Portal:Belgium/Anniversaries/August/August 24
- 1772: birth of William I of the Netherlands (pictured), king of Belgium from 1815 until its independence in 1830
- 1842: birth of Edouard Agneessens, painter
- 1899: birth of Albert Claude, biologist, laureate of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1974
- 1947: birth of Roger De Vlaeminck, cyclist, World cyclo-cross champion, four times winner of Paris–Roubaix