1942 in Argentina

Events from the year 1942 in Argentina

Incumbents

 * President: Roberto María Ortiz (officially up to June 26), Ramón Castillo (acting up to June 26, officially since then)
 * Vice President: Ramón Castillo (up to June 26)

Governors

 * Buenos Aires Province: Dimas González Gowland (up to January 7), Rodolfo Moreno (starting January 7)
 * Cordoba: Santiago del Castillo
 * Mendoza Province: Adolfo Vicchi

Vice Governors

 * Buenos Aires Province: vacant (until 7 January); Edgardo J. Míguez (starting 7 January)

March

 * The Concordancia wins the national elections for deputies in most provinces. The Socialist party prevails in Buenos Aires, and the UCR in Corrientes and Tucuman
 * Corrientes and Tucuman are intervened

June

 * Roberto Ortiz, ill of diabetes, resigns as president. Ramón Castillo, acting president since 1941, becomes official president.
 * The chamber of deputies votes to break relations with Nazi Germany, the chamber of senators does not discuss the project.

August

 * Gillette and Helena Rubinstein start working in the country

October

 * The port of Rosario is nationalized
 * Gaseoduct La Plata-Buenos Aires

December

 * Agustín Pedro Justo announces his intention to run for the presidency.

Ongoing

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

Births

 * January 1 – Lita Stantic, film director, producer and screenwriter
 * January 22 – Juan Carlos Sarnari, footballer
 * February 10 – Roberto Aguirre, footballer
 * February 11 – Horacio Verbitsky, investigative journalist
 * February 27 – Miguel Ángel Santoro, footballer
 * March 4 – Juan Carlos Oleniak, footballer
 * March 22 – Leo Dan, composer and singer
 * March 24 – Roberto Lavagna, economist and politician
 * April 12 – Carlos Reutemann, racing driver and politician
 * April 27 – Carlos Enrique Gavito, tango dancer
 * April 29 – Horacio Iglesias, swimmer (died 2004)
 * May 6 – Ariel Dorfman, Argentine-Chilean novelist, playwright, essayist, academic, and human rights activist
 * May 13 – Adolfo Bisellach, Olympic fencer
 * May 18 – Juan Carlos Carone, footballer
 * May 23 – José Omar Pastoriza, footballer (died 2004)
 * May 25 – Marcos Mundstock, musician and comedian
 * June 11 – Cacho Castaña, singer and actor
 * June 27 – Jérôme Savary, Argentine-French theatre director and actor (died 2013)
 * July 10
 * Francisco Escos, footballer
 * José Antonio Muñoz, artist
 * July 19 – Agustín Irusta, footballer
 * August 7 – Carlos Monzón, boxer (died 1995)
 * August 13 - Jorge Altamira, politician
 * September 1 - Daniel Willington, footballer
 * September 8 - Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo, Roman Catholic bishop
 * September 25 - Oscar Bonavena, boxer (died 1976)
 * October 3
 * Roberto Perfumo, footballer
 * Margherita Zimmermann, operatic mezzo-soprano
 * October 8 – María Julia Alsogaray, politician
 * October 15 – Carlos Núñez Cortés, musician
 * November 8 – Fernando Sorrentino, writer
 * November 15 – Daniel Barenboim, pianist and conductor
 * November 19 – Moris, rock musician
 * November 27 – Néstor Togneri, footballer (died 1999)
 * December 9 – Marcos Conigliaro, football player and coach
 * December 12 – Guillermo Jaim Etcheverry, physician and academic
 * date unknown
 * Pocho Lapouble, jazz musician (died 2009)
 * Beatriz Sarlo, literary and cultural critic.
 * Oscar Zarate, comic book artist and illustrator

Deaths

 * March 23 – Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear, politician (born 1868)
 * May 3 – Elías Isaac Alippi, actor, director and impresario (born 1883)
 * June 3 – Vicente Gallo, lawyer, academic and politician (born 1873)
 * July 15 – Roberto María Ortiz, politician (born 1886; diabetes)
 * July 20 – Julio Salvador Sagreras, guitarist and composer (born 1879)
 * July 26 – Roberto Arlt, writer (born 1900)
 * August 31 – Teddie Gerard, actress and entertainer (born 1890; lung infection)
 * September 23 – Alfredo Carricaberry, footballer (born 1900)
 * October 8 – Julio Argentino Pascual Roca, politician and diplomat (born 1873)