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