Portal:Belgium/Anniversaries/August/August 26

• 1346: death of Louis I of Flanders, Count of Flanders
• 1869: birth of Luis Siret, archaeologist
• 1929: birth of Maurice Tempelsman, diamond merchant and long-time companion of First Lady Jacqueline Bouvier Onassis
• 1939: birth of Robert Waseige, soccer coach, former coach of the Belgium national football team and the Algeria national football team
• 1988: birth of Princess Maria Laura of Belgium, Archduchess of Austria-Este, the second child and oldest daughter of Princess Astrid of Belgium and Prince Lorenz
• 1992: death of Bob de Moor, comics artist, main collaborator of Hergé on The Adventures of Tintin from 1950 on