2001 in Belgium

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List of years in Belgium

Events from the year 2001 in Belgium

Incumbents[]

  • Monarch: Albert II[1]
  • 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.[2]
  • 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)

Art and architecture[]

Births[]

  • 27 February – Largie Ramazani, Belgian footballer
  • 25 October – Princess Elisabeth, Duchess of Brabant, eldest child of King Philippe and Queen Mathilde

Deaths[]

January
  • January 1 - (84), cyclist
  • January 7 - (72), businessman
  • January 8 - Paul Vanden Boeynants (81), politician
  • January 11 - (86), actor
  • January 19 - (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 - (93), actor
March
May
  • May 3 - (88), athlete
  • May 14 - (81), carillonneur and composer
June
  • June 3 - (56), film director
  • June 15 - (63), cartoonist
  • June 29 - (32), actor
  • June 30 - (79), soccer-player
July
  • July 8 - (78), singer and comedian
  • July 12 - (71), athlete
  • July 16 - Morris (77), cartoonist
August
  • August 3 - (97), cleric
  • August 18 - Roland Cardon (72), composer and conductor
  • August 19 - (68), journalist and politician
  • August 21 - (80), mayor
  • August 24 - Bernard Heuvelmans (84), zoologist
  • August 29 - (52), politician
September
  • September 7 - (80), politician
  • September 8 - Paul Ooghe (102), last surviving Belgian soldier from World War 1
  • September 26 - (86), tax consultant
October
  • October 1 - (82), mathematician
  • October 15 - (46), children book writer
November
  • November 15 - (78), businessman and professor
  • November 24 - (75), entrepreneur, founder Walibi
December
  • December 1 - (99), painter and engraver
  • December 15 - (79), politician
  • December 22 - (71), boxer
  • December 22 - Angèle Durand (76), singer and actress
  • December 26 - (81), comedian
  • December 29 - Louis Waltniel (76), politician
  • December 30 - Chaim Kreiswirth (83), Polish-Belgian rabbi

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ "Albert II | king of Belgium". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 28 March 2019.
  2. ^ "11 Septembre 2001 : Patrice Braut vivait son rêve américain". Retrieved 24 September 2014.
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