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Personal data Frans Smets 

  • He was born in the year 1912 in Ruisbroek.
  • Profession: De Tijd 24 mei 1995: "Frans Smets, gewezen journalist, direkteur en politiek kommentator van De Financieel-Ekonomische Tijd, is vorige zondag in Gent overleden. Smets was 83. Frans Smets leidde generaties journalisten op, zowel op De Standaard (waar hij van 1962 tot begin 1968 werkte), als later op De Financieel-Ekonomische Tijd.Smets werd op 21 januari 1912 geboren in Ruisbroek-Sauvegarde. Hij behoorde tot de generatie 'selfmade men' die hun stempel hebben gedrukt op de ontwikkeling van de Vlaamse journalistiek. Als jongeman begon hij, in de jaren dertig, zijn loopbaan op de redaktie van De Dag, de eerste Vlaamse tabloidkrant (die op korte tijd erg populair werd). Smets bleef er ook tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog werken, wat hem achteraf problemen opleverde..
  • He died on May 21, 1995 in Gent, België, he was 83 years old.

Household of Frans Smets

He is married to Celine Antoinette Marie "Céline" Boodts.

They got married


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Day of death May 21, 1995

  • The temperature on May 21, 1995 was between 4.6 °C and 13.4 °C and averaged 9.2 °C. There was 9.0 hours of sunshine (56%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
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  • In the year 1995: Source: Wikipedia
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