Portal:Belgium/Anniversaries/July/July 5


 * 1601: start of the Siege of Ostend, ending after three years with a Spanish victory, but at a cost of 60,000 dead or wounded Spaniards and 30,000 dead or wounded Dutch
 * 1625: death of Cornelis Verdonck, late Renaissance composer
 * 1793: death of Peter Anton von Verschaffelt, sculptor and architect
 * 1886: birth of Felix Timmermans, author
 * 1923: birth of Gustaaf Joos, priest, made cardinal by John Paul II with whom he had studied and had become befriended
 * 1929: birth of Jacqueline Harpman, writer
 * 1964: birth of Filip De Wilde, goal keeper with R.S.C. Anderlecht, played 33 times for the Belgium national football team