Portal:Belgium/Anniversaries/July/July 18

• 1100: death of Godfrey of Bouillon, leader in the First Crusade
• 1870: death of Jean Théodore Lacordaire, entomologist
• 1951: birth of Elio Di Rupo, leader of the Parti Socialiste and Minister-President of the Walloon Region
• 1952: death of Paul Saintenoy, architect
• 1968: death of Corneille Heymans, physiologist, received the 1938 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• 1976: cyclist Lucien Van Impe wins the Tour de France, two other Belgians, Michel Pollentier and Freddy Maertens also end in the top ten of the General Classification, Maertens also wins the maillot vert
• 1991: murder of André Cools, politician, former president of the Parti Socialiste