Portal:Belgium/Anniversaries/August/August 29
- 1622: at the Battle of Fleurus, the Protestants beat the Catholics in the Thirty Years' War
- 1862: birth of Maurice Maeterlinck, writer, winner of the 1911 Nobel Prize in Literature
- 1906: death of Alfred Stevens, painter
- 1935: death by car accident of Queen Astrid, wife of King Leopold III of Belgium
- 1981: birth of Émilie Dequenne, actress