Portal:Belgium/Anniversaries/April/April 4

• 1609: death of Charles de l'Écluse, known as Clusius, early botanist
• 1826: birth of Zénobe Gramme, inventor of the Gramme machine, an improvement of earlier dynamos
• 1905: death of Constantin Meunier, sculptor
• 1942: birth of Michel Fourniret, serial killer
• 1990: King Baudouin of Belgium is declared "unable to reign" for one day when he refuses to give his Royal Assent to a law liberalising Belgium's abortion laws
• 2004: death of Briek Schotte, cyclist, twice World Champion and Tour of Flanders winner