title: 1941 in Belgium
text: # 1941 in Belgium
  
  Events in the year 1941 in Belgium
  
  ## Incumbents
  
  * Monarch: Leopold III (prisoner)
  * Prime Minister: Hubert Pierlot (in exile)
  * Head of the occupying Military Administration in Belgium and Northern France: Alexander von Falkenhausen
  * Head of the administrative staff of the Occupation: Eggert Reeder
  
  ## Events
  
  * 1 January – Léon Degrelle calls on Belgians to collaborate with Nazi $Germany.^{:850}$
  * 14 January – Radio Belgique launches V for Victory $campaign.^{:850}$
  * 21 January – Belgian government in exile reaches an agreement with the United Kingdom that Belgian Congo will become part of the Sterling area and enter the war on the allied $side.^{:850}$
  * 3 March – Dedicated Dutch-language Radio België begins broadcasting from $London.^{:850}$
  * 25 March – Twenty leading figures from the vicinity of Liège taken hostage in retaliation to sabotage of the railway, including former government minister of public works, Jules Joseph $Merlot.^{:852}$
  * 5 May – Flemish collaborationist organisations Vlaams Nationaal Verbond and Verdinaso, and the Flemish section of the Rexist Party, sign an agreement to $merge.^{:851}$
  * 16 May – Anniversary of the German invasion marked by $strikes.^{:851}$
  * 22 June – 337 left-wing activists arrested to $prevent.^{:851}$
  * 25 November – Université Libre de Bruxelles closes to protest plans to appoint pro-German $professors.^{:852}$
  * 6 December – King Leopold marries Lilian Baels in $captivity.^{:850}$
  
  ## Births
  
  * 3 February – Antoine Duquesne, politician (died 2010)
  * 25 February – Nelly Maes, politician
  * 16 May – Andreas De Leenheer, biologist (died 2022)
  * 21 March – Dirk Frimout, astronaut
  * 28 March – Walter van den Broeck, writer
  * 31 May – Nicole Van Goethem, illustrator (died 2000)
  * 6 July – Alfons Vansteenwegen, communication theorist
  * 2 August – Jean Cornelis, footballer (died 2016)
  * 5 August – August Verhaegen, cyclist (died 2012)
  * 8 August – Hubert Schoonbroodt, musician (died 1992)
  * 20 September – Alix de Lannoy, noblewoman (died 2012)
  * 23 September – Rita Van De Velde, gymnast
  * 28 September – Lucas Van Looy, bishop
  * 30 September – Els Witte, historian
  * 2 October – Jean Vallée, entertainer (died 2014)
  * 20 October – Leopold Lippens, politician (died 2021)
  * 24 October – Frank Aendenboom, entertainer (died 2018)
  * 26 October – Bob de Groot, cartoonist
  * 17 November – Thierry de Gruben, diplomat
  * 26 November – Constant Bens, wrestler
  * 23 December – Serge Reding, weightlifter (died 1975)
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * 18 February – George Minne (born 1866), poet
  * 9 March – Paul Hymans (born 1865), politician
  * 28 August – Sybille de Selys Longchamps, noblewoman
  * 16 September – Valerius De Saedeleer (born 1867), painter
  * 25 October – Renée de Merode (born 1859), noblewoman
  