1979 in Belgium

Events in the year 1979 in Belgium.

Incumbents

 * Monarch: Baudouin
 * Prime Minister: Paul Vanden Boeynants (to 3 April); Wilfried Martens (from 3 April)

Events

 * 13 June – In Marckx v Belgium the European Court of Human Rights finds for the plaintiff, Paula Marckx, that Belgian inheritance law is unfair to unmarried mothers and their children.
 * 25 June – Red Army Faction fail to assassinate Alexander Haig, Supreme Allied Commander of NATO, with a bomb in Casteau

Publications

 * Rita Lejeune and Jacques Stiennon (eds.), La Wallonie, le Pays et les Hommes: Lettres, Arts, Culture, vol. 2 (La Renaissance du Livre, Brussels)

Births

 * 5 January – Liesbet De Vocht, former road bicycle racer
 * 3 February – Wouter Vrancken, footballer
 * 24 February – Nabil Ben Yadir, film director,
 * 19 March – Stan Van Samang, actor and singer
 * 10 May – Marieke Vervoort, Paralympic athlete
 * 31 May – Jean-François Gillet, footballer
 * 21 July – Laurent Delorge, footballer
 * 29 August – Stijn Devolder, road bicycle racer
 * 8 September – Frederik Willems, cyclist
 * 13 September – Geike Arnaert, singer
 * 27 December – Ann Van Elsen, model

Deaths

 * 11 February – Marie Delcourt (born 1891), classicist
 * 25 February – Marguerite Massart (born 1900), engineer
 * 10 May – Louis Paul Boon (born 1912), novelist