Portal:Belgium/Anniversaries/January

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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
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
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 Walschaert 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 van Mour, 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 Chaim 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