Portal:Belgium/Anniversaries/December/December 13

1404: death of Albert I, Duke of Bavaria, Count of Hainaut
1814: death of Charles Joseph, Prince de Ligne, Belgian-born Austrian field marshal
1891: death of Jean Stas, analytical chemist, famous for more accurately establishing the atomic weight of the elements
1963: death of Hubert Pierlot, Prime Minister of Belgium between 1939 and 1945, for the largest part leading a government in exile during World War II
1973: death of Fanny Heldy, opera soprano, France's leading opear star between World War I and World War II