2001 in Belgium
Events from the year '''2001 in Belgium'''
Incumbents
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 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
Deaths
;January- 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
- April 5 – Simone Dubois, translator
- 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