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 * 1071: death of Arnulf III, Count of Flanders and Count of Hainaut, at the Battle of Cassel
 * 1796: birth of Adolphe Quetelet, fuonder of modern statistics
 * 1806: birth of Antoine Wiertz, Romantic painter and sculptor
 * 1821: birth of Jan van Beers, poet
 * 1827: birth of Ernest Candèze, entomologist
 * 1896: birth of Paul van Ostaijen, poet
 * 1968: birth of Delphine Boël, artist, daughter of wedlock of King Albert II of Belgium
 * 1969: birth of Marc Wilmots, soccer player and politician, played 70 times for the Belgium national football team and is ranked third on the all-time goal scorers list of the Belgian squad with 28 goals
 * 1983: death of Romain Maes, cyclist, winner of the 1935 Tour de France