Portal:Belgium/Anniversaries/February/February 6


 * 1497: death of Johannes Ockeghem, leading composer of the Franco-Flemish School
 * 1862: death of Louis-Joseph Seutin, physician, the first to use chloroform for anesthesia
 * 1961: birth of Florence Aubenas, journalist with French newspaper Libération, taken hostage in Iraq in 2005
 * 1984: birth of Julie Taton, Miss Belgium 2003
 * 2004: birth of Princess Louise of Belgium, the first child of Prince Laurent of Belgium and Princess Claire