Portal:Belgium/Anniversaries/January/January 28

814: death of Charlemagne, emperor
1651: death of Manuel de Moura y Corte Real, 2nd Marquis of Castel Rodrigo, Governor of the Habsburg Netherlands
1688: death of Ferdinand Verbiest, Jesuit missionary in China, astronomer, and inventor of a miniature steam propelled car
1912: death of Gustave de Molinari, economist
1924: birth of Marcel Broodthaers, installation artist
1958: birth of Renaat Landuyt, politician, Minister of Transport in the federal government
1962: birth of Peter Verhelst, novelist, best known for Tongkat
1967: birth of Rudy Trouvé, musician and painter, former member of dEUS, founding member of Dead Man Ray
1976: death of Marcel Broodthaers, installation artist, on his birthday
2002: death of Gustaaf Deloor, cyclist, winner of the first two editions of the Vuelta a España