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• Boch, Anna    b. 1848  d. 1936
  Painter. She was the only person who bought (in 1890) a painting from Vincent Van Gogh when he was alive : "Les Vignes rouges."
  Ixelles Cemetery, Ixelles, Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium
   
• Bordet, Jules    b. June 13, 1870  d. 1961
  Doctor. Nobel prize of medicine in 1919. Discovered the whooping cough bacillus with Octave Gengou. Developed the whooping cough vaccine.
  Ixelles Cemetery, Ixelles, Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium
   
• Boulanger, Georges    b. 1837  d. 1891
  Soldier (General). His mistress Marguerite de Bonnemain (1856 - 1891) died at 35. The words "A bient™t" (see you soon) were written under her name on the grave. Boulanger planned a military revolution in France, but the boulangiste revolt failed miserably. He fled to Brussels and shot himself on his mistress's grave, thus becoming one of the few people to have died on his own tomb in a public cemetery. Only their first names are written on the grave. The sentence "Ai-je pu vivre deux mois et...[Read More]
  Cause of death: Suicide
  Ixelles Cemetery, Ixelles, Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium
   
• Broodthaers, Marcel    b. January 28, 1924  d. January 28, 1976
  Artist. His tomb stone is "rector-verso."
  Ixelles Cemetery, Ixelles, Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium
   
• de Coster, Charles    b. 1827  d. 1879
  French-speaking writer. Author of a famous comical epic which is a plea for Flemish culture : "La lŽgende et les aventures hŽroiques, joyeuses et glorieuses d'Ulenspiegel," the basis of Richard Strauss's even more famous symphonic poem. The statue on his grave is of his hero, Till.
  Ixelles Cemetery, Ixelles, Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium
   
• de Jong, Salomon (Sylvain)    b. 1868  d. 1928
  Automotive Pioneer. Maker of the luxury Minerva car. At the turn of the century it was the top of the range vehicle - Henry Ford and Frederick Royce (of Rolls-Royce fame) both drove Mnervas, as did most of the crowned heads of Europe.
  Ixelles Cemetery, Ixelles, Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium
   
• de la Hault, Frederick   b. 1860  d. 1903
  Banker whose motorized tricycle of 1885 counts as the first Belgian automobile. It reached a speed of 20 kilometers an hour.
  Ixelles Cemetery, Ixelles, Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium
   
• Effront, Jean (Isaac)   b. 1856  d. 1931
  He invented the standard process used for accelerating the fermentation of beer, and therefore of profound importance to Belgium (which has more than 800 varieties).
  Ixelles Cemetery, Ixelles, Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium
   
• Horta, Victor    b. 1861  d. 1947
  Perhaps the finest Art Nouveau architect, his buildings (including the palais de Beaux Arts and his own exquisite house) beautify Brussels.
  Ixelles Cemetery, Ixelles, Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium
   
• Hymans, Louis  b. 1829  d. 1884
  Belgian journalist and politician. His brother Paul was the first President of the League of Nations.
  Ixelles Cemetery, Ixelles, Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium
   
• Hymans, Paul    b. 1865  d. 1941
  Belgian politician. First President of the League of Nations (the predecessor of the UN) when it was formed after the First World War.
  Ixelles Cemetery, Ixelles, Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium
   
• Meunier, Constantin    b. 1831  d. 1905
  Sculptor and painter. He depicted mainly the worker's lot in Belgium at the end of the 19th century.
  Ixelles Cemetery, Ixelles, Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium
   
• Moens, Jean-Baptiste   b. 1833  d. 1908
  He is the father of philately (stamp-collecting). In 1862 he published the first stamp catalogue under the title "Manuel du Timbromane."
  Ixelles Cemetery, Ixelles, Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium
   
• Neuhaus, Frederic   b. 1846  d. 1912
  Inventor of the Belgian chocolate (praline).
  Ixelles Cemetery, Ixelles, Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium
   
• Saintenoy, Paul   b. 1862  d. 1952
  Outstanding architect, whose masterpiece in Brussels, the 'Old England' department store, has now been saved from demolition and will become a museum.
  Ixelles Cemetery, Ixelles, Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium
   
• Solvay, Ernest    b. 1838  d. 1922
  Scientist, philanthropist and industrialist, became rich through developing ammonia process, organised the first Intrenational Physics congess in Brussels in 191, at which de Broglie, Einstein, Curie and Planck were present. Founded many educational institutions.
  Ixelles Cemetery, Ixelles, Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium
   
• Wiertz, Antoine    b. 1806  d. 1865
  Bizarre painter, compared (by himself) to Rubens. His museum can be seen in Brussels, containing his most famous painting, 'The Premature Burial.'
  Ixelles Cemetery, Ixelles, Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium
   
• Ysaye, Eugène    b. July 16, 1858  d. May 12, 1931
  Composer, Orchestra Conductor. Nicknamed "The King of the Violin" in the United States, he conducted the Cincinnati Symphonic Orchestra from 1918 to 1922. The bronze effigy on the grave is by Constantin Meunier.
  Ixelles Cemetery, Ixelles, Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium
   

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