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See also:	Other events of 1942 List of years 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)

Events

January

February

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

April

May

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.^{[citation needed]}

July

August

• Gillette and Helena Rubinstein start working in the country^{[citation needed]}

September

October

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

November

December

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

Unknown date

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^[1]
• 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^[2]
• May 13 – Adolfo Bisellach, Olympic fencer
• May 18 – Juan Carlos Carone, footballer
• May 23 – José Omar Pastoriza, footballer (died 2004)^[3]
• May 25 – Marcos Mundstock, musician and comedian
• June 11 – Cacho Castaña, singer and actor^[4]
• June 27 – Jérôme Savary, Argentine-French theatre director and actor (died 2013)^[5]
• July 10
  • Francisco Escos, footballer
  • José Antonio Muñoz, artist
• July 19 – Agustín Irusta, footballer
• August 7 – Carlos Monzón, boxer (died 1995)^[6]
• August 13 - Jorge Altamira, politician^[7]
• September 1 - Daniel Willington, footballer
• September 8 - Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo, Roman Catholic bishop
• September 25 - Oscar Bonavena, boxer (died 1976)^[8]
• October 3
  • Roberto Perfumo, footballer
  • Margherita Zimmermann, operatic mezzo-soprano^[9]
• October 8 – María Julia Alsogaray, politician^[10]
• 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)^[11]
• 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)^[12]
• 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)^[13]
• July 26 – Roberto Arlt, writer (born 1900)^[14]
• August 31 – Teddie Gerard, actress and entertainer (born 1890; lung infection)^[15]
• September 23 – Alfredo Carricaberry, footballer (born 1900)^[16]
• October 8 – Julio Argentino Pascual Roca, politician and diplomat (born 1873)