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- 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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