Portal:Belgium/Anniversaries/April/April 5

• 1252: death of Juliana of Liège, saint
• 1822: birth of Émile Louis Victor de Laveleye, economist
• 1831: death of Pierre Léonard Vander Linden, entomologist
• 1885: the first Socialist party in Belgium, the Belgian Labour Party (POB-BWP), is founded in Brussels
• 1923: birth of Ernest Mandel, Trotskyist, essayist, and survivor of the Holocaust
• 1929: birth of Hugo Claus, writer and poet
• 1943: American bombers attack the town of Mortsel killing near a thousand Belgian civilians.