Gaston Berghmans

Born

March 11, 1926

Died

May 21, 2016 · age 90

From

Merksem, Belgium

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.