2001 in Belgium

Events from the year 2001 in Belgium

Incumbents

 * Monarch: Albert II
 * Prime Minister: Guy Verhofstadt

Events

 * March 27 - A train collision in Pécrot, Walloon Brabant causes 8 fatalities.
 * April 28 - Popular amusement park Walibi Waver reopens as Six Flags Belgium.
 * June 3 - Aloys Jousten consecrated as bishop of Liège
 * July 16 - Belgian Jacques Rogge elected President of the International Olympic Committee.
 * September 11 - One Belgian dies in the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City: Patrice Braut, killed on the 94th floor.
 * November 6 - National airline company Sabena is declared bankrupt by the commercial court.

Publications

 * Philippe Bragard and Vincent Bruch, Namur: une citadelle européenne (Namur, Les Amis de la Citadelle de Namur)
 * Raymond van Uytven, Production and Consumption in the Low Countries, 13th-16th Centuries (Aldershot, Ashgate Publishing)

Art and architecture

 * 21 January to 22 April – Exhibition Pride and Joy: Children's Portraits in The Netherlands 1500-1700 held at Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp.

Births

 * 27 February – Largie Ramazani, Belgian footballer
 * 10 March – Charles De Ketelaere, Belgian footballer
 * 25 October – Princess Elisabeth, Duchess of Brabant, eldest child of King Philippe and Queen Mathilde

Deaths

 * January
 * January 1 - Remi Capoen (84), cyclist
 * January 7 - Robert Hurbain (72), businessman
 * January 8 - Paul Vanden Boeynants (81), politician
 * January 11 - Maurits Goossens (86), actor
 * January 19 - Pierre Soubry (69), businessman
 * January 26 - Eric Rijckaert (57), doctor
 * January 27 - Marie José of Belgium (94), Belgian princess and last Queen of Italy
 * January 31 - Renaat Braem (90), architect


 * February
 * February 22 - Piet Bergers (93), actor


 * March
 * March 5 - Evrard de Limburg Stirum (73), mayor
 * March 5 - Frans De Mulder (63), cyclist
 * March 16 - Brasser (64), cartoonist


 * May
 * May 3 - Ward Schroeven (88), athlete
 * May 14 - Eugeen Uten (81), carillonneur and composer


 * June
 * June 3 - Jean-Pierre De Decker (56), film director
 * June 15 - Hurey (63), cartoonist
 * June 29 - Donald Madder (32), actor
 * June 30 - Pol Appeltants (79), soccer-player


 * July
 * July 8 - Kees Brug (78), singer and comedian
 * July 12 - Jacques Vercruysse (71), athlete
 * July 16 - Morris (77), cartoonist


 * August
 * August 3 - Leo De Kesel (97), cleric
 * August 18 - Roland Cardon (72), composer and conductor
 * August 19 - Henri-François Van Aal (68), journalist and politician
 * August 21 - Alfred Scokaert (80), mayor
 * August 24 - Bernard Heuvelmans (84), zoologist
 * August 29 - Jacques Santkin (52), politician


 * September
 * September 7 - Georges Mundeleer (80), politician
 * September 8 - Paul Ooghe (102), last surviving Belgian soldier from World War 1
 * September 26 - Albert Tiberghien (86), tax consultant


 * October
 * October 1 - Alfons Borgers (82), mathematician
 * October 15 - Lieve Baeten (46), children book writer


 * November
 * November 15 - Robert Vanes (78), businessman and professor
 * November 24 - Eddy Meeùs (75), entrepreneur, founder Walibi


 * December
 * December 1 - Taf Wallet (99), painter and engraver
 * December 15 - Paul Devlies (79), politician
 * December 22 - Pierre Cosemyns (71), boxer
 * December 22 - Angèle Durand (76), singer and actress
 * December 26 - Staf Permentier (81), comedian
 * December 29 - Louis Waltniel (76), politician
 * December 30 - Chaim Kreiswirth (83), Polish-Belgian rabbi