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City of Brussels (bel)

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City of Brussels ranks 568th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Colorado Springs, Colorado, Basra, and Flint, Michigan. Memorable people born in City of Brussels include Claude Lévi-Strauss, Margaret of Austria, Duchess of Savoy, and Pieter Brueghel the Younger. Memorable people who died in City of Brussels include Giacomo Puccini, Rogier van der Weyden, and Alain Resnais. City of Brussels has been the birth place of many politicians, and painters and the death place of many painters, and politicians. City of Brussels is located in Belgium.

The City of Brussels is the largest municipality and historical centre of the Brussels-Capital Region, as well as the capital of the Flemish Region and Belgium. The City of Brussels is also the administrative centre of the European Union, as it hosts a number of principal EU institutions in its European Quarter. Read more on Wikipedia

People

Between 1300 and 2002, City of Brussels was the birth place of 26 globally memorable people, including Claude Lévi-Strauss, Margaret of Austria, Duchess of Savoy, and Pieter Brueghel the Younger. Additionaly, 27 globally memorable people have passed away in City of Brussels including Giacomo Puccini, Rogier van der Weyden, and Alain Resnais. Interestingly, more notably known people have passed away in City of Brussels than were born there.

People Born in City of Brussels

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Occupations

Most individuals born in present day City of Brussels were politicians (5), painters (5), athletes (3), writers (2), and wrestlers (2),  while most who died were painters (6), politicians (5), composers (3), chemists (2), and fencers (2).

Over the past 100 years, wrestlers have been the top profession of globally memorable people born in City of Brussels, including Toma Nikiforov, and Soniya Bhatta. Whereas, throughout history, politicians have been the profession with the most memorable people born in present day City of Brussels, including Margaret of Austria, Duchess of Savoy, Henri de Baillet-Latour, and Joanna, Duchess of Brabant.

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Overlapping Lives

Below is a visual represetation of the lifespans of the top 10 globally memorable people born in City of Brussels since 1700.