1942 in Romania

Events from the year 1942 in Romania. The year was dominated by the Second World War.

Incumbents

 * King: Michael I of Romania.
 * Prime Minister: Ion Antonescu.

Events

 * 24 January – A record temperature of -38.5 C is recorded at Bod, Brașov.
 * 6 June – A state of war is declared between Romania and the United States.
 * 1 July – Romanian and German troops capture the fortress at Sevastopol following a siege that had lasted 8 months.
 * 7 September – Romanian and German troops capture Novorossiysk in the Battle of the Caucasus.
 * 2 November – Soldiers of the Vânători de munte under the command of general Ioan Dumitrache capture Nalchik, the farthest advance by the Axis powers into the Caucasus.
 * 19 November – The Romania Third and Fourth Armies come under attack by the Soviet Red Army at the Battle of Stalingrad.
 * 1 December – The Soviet cruiser SOVIET CRUISER Voroshilov and destroyer SOVIET DESTROYER Soobrazitelny shell Snake Island, damaging the radio station, barracks and lighthouse on the island, but fail to inflict significant losses.

Births

 * 5 January – Alexandru Ioan Lupaș, mathematician (died 2007).
 * 9 March – Ion Caramitru, stage and film actor, stage director, and political figure (died 2021).
 * 25 March – Otilia Valeria Coman (pen name Ana Blandiana), poet.
 * 25 March – Basarab Nicolescu, theoretical physicist.
 * 27 March – Olga Bucătaru, film and stage actress (died 2020).
 * 2 April – Gabriela Adameșteanu, novelist, short story writer, essayist, journalist, and translator.
 * 23 May – Gabriel Liiceanu, philosopher.
 * 28 May – Păun Otiman, agronomist, politician, member of the Romanian Academy.
 * 22 September – Alexandru Moisuc, agricultural scientist.
 * 4 November – Edward Luttwak, American military strategist and author.

Deaths

 * 21 March – Olha Kobylianska, modernist writer and feminist (born 1863).
 * 21 November – Alexandru Pastia, colonel, killed in action at the Battle of Stalingrad (born 1893).
 * 24 November – Ioan Sion, major general, killed in action at the Battle of Stalingrad (born 1890).
 * 16 December – Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger, poet murdered in the Holocaust (born 1924).