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• 1071: death of Arnulf III, Count of Flanders and Count of Hainaut, at the Battle of Cassel
• 1796: birth of Adolphe Quetelet, fuonder of modern statistics
• 1806: birth of Antoine Wiertz, Romantic painter and sculptor
• 1821: birth of Jan van Beers, poet
• 1827: birth of Ernest Candèze, entomologist
• 1896: birth of Paul van Ostaijen, poet
• 1968: birth of Delphine Boël, artist, daughter of wedlock of King Albert II of Belgium
• 1969: birth of Marc Wilmots, soccer player and politician, played 70 times for the Belgium national football team and is ranked third on the all-time goal scorers list of the Belgian squad with 28 goals
• 1983: death of Romain Maes, cyclist, winner of the 1935 Tour de France