Events from the year 1947 in Belgium
Incumbents Monarch: Leopold III Regent: Prince Charles Prime Minister: Camille Huysmans (to 20 March) Paul-Henri Spaak (from 20 March)
Events 13 March – Camille Huysmans proffers his resignation as prime minister. 28 March – premiere of Marie-Thérèse Bodart's play Et Adam répondit (And Adam Answered) at the Royal Park Theatre.
Publications Marnix Gijsen (ed.), Belgium under Occupation (New York, Moretus Press for the Belgian Government Information Center) Joseph Lefèvre, Spinola et la Belgique, 1601-1627 Robert E. Merriam, Dark December: The Full Account of the Battle of the Bulge (Chicago, Ziff-Davis) Georges Simenon, Maigret se fâche
Births 1 April – Philippe Kirsch, Belgian-born Canadian lawyer and judge 19 April – Claude Laverdure, writer (died 2020)
Deaths 9 February — Anna Kernkamp (born 1868), artist 11 March – Édouard Poncelet (born 1865), archivist 8 September – Victor Horta (born 1861), architect 10 November – Victor Matthys, (born 1914), politician and Nazi collaborator (died 1947)Philip Rees, Biographical Dictionary of the Extreme Right Since 1890, 1990, p. 330.
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