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- 1609: death of Charles de l'Écluse, known as Clusius, early botanist
- 1826: birth of Zénobe Gramme, inventor of the Gramme machine, an improvement of earlier dynamos
- 1905: death of Constantin Meunier, sculptor
- 1942: birth of Michel Fourniret, serial killer
- 1990: King Baudouin of Belgium is declared "unable to reign" for one day when he refuses to give his Royal Assent to a law liberalising Belgium's abortion laws
- 2004: death of Briek Schotte, cyclist, twice World Champion and Tour of Flanders winner
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