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August 1

• 1191: death of Philip of Alsace, Count of Flanders
• 1580: death of Everard Mercurian, fourth (and first non Spanish) Superior General of the Society of Jesus
• 1901: birth of Gérard Blitz, sportsman, winner of two silver and one bronze medal at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp and the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris
• 1927: birth of André Cools, politician, former president of the Parti Socialiste, murdered in 1991
• 1973: birth of Veerle Dejaeghere, athlete
• 1985: the Silco incident: the family Houtekin-Kets is kidnapped by Palestinian terrorists and is captured in Libya until 1991
• 2003: death of Guy Thys, soccer player and coach, coach of the Belgium national football team for 101 matches between 1976 and 1989 and again between 1900 and 1991, reaching the semi-finals of the 1986 World Cup in Mexico

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August 2

• 1866: birth of Adrien de Gerlache, leader of the Belgian Antarctic Expedition of 1897-1899, the first to spend the winter in Antarctica
• 1940: birth of Will Tura, singer (pictured)
• 1961: birth of Luc Cromheecke, comics artist, best known for Tom Carbon and Taco Zip
• 1973: birth of Eric Deflandre, soccer player with 57 appearances for the Belgium national football team
• 2004: death of François Craenhals, comics artist, best known for Chevalier Ardent and Les 4 As

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August 3

• 1692: at the Battle of Steenkerque in the War of the Grand Alliance, the French army defeated the combined armies of England, the Dutch Republic, and Denmark
• 1790: birth of John Cockerill, British entrepreneur and the founder of Cockerill-Sambre
• 1975: death of Karel Bossart, rocket designer, creator of the Atlas ICBM

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August 4

• 1113: death of Gertrude of Saxony, wife of Robert I, Count of Flanders, mother of Robert II and mother-in-law of Philip I of France
• 1900: death of Etienne Lenoir, inventor
• 1906: birth of Marie-José of Belgium, last Queen of Italy
• 1906: death of Joseph Tilly, mathematician, inventor of non-Euclidean mechanics
• 1914 - World War I: Germany invaded Belgium, thus violating Belgian neutrality; in response, the United Kingdom declares war on Germany

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August 5

• 1191: death of Rudolf of Zähringen, prince-bishop of the Prince-Bishopric of Liège
• 1914: the start of the Battle of Liège marks the first battle of World War I
• 1972: birth of Christian Olde Wolbers, bassist (Fear Factory)
• 2006: death of Hugo Schiltz, former president of the Volksunie between 1975 and 1979

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August 6

• 1639: death of Hans van Steenwinckel, architect, mostly active in Denmark
• 1697: birth of Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor, in Brussels
• 1902: birth of Sylvain Julien Victor Arend, astronomer, discovered a number of comets and asteroids
• 1982: birth of Kevin Van Der Perren, figure skater

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August 7

• 1491: death of Jacobus Barbireau, early Renaissance composer
• 1839: death of Erasme Louis Surlet de Chokier, first regent of Belgium before the accession of King Leopold I
• 1940: birth of Jean-Luc Dehaene (pictured), politician, Prime Minister of Belgium between 1992 and 1999

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August 8

• 869: death of Lothair II of Lotharingia, King of most of the current territory of Belgium
• 1914: birth of Paul Ledoux, astronomer
• 1970: birth of Pascal Duquenne, actor, winner of the Best Male Actor award at the Festival de Cannes
• 1972: birth of Axel Merckx, cyclist, bronze medalist at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, and the son of Eddy Merckx

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August 9

• 1832: marriage of King Leopold I of Belgium with Louise-Marie of France (pictured)
• 1935: birth of William Vance, comics artist, best known for XIII
• 1978: death of Johan Daisne, writer
• 1993: King Albert II of Belgium is sworn into office as the sixth King of the Belgians

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August 10

• 1935: birth of Giya Kancheli, Georgian composer residing in Antwerp since 1995
• 1967: birth of Philippe Albert, soccer player with Newcastle United F.C., played 41 times for the Belgium national football team
• 1978: birth of Bart Wellens, cyclo-cross racer, World Champion in 2003 and 2004
• 1995: death of Leo Apostel, philosopher
• 2000: death of Suzanne Danco, soprano

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August 11

• 1494: death of Hans Memling, painter
• 1901: birth of Gérard Blitz, sporter and businessman, winner of the bronze medal in waterpolo at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, founder of holiday company Club Med
• 2003: tennis player Kim Clijsters becomes the World No. 1 in the WTA ranking
• 2006: sprint athlete Kim Gevaert wins the gold medal on the 200 metres at the European Championships within five minutes after Tia Hellebaut won the gold medal in High Jump

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August 12

• 1914: at the Battle of Haelen, the Belgian army got one of its few victories over the German invasion forces at the start of World War I
• 1937: birth of Herman De Croo, politician and current President of the Belgian Chamber of Representatives

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August 13

• 900: death of Zwentibold, King of Lotharingia, in a battle against the troops of Regnier I, Count of Hainaut
• 1523: death of Gerard David, painter
• 1621: death of John Berchmans, saint
• 1967: birth of Amélie Nothomb, writer

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August 14

• 1196: death of Henry IV of Luxembourg, Count of Namur
• 1430: death of Philip of Saint-Pol, Duke of Brabant
• 1502: birth of Pieter Coucke van Aelst, painter, teacher and father-in-law of Pieter Brueghel the Elder
• 1866: birth of Charles Jean de la Vallée-Poussin, mathematician
• 1943: birth of Herman Van Springel, cyclist, 7 times winner of Bordeaux-Paris and finished 2nd in the Tour de France of 1968

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August 15

Assumption of Mary, public holiday

• 1369: death of Philippa of Hainault, Queen consort of King Edward III of England
• 1967: death of René Magritte (pictured), surrealist painter
• 1987: death of Louis Scutenaire, surrealist poet
• 1996: liberation of Sabine Dardenne and Laetitia Delhez, kidnapped two months earlier by Marc Dutroux

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August 16

• 1837: birth of Joseph Tilly, mathematician, inventor of non-Euclidean mechanics
• 1897: Adrien de Gerlache departs for Antarctica with the Belgian Antarctic Expedition in the Belgica (pictured)
• 1950: Jean Duvieusart steps aside as Prime Minister of Belgium in favour of Joseph Pholien
• 1974: birth of Frédéric Herpoel, football goalkeeper and Belgian Goalkeeper of the Year in 2004, was in the team for Euro 2000 and the 2002 World Cup.

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August 17

• 754: death of Carloman son of Charles Martel, last Mayor of the Palace of Austrasia
• 1304: at the Battle of Mons-en-Pévèle, the Flemish troops defeat the French army
• 1585: Marnix van Sint-Aldegonde, Burgomaster of Antwerp, signs the surrender of the city to the Spaniards after the Siege of Antwerp during the Eighty Years' War
• 1800: birth of Charles Rogier, one of the leaders of the Belgian Revolution and Prime Minister of Belgium for three times between 1832 and 1868
• 1817: birth of Constantine Bruno, Baron Kervyn de Lettenhove, historian and minister in the Belgian federal government in 1870
• 1834: birth of Peter Benoit, composer
• 1954: birth of Ingrid Daubechies, mathematician
• 1959: death of Pierre Paulus, painter, designer of the rooster on the Walloon flag

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August 18

• 1857: birth of Libert H. Boeynaems, Catholic prelate
• 1913: birth of Romain Maes, cyclist, winner of the Tour de France in 1935
• 1950: murder of Julien Lahaut, politician, chairman of the Communist Party of Belgium
• 1959: birth of Rik Daems, painter, wine trader and politician

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August 19

• 1859: birth of Hippolyte Delehaye, hagiographer, president of the Bollandists between 1912 and 1941
• 1877: opening of the Plantin-Moretus Museum, containing the workshops of the sixteenth century publisher Christoffel Plantijn, now a UNESCO World Heritage Site
• 1900: birth of Jean-Baptiste Accolay, composer
• 1978: birth of Walter Baseggio, footballer

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August 20

• 1827: birth of Charles De Coster, author, best known for The Legend of Thyl Ulenspiegel and Lamme Goedzak
• 1959: death of Jean-Baptiste Sipido, who attempted to assassinate Edward VII, the Prince of Wales, in 1900
• 1970: birth of Els Callens, tennis player, bronze medalist at the Summer Olympics of 2000 in Sydney
• 1979: death of Christian Dotremont, painter and poet, member of COBRA
• 2003: birth of Prince Gabriel of Belgium, second child of Prince Philippe of Belgium, Duke of Brabant, the heir apparent to the throne of Belgium, and his wife Princess Mathilde

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August 21

• 1190: death of Godfrey III of Leuven, Duke of Lower Lorraine, landgrave of Brabant and margrave of Antwerp
• 1813: birth of Jean Stas, analytical chemist, famous for more accurately establishing the atomic weight of the elements
• 1863: birth of Jules Destrée, politician, early promotor of a federal state
• 1882: birth of Rik Wouters, fauvist painter and sculptor
• 1965: death of Odile Defraye, cyclist, first Belgian winner of the Tour de France in 1912

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August 22

• 1304: death of John II, Count of Holland and Count of Hainaut
• 1914 - World War I: In Belgium, British and German troops clash for the first time in the war.
• 1937: birth of Johan Anthierens, author and critic
• 1969: birth of Bruno Tobback, politician, currently the Federal Minister of Environment and Pensions

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August 23

• 686: birth of Charles Martel, Duke of the Franks, won the Battle of Tours in 732, thereby blocking the Muslim expannsion in Western Europe
• 1328: French troops stop an uprising of Flemish farmers in the Battle of Cassel
• 1478: death of Johannes Pullois, early Renaissance composer
• 1803: birth of Egide Charles Gustave Wappers, painter
• 1868: birth of Paul Otlet, creator of the Universal Decimal Classification and founding father of documentation
• 1898: death of Félicien Rops, artist and engraver
• 1914: the Battle of Mons, the first major action of the British Expeditionary Force during World War I
• 1930: the King Baudouin Stadium, then named the Stade du Jubilé, is inaugurated
• 1945: birth of Eric De Vlaeminck, cyclist, 7 times World Champion cyclo-cross
• 1964: birth of Johan Bruyneel, cyclist and directeur sportif of Lance Armstrong during his seven wins of the Tour de France

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August 24

• 1772: birth of William I of the Netherlands (pictured), king of Belgium from 1815 until its independence in 1830
• 1842: birth of Edouard Agneessens, painter
• 1899: birth of Albert Claude, biologist, laureate of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1974
• 1947: birth of Roger De Vlaeminck, cyclist, World cyclo-cross champion, four times winner of Paris–Roubaix

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August 25

• 1651: birth of François Baert, Bollandist, collaborator to the Acta Sanctorum
• 1689: at the Battle of Walcourt, the English and Dutch forces beat the French army
• 1830: start of the Belgian Revolution after a performance of the opera La Muette de Portici in Brussels
• 1842: death of Jérôme-Joseph de Momigny, composer and music theorist
• 1940: birth of José Van Dam, baritone singer
• 1947: death of Franz Cumont, archaeologist

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August 26

• 1346: death of Louis I of Flanders, Count of Flanders
• 1869: birth of Luis Siret, archaeologist
• 1929: birth of Maurice Tempelsman, diamond merchant and long-time companion of First Lady Jacqueline Bouvier Onassis
• 1939: birth of Robert Waseige, soccer coach, former coach of the Belgium national football team and the Algeria national football team
• 1988: birth of Princess Maria Laura of Belgium, Archduchess of Austria-Este, the second child and oldest daughter of Princess Astrid of Belgium and Prince Lorenz
• 1992: death of Bob de Moor, comics artist, main collaborator of Hergé on The Adventures of Tintin from 1950 on

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August 27

• 1521: death of Josquin des Prez, major Renaissance composer
• 1585: Spanish troops under Alessandro Farnese enter the city of Antwerp ten days after the surrender of the city
• 1899: death of Emmanuel Hiel, poet
• 1909: birth of Sylvère Maes, cyclist, winner of the 1936 and 1939 Tour de France
• 1958: birth of Tom Lanoye, writer

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August 28

• 1941: birth of Sybille de Selys Longchamps, aristrocrat and mother of Delphine Boël, illegitimate daughter of Albert II
• 1944: birth of Roger De Coster, motocross racer, 5 times World Champion
• 1990: death of Willy Vandersteen (pictured), comics artist, best known for Spike and Suzy and De Rode Ridder

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August 29

• 1622: at the Battle of Fleurus, the Protestants beat the Catholics in the Thirty Years' War
• 1862: birth of Maurice Maeterlinck, writer, winner of the 1911 Nobel Prize in Literature
• 1906: death of Alfred Stevens, painter
• 1935: death by car accident of Queen Astrid, wife of King Leopold III of Belgium
• 1981: birth of Émilie Dequenne, actress

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August 30

• 1580: death of Emmanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy, Governor of the Habsburg Netherlands

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August 31

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