Portal:Belgium/Anniversaries/February/February 22
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- 1071: death of Arnulf III, Count of Flanders and Count of Hainaut, at the Battle of Cassel
- 1796: birth of Adolphe Quetelet, fuonder of modern statistics
- 1806: birth of Antoine Wiertz, Romantic painter and sculptor
- 1821: birth of Jan van Beers, poet
- 1827: birth of Ernest Candèze, entomologist
- 1896: birth of Paul van Ostaijen, poet
- 1968: birth of Delphine Boël, artist, daughter of wedlock of King Albert II of Belgium
- 1969: birth of Marc Wilmots, soccer player and politician, played 70 times for the Belgium national football team and is ranked third on the all-time goal scorers list of the Belgian squad with 28 goals
- 1983: death of Romain Maes, cyclist, winner of the 1935 Tour de France