Events from the year 1999 in Belgium

Incumbents

* Monarch: Albert II * Prime Minister: Jean-Luc Dehaene (to 12 July);

Guy Verhofstadt Guy Maurice Marie Louise Verhofstadt (; ; born 11 April 1953) is a Belgian politician who was the leader of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe from 2009 to 2019, and has been a member of the European Parliament (MEP) from Belgium ...

(from 12 July)

Events

* May – Dioxin affair comes to light * 13 June –

1999 Belgian federal election Federal elections were held in Belgium on June 13, 1999 to elect members of the Chamber of Representatives and Senate. The elections were held on the same day as the European elections and the regional elections. The Flemish Liberals and Democr ...

* 12 July – Verhofstadt I Government sworn in * 2 August –

Yaguine Koita and Fodé Tounkara Yaguine Koïta (September 25, 1984 – July 28, 1999) and Fodé Tounkara (April 6, 1985 – July 28, 1999) were wheel-well stowaways who froze to death on a Sabena Airlines Airbus A330 (Flight 520) flying from Conakry, Guinea, to Brussels, Bel ...

discovered dead at

Brussels Airport Brussels Airport, nl, Luchthaven Brussel, vls, Vliegpling Brussel, german: Flughafen Brüssel is an international airport northeast of Brussels, the capital of Belgium. In 2019, more than 26 million passengers arrived or departed at Bruss ...

* 4 December – Wedding of Prince Philippe and Mathilde d'Udekem d'Acoz

Publications

* Amélie Nothomb, '' Stupeur et tremblements'' (winner of the 1999 Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française) *

Philippe Roberts-Jones Baron Philippe Roberts-Jones (8 November 1924 – 9 August 2016) was a Belgian art historian who was the head of conservation of the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium. A member of the Royal Academy of Science, Letters and Fine Arts of Belgiu ...

, ''Brussels: Fin de Siècle'' (Cologne: Taschen) * Robert Stallaerts, ''Historical Dictionary of Belgium'' (Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press) * Raymond van Uytven, ''Studies over Brabantse kloostergeschiedenis'' (Brussels: Algemeen Rijksarchief, 1999)

Births

* 2 August – Emma Bale, singer * 27 August –

Mile Svilar Mile Svilar ( sr-cyr, Миле Свилар; born 27 August 1999) is a Serbian professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Serie A club Roma and the Serbia national team. Club career Early career and Anderlecht Svilar is a product of ...

, footballer

Deaths

* 22 January – Paul Cammermans (born 1921), film maker * 20 February – Frans Grootjans (born 1922), politician * 16 August –

Paul Serruys Paul Leo-Mary Serruys C.I.C.M. (19 November 191216 August 1999) was a Belgian missionary, sinologist, and academic best known for his studies on the grammar of Classical Chinese, oracle bone script, and on the varieties of Chinese. He was a memb ...

(born 1912), missionary * 10 September –

Michèle Fabien Michèle Gérard (she wrote under the name Michèle Fabien) (April 2, 1945 – September 10, 1999) was a Belgian writer and playwright. The daughter of Albert S. Gérard, a professor of literature, she was born in Genk. She received a PhD ...

(born 1945), writer * 17 December – Henri Storck (born 1907), film maker

References

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