Portal:Belgium/Anniversaries/January

These are the selected anniversaries for January that appear on the Belgium portal. The "edit" links edit the portal subpages that are displayed as sections here.

January 1

New Year's Day

• 962: death of Baldwin III, Count of Flanders
• 1945: birth of Jacky Ickx, race car driver, 6 times winner of the 24 hours of Le Mans, winner of 8 Formula One Grand Prix
• 1972: birth of Tom Barman, singer with dEUS

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January 2

• 1920: birth of Armand Pien, a popular weatherman
• 1959: birth of Dirk Bikkembergs, fashion designer

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January 3

• 1355: the charter of liberties the Joyous Entry is granted to the Duchy of Brabant
• 1794: birth of Joseph Lebeau, politician, Prime Minister of Belgium between 1840 and 1841
• 1823: birth of Jacques-Nicolas Lemmens, organist and composer
• 1840: birth of Father Damien, priest, missionary who dedicated his life to the service of the lepers in Molokai
• 1868: birth of Franz Cumont, archaeologist
• 1892: death of Émile Louis Victor de Laveleye, economist
• 1924: birth of André Franquin, comics artist best known for Spirou et Fantasio, Gaston Lagaffe and the Marsupilami
• 1936: death of Jules Destrée, politician, early promotor of a federal state
• 1941: death of Eugène Boch, painter and art collector
• 1979: birth of Dina Tersago, Miss Belgium 2001
• 1980: death of Lucien Buysse, cyclist, winner of the Tour de France in 1926
• 1988: death of Gaston Eyskens, six times Prime Minister of Belgium between 1949 and 1950, between 1958 and 1961, and between 1968 and 1973, and father of later prime minister Mark Eyskens

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January 4

• 1891: death of Pierre de Decker, politician, Prime Minister of Belgium between 1855 and 1857
• 1916: death of Godefroid Kurth, historian
• 1952: death of Constant Permeke, expressionist painter
• 1977: birth of Olivier Theyskens, fashion designer
• 1981: birth of Silvy De Bie, vocalist of dance group Sylver, and at a younger age known as Silvy Melody

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January 5

• 1477: death of Charles I, Duke of Burgundy, ruler over most of the current Belgian territory
• 1614: birth of Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria, Governor of the Habsburg Netherlands
• 1806: birth of André Henri Constant van Hasselt, poet
• 1949: birth of Anne-Marie Lizin, politician, president of the Senate as of 2006
• 1997: death of André Franquin, comics artist best known for Spirou et Fantasio, Gaston Lagaffe and the Marsupilami
• 2005: Libération journalist Florence Aubenas is taken hostage in Iraq

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January 6

Epiphany (Dutch: Driekoningen; French: Épiphanie; German: Erscheinung des Herrn)

• 1566: death of Jan Utenhove, translator of the Psalms and the New Testament into Dutch
• 1668: death of Luis de Benavides Carrillo, Marquis of Caracena, Governor of the Habsburg Netherlands
• 1861: birth of Victor Horta, Art Nouveau architect
• 1941: birth of Philippe Busquin, politician, member of the European Commission between 1999 and 2004
• 1942: death of Henri de Baillet-Latour, third president of the International Olympic Committee from 1925 until 1942
• 1981: birth of Jérémie Renier, actor

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January 7

• 1566: death of Louis de Blois, mystical writer known as Blosius

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January 8

• 1567: death of Jacobus Vaet, Renaissance composer
• 1770: death of John Michael Rysbrack, sculptor
• 1823: birth of Florent Joseph Marie Willems, painter

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January 9

• 1671: birth of Jean-Baptiste van Mour, painter of life in the Ottoman Empire
• 1834: birth of Jan Verhas, genre painter from Dendermonde
• 1970: birth of Lara Fabian, singer
• 2001: death of Paul Vanden Boeynants, Prime Minister of Belgium between 1966 and 1968, and again between 1978 and 1979

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January 10

• 1480: birth of Margarete of Austria, second Governor of the Habsburg Netherlands
• 1635: birth of Alexander Farnese, Prince of Parma, Governor of the Habsburg Netherlands
• 1664: death of Antonius Sanderus, historian, author of Flandria Illustrata (other sources give January 16 as the date)
• 1882: birth of Eugène Joseph Delporte, astronomer, discovered 66 asteroids including 1221 Amor
• 1929: beginning of the first of The Adventures of Tintin by Hergé in Le Petit Vingtième: Tintin in the Land of the Soviets
• 2005: death of Jan Pieter Schotte, Roman Catholic cardinal and official of the Roman Curia

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January 11

• 1790: In the Southern Netherlands, the Republic of the United Belgian States is proclaimed.
• 1923: Troops from France and Belgium occupy the Ruhr area to force Germany to pay its reparation payments.
• 1957: birth of Bernard Hislaire, comics artist, best known for Sambre (signing as Yslaire)

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January 12

• 1577: birth of Jan Baptist van Helmont, chemist, physiologist and physician
• 1597: birth of François Duquesnoy, Baroque sculptor of Manneken Pis
• 1924: birth of Olivier Gendebien, race car driver, three times winner of the 12 Hours of Sebring and 4 times winner of the 24 Hours of Le Mans
• 1991: the Silco incident: 5 years after they have been kidnapped by Palestinian terrorists and are captured in Libya, the family Houtekins-Kets is released

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January 13

• 1381: birth of Saint Colette, founder of the order of Colettine Poor Clares
• 1625: death of Jan Brueghel the Elder, painter, collaborated with Peter Paul Rubens
• 1913: birth of Werenfried van Straaten, known as the "Spekpater" (Bacon Priest), founder of Aid to the Church in Need
• 1914: birth of Jijé, comics artist of Spirou et Fantasio, father of the Marcinelle school

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January 14

• 1541: death of Lupus Hellinck, Renaissance composer
• 1989: kidnapping of Paul Vanden Boeynants, Prime Minister of Belgium between 1966 and 1968, and again between 1978 and 1979

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January 15

• 1342: birth of Philip II, Duke of Burgundy, the first to join Flanders to the Duchy of Burgundy by his marriage to Margaret III, Countess of Flanders (pictured)
• 1836: birth of Jean Baptiste Abbeloos, orientalist
• 1875: death of Jean Baptiste Julien d'Omalius d'Halloy, geologist
• 1904: death of Eduard Lassen, composer

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January 16

• 1626: birth of Lucas Achtschellinck, landscape painter
• 1939: birth of Jean Van Hamme, comics author of Largo Winch, Thorgal and XIII
• 1971: death of Philippe Thys, cyclist, three times winner of the Tour de France

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January 17

• 1901: death of Paul Hankar, Art Nouveau architect
• 1914: birth of Théo Lefèvre, politician, Prime Minister of Belgium between 1961 and 1965
• 1942: birth of Karel Van Miert, politician, member of the European Commission between 1989 and 1999

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January 18

• 1586: death of Margaret of Parma, Governor of the Habsburg Netherlands
• 1886: Vincent van Gogh enrolls in the Antwerp Academy of Art
• 1970: birth of Peter Van Petegem, cyclist, winner of the Tour of Flanders and Paris–Roubaix
• 1974: birth of Claire Coombs, wife of Prince Laurent of Belgium
• 1981: birth of Olivier Rochus, tennis player, winner of the 2004 Roland-Garros Grand Slam tournament in doubles

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January 19

• 639: death of Dagobert I, King of the Franks
• 1867: birth of Jean Delville, Symbolist painter
• 1927: death of Charlotte of Belgium, Empress of Mexico
• 1958: birth of Michel De Wolf, soccer player, played 42 matches with the Belgium national football team
• 1964: death of Firmin Lambot, two times winner of the Tour de France
• 1970: birth of Kathleen Smet, triathlete, World Champion in 2005 and fourth at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens

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January 20

• 1762: birth of Jérôme-Joseph de Momigny, composer and music theorist
• 1870: birth of Guillaume Lekeu, composer, student of César Franck
• 1901: death of Zénobe Gramme, inventor of the Gramme machine, an improvement of earlier dynamos
• 1973: birth of Princess Mathilde, Duchess of Brabant, wife of Prince Philippe, Duke of Brabant, heir apparent to the Belgian throne
• 1996: death of Jef Mermans, soccer player, seven times champion with R.S.C. Anderlecht, played 56 matches for the Belgium national football team, scoring 27 goals

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January 21

• 1820: birth of Egide Walschaerts, inventor of the Walschaerts valve gear
• 1848: birth of Luiz Cruls, astronomer
• 1880: birth of George Van Biesbroeck, astronomer, discovered some comets and asteroids
• 1894: death of Guillaume Lekeu, composer, student of César Franck
• 1931: birth of Paul Deliège, comics author, best known for Bobo

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January 22

• 1737: death of Jean Baptiste Vanmour, painter of life in the Ottoman Empire
• 1911: birth of Suzanne Danco, soprano
• 1963: birth of Andrei Tchmil, former Russian and Ukrainian cyclist who later received the Belgian nationality, winner of Paris–Roubaix and the Tour of Flanders, as of 2006 Minister of Sport of Moldova
• 1984: death of Chaïm Perelman, philosopher

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January 23

• 1910: birth of Django Reinhardt, very influential Roma jazz guitarist
• 1930: the first page of Hergé's comic strip Quick & Flupke appears in Le Petit Vingtième
• 1960: Jacques Piccard and Don Walsh (pictured) become the first persons to reach the deepest point on the Earth's surface, at the bottom of the Mariana Trench
• 1978: Baron Édouard-Jean Empain is kidnapped and has his little finger amputated, only to be freed two months later

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January 24

• 1597: at the Battle of Turnhout, the Dutch cavalry defeated the Spanish troops during the Eighty Years' War
• 1929: death of Jacques Bouhy, baritone, one of the main stars in the first performance of Carmen by Georges Bizet
• 1946: birth of Hedy Scott, actres, model, and Playboys Playmate of the Month in June 1965
• 1947: death of Felix Timmermans, author
• 1959: birth of Michel Preud'homme, soccer player and coach, 58 times the goal keeper for the Belgium national football team
• 1972: birth of Ulla Werbrouck, judoka, winner of the gold medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta

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January 25

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• 1048: death of Poppo of Deinze, saint, abbot of Stavelot, the first recorded Flemish pilgrim to the Holy Land
• 1139: death of Godfrey I of Leuven, Landgrave of Brabant and Margrave of Antwerp
• 1801: birth of Jean-Baptist David, professor Dutch and history, president of twe first two "taelcongressen" (language congresses)
• 1899: birth of Paul-Henri Spaak (pictured signing the Treaty of Rome), Prime Minister of Belgium from 1938 to 1939, in 1946 and from 1947 to 1949, Secretary General of NATO from 1957 to 1961 and President of the United Nations General Assembly during its first session from 1946 to 1947
• 1917: birth of Ilya Prigogine, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1977
• 1962: birth of Georges Grün, soccer player, played 77 times for the Belgium national football team

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January 26

• 1929: death of Constantin Le Paige, mathematician
• 1947: birth of Robert Cailliau, one of the co-developers of the World Wide Web with Tim Berners-Lee, worked at CERN between 1974 and 2005
• 1959: birth of Erwin Vandenbergh, soccer player, 6 times top scorer of the Belgian first division, played 48 times for the Belgium national football team

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January 27

• 1827: birth of Thomas Joseph Lamy, Biblical scholar and orientalist
• 1893: death of Alfred Belpaire, locomotive engineer and inventor of the Belpaire firebox
• 1927: birth of Vic Mees, soccer player, selected 68 times for the Belgium national football team
• 1940: birth of Harry Kümel, film director
• 1954: birth of Karel De Gucht, politician, as of 2006 Belgian Minister of Foreign Affairs
• 2001: death of Marie-José of Belgium, last Queen of Italy

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January 28

• 814: death of Charlemagne, emperor
• 1651: death of Manuel de Moura y Corte Real, 2nd Marquis of Castel Rodrigo, Governor of the Habsburg Netherlands
• 1688: death of Ferdinand Verbiest, Jesuit missionary in China, astronomer, and inventor of a miniature steam propelled car
• 1912: death of Gustave de Molinari, economist
• 1924: birth of Marcel Broodthaers, installation artist
• 1958: birth of Renaat Landuyt, politician, Minister of Transport in the federal government
• 1962: birth of Peter Verhelst, novelist, best known for Tongkat
• 1967: birth of Rudy Trouvé, musician and painter, former member of dEUS, founding member of Dead Man Ray
• 1976: death of Marcel Broodthaers, installation artist, on his birthday
• 2002: death of Gustaaf Deloor, cyclist, winner of the first two editions of the Vuelta a España

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January 29

• 1976: birth of Belle Perez, singer

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January 30

• 1384: death of Louis II, Count of Flanders
• 1801: birth of Pierre-Jean De Smet (pictured), missionary among the Native Americans in the United States
• 1881: death of Jacques-Nicolas Lemmens, organist and composer
• 1917: birth of Paul Frère, Formula One racing driver and journalist, winner of the 1960 24 Hours of Le Mans
• 1917: death of Mutien-Marie Wiaux, saint
• 1927: birth of Jef Nys, comics artist, creator of Jommeke
• 1969: death of Georges Pire, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1958
• 2003: introduction of same-sex civil marriages, the second country in the world to do so after the Netherlands

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January 31

• 1578: at the Battle of Gembloux, the protestant rebels were defeated by the Spanish army
• 1624: birth of Arnold Geulincx, philosopher and logician, known as Philaretus
• 1869: birth of Henry Carton de Wiart, Prime Minister of Belgium between 1920 and 1921
• 1918: death of Léon Houa, cyclist, winner of the first three editions of Liège–Bastogne–Liège
• 2003: death of Werenfried van Straaten, known as the "Spekpater" (Bacon Priest), founder of Aid to the Church in Need

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