title: 2006 in Belgium
text: # 2006 in Belgium
  
  This article lists some of the events that took place in Belgium in 2006.
  
  ## Incumbents
  
  * Monarch: Albert II
  * Prime Minister: Guy Verhofstadt
  
  ## Events
  
  * 22 to 26 March – 2006 World University Cycling Championship takes place in Antwerp/Herentals: The Netherlands wins the overall medal table. Ellen van Dijk is the best cyclist with 1 gold and 1 silver medal.
  * 12 April – Murder of Joe Van Holsbeeck
  * 9 September – 50th Gordon Bennett Cup held in Waasmunster.
  * 8 October – Provincial and municipal elections
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * 27 March – Madeleine Scrève (born 1912), fencer
  * 3 April – Michel Delire (born 1933), footballer
  * 12 April – Joe Van Holsbeeck, teenage murder victim
  * 14 June – Jean Roba (born 1930), comics author
  * 29 June – Philibert Mees (born 1929), composer and pianist
  * 4 July – Norbert Kerckhove (born 1932), cyclist
  * 6 July – Piet Van Brabant (born 1932), journalist
  * 5 August – Hugo Schiltz (born 1927), politician
  * 16 August – Julien Schepens (born 1935), cyclist
  * 4 September – Rémy Belvaux (born 1966), film maker
  * 6 October – Louis Van Schill (born 1921), cyclist
  * 25 November – Jules Deneumoulin (born 1910), canoeist
  * 8 December – Albert De Coninck (born 1915), communist
  * 30 December – Renaat Bosschaert (born 1938), artist
  