- 1346: death of Louis I of Flanders, Count of Flanders
- 1869: birth of Luis Siret, archaeologist
- 1929: birth of Maurice Tempelsman, diamond merchant and long-time companion of First Lady Jacqueline Bouvier Onassis
- 1939: birth of Robert Waseige, soccer coach, former coach of the Belgium national football team and the Algeria national football team
- 1988: birth of Princess Maria Laura of Belgium, Archduchess of Austria-Este, the second child and oldest daughter of Princess Astrid of Belgium and Prince Lorenz
- 1992: death of Bob de Moor, comics artist, main collaborator of Hergé on The Adventures of Tintin from 1950 on
