Portal:Belgium/Anniversaries/August

These are the selected anniversaries for August that appear on the Belgium portal. The "edit" links edit the portal subpages that are displayed as sections here.

August 1

1191: death of Philip of Alsace, Count of Flanders
1580: death of Everard Mercurian, fourth (and first non Spanish) Superior General of the Society of Jesus
1901: birth of Gérard Blitz, sportsman, winner of two silver and one bronze medal at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp and the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris
1927: birth of André Cools, politician, former president of the Parti Socialiste, murdered in 1991
1973: birth of Veerle Dejaeghere, athlete
1985: the Silco incident: the family Houtekin-Kets is kidnapped by Palestinian terrorists and is captured in Libya until 1991
2003: death of Guy Thys, soccer player and coach, coach of the Belgium national football team for 101 matches between 1976 and 1989 and again between 1900 and 1991, reaching the semi-finals of the 1986 World Cup in Mexico

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August 2

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1866: birth of Adrien de Gerlache, leader of the Belgian Antarctic Expedition of 1897-1899, the first to spend the winter in Antarctica
1940: birth of Will Tura, singer (pictured)
1961: birth of Luc Cromheecke, comics artist, best known for Tom Carbon and Taco Zip
1973: birth of Eric Deflandre, soccer player with 57 appearances for the Belgium national football team
2004: death of François Craenhals, comics artist, best known for Chevalier Ardent and Les 4 As

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August 3

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1692: at the Battle of Steenkerque in the War of the Grand Alliance, the French army defeated the combined armies of England, the Dutch Republic, and Denmark
1790: birth of John Cockerill, British entrepreneur and the founder of Cockerill-Sambre
1975: death of Karel Bossart, rocket designer, creator of the Atlas ICBM

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August 4

1113: death of Gertrude of Saxony, wife of Robert I, Count of Flanders, mother of Robert II and mother-in-law of Philip I of France
1900: death of Etienne Lenoir, inventor
1906: birth of Marie-José of Belgium, last Queen of Italy
1906: death of Joseph Tilly, mathematician, inventor of non-Euclidean mechanics
1914 - World War I: Germany invaded Belgium, thus violating Belgian neutrality; in response, the United Kingdom declares war on Germany

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August 5

1191: death of Rudolf of Zähringen, prince-bishop of Liège
1914: the start of the Battle of Liège marks the first battle of World War I
1972: birth of Christian Olde Wolbers, bassist (Fear Factory)
2006: death of Hugo Schiltz, former president of the Volksunie between 1975 and 1979

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August 6

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August 7

1491: death of Jacobus Barbireau, early Renaissance composer
1839: death of Erasme Louis Surlet de Chokier, first regent of Belgium before the accession of King Leopold I
1940: birth of Jean-Luc Dehaene (pictured), politician, Prime Minister of Belgium between 1992 and 1999

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August 8

869: death of Lothair II of Lotharingia, King of most of the current territory of Belgium
1914: birth of Paul Ledoux, astronomer
1970: birth of Pascal Duquenne, actor, winner of the Best Male Actor award at the Festival de Cannes
1972: birth of Axel Merckx, cyclist, bronze medalist at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, and the son of Eddy Merckx

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August 9

1832: marriage of King Leopold I of Belgium with Louise-Marie of France (pictured)
1935: birth of William Vance, comics artist, best known for XIII
1978: death of Johan Daisne, writer
1993: King Albert II of Belgium is sworn into office as the sixth King of the Belgians

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August 10

1935: birth of Giya Kancheli, Georgian composer residing in Antwerp since 1995
1967: birth of Philippe Albert, soccer player with Newcastle United F.C., played 41 times for the Belgium national football team
1978: birth of Bart Wellens, cyclo-cross racer, World Champion in 2003 and 2004
1995: death of Leo Apostel, philosopher
2000: death of Suzanne Danco, soprano

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August 11

1494: death of Hans Memling, painter
1901: birth of Gérard Blitz, sporter and businessman, winner of the bronze medal in waterpolo at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, founder of holiday company Club Med
2003: tennis player Kim Clijsters becomes the World No. 1 in the WTA ranking
2006: sprint athlete Kim Gevaert wins the gold medal on the 200 metres at the European Championships within five minutes after Tia Hellebaut won the gold medal in High Jump

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August 12

1914: at the Battle of Haelen, the Belgian army got one of its few victories over the German invasion forces at the start of World War I
1937: birth of Herman De Croo, politician and current President of the Belgian Chamber of Representatives

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August 13

900: death of Zwentibold, King of Lotharingia, in a battle against the troops of Regnier I, Count of Hainaut
1523: death of Gerard David, painter
1621: death of John Berchmans, saint
1967: birth of Amélie Nothomb, writer

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August 14

1196: death of Henry IV of Luxembourg, Count of Namur
1430: death of Philip of Saint-Pol, Duke of Brabant
1502: birth of Pieter Coucke van Aelst, painter, teacher and father-in-law of Pieter Brueghel the Elder
1866: birth of Charles Jean de la Vallée-Poussin, mathematician
1943: birth of Herman Van Springel, cyclist, 7 times winner of Bordeaux-Paris and finished 2nd in the Tour de France of 1968

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August 15

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

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August 16

1837: birth of Joseph Tilly, mathematician, inventor of non-Euclidean mechanics
1897: Adrien de Gerlache departs for Antarctica with the Belgian Antarctic Expedition in the Belgica (pictured)
1950: Jean Duvieusart steps aside as Prime Minister of Belgium in favour of Joseph Pholien
1974: birth of Frédéric Herpoel, football goalkeeper and Belgian Goalkeeper of the Year in 2004, was in the team for Euro 2000 and the 2002 World Cup.

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August 17

754: death of Carloman son of Charles Martel, last Mayor of the Palace of Austrasia
1304: at the Battle of Mons-en-Pévèle, the Flemish troops defeat the French army
1585: Marnix van Sint-Aldegonde, Burgomaster of Antwerp, signs the surrender of the city to the Spaniards after the Siege of Antwerp during the Eighty Years' War
1800: birth of Charles Rogier, one of the leaders of the Belgian Revolution and Prime Minister of Belgium for three times between 1832 and 1868
1817: birth of Constantine Bruno, Baron Kervyn de Lettenhove, historian and minister in the Belgian federal government in 1870
1834: birth of Peter Benoit, composer
1954: birth of Ingrid Daubechies, mathematician
1959: death of Pierre Paulus, painter, designer of the rooster on the Walloon flag

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August 18

1857: birth of Libert H. Boeynaems, Catholic prelate
1913: birth of Romain Maes, cyclist, winner of the Tour de France in 1935
1950: murder of Julien Lahaut, politician, chairman of the Communist Party of Belgium
1959: birth of Rik Daems, painter, wine trader and politician

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August 19

1859: birth of Hippolyte Delehaye, hagiographer, president of the Bollandists between 1912 and 1941
1877: opening of the Plantin-Moretus Museum, containing the workshops of the sixteenth century publisher Christoffel Plantijn, now a UNESCO World Heritage Site
1900: birth of Jean-Baptiste Accolay, composer
1978: birth of Walter Baseggio, footballer

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August 20

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1827: birth of Charles De Coster, author, best known for The Legend of Thyl Ulenspiegel and Lamme Goedzak
1959: death of Jean-Baptiste Sipido, who attempted to assassinate Edward VII, the Prince of Wales, in 1900
1970: birth of Els Callens, tennis player, bronze medalist at the Summer Olympics of 2000 in Sydney
1979: death of Christian Dotremont, painter and poet, member of COBRA
2003: birth of Prince Gabriel of Belgium, second child of Prince Philippe of Belgium, Duke of Brabant, the heir apparent to the throne of Belgium, and his wife Princess Mathilde

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August 21

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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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August 22

1304: death of John II, Count of Holland and Count of Hainaut
1914 - World War I: In Belgium, British and German troops clash for the first time in the war.
1937: birth of Johan Anthierens, author and critic
1969: birth of Bruno Tobback, politician, currently the Federal Minister of Environment and Pensions