Portal:Belgium/Anniversaries/August/August 24


 * 1772: birth of William I of the Netherlands (pictured), king of Belgium from 1815 until its independence in 1830
 * 1842: birth of Edouard Agneessens, painter
 * 1899: birth of Albert Claude, biologist, laureate of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1974
 * 1947: birth of Roger De Vlaeminck, cyclist, World cyclo-cross champion, four times winner of Paris–Roubaix