Portal:Belgium/Anniversaries/May/May 16


 * 1925: birth of Bobbejaan Schoepen (pictured), singer, founder of the Bobbejaanland amusement park
 * 1937: birth of Paul Geerts, comics drawer who succeeded Willy Vandersteen as the main drawer of the Spike and Suzy series
 * 1953: death of Django Reinhardt, very influential Roma jazz guitarist
 * 1957: Paul-Henri Spaak becomes the second Secretary General of NATO
 * 1983: death of Edouard Zeckendorf, mathematician