Portal:Belgium/Anniversaries/March/March 5


 * 1576: death of Luis de Zúñiga y Requesens, Governor of the Habsburg Netherlands
 * 1592: death of Michael Coxcie, painter (pictured: his work Original Sin)
 * 1939: birth of Pierre Wynants, chef of the Comme chez soi restaurant
 * 1945: birth of Erwin Van Den Daele, soccer player, selected 32 times for the Belgium national football team
 * 1971: birth of Filip Meirhaeghe, mountain biker, silver medalist at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney and World Champion in 2003
 * 2001: death of Franz De Mulder, cyclist, winner of the 1960 Vuelta a España