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Bruges, Belgium
LOCATION
Official Website:
http://www.brugge.be/ Population:
117,025 (2004) BIRTHS
| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
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| Hugo Claus |
Author |
5-Apr-1929 |
19-Mar-2008 |
The Sorrow of Belgium |
| Marcel Minnaert |
Astronomer |
12-Feb-1893 |
26-Oct-1970 |
Solar spectrophotometry |
| Tony Parker |
Basketball |
17-May-1982 |
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San Antonio Spurs |
| Philip I |
Royalty |
22-Jul-1478 |
25-Sep-1506 |
King of Castile, 1506 |
| Simon Stevin |
Mathematician |
1548 |
1620 |
Founder of hydrostatics |
DEATHS
| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
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| Jan van Eyck |
Painter |
c. 1390 |
9-Jul-1441 |
Ghent Altarpiece |
| Ralph Hopton |
Military |
1596 |
Sep-1652 |
Royalist commander, English Civil War |
| Hans Memling |
Painter |
c. 1430 |
11-Aug-1494 |
Flemish painter, Bruges school |
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