Portal:Belgium/Anniversaries/January/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, former Prime Minister of Belgium, Secretary General of NATO and first chairman of the general assembly of the United Nations
- 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
