Portal:Belgium/Anniversaries/January/January 9
- 1671: birth of Jean-Baptiste van Mour, painter of life in the Ottoman Empire
- 1834: birth of Jan Verhas, genre painter from Dendermonde
- 1970: birth of Lara Fabian, singer
- 2001: death of Paul Vanden Boeynants, Prime Minister of Belgium between 1966 and 1968, and again between 1978 and 1979