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- 1827: birth of Charles De Coster, author, best known for The Legend of Thyl Ulenspiegel and Lamme Goedzak
- 1959: death of Jean-Baptiste Sipido, who attempted to assassinate Edward VII, the Prince of Wales, in 1900
- 1970: birth of Els Callens, tennis player, bronze medalist at the Summer Olympics of 2000 in Sydney
- 1979: death of Christian Dotremont, painter and poet, member of COBRA
- 2003: birth of Prince Gabriel of Belgium, second child of Prince Philippe of Belgium, Duke of Brabant, the heir apparent to the throne of Belgium, and his wife Princess Mathilde
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