Wilfried Achiel Emma Martens Dutch: listen; 19 April 1936 – 9 October 2013 was a Flemish Belgian politician. He was born in Sleidinge East Flanders. During his political career, Martens served as a Prime Minister of Belgium from 3 March 1979 to 6 April 1981 and 17 December 1981 to 7 March 1992.
Martens suffered from pancreatic cancer and ended his life via euthanasia on the 9th of October, 2013 at his domestic in Lokeren; he was 77. Elio Di Rupo, the Belgian prime minister, forwarded him as a "true statesman and one of the fathers of federal Belgium". Martin Schulz, president of the European Parliament, paid tribute to him as a "statesman of Belgium, Europe and an outstanding leader of European Parliament". Jerzy Buzek, EPP MEP and former prime minister of Poland, subject him as "irreplaceable".
The EPP think tank Centre for European Studies has been renamed after him, now being the "Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies", a decision taken during the EPP Congress in Dublin held on 9 March 2014.
He received an Official State funeral, which was attended by a Royal Aide-de-Camp of King Philippe, he was buried in the Cemetery of Campo Santo.