Portal:Belgium/Anniversaries/July/July 5

• 1601: start of the Siege of Ostend, ending after three years with a Spanish victory, but at a cost of 60,000 dead or wounded Spaniards and 30,000 dead or wounded Dutch
• 1625: death of Cornelis Verdonck, late Renaissance composer
• 1793: death of Peter Anton von Verschaffelt, sculptor and architect
• 1886: birth of Felix Timmermans, author
• 1923: birth of Gustaaf Joos, priest, made cardinal by John Paul II with whom he had studied and had become befriended
• 1929: birth of Jacqueline Harpman, writer
• 1964: birth of Filip De Wilde, goal keeper with R.S.C. Anderlecht, played 33 times for the Belgium national football team