Portal:Belgium/Anniversaries/July/July 22

• 1387: death of Franz Ackerman, rebel leader in Ghent in the fights against the French
• 1478: birth of Philip I of Castile, ruler over most of current Belgium, father of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
• 1610: death of Pedro Henriquez de Acevedo, Count of Fuentes, Governor of the Habsburg Netherlands
• 1929: death of Baron Empain, entrepreneur, founder of the modern Heliopolis
• 1953: birth of René Vandereycken, soccer player and coach, played 50 times for the Belgium national football team which he coaches as of 2006
• 1963: birth of Olivier Gourmet, actor, winner of the Best Male Actor award at the Cannes Film Festival
• 1974: cyclist Eddy Merckx wins the Tour de France, two other Belgians, Michel Pollentier and Herman Van Springel, also end in the top ten of the General Classification
• 1980: birth of Kate Ryan, singer