Portal:Belgium/Anniversaries/August/August 21

1190: death of Godfrey III of Leuven, Duke of Lower Lorraine, landgrave of Brabant and margrave of Antwerp
1813: birth of Jean Stas, analytical chemist, famous for more accurately establishing the atomic weight of the elements
1863: birth of Jules Destrée, politician, early promotor of a federal state
1882: birth of Rik Wouters, fauvist painter and sculptor
1965: death of Odile Defraye, cyclist, first Belgian winner of the Tour de France in 1912

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