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 * 690: death of Saint Godwin of Stavelot, Benedictine abbot
 * 1585: birth of Cornelius Jansen, bishop of Ypres and father of the Jansenism
 * 1592: death of Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, writer, herbalist and diplomat
 * 1804: birth of Pierre François Verhulst, mathematician
 * 1912: death of Edgar Tinel, composer
 * 1956: birth of Franky Vercauteren, former soccer player with the Belgium national football team and as of 2006 coach of R.S.C. Anderlecht
 * 1983: birth of Sabine Dardenne, kidnapped by Marc Dutroux when she was twelve and liberated two and a half months later from his home