1932 in Belgium

Incumbents

• Albert I

• Jules Renkin
• Charles de Broqueville

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 published as an album

Art and architecture

• René Magritte, The Universe Unmasked

Business

• Lotus Bakeries established

Births

• 17 January – Roger Lallemand, politician
• 11 March – Piet Van Brabant, journalist
• 18 March – Arthur Luysterman, bishop of Ghent
• 23 March – Bettina Le Beau, actress
• 31 March – Jean-Pierre Grafé, politician
• 29 June – Evrard Godefroid, cyclist
• 4 July – Aurèle Vandendriessche, marathon runner
• 20 August – Claudine Wallet, Olympic fencer
• 27 August – François Glorieux, musician
• 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, politician
• 10 April – Jean-François Heymans, pharmacologist
• 19 April – Edgard Colle, chess master
• 24 June – Guy Reyntiens, Olympic equestrian
• 25 July – Cyriel Buysse, playwright
• 20 August – Émile Mathieu, composer
• 27 August – Ursmer Berlière, monastic historian
• 29 September – Émile van Ermengem, bacteriologist
• 7 October – Eugène Broerman, painter
• 28 October – Joseph Dejardin, trade unionist