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Baron Charles Cumont
Birth name	Charles Paul de Cumont
Born	(1902-05-31)31 May 1902 Brussels, Belgium
Died	9 June 1990(1990-06-09) (aged 88) Brussels, Belgium
Allegiance	Belgium
Commands	Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman of the NATO Military Committee

Baron Charles Paul de Cumont (31 May 1902 – 9 June 1990) was a Belgian general, and served as chairman of the Belgian joint chiefs of staff between 1959 and 1963, and chairman of the NATO Military Committee from 1962 to 1963 and again in 1964 to 1968. He was also a modern pentathlete who competed at the 1928 Summer Olympics. He finished in 35th equal place with Josef Schejbal.

Military awards

Awards de Cumont has received during his life.

	Commander, Order of Leopold (Belgium)
	Knight, Order of the Oak Crown (Luxembourg)
	Grand Cross, Order of Merit (Germany)
	Knight Grand Cross, Order of Orange-Nassau (Netherlands)
	Commander, Legion of Merit (USA)
	Knight, Order of the British Empire (UK)
	Military Merit Cross (Czechoslovakia)
	Order of the Crown (Iran)

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"Charles Cumont Olympic Results". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 17 June 2012.
"Modern Pentathlon - Charles Cumont (Belgium)". www.the-sports.org. Retrieved 14 December 2021.
"Charles P. CUMONT". Olympics.com. Retrieved 14 December 2021.

v t e Chair of the NATO Military Committee
1949–1951 Omar Bradley 1951–1952 Etienne Baele 1952–1953 Charles Foulkes 1953–1954 E. J. C. Quistgaard 1954–1955 Augustin Guillaume 1955–1956 Stylianos Pallis 1956–1957 Giuseppe Mancinelli 1957–1958 B. R. P. F. Hasselman 1958–1959 Bjarne Øen 1959–1960 J. A. Beleza Ferraz 1960–1960 Rüştü Erdelhun 1960–1961 Louis Mountbatten 1961–1962 Lyman Lemnitzer 1962–1963 C. P. de Cumont 1963–1964 Adolf Heusinger 1964–1968 C. P. de Cumont 1968–1971 Nigel Henderson 1971–1974 Johannes Steinhoff 1974–1977 Peter Hill-Norton 1977–1980 H. F. Zeiner-Gundersen 1980–1983 Robert Hilborn Falls 1983–1986 Cornelis de Jager 1986–1989 Wolfgang Altenburg 1989–1993 Vigleik Eide 1993–1996 Richard Vincent 1996–1999 Klaus Naumann 1999–2002 Guido Venturoni 2002–2005 Harald Kujat 2005–2008 Ray Henault 2008–2011 Giampaolo Di Paola 2011–2015 Knud Bartels 2015–2018 Petr Pavel 2018–2021 Stuart Peach 2021–2023 Rob Bauer