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