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511: death of Clovis I, first king of the Franks
639: death of Saint Acarius, bishop of Tournai
1382: in the Battle of Roosebeke, the French and Castilian forces, led by King Charles VI of France, defeated the Flemish and English troops: Philip van Artevelde, commander of Ghent, is one of the main victims
1474: death of Guillaume Dufay, composer
1674: death of Franciscus van den Enden, teacher of Baruch de Spinoza and an early promotor of democracy
1769: birth of Erasme Louis Surlet de Chokier, first regent of Belgium before the accession of King Leopold I
1819: birth of Paul Jean Clays, painter
1830: death of André Parmentier, early American landscape architect
1916: death of Emile Verhaeren, early Symbolist poet