Portal:Belgium/Anniversaries/November/November 20
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- 1518: death of Pierre de La Rue, composer
- 1662: death of Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria, governor of the Spanish Netherlands
- 1834: inauguration of the Free University of Belgium, later renamed to Université Libre de Bruxelles, and in 1970 divided into the Université Libre de Bruxelles and the Vrije Universiteit Brussel
- 1841: birth of Victor D'Hondt (pictured), mathematician
- 1887: death of Louis Gallait, painter