1999 in Belgium
# 1999 in Belgium

Events from the year 1999 in Belgium

## Incumbents

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

## Events

* May – Dioxin affair comes to light
* 13 June – 1999 Belgian federal election
* 12 July – Verhofstadt I Government sworn in
* 2 August – Yaguine Koita and Fodé Tounkara discovered dead at Brussels Airport
* 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, 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, footballer

## Deaths

* 22 January – Paul Cammermans (born 1921), film maker
* 20 February – Frans Grootjans (born 1922), politician
* 16 August – Paul Serruys (born 1912), missionary
* 10 September – Michèle Fabien (born 1945), writer
* 17 December – Henri Storck (born 1907), film maker
