- 1252: death of Juliana of Liège, saint
- 1822: birth of Émile Louis Victor de Laveleye, economist
- 1831: death of Pierre Léonard Vander Linden, entomologist
- 1885: the first Socialist party in Belgium, the Belgian Labour Party (POB-BWP), is founded in Brussels
- 1923: birth of Ernest Mandel, Trotskyist, essayist, and survivor of the Holocaust
- 1929: birth of Hugo Claus, writer and poet
- 1943: American bombers attack the town of Mortsel killing near a thousand Belgian civilians.
