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 * 1563: birth of Jodocus Hondius, artist and cartographer
 * 1568: death of Jacques Arcadelt, Renaissance composer
 * 1733: birth of François Sébastien Charles Joseph de Croix, Count of Clerfayt, Austrian field marshal
 * 1801: birth of Joseph Plateau, physicist and pioneer filmmaker
 * 1914: German troops occupy Bruges
 * 1964: birth of Ludo Dierckxsens, cyclist, Belgian national champion and winner of a stage in the Tour de France
 * 1964: birth of Saul Akkemay, publicist and columnist with the pen name Panbello