Portal:Belgium/Anniversaries/October/October 16

• 1914: start of the Battle of the Yser, stopping the invasion of the German troops at the start of World War I
• 1925: birth of Karel Dillen, founder of the extreme right Vlaams Blok party
• 1956: birth of Jean-Claude Marcourt, politician, Minister of Economics and Employment of the region of Wallonia since 2004
• 1970: birth of Vincent Rijmen, one of the designers of the Rijndael cryptographic standard of the U.S. Government
• 1986: death of Arthur Grumiaux, violinist