Portal:Belgium/Anniversaries/March/March 5

• 1576: death of Luis de Zúñiga y Requesens, Governor of the Habsburg Netherlands
• 1592: death of Michael Coxcie, painter (pictured: his work Original Sin)
• 1939: birth of Pierre Wynants, chef of the Comme chez soi restaurant
• 1945: birth of Erwin Van Den Daele, soccer player, selected 32 times for the Belgium national football team
• 1971: birth of Filip Meirhaeghe, mountain biker, silver medalist at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney and World Champion in 2003
• 2001: death of Franz De Mulder, cyclist, winner of the 1960 Vuelta a España