1990 in Belgium

Incumbents

• Monarch: Baudouin
• Prime Minister: Wilfried Martens

Events

• 4 to 5 April – Constitutional crisis: King Baudouin suspended as king for 36 hours after refusing to sign a law legalising abortion
• 26 June – City of Antwerp adopts the Globaal structuurplan, a first attempt at structured urban planning for the whole city and regeneration of dockland neighbourhoods.
• 28 October – German-speaking Community Council election

Publications

• Brian Bond, Britain, France, and Belgium, 1939-1940
• B. Francq and D. Lapeyronnie, Les deux morts de la Wallonie sidérurgique
• Donald Flanell Friedman, The Symbolist Dead City: A Landscape of Poesis
• Leen Van Molle, Ieder voor allen: De Belgische Boerenbond, 1890–1990

• Hugo Claus, Four Works for the Theatre, translated by David Willinger, Luk Truyts and Luc Deneulin

Art and architecture

• Jan Fabre, Tivoli
• Luc Tuymans, ''Body''

Births

• 1 January – Fazlı Kocabaş, footballer
• 10 January – Jeroen D'hoedt, athlete
• 13 March – Anne Zagré, athlete
• 18 May – Dimitri Daeseleire, footballer
• 31 May – Amelie Lens, DJ
• 23 March – Raffaele Chiarelli, footballer
• 21 June – Nadine Khouzam, hockey player
• 12 July – Yassine El Ghanassy, footballer
• 18 July – Laurine Delforge, hockey umpire
• 19 July – Laurens Paulussen, footballer
• 21 July – Evelyn Arys, cyclist
• 12 August – Danira Boukhriss, newscaster
• 28 August – Louis Verhelst, cyclist
• 26 September – Jade Foret, model
• 6 October – François D'Onofrio, footballer
• 16 October – Antoine Demoitié, athlete
• 28 November – Dedryck Boyata, footballer
• 22 December – Juliette Van Dormael, cinematographer
• 24 December – Thomas Van der Plaetsen, athlete

Deaths

• 11 February – Léopold Anoul, footballer
• 12 February – Gustaaf Hulstaert, entomologist
• 5 March – Karel Thijs, cyclist
• 14 March – Léo Souris, composer
• 7 June – Max Loreau, philosopher
• 8 June – Remy Van Lierde, fighter pilot
• 9 June – Charles Paul de Cumont, general
• 19 June – Karel Sys, boxer
• 29 June – René Boël, industrialist
• 5 July – Simona Noorenbergh, missionary
• 13 August – André Canonne, writer and librarian
• 27 August – Gérard Garitte, Orientalist
• 28 August – Robert Jan Verbelen, collaborator
• 30 August – Jacques Grippa, politician
• 2 September – Léon Van Hove, scientist
• 14 September – Wim De Craene, singer
• 30 October – Germaine Van Dievoet, Olympic swimmer
• 3 December – André Vlerick economist and politician
• 11 December – Fernand Collin, banker