1940 in Argentina

Events from the year 1940 in Argentina

Incumbents

 * President: Roberto María Ortiz (UCR-A – Concordancia)
 * Vicepresident: Ramón Castillo

Governors

 * Buenos Aires Province:
 * until 7 March: Manuel Fresco
 * 7 March-13 March: Luis Cassinelli
 * 13 March-27 May: Octavio R. Amadeo
 * 27 May-4 June: Carlos Herrera
 * from 4 June: Octavio R. Amadeo
 * Cordoba: Amadeo Sabattini then Santiago del Castillo
 * Mendoza Province: Rodolfo Corominas Segura

Vice Governors

 * Buenos Aires Province: Aurelio Amodeo (until 7 March); vacant thereafter (starting 7 March)

February

 * Intervention of the Catamarca Province

March

 * Intervention of the Buenos Aires province

June

 * President Ortiz takes leave from work because of diabetes

August

 * Construction of the first airplane made in Argentina, a curtiss 75
 * Ortiz, during his leave from work, offers his resignation to the Congress amid a political controversy. The Congress does not accept it.

November

 * The Congress discusses a proposal for economic reactivation made by minister Federico Pinedo

December

 * Juan Tonazzi is appointed minister of War. He rearranges the top military personnel, promoting supporters of Agustín Pedro Justo

Date unknown

 * Radio El Mundo starts the radio drama Los Pérez García, which would last up to 1969

Ongoing

 * Argentina keeps a neutral stance in World War II, amid foreign pressure to join the war

Births

 * April 9 - Chunchuna Villafañe, model, actress and architect
 * April 30 - Ermindo Onega, footballer (died 1979)
 * May 15 - Carlos Bielicki, chess master
 * July 7 - Dora Baret, actress
 * August 17 - Eduardo Mignogna, film director and screenwriter (died 2006)
 * September 24 - Amelita Baltar, tango singer
 * October 17 - Carlos Heller, executive, cooperative banking leader, and politician
 * November 18 - Susana Ruiz Cerutti, lawyer and politician (died 2024)
 * date unknown
 * Cacho Espíndola, actor
 * Alicia Dujovne Ortiz, journalist* Esteban Courtalon
 * Esther Norma Arrostito
 * Graciela Paraskevaidis
 * Guillermo José Garlatti
 * Guillermo Saucedo
 * Gustavo Bergalli
 * Horacio Usandizaga
 * Jesús Taboada
 * Jorge Ginarte
 * Jorge Kissling
 * José Rubinstein
 * Juan Carlos Maccarone
 * Juan Paletta
 * Juan Rosai
 * Leonardo Henrichsen
 * Luis Brandoni
 * Luis Cubilla
 * Maria Teresa Luengo
 * Mario Acuña
 * María Cristina Laurenz
 * Miguel Ángel Loayza
 * Nacha Guevara
 * Nestor Combin
 * Osvaldo Lamborghini
 * Osvaldo Álvarez Guerrero
 * Raúl Zaffaroni
 * Roberto Matosas
 * Rodolfo Mederos
 * Román Quinos
 * Silvio Marzolini
 * Wálter Machado da Silva

Deaths

 * Enrique Mosconi
 * Manuel Musto