Europe – Belgium
Congo Free State (1885-1908)
The Congo Free State, also known as the Independent State of the Congo, was a private possession owned by King...
Felix Tshisekedi (1963– )
Felix Tshisekedi, the current President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) was born Félix Antoine Tshisekedi Tshilombo on...
William Robinson Clarke (1895-1981)
William Robinson Clarke was a famous World War I airman. He was the first Black pilot to fly for the...
Kedist Deltour (1997- )
Kedist Deltour was a most unlikely winner of the 2021 Miss Belgium beauty pageant. At the time she was 24...
Cheryl Mills (1965- )
Cheryl D. Mills was the Counsel and Chief of Staff for Secretary of State Hillary Clinton from January 2009 until...
Elwyn Albert Adams (1933-1995)
As a child, concert violinist and professor Elwyn A. Adams was a musical prodigy of some notoriety in the African...
Nafissatou Thiam (1994- )
Olympic and world heptathlon champion Nafissatou Thiam was born in Namur, Belgium, 43 mile southeast of Brussels, on August 19,...
Bertin Mampaka (né Bertin Mankamba Mankamba) (1957- )
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Belgian parliamentarian Bertin Mampaka was born in the capital city of Kinshasa in what is now the Democratic Republic of...
Emmanuel “Manu” N’Djoké Dibango (1933-2020)
Manu Dibango was a saxophonist from Cameroon whose 60 years of experience in the music industry inspired some of the...
