1982 in Belgium

Incumbents

• Monarch: Baudouin
• 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

  Publications

• OECD, Economic Surveys, 1981–1982: Belgium, Luxembourg.
• H. Lemaitre, Les gouvernements belges de 1968 à 1980: processus de crise

  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
• 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, activist
• 2 April – Max de Vaucorbeil, film director
• 7 April – Frédéric Bremer, neurophysiologist
• 14 May – Marcel-Henri Jaspar, politician
• 8 August – Ferre Grignard, singer
• 10 August – Sim Viva, singer and actress
• 17 August – Camille Bulcke, missionary
• 9 October – Omer Becu, trade unionist
• 18 October – Maurice Gilliams, writer
• 25 November – Léon Vleurinck, rower
• 3 December – Gaston Mesmaekers, equestrian