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List of events
Events in the year 1953 in
Belgium .
Incumbents
Events
Publications
Non-fiction
Gustave Cohen , Le Théâtre français en Belgique au Moyen Âge (Brussels, La Renaissance du Livre)
Paul Harsin , La Révolution liégeoise de 1789
Fiction
Art and architecture
Paintings
Performance
Births
10 January
23 January –
Carl Devlies , politician
26 January –
Daniël Theys , glassmaker
1 February –
Walter de Paduwa , radio DJ
21 February –
Siegfried Bracke , politician
14 March –
Dirk Van der Maelen , politician
3 April –
Pieter Aspe , writer (died 2021)
5 April –
Paul Broekx , Olympic canoer
11 April –
Guy Verhofstadt , politician
1 May –
Willy Linthout , comics author
7 May –
Alain Brichant , tennis player
6 June –
Jan Durnez , politician
30 June –
Koen Fossey , illustrator
22 July –
René Vandereycken , footballer
25 August –
Georges De Moor , health statistician
20 September –
André Delcroix , cyclist
26 September –
Micha Marah , singer
27 September –
Jean-Paul Comart , actor
9 October –
Marcia De Wachter , economist
17 October
27 October –
Daniel Guldemont , martial artist
28 October –
Jean-Marie Berckmans , writer (died 2008)
19 November –
Didier de Chaffoy de Courcelles , businessman
20 November –
Étienne De Beule , cyclist
4 December –
Jean-Marie Pfaff , goalkeeper
Deaths
6 January –
Maurice Corneil de Thoran (born 1881), musician
9 January –
Jean Brusselmans (born 1884), painter
17 January –
Jean de Bosschère (born 1878), writer and painter
19 January –
Jean Delville (born 1867), painter
11 March –
Charles Saroléa (born 1870), philologist
26 March –
Paul Loicq (born 1888), hockey administrator
16 May –
Django Reinhardt (born 1910), jazz musician
2 June –
Servais Le Roy (born 1865), entertainment
20 June –
Henri de Man (born 1885), politician
25 June –
Jules Van Nuffel (born 1883), priest and musicologist
12 July –
Joseph Jongen (born 1873), composer
14 September –
Pierre Nolf (born 1873), scientist
18 September –
Charles de Tornaco (born 1927), racing driver
2 November –
Émile Cammaerts (born 1878), writer
References
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"Baudouin I | king of Belgium" . Encyclopedia Britannica . Retrieved 28 March 2019 .
^ Paul Delforge.
"24 octobre 1953: catastrophe minière au charbonnage le Many, à Seraing, 26 morts" . wallonie.be .
Walloon Government .
^ , "Giraudoux, (Hippolyte) Jean", The Oxford Companion to the Theatre , edited by Phyllis Hartnoll, fourth edition (Oxford University Press, 1983), p. 336.
^ J.P. Wearing, The London Stage 1950-1959: A Calendar of Productions, Performers, and Personnel , second edition (Rowman & Littlefield, 2014), p. 241.