# 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, 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