Portal:Belgium/Anniversaries/August/August 24

1772: birth of William I of the Netherlands (pictured), king of Belgium from 1815 until its independence in 1830
1842: birth of Edouard Agneessens, painter
1899: birth of Albert Claude, biologist, laureate of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1974
1947: birth of Roger De Vlaeminck, cyclist, World cyclo-cross champion, four times winner of Paris–Roubaix

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