- 1690: death of David Teniers the Younger, Baroque painter
- 1802: birth of Victor Scheppers, founder of the Congregation of the Brothers of Scheppers
- 1928: death of Pyotr Nikolayevich Wrangel, Lieutenant General of the White movement in Russia, in his house in Brussels
- 1961: birth of Frank De Winne, second Belgian man in space