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 * 1567: the Battle of Oosterweel, often considered as the beginning of the Eighty Years' War
 * 1599: birth of John Berchmans, saint
 * 1741: birth of Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor (pictured)
 * 1897: birth of Marcel Thiry, poet
 * 1912: birth of Charles Schepens, ophthalmologist