Portal:Belgium/Anniversaries/January/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