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- 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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