title: 1999 in Belgium
text: # 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
  