1990 in Belgium

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Decades:	1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s
See also:	Other events of 1990 List of years in Belgium

Events in the year 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 (Brassey's)
• B. Francq and D. Lapeyronnie, Les deux morts de la Wallonie sidérurgique
• Donald Flanell Friedman, The Symbolist Dead City: A Landscape of Poesis (Garland)
• Leen Van Molle, Ieder voor allen: De Belgische Boerenbond, 1890–1990 (Leuven University Press, Kadoc Studies 9)

Drama

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

Art and architecture

Luc Tuymans, Body (1990)

Cinema releases

• Koko Flanel, directed by Stijn Coninx

Visual arts

• 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
• 12 April - Eline Powell, actress
• 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 (died 2016)
• 28 November – Dedryck Boyata, footballer
• 22 December – Juliette Van Dormael, cinematographer
• 24 December – Thomas Van der Plaetsen, athlete

Deaths

• 11 February – Léopold Anoul (born 1922), footballer
• 12 February – Gustaaf Hulstaert (born 1900), entomologist
• 5 March – Karel Thijs (born 1918), cyclist
• 14 March – Léo Souris (born 1911), composer
• 7 June – Max Loreau (born 1928), philosopher
• 8 June – Remy Van Lierde (born 1915), fighter pilot
• 9 June – Charles Paul de Cumont (born 1902), general
• 19 June – Karel Sys (born 1914), boxer
• 29 June – René Boël (born 1899), industrialist
• 5 July – Simona Noorenbergh (born 1907), missionary
• 13 August – André Canonne (born 1937), writer and librarian
• 27 August – Gérard Garitte (born 1914), Orientalist
• 28 August – Robert Jan Verbelen (born 1911), collaborator
• 30 August – Jacques Grippa (born 1913), politician
• 2 September – Léon Van Hove (born 1924), scientist
• 14 September – Wim De Craene (born 1950), singer
• 30 October – Germaine Van Dievoet (born 1899), Olympic swimmer
• 3 December – André Vlerick (born 1919) economist and politician
• 11 December – Fernand Collin (born 1897), banker