Gaston Berghmans

Born 11 March 1926 in Merksem, Belgium

Died 21 May 2016 (aged 90)

Gaston Berghmans, quite possibly Belgian's greatest comedian of all time, was born in 1926 in Merksem, a community which is part of the city of Antwerp. He had a very normal and healthy childhood and attended middle school to become a craftsman, just like his father before him.