Portal:Belgium/Anniversaries/August/August 7

• 1491: death of Jacobus Barbireau, early Renaissance composer
• 1839: death of Erasme Louis Surlet de Chokier, first regent of Belgium before the accession of King Leopold I
• 1940: birth of Jean-Luc Dehaene (pictured), politician, Prime Minister of Belgium between 1992 and 1999