The Belgium men's national basketball team represents Belgium in international basketball tournaments. The supervising body is Basketball Belgium.
Jean d'Osta pseudonym of Jean Van Osta, was a Belgian writer, journalist, humorist, and great lover of Brussels. He has written many books about Brussels and its local dialect called Marols. He created the personage Jef Kazak, which appeared for several decades in the Belgian weekly magazines Pourquoi Pas? and Vlan.
Belgium competed at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany. 150 competitors, 145 men and 5 women, participated in 72 events in 15 sports.
De Kotmadam is a classic Flemish comedy television series directed by Ronnie Commissaris and Wim Feyearts produced for Belgian television since 1991. The series is written by Jaak Boon and Frans Ceusters. Season 22 will be aired in fall 2015. Season 23 is currently in production.
Bob Peeters is a Belgian football manager and former player. He is currently the head coach of Eerste Divisie club TOP Oss.
Wilfried Peeters is a former Belgian professional road bicycle racer. Nowadays, he is sportif director of the Quick Step team. During his cycling-career, he was a major help for Johan Museeuw in classics such as the Tour of Flanders and Paris–Roubaix.
Jan Vanderheyden was a Belgian film producer and director known for the Flemish comedies he made in the 1930s and 1940s. During the German occupation of Belgium between 1940 and 1944, he produced four of the six films made by Belgian companies in a market that was otherwise flooded by imported German films.
Charles Janssens was a Belgian film actor. He became known for his comic roles in films made with Edith Kiel and Jef Bruyninckx.
Louisa Lausanne (1891–1964) was a Belgian film actress.
Jef Bruyninckx was a Belgian film actor, editor and director.
Edith Kiel was a German film producer, screenwriter, editor and director who worked mainly in the Flemish section of the Belgian film – industry. After starting out at Germany's largest studio, UFA, she moved to Belgium where she worked alongside her husband Jan Vanderheyden.
St. Charles Borromeo Church is a church in central Antwerp, located on the Hendrik Conscience square. It was built in 1615-1621 as the Jesuit church of Antwerp, which was closed in 1773. It was rededicated in 1779 to Saint Charles Borromeo. The church was formerly known for 39 ceiling pieces by Rubens that were lost in a fire when lightning struck the church on 18 July 1718.
De Witte is a Belgian film of 1934 in black and white, directed by Jan Vanderheyden. It is an adaptation of the hononymous book by Ernest Claes.
The Dutch Nul Group, which consisted of Armando, Jan Henderikse, Henk Peeters and Jan Schoonhoven (1914-1994), manifested itself in form and name in 1961. On 1 April 1961, a stone's throw from the Amsterdam Stedelijk Museum, Galerie 201 organized the ‘Internationale tentoonstelling van NIETS’. The 'Manifest tegen niets' and 'Einde' ('Ending'), a pamphlet published at the same time, were among the first activities of the Nul group. ‘We need art like we need a hole in the head,’ the pamphlet 'Einde' states; ‘From now on the undersigned pledge to work to disband art circles and close down exhibition facilities, which can then finally be put to worthier use.’ The 'Einde' pamphlet imagines a new beginning, as Armando and Henk Peeters had already proclaimed in texts written several years earlier for the Dutch Informals.
Jef is a Dutch-language masculine given name primarily used in Belgium. It is a short form of Jozef/Josef, used also in Breton. People with the name include:
Greet Van den Berghe is an intensive care specialist and since 2002 head of the Department of Intensive Care of the University Hospital of Leuven and head of the Laboratory of Intensive Care Medicine at the Faculty of Medicine, KU Leuven.
Events in the year 1895 in Belgium.
Ria Bollen is a Flemish contralto, who had an international career as a concert singer between 1965 and 1992. Her broad repertoire included Bach's Passions, Mozart's Requiem, Beethoven's Missa solemnis, especially works by Gustav Mahler and works of the 20th century. She was the soloist in the world premiere of Frank Martin's Requiem. She sang many art songs, including by Belgian composers.
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