1932 in Belgium

Events of the year 1932 in Belgium.

← 1931 1930 1929 1932 in Belgium → 1933 1934 1935
Decades:	1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s
See also:	Other events of 1932 List of years in Belgium

Incumbents

Albert I in conversation with Albert Einstein, August 1932

Monarch

• Albert I

Prime Minister

• Jules Renkin (to 22 October)
• Charles de Broqueville (from 22 October)

Events

A map of the Belgian rail network (1932)

• 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