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
• Raymond van Uytven, Production and Consumption in the Low Countries, 13th-16th Centuries

  Art and architecture

• 21 January to 22 April – Exhibition held at Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp.

  Births

• October 25 - Princess Elisabeth, Duchess of Brabant, eldest child of King Philippe and Queen Mathilde

  Deaths

• January 1 - Remi Capoen, cyclist
• January 7 - Robert Hurbain, businessman
• January 8 - Paul Vanden Boeynants, politician
• January 11 - Maurits Goossens, actor
• January 19 - Pierre Soubry, businessman
• January 26 - Eric Rijckaert, doctor
• January 27 - Marie José of Belgium, Belgian princess and last Queen of Italy
• January 31 - Renaat Braem, architect

• February 22 - Piet Bergers, actor

• March 5 - Evrard de Limburg Stirum, mayor
• March 5 - Frans De Mulder, cyclist
• March 16 - Brasser, cartoonist

• May 3 - Ward Schroeven, athlete
• May 14 - Eugeen Uten, carillonneur and composer

• June 3 - Jean-Pierre De Decker, film director
• June 15 - Hurey, cartoonist
• June 29 - Donald Madder, actor
• June 30 - Pol Appeltants, soccer-player

• July 8 - Kees Brug, singer and comedian
• July 12 - Jacques Vercruysse, athlete
• July 16 - Morris, cartoonist

• August 3 - Leo De Kesel, cleric
• August 18 - Roland Cardon, composer and conductor
• August 19 - Henri-François Van Aal, journalist and politician
• August 21 - Alfred Scokaert, mayor
• August 24 - Bernard Heuvelmans, zoologist
• August 29 - Jacques Santkin, politician

• September 7 - Georges Mundeleer, politician
• September 8 - Paul Ooghe, last surviving Belgian soldier from World War 1
• September 26 - Albert Tiberghien, tax consultant

• October 1 - Alfons Borgers, mathematician
• October 15 - Lieve Baeten, children book writer

• November 15 - Robert Vanes, businessman and professor
• November 24 - Eddy Meeùs, entrepreneur, founder Walibi

• December 1 - Taf Wallet, painter and engraver
• December 15 - Paul Devlies, politician
• December 22 - Pierre Cosemyns, boxer
• December 22 - Angèle Durand, singer and actress
• December 26 - Staf Permentier, comedian
• December 29 - Louis Waltniel, politician
• December 30 - Chaim Kreiswirth, Polish-Belgian rabbi