1943 in Argentina

Events from the year 1943 in Argentina.

Incumbents

 * President: Ramón Castillo, Arturo Rawson, Pedro Pablo Ramírez
 * Vice President: Sabá Sueyro, Edelmiro Julián Farrell

Governors

 * Buenos Aires Province: Rodolfo Moreno, Edgardo J. Míguez, Oscar Cazalas (de facto), Armando Verdaguer, Faustino J. Legón
 * Cordoba: Santiago del Castillo
 * Mendoza Province: Adolfo Vicchi, Humberto Sosa Molina, Luis Elías Villanueva, Aristóbulo Vargas Belmonte

Vice Governors

 * Buenos Aires Province: Edgardo J. Míguez (until 12 June); vacant thereafter (starting 12 June)

May

 * The Radical Civic Union, the Socialist Party and the Democrat Progresist Party join forces to create the Democratic Union
 * The CGT gets divided in two factions, led by J. Domenech and F. Pérez Leiroz

June

 * Revolution of '43 – President Ramón Castillo is deposed by a military coup. Arturo Rawson takes the presidency, but he is removed immediately and replaced by Pedro Pablo Ramírez
 * A laboral strike in Jujuy causes four deaths

August

 * Laboral strike of the meat industry unions.

October

 * Juan Domingo Perón signs the first collective laboral agreement
 * Hugo Wast, ministry of education, outlaws lunfardo and forces many tango artists to rewrite the lyrics of their songs.

November

 * Juan Domingo Perón is appointed for the Secretary of Labour and Welfare.
 * Many communist leaders, as José Peter, are jailed.

Ongoing

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

Births

 * January 6 – Osvaldo Soriano, journalist and writer (died 1997)
 * January 16 – Jorge Sobisch, politician
 * February 9 – Santiago Soldati, entrepreneur
 * March 4 – Aldo Rico, soldier and politician
 * April 6 – Omar Vergara, Olympic fencer
 * April 7 – Ángel Marcos, footballer
 * April 8 – Víctor Bó, film actor and producer
 * May 1 – Carlos Trillo, comic book writer (died 2011)
 * May 24 – Héctor Aguer, Archbishop of La Plata
 * May 30 – Víctor Laplace, actor
 * June 5 – Hermes Binner, physician and politician
 * June 14 – Jeanine Meerapfel, German-Argentine film director and screenwriter
 * July 13
 * Carlos Borcosque Jr., film director and screenwriter
 * Juan Carlos Sconfianza, footballer
 * July 23 – Hugo Arana, film, television and theatre actor
 * August – Norberto Ceresole, sociologist and political scientist (died 2003)
 * August 1 – Carlos Roffé, film and television actor (died 2005)
 * August 2 – Emilio Disi, actor
 * August 3 – Elio Roca, singer
 * August 4 – Angel Balzarino, writer
 * August 18 – Norma Pons, actress (died 2014)
 * September 17 – Carlos Sampayo, writer
 * October 6 – Luis Alberto, footballer
 * October 18 – Andrej Bajuk, Slovene politician and economist brought up in Argentina (died 2011)
 * October 19 – Adolfo Aristarain, film director and screenwriter
 * November 1 – José Ignacio García Hamilton, writer, historian, lawyer and politician (died 2009)
 * November 5 – Mariano Etkin, composer
 * November 6 – Roberto Telch, footballer
 * November 12 – Claudio Slon, jazz drummer (died 2002)
 * November 16
 * Juan Giménez, comic book artist
 * Rodolfo Terragno, politician, lawyer and journalist
 * November 18 – Leonardo Sandri, Roman Catholic cardinal
 * November 25 – Dante Caputo, academic, diplomat and politician
 * December 6 – Miguel Lunghi, politician
 * December 12 – Miguel Ángel Raimondo, footballer
 * date unknown
 * Guillermo Vargas Aignasse, politician (disappeared 1976)
 * Liliana Heker, writer
 * Carlos Santiago Nino, philosopher (died 1993)
 * Miguel Angel Varvello, bandoneon player
 * Horacio Vaggione, composer
 * Barylka Yerahmiel, rabbi, educator, journalist and lecturer

Deaths

 * January 11 – Agustín Pedro Justo, President of Argentina 1932–1938 (born 1876)
 * January 29 – José A. Ferreyra, film director and screenwriter (born 1889)
 * August 24 – Antonio Alice, painter (born 1886)
 * October 15 - Sabá Sueyro, politician (born 1876)
 * October 25 - Hubert Duggan, Argentine-born British soldier and politician (born 1904; tuberculosis)
 * December 7 – Collier Twentyman Smithers, Argentine-born British painter (born 1867)