1932 in Belgium

Events of the year 1932 in Belgium.

Incumbents
Monarch Prime Minister
 * Albert I
 * Jules Renkin (to 22 October)
 * Charles de Broqueville (from 22 October)

Events

 * 27 June to 10 September – Ten weeks of strikes in the Borinage to protest against economic conditions.
 * 9 October – Municipal elections
 * 18 October – Jules Renkin offers his resignation as prime minister
 * 27 November – Legislative election returns Catholic Party majority
 * 4 December – Provincial elections

Publications

 * Franz Hellens, Poésie de la veille et du lendemain
 * Hergé, Tintin en Amérique (serialised 1931–1932) published as an album

Art and architecture

 * Paintings
 * René Magritte, The Universe Unmasked


 * Cinema
 * La Nuit du Carrefour (France), Jean Renoir's adaptation of Georges Simenon's La Nuit du carrefour (1931)

Business

 * Lotus Bakeries established

Births

 * 17 January – Roger Lallemand, politician (died 2016)
 * 11 March – Piet Van Brabant, journalist (died 2006)
 * 18 March – Arthur Luysterman, bishop of Ghent
 * 23 March – Bettina Le Beau, actress (died 2015)
 * 31 March – Jean-Pierre Grafé, politician (died 2019)
 * 29 June – Evrard Godefroid, cyclist (died 2013)
 * 4 July – Aurèle Vandendriessche, marathon runner
 * 20 August – Claudine Wallet, Olympic fencer
 * 27 August – François Glorieux, musician (died 2023)
 * 4 October – Étienne Davignon, politician
 * 6 November – François Englert, theoretical physicist
 * 23 November – Solange Berry, singer
 * 16 December – Karel Oomen, wrestler
 * 20 December – Carla Walschap, writer and teacher

Deaths

 * 17 February – Fredegand Cogels (born 1850), politician
 * 10 April – Jean-François Heymans (born 1859), pharmacologist
 * 19 April – Edgard Colle (born 1897), chess master
 * 24 June – Guy Reyntiens (born 1880), Olympic equestrian
 * 25 July – Cyriel Buysse (born 1859), playwright
 * 20 August – Émile Mathieu (born 1844), composer
 * 27 August – Ursmer Berlière (born 1861), monastic historian
 * 29 September – Émile van Ermengem (born 1851), bacteriologist
 * 7 October – Eugène Broerman (born 1861), painter
 * 28 October – Joseph Dejardin (born 1873), trade unionist