Portal:Belgium/Anniversaries/February/February 3

• 1399: death of John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster (pictured), born in Ghent, ancestor of the English kings of the house of Lancaster
• 1796: birth of Jean Baptiste Madou, painter and lithographer
• 1920: birth of Stan Ockers, cyclist, runner-up in the Tour de France in 1950 and 1952
• 1941: birth of Antoine Duquesne, politician, former chairman of the MR and minister in the Belgian federal government
• 1958: The Treaty establishing the Benelux Economic Union is signed at The Hague
• 1975: death of Ernest Sterckx, cyclist, winner of the Tour of Belgium, three times winner of the Omloop Het Volk
• 1993: death of Karel Goeyvaerts, composer