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• 1128: death of William Clito, Count of Flanders
• 1891: birth of Maurice Blitz, water poloist, winner of the silver medal at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp and the 1928 Summer Olympics in Paris
• 1922: birth of Jacques Piccard, one of the first two persons to reach the deepest point on the Earth's surface, at the bottom of the Mariana Trench
• 1930: birth of Jean Roba, comics artist, best known for Boule et Bill
• 1949: birth of Marc Didden, journalist and film director