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- 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