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, eldest child of Philippe of Belgium (then Duke of Brabant)
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
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