1982 in Belgium

← 1981 1980 1979 1982 in Belgium → 1983 1984 1985
Decades:	1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s
See also:	Other events of 1982 List of years in Belgium

Events in the year 1982 in Belgium.

Incumbents[]

• Monarch: Baudouin^[1]
• Prime Minister: Wilfried Martens

Events[]

• 8 May – Gilles Villeneuve dies in a crash at Circuit Zolder qualifying for the 1982 Belgian Grand Prix
• 30 September – Brabant killers shoot and kill a policeman while robbing a gun dealer in Wavre
• 10 October – Municipal elections

Publications[]

• OECD, Economic Surveys, 1981–1982: Belgium, Luxembourg.^[2]
• H. Lemaitre, Les gouvernements belges de 1968 à 1980: processus de crise (Stavelot, J. Chauveheid)

Births[]

• 2 January – Hassan Mourhit, athlete
• 4 January – Mélanie Cohl, singer
• 26 February – Rose Berryl, writer
• 15 April – Marie Kremer, actress
• 30 April – Pascaline Crêvecoeur, actress
• 1 June – Justine Henin, tennis player
• 24 July – Élise Crombez, model
• 28 July – Jonas Geirnaert, cartoonist
• 6 August – Kevin van der Perren, figure skater^[3]
• 31 August – Thomas van den Balck, hockey player
• 18 September – Maxime Luycx, hockey player
• 26 September – Axel Hirsoux, singer
• 4 October – Lola Danhaive, hockey player
• 9 October – Laurent Micheli, director
• 7 November – Mahinur Ozdemir, politician
• 9 December – Nathalie De Vos, athlete
• 17 December – Virginie Claes, beauty queen

Deaths[]

• 5 February – Wies Moens (born 1898), activist
• 2 April – Max de Vaucorbeil (born 1901), film director
• 7 April – Frédéric Bremer (born 1892), neurophysiologist
• 14 May – Marcel-Henri Jaspar (born 1901), politician
• 8 August – Ferre Grignard (born 1939), singer
• 10 August – Sim Viva (born 1903), singer and actress
• 17 August – Camille Bulcke (born 1909), missionary
• 9 October – Omer Becu (born 1902), trade unionist
• 18 October – Maurice Gilliams (born 1900), writer
• 4 November – Mireille Versele (born 1956), cystic fibrosis campaigner
• 25 November – Léon Vleurinck (born 1899), rower
• 3 December – Gaston Mesmaekers (born 1888), equestrian

References[]

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