1990 in Belgium

Events in the year 1990 in Belgium.

Incumbents

 * Monarch: Baudouin
 * Prime Minister: Wilfried Martens

Events

 * 4 to 5 April – Constitutional crisis: King Baudouin suspended as king for 36 hours after refusing to sign a law legalising abortion
 * 26 June – City of Antwerp adopts the Globaal structuurplan, a first attempt at structured urban planning for the whole city and regeneration of dockland neighbourhoods.
 * 28 October – German-speaking Community Council election

Publications

 * Brian Bond, Britain, France, and Belgium, 1939-1940 (Brassey's)
 * B. Francq and D. Lapeyronnie, Les deux morts de la Wallonie sidérurgique
 * Donald Flanell Friedman, The Symbolist Dead City: A Landscape of Poesis (Garland)
 * Leen Van Molle, Ieder voor allen: De Belgische Boerenbond, 1890–1990 (Leuven University Press, Kadoc Studies 9)


 * Drama
 * Hugo Claus, Four Works for the Theatre, translated by David Willinger, Luk Truyts and Luc Deneulin

Art and architecture

 * Cinema releases
 * Koko Flanel, directed by Stijn Coninx


 * Visual arts
 * Jan Fabre, Tivoli
 * Luc Tuymans, Body

Births

 * 1 January – Fazlı Kocabaş, footballer
 * 10 January – Jeroen D'hoedt, athlete
 * 13 March – Anne Zagré, athlete
 * 18 May – Dimitri Daeseleire, footballer
 * 31 May – Amelie Lens, DJ
 * 23 March – Raffaele Chiarelli, footballer
 * 21 June – Nadine Khouzam, hockey player
 * 12 July – Yassine El Ghanassy, footballer
 * 18 July – Laurine Delforge, hockey umpire
 * 19 July – Laurens Paulussen, footballer
 * 21 July – Evelyn Arys, cyclist
 * 12 August – Danira Boukhriss, newscaster
 * 28 August – Louis Verhelst, cyclist
 * 26 September – Jade Foret, model
 * 6 October – François D'Onofrio, footballer
 * 16 October – Antoine Demoitié, athlete (died 2016)
 * 28 November – Dedryck Boyata, footballer
 * 22 December – Juliette Van Dormael, cinematographer
 * 24 December – Thomas Van der Plaetsen, athlete

Deaths

 * 11 February – Léopold Anoul (born 1922), footballer
 * 12 February – Gustaaf Hulstaert (born 1900), entomologist
 * 5 March – Karel Thijs (born 1918), cyclist
 * 14 March – Léo Souris (born 1911), composer
 * 7 June – Max Loreau (born 1928), philosopher
 * 8 June – Remy Van Lierde (born 1915), fighter pilot
 * 9 June – Charles Paul de Cumont (born 1902), general
 * 19 June – Karel Sys (born 1914), boxer
 * 29 June – René Boël (born 1899), industrialist
 * 5 July – Simona Noorenbergh (born 1907), missionary
 * 13 August – André Canonne (born 1937), writer and librarian
 * 27 August – Gérard Garitte (born 1914), Orientalist
 * 28 August – Robert Jan Verbelen (born 1911), collaborator
 * 30 August – Jacques Grippa (born 1913), politician
 * 2 September – Léon Van Hove (born 1924), scientist
 * 14 September – Wim De Craene (born 1950), singer
 * 30 October – Germaine Van Dievoet (born 1899), Olympic swimmer
 * 3 December – André Vlerick (born 1919) economist and politician
 * 11 December – Fernand Collin (born 1897), banker