2001 in Belgium

Events from the year 2001 in Belgium

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See also:	Other events of 2001 List of years 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

April

• April 5 – Simone Dubois (90), translator

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

See also

• 2001 in Belgian television