Portal:Belgium/Anniversaries/August/August 20

• 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