Portal:Belgium/Anniversaries/May/May 30

• 727 or 728: death of Hubertus, first bishop of Liège, the patron saint of hunters
• 1036: death of Baldwin IV, Count of Flanders
• 1213: start of the Battle of Damme, where England beat France
• 1814: birth of Eugène Charles Catalan (pictured), mathematician, stated Catalan's conjecture
• 1872: birth of Paul-Emile Janson, politician, Prime Minister of Belgium between 1937 and 1938
• 1901: death of Victor D'Hondt, mathematician and lawyer
• 1959: birth of Frank Vanhecke, chairman of the Vlaams Belang