October 12

1915: death of Edith Cavell, executed by the Germans for helping escape allied forces from occipied Belgium during World War I
1917: the first Battle of Passchendaele
1970: birth of Patrick Musimu, free-diver, self-proclaimed holder of the world record with a depth of 209 metres
1980: birth of Ann Wauters, basketball player, twice European Player of the Year

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October 13

1093: death of Robert I, Count of Flanders
1955: birth of Patrick Dewael, former Minister-President of Flanders
1965: birth of Johan Museeuw, cyclist, World Champion in 1996

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October 14

1563: birth of Jodocus Hondius, artist and cartographer
1568: death of Jacques Arcadelt, Renaissance composer
1733: birth of François Sébastien Charles Joseph de Croix, Count of Clerfayt, Austrian field marshal
1801: birth of Joseph Plateau, physicist and pioneer filmmaker
1914: German troops occupy Bruges
1964: birth of Ludo Dierckxsens, cyclist, Belgian national champion and winner of a stage in the Tour de France
1964: birth of Saul Akkemay, publicist and columnist with the pen name Panbello

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October 15

1352: death of Gilles Li Muisis, chronicler and poet
1564: death of Andreas Vesalius, anatomist
1690: death of Antony Francis van der Meulen, painter
1945: birth of Luc Van den Brande, politician, Minister-President of Flanders between 1992 and 1999
1946: birth of Georges Pintens, cyclist, winner of the Tour de Suisse and Liège–Bastogne–Liège
1950: death of Clément Doucet, pianist
1957: death of Henry van de Velde, architect and interior designer, pioneer of the Art Nouveau
1972: birth of Sandra Kim, singer, winner of the 1986 Eurovision Song Contest
1980: birth of Tom Boonen (pictured), cyclist, World Champion 2005, winner of the Tour of Flanders in 2005 and 2006, and winner of Paris–Roubaix in 2005

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October 16

1914: start of the Battle of the Yser, stopping the invasion of the German troops at the start of World War I
1925: birth of Karel Dillen, founder of the extreme right Vlaams Blok party
1956: birth of Jean-Claude Marcourt, politician, Minister of Economics and Employment of the region of Wallonia since 2004
1970: birth of Vincent Rijmen, one of the designers of the Rijndael cryptographic standard of the U.S. Government
1986: death of Arthur Grumiaux, violinist

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October 17

1933: birth of Jeanine Deckers, the singing nun
1994: Willy Claes becomes the 9th Secretary General of NATO

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October 18

1547: birth of Justus Lipsius, humanist
1558: death of Maria of Austria, third Governor of the Habsburg Netherlands
1663: birth of Prince Eugene of Savoy, Governor of the Habsburg Netherlands
1678: death of Jacob Jordaens, painter
1908: annexation of the Congo Free State, previously the private property of King Leopold II of Belgium since 1885
1960: birth of Jean-Claude Van Damme, actor
1984: death of Henri Michaux, poet and writer

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October 19

1608: death of Martin Delrio, occultist and theologian
1810: birth of Jules Malou, Prime Minister of Belgium between 1871 and 1878, and in 1884
1858: birth of George Albert Boulenger (pictured), naturalist
1911: birth of Fereidoun Farzaneh, Iranian composer, who studied and lived in Belgium
1914: the First Battle of Ypres begins
1927: birth of Pierre Alechinsky, painter, founding member of the COBRA art movement
1955: death of Eugène Joseph Delporte, astronomer, discovered 66 asteroids including 1221 Amor
1958: last day of the Expo '58, the World's Fair in Brussels, which attracted more than 42 million visitors in 6 months time
1963: birth of Prince Laurent of Belgium, youngest son of King Albert II and Queen Paola of Belgium
1987: fall of the Belgian government over the linguistic problems in Voeren

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October 20

1568: at the Battle of Jodoigne, the Spanish troops defeated the army of William the Silent (pictured) during the Eighty Years' War
1944: birth of Raoul Lambert, soccer player for Club Brugge and the Belgium national football team
1946: birth of Lucien Van Impe, cyclist, winner of the Tour de France 1976
1956: birth of Alexander Baervoets, choreographer
1995: Willy Claes resigns as Secretary General of NATO after allegations of corruption
1996: White March in Brussels: more than 300,000 people protest against the problems with the investigation against child molester Marc Dutroux
2005: death of Jean-Michel Folon, illustrator, painter and sculptor

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October 21

1530: birth of Jacques Jonghelinck, sculptor, patron of Pieter Bruegel the Elder
1930: birth of Fred De Bruyne, cyclist and sports commentator, winner of Paris–Roubaix in 1957
1955: birth of Frank Vandenbroucke, politician, former chairman of the Socialist Party, as of 2006 minister of education in the Flemish government
1981: death of Wilfried Puis, soccer player, selected 49 times for the Belgium national football team
2003: Gustaaf Joos, priest, is elevated to cardinal by Pope John Paul II with whom he had studied and had befriended

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October 22

741: death of Charles Martel, Duke of the Franks, victorious in the Battle of Tours in 732
1942: death of Staf De Clercq, fascist, supporter of the Nazis, and leader of the Vlaamsch Nationaal Verbond
1969: birth of Helmut Lotti, singer, best known for the Helmut Lotti Goes Classic series of records
1985: birth of Hadise, singer

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October 23

1890: death of Michel Marie Charles Verlat, painter
1905: death of Florent Joseph Marie Willems, painter
1923: birth of Sadi, jazz musician and composer
1950: birth of Guy Bleus, artist
1958: comics author Peyo introduces The Smurfs in his series Johan and Peewit

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October 24

1885: birth of Ernest Claes, author
1903: birth of Henri Reynders, priest (known as Dom Bruno) credited with saving 400 Jews during the Holocaust

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October 25

1102: birth of William Clito, Count of Flanders
1330: birth of Louis II of Flanders, Count of Flanders
1415: death of Anthony, Duke of Brabant at the Battle of Agincourt
1935: death of Henri Pirenne (picture), historian
2001: birth of Princess Elisabeth of Belgium, eldest daughter of Prince Philippe, the heir apparent, and thus second in the line of succession to the Belgian throne
2001: Lernout & Hauspie goes bankrupt after a financial scandal

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October 26

1872: death of Constantin Wesmael, entomologist
1941: birth of Bob de Groot, comics artist, best known for Léonard and Clifton
1970: death of Marcel Minnaert (pictured), astronomer, awarded the Bruce Medal in 1951

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October 27

1312: death of John II, Duke of Brabant
1466: birth of Desiderius Erasmus in Rotterdam in the Netherlands
1719: death of François Baert, Bollandist, collaborator to the Acta Sanctorum
1789: the Battle of Turnhout where the rebel forces of the Southern Netherlands defeated the Austrian army
1856: birth of Albrecht Rodenbach, poet and inspiration for the Flemish movement
1927: birth of Hugo Schiltz, former president of the Volksunie between 1975 and 1979
1942: birth of Philip Catherine, jazz guitarist, has played with Charlie Mingus and Chet Baker
1966: birth of Nathalie Loriers, jazz pianist and composer
2005: Luk Van Parijs is fired by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for research misconduct

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October 28

690: death of Saint Godwin of Stavelot, Benedictine abbot
1585: birth of Cornelius Jansen, bishop of Ypres and father of the Jansenism
1592: death of Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, writer, herbalist and diplomat
1804: birth of Pierre François Verhulst, mathematician
1912: death of Edgar Tinel, composer
1956: birth of Franky Vercauteren, former soccer player with the Belgium national football team and as of 2006 coach of R.S.C. Anderlecht
1983: birth of Sabine Dardenne, kidnapped by Marc Dutroux when she was twelve and liberated two and a half months later from his home

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October 29

1507: birth of Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, 3rd Duke of Alba, Governor of the Habsburg Netherlands
1878: birth of Alexander von Falkenhausen, governor-general of Belgium during the German occupation in World War II
1946: birth of André Dierickx, cyclist, twice winner of La Flèche Wallonne
1999: death of Michel Regnier, better known as Greg, comics author of Bernard Prince, editor-in-chief of Tintin magazine

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October 30

1680: death of Antoinette Bourignon, mystic
1924: birth of Jean-Michel Charlier, comics author of Buck Danny, Redbeard and Blueberry
1946: birth of René Jacobs, counter-tenor and opera conductor
1947: death of Mathieu Crickboom, violinist, founder of the Crickboom Quartet with Pablo Casals
1955: first appearance of Jommeke, popular children's comic by Jef Nys

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October 31

1007: death of Heriger of Lobbes, abbot of the abbey of Lobbes, theologian and historian
1896: death of Jan Verhas, genre painter from Dendermonde
1914: end of the Battle of the Yser, stopping the invasion of the German troops at the start of World War I

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