Portal:Belgium/Anniversaries/May/May 6


 * 1596: death of Giaches de Wert, Reniassance composer
 * 1638: death of Cornelius Jansen, bishop of Ypres and father of the Jansenism
 * 1846: construction starts on the Galeries Royales Saint-Hubert in Brussels
 * 1946: Camille Gutt becomes the first managing director of the International Monetary Fund
 * 1949: death of Maurice Maeterlinck (pictured), writer, winner of the 1911 Nobel Prize in Literature
 * 1951: death of Henri Carton de Wiart, Prime Minister of Belgium between 1920 and 1921
 * 1992: death of Gaston Reiff, athlete, gold medalist at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London at the 5,000 m