Portal:Belgium/Anniversaries/February/February 23


 * 1930: birth of Jef Geeraerts, novelist, author of The Alzheimer Case
 * 1934: Leopold III becomes the fourth King of the Belgians.
 * 1944: death of Leo Baekeland, chemist, inventor of Bakelite
 * 1968: death of Camille Huysmans, politician, Prime Minister of Belgium between 1946 and 1947
 * 1968: birth of Johan Gielen, DJ and producer
 * 1969: birth of Marc Wauters, cyclist, winner of Paris–Tours
 * 1974: death of George Van Biesbroeck, astronomer, discovered some comets and asteroids
 * 1993: death of Robert Triffin, economist