 Sint-Gillis-bij-Dendermonde is birthplace to poet Emmanuel Hiel (1834 - 1894) and literature historian Wies Moens (1898 - 1982).Sint-Gillis-bij-Dendermonde has a yearly flower show on the first Sunday of September, a parade of flower-covered floats built in the several districts of Sint-Gillis, to a different theme each year.On 23 January 2009, a man attacked a children's daycare centre in the village, killing at least three people and wounding as many as twenty.