2001 in Belgium

Events from the year 2001 in Belgium

Incumbents

Events

March 27 - A train collision in PÃÂ©crot, 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 LiÃÂ¨ge
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 europÃÂ©enne (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 Ã¢ÂÂ Exhibition ' 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 JosÃÂ© 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 Ã¢ÂÂ 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-FranÃÂ§ois 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 MeeÃÂ¹s (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 - AngÃÂ¨le 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

See also

2001 in Belgian television

References