Assumption of Mary, public holiday
- 1369: death of Philippa of Hainault, Queen consort of King Edward III of England
- 1967: death of René Magritte (pictured), surrealist painter
- 1987: death of Louis Scutenaire, surrealist poet
- 1996: liberation of Sabine Dardenne and Laetitia Delhez, kidnapped two months earlier by Marc Dutroux