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- Music Department
Jacobus Barbireau was born in 1455 in Belgium. Jacobus is known for BBC Proms (1972). Jacobus died on 7 August 1491 in Antwerp, Flanders, Belgium.- Music Department
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Johannes Ockeghem was born in 1410 in Saint-Ghislain, Hainaut, Wallonia, Belgium. He is known for eXtrañas heterodoXias (2021). He died on 6 February 1497 in Tours, France.- Music Department
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Heinrich Isaac was born in 1450 in Brabant, Belgium. Heinrich is known for BBC Proms (1972). Heinrich was married to Bartolomea . Heinrich died on 26 March 1517 in Florence, Italy.- Composer
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Orlando di Lasso was born in 1530 in Mons, Spanish Hainaut [now in Belgium]. He was a composer, known for The Flowers of War (2011), The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974) and Haunted Summer (1988). He died on 14 June 1594 in Munich, Germany.- Art Department
Sir Anthony van Dyck 22 March 1599 - 9 December 1641 was a Flemish Baroque artist who became the leading court painter in England after success in the Southern Netherlands and Italy.
The seventh child of Frans van Dyck, a wealthy Antwerp silk merchant, Anthony painted from an early age. He was successful as an independent painter in his late teens, and became a master in the Antwerp guild in 1618. By this time he was working in the studio of the leading northern painter of the day, Peter Paul Rubens, who became a major influence on his work. Van Dyck worked in London for some months in 1621, then returned to Flanders for a brief time, before travelling to Italy, where he stayed until 1627, mostly in Genoa. In the late 1620s he completed his greatly admired Iconography series of portrait etchings, mostly of other artists. He spent five years in Flanders after his return from Italy, and from 1630 was court painter for the archduchess Isabella, Habsburg Governor of Flanders. In 1632 he returned to London to be the main court painter, at the request of Charles I of England.
With the exception of Holbein, van Dyck and his contemporary Diego Velázquez were the first painters of pre-eminent talent to work mainly as court portraitists, revolutionising the genre. He is best known for his portraits of the aristocracy, most notably Charles I, and his family and associates. Van Dyck became the dominant influence on English portrait-painting for the next 150 years. He also painted mythological and biblical subjects, including altarpieces, displayed outstanding facility as a draughtsman, and was an important innovator in watercolour and etching. His superb brushwork, apparently rather quickly painted, can usually be distinguished from the large areas painted by his many assistants. His portrait style changed considerably between the different countries he worked in, culminating in the relaxed elegance of his last English period. His influence extends into the modern period. The Van Dyke beard is named after him. During his lifetime, Charles I granted him a knighthood, and he was buried in St Paul's Cathedral, an indication of his standing at the time of his death.- Music Department
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André-Ernest-Modeste Grétry was born on 8 February 1741 in Liège, Belgium. André-Ernest-Modeste was a composer, known for Valmont (1989), Love & Friendship (2016) and The Novel of Werther (1938). André-Ernest-Modeste died on 24 September 1813 in Montmorency, France.- Music Department
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François-Joseph Gossec was born on 17 January 1734 in Vergnies, France [now Hainaut, Belgium]. François-Joseph is known for In the Good Old Summertime (1949), Reservation Road (2007) and Love & Friendship (2016). François-Joseph died on 16 February 1829 in Passy [now Paris], France.- Charles-Auguste de Bériot was born on 20 February 1802 in Louvain, France [now Leuven, Flanders, Belgium]. He was married to Marie Huber and Maria Malibran. He died on 8 April 1870 in Brussels, Belgium.
- Anton Bergman was born on 29 June 1835 in Lier, Flanders, Belgium. He was a writer, known for Dat Ernest met Bertha vrijdt... (1974). He died on 21 January 1874 in Lier, Flanders, Belgium.
- Hendrik Conscience was born on 3 December 1812 in Antwerp, French Empire [now Belgium]. He was a writer, known for De loteling (1919), De arme edelman (1921) and Baas Ganzendonck (1929). He was married to Maria Peinen. He died on 10 September 1883 in Elsene, Belgium.
- Joseph Antoine Ferdinand Plateau was the first person to demonstrate the illusion of a moving image-or motion picture-through animation. He used rotating disks using a device he called the "phenakistiscope", the first device to give the illusion of a moving image. At the time, he published his animations in scientific publications as part of his study on the illusion of motion and human vision.
- Alfred Hennequin was born on 13 January 1842 in Liege, Belgium. Alfred was a writer, known for Lili (1918). Alfred died on 7 August 1887 in Lpinay-sur-Seine, France.
- Music Department
- Composer
- Soundtrack
César Franck, a French composer best known for his massive Symphony and enchanting three chorales for organ, which he wrote during the last month of his life after being hit by a horse-omnibus.
He was born César-Auguste Franck on December 10, 1822 in Liege, Belgium. He studied at the Royal Conservatoire of Liege before going to the Paris Conservatoire in 1835. There he studied piano with Zimmerman and organ with Benoist. His ability for sight-reading was legendary since his school days; Franck received the "Grand prix d'honneur" for transposing a fugue a third lower on sight.
Franck contributed twelve major works for organ, that made him the most important organ composer in France, and arguably second to Johann Sebastian Bach. He also wrote a massive "Symphony in D minor" (1886-88) and the "Symphonic Variations" for piano and orchestra. He admitted his interest in the music of Franz Liszt and Richard Wagner. In 1858 he became organist at the basilica Sainte-Clotilde and remained at that post until his death. He was a professor of organ and composition at the Paris Conservatoire, having such apprentices as Claude Debussy, Louis Vierne, and Paul Dukas.
César Franck suffered from pleurisy after he was hit by a horse-omnibus in 1890. After that accident he composed what is considered his masterpiece, the "Three Chorales" for organ. He died on November 8, 1890 in Paris, and was laid to rest in the Cimetriere du Montparnasse.- Composer
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Guillaume Lekeu was born on 20 January 1870 in Verviers, Belgium. He was a composer, known for He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not (2002), Lost and Beautiful (2015) and Slack Bay (2016). He died on 21 January 1894 in Angers, Maine-et-Loire, France.- Writer
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Georges Rodenbach was born on 16 July 1855 in Tournai, Belgium. He was a writer, known for Más allá del olvido (1956), Die tote Stadt (1983) and Brugge, die stille (1981). He died on 25 December 1898 in Paris, France.- Guido Gezelle was born on 1 March 1830 in Bruges, West Flanders, Belgium. He was a writer, known for Poëzie in 625 lijnen (1956) and Will Ferdy's one man show '60 (1960). He died on 27 November 1899 in Bruges, West Flanders, Belgium.
- Peter Benoît was born on 17 August 1834 in Harelbeke, Flanders, Belgium. Peter was a composer, known for Peter Benoît (1930) and Peter Benoit hulde te Antwerpen en te Harelbeke (1934). Peter died on 8 March 1901 in Antwerp, Flanders, Belgium.
- Raymond Stijns was born on 10 May 1850 in Mullem, Oudenaarde, Flanders, Belgium. He was a writer, known for Hard Labeur (1985). He died on 12 December 1905 in St-Jans-Molenbeek, Belgium.
- Leopold II (French: Léopold Louis Philippe Marie Victor, Dutch: Leopold Lodewijk Filips Maria Victor; 9 April 1835 - 17 December 1909) was the second King of the Belgians from 1865 to 1909 and, through will and effort, the absentee owner and autocratic ruler of the Congo Free State from 1885 to 1908.
Born in Brussels as the second but eldest surviving son of Leopold I and Louise of Orléans, he succeeded his father to the Belgian throne in 1865 and reigned for exactly 44 years until his death, the longest reign of a Belgian monarch to date. He died without surviving legitimate sons. The current Belgian king descends from his nephew and successor, Albert I. - Jan Blockx was born on 25 January 1851 in Antwerp, Belgium. He was a composer, known for Waar het groeide (1956). He died on 26 May 1912 in Kapelenbos, Flanders, Belgium.
- Camille Lemonnier was born on 23 March 1844 in Elsene, Belgium. Camille was a writer, known for Le mort (1936), Les deux Consciences (1909) and Le réprouvé (1912). Camille died on 13 June 1913 in Ter Hulpe, Belgium.
- Camille Jenatzy was born on 4 November 1868 in Schaerbeek, Brussels-Capital, Belgium. He died on 7 December 1913 in Habay-la-Neuve, Belgium.
- Josef Christiaens was born on 16 September 1882 in Brussels, Belgium. He died on 25 February 1919 in Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England, UK.
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Albert Vanloo was born on 10 September 1846 in Ixelles, Belgium. He was a writer, known for Véronique (1950), Airs de France (1955) and The Impossible Mr. Pipelet (1955). He died on 4 March 1920 in Paris, France.- Nestor de Tière was born on 6 August 1856 in Eine, Flanders, Belgium. He was a writer, known for Roze Kate (1912). He died on 28 September 1920 in Brussels, Belgium.
- Berthe Bady was born in November 1872 in Belgium. She was an actress, known for Ecce Homo (1918). She died on 8 August 1921 in Jouy (Eure et Loire), France.
- Soundtrack
Ivan Caryll was born on 12 May 1861 in Liege, Belgium. Ivan was married to Geraldine Ulmar (actress) and Maud Hill (actress). Ivan died on 29 November 1921 in New York City, New York, USA.- Jean Noté was born on 6 May 1859 in Tournai, Belgium. He was an actor, known for La Marseillaise (1907) and An Adventurous Automobile Trip (1905). He died on 1 April 1922 in Brussels, Belgium.
- Paul Deschanel was born on 13 February 1855 in Schaerbeek, Brussels, Belgium. He was married to Germaine Brice de Ville. He died on 28 April 1922 in Paris, France.
- Frederick de Belleville was born on 17 February 1855 in Liege, Belgium. He was an actor, known for The Daughter of the People (1915), A Trade Secret (1915) and The New Adventures of J. Rufus Wallingford (1915). He was married to Edith Emmy Mueller, Dorothy Chester (actress), Kate Cleveland (aka Kate Massi, 1860-1893, actress), Edith Cornish and Julia Jacobs Josephs. He died on 25 February 1923 in New York City, New York, USA.
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Armand du Plessy was born on 19 July 1883 in Ixelles, Brussels, Belgium. Armand was a director and writer, known for La garçonne (1923), Destinée (1922) and Le mariage de minuit (1923). Armand died on 2 February 1924 in Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France.- Louÿs' refined evocations, not to say re-inventions, of the society of Hellenistic Greece proved extremely popular in both France and the English speaking world, especially due to the somewhat risque nature of such works as Aphrodite (1896) and Les Chansons de Bilitis (1894). He lived his entire life in Paris, travelling occasionally around the Mediterranean coast where so many of his works of art were set. He had close friends among the writers of his day but otherwise kept among himself rather apart from literary cliques except for that of Mallarme.
- Maurice Hennequin was born on 10 December 1863 in Liege, Belgium. He was a writer, known for The Gay Deceiver (1926), Passionnément (1932) and A Kiss in a Taxi (1927). He was married to Mademoiselle Braem. He died on 3 September 1926 in Montreux, Switzerland.
- Émile Keppens was born on 12 January 1866 in Brussels, Belgium. He was an actor and director, known for Les premières aventures de Chéri Bibi (1914), Murias (1919) and L'homme aux trois masques (1921). He died on 2 October 1926 in Marseille, France.
- Marie Verstraete was born on 2 May 1853 in Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium. She was an actress, known for De storm des levens (1920) and Mooi Juultje van Volendam (1924). She was married to Ludovic Johannes De Graef. She died on 27 January 1928 in Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands.
- Paul Jorge was born in 1848 in Belgium. He was an actor, known for Uncle Bernac (1921), Les misérables (1925) and Roger la Honte (1922). He died on 31 December 1928 in Paris, France.
- Oscar De Gruyter was born on 10 March 1885 in Gent, Flanders, Belgium. Oscar was a writer, known for Stopseltje (1965). Oscar died on 27 February 1929 in Nice, France.
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- Editor
Jef Mertens was born on 27 April 1874 in Leuven, Flanders, Belgium. He was an actor and writer, known for Jopie Gaat Trouwen (1912), De bannelingen (1911) and Roze Kate (1912). He was married to Cato Mertens-de Jaeger. He died on 15 July 1929 in The Hague, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands.- Karel Van de Woestijne was born on 10 March 1878 in Gent, Flanders, Belgium. He was a writer, known for Leven en dood op het land (1963). He died on 24 August 1929 in Zwijnaarde, Flanders, Belgium.
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Albert Giraud was born on 23 June 1860 in Leuven, Vlaams-Brabant, Belgium. He was a writer, known for Pierrot Lunaire (1990), Pierrot Lunaire (2014) and One Night, One Life (2002). He died on 26 December 1929 in Brussels, Belgium.- Eva Dell'Acqua was born on 28 February 1856 in Brussels, Belgium. Eva died on 12 February 1930 in Ixelles, Brussels, Belgium.
- Yvonne George was born in 1896 in Liège, Belgium. She was an actress, known for De damescoupeur (1919). She died on 22 April 1930 in Genoa, Italy.
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Belgian-born Edward José began his film career as an actor, starring opposite Theda Bara in one of her most famous films, A Fool There Was (1915). Turning to directing shortly afterwards, he handled several Pearl White serials, and piloted many features in the late 1910s and early 1920s. His most ambitious film was The Beloved Vagabond (1915), six reels long and tinted in color. He left the US in 1922 and settled in France, where he continued directing films until 1926.- Pol de Mont was born on 15 April 1857 in Wambeke, Flanders, Belgium. He was a writer, known for De verrijzenis van Ons Heer (1979). He died on 29 June 1931 in Berlin, Germany.
- Cyriel Buysse was born on 20 September 1859 in Nevele, Flanders, Belgium. He was a writer, known for Het gezin van Paemel (1986), Ten huize Goetgebuer (2006) and Tantes (1984). He died on 25 July 1932 in Afsnee, Flanders, Belgium.
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Pierre Degeyter was born on 8 October 1848 in Gent, Flanders, Belgium. He is known for Air Force One (1997), Doctor Zhivago (1965) and Seven Years in Tibet (1997). He died on 27 September 1932 in Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis, France.- King Albert I was born on 8 April 1875 in Brussels, Belgium. He was married to Koningin Elisabeth. He died on 17 February 1934 in Marche-les-Dames, Belgium.
- Henry Verbrugghen was born on 1 August 1873 in Brussels, Belgium. He was married to Alice Gordon Beaumont. He died on 12 November 1934 in Northfield, Minnesota, USA.
- Actor
Charles Fallon was born on 6 March 1875 in Antwerp, Belgium. He was an actor. He died on 11 March 1936 in Hollywood, California, USA.- Writer
- Soundtrack
Francis de Croisset was born on 28 January 1877 in Brussels, Belgium. He was a writer, known for A Woman's Face (1941), Arsène Lupin (1932) and A Woman's Face (1938). He was married to Marie-Thérèse de Chevigné. He died on 8 November 1937 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France.