Portal:Belgium/Anniversaries/May/May 16
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- 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
