Portal:Belgium/Anniversaries/January/January 20

• 1762: birth of Jérôme-Joseph de Momigny, composer and music theorist
• 1870: birth of Guillaume Lekeu, composer, student of César Franck
• 1901: death of Zénobe Gramme, inventor of the Gramme machine, an improvement of earlier dynamos
• 1973: birth of Princess Mathilde, Duchess of Brabant, wife of Prince Philippe, Duke of Brabant, heir apparent to the Belgian throne
• 1996: death of Jef Mermans, soccer player, seven times champion with R.S.C. Anderlecht, played 56 matches for the Belgium national football team, scoring 27 goals