Portal:Belgium/Anniversaries/March/March 26

• 1517: death of Heinrich Isaac, early Renaissance composer
• 1871: death of François-Joseph Fétis, musicologist
• 1975: birth of Freya Van den Bossche, politician, minister in the Belgian federal government
• 1978: Baron Édouard-Jean Empain is released by his captors, two months after being kidnapped and having his little finger amputated