Portal:Belgium/Anniversaries/January/January 20
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- 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
