1939 in Belgium
# 1939 in Belgium

Events of the year 1939 in Belgium.

## Incumbents

* Monarch: Leopold III
* Prime Minister: Paul-Henri Spaak (to 22 February); Hubert Pierlot (from 22 February)

## Events

* 9 February – Paul-Henri Spaak's coalition government falls apart
* 22 February – Hubert Pierlot forms Catholic–Socialist coalition
* 2 April – 1939 Belgian general election
* 18 April – Hubert Pierlot forms Catholic–Liberal coalition
* 25 June – Hermann Lang wins the 1939 Belgian Grand Prix at Spa-Francorchamps
* 30 July – Exposition internationale de l'eau opens in Liège
* 25 August – Belgian Armed Forces begin mobilisation
* 3 September – Hubert Pierlot forms government of national unity

## Publications

* Hergé, Le Sceptre d'Ottokar (serialised in Le Petit Vingtième from 4 August 1938 to 10 August 1939) published as an album
* Georges Simenon, Le Bourgmestre de Furnes
* Gerard Walschap, Houtekiet

## Art and architecture

### Buildings

* Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel on the Argenteuil Estate in Waterloo

### Paintings

* René Magritte, The Palace of Memories

## Births

* 21 February – May Claerhout, artist (died 2016)
* 9 March – Jos Van Gorp, actor (died 2021)
* 12 April – Philippe Moureaux, politician (died 2018)
* 9 June – Johan Weyts, politician (died 2021)
* 3 July – Willy Vanden Berghen, road bicycle racer

## Deaths

* 6 January – Georges Ista (born 1874), writer
* 15 February – Henri Jaspar (born 1870), politician
* 6 March – Michel Levie (born 1851), politician
* 14 March – Marie Haps (born 1879), philanthropist
* 25 June – Richard Seaman (born 1913), racing driver, dies after crashing in the 1939 Belgian Grand Prix
* 6 November – Adolphe Max (born 1869), politician
* 23 November – Gaston-Antoine Rasneur (born 1874), bishop
