1942 in China
Events in the year 1942 in China.
Incumbents
- President: Lin Sen
- Premier: Chiang Kai-shek
- Vice Premier: Kung Hsiang-hsi
Events
- Beginning of the Chinese famine of 1942-43
- April 26 - a gas and coal dust explosion in the Benxihu Colliery killed 1,549 miners.
- mid May-early September - Zhejiang-Jiangxi Campaign
- A cholera epidemic in Yunnan province kills around 200 people
Births
January
- January 16 — Zhao Zhongxiang, news anchor
February
March
- March 10 — Li Zhilun, 6th Minister of Supervision of China
- Ablet Abdureshit, 8th Chairman of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
April
- April 28 — Lu Yongxiang, mechanical engineer and politician
- April 30 — James Soong, Taiwanese politician
July
- July 6 — Wang Zhizhen, biophysicist
- July 13 — Yueh Hua, Hong Kong actor
- Guo Boxiong, former general of the People's Liberation Army
- Huang Baosheng, scholar of Sanskrit and Pali
September
- September 3 — Michael Hui, Hong Kong actor and comedian
- September 15 — Wen Jiabao, 6th Premier of China
- September 22 — Wu Ma, Hong Kong actor, director, producer and writer
October
- October 5
- *He Xiangjian, co-founder of Midea
- *Wang Gang, politician
November
- November 3 — Liu Qi, 11th Secretary of the Beijing Municipal Committee of the Chinese Communist Party
- November 21 — Chen Zhili, politician
- Chen Guidi, writer
December
- December 3 — Zhou Yongkang, member of the 17th Politburo Standing Committee of the Chinese Communist Party
- December 21 — Hu Jintao, 5th Paramount Leader of China
- December 28 — Uyunqimg, 8th Chairwoman of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region
Unknown dates
Deaths
- January 22 — Xiao Hong, writer
- February 12 — Zhao Shangzhi, military commander
- May 25 — Zuo Quan, senior staff officer in the Eighth Route Army
- May 26 — Dai Anlan, commander of the 200th Division of the National Revolutionary Army
- May 27 — Chen Duxiu, 1st General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party
- August 14 — Tan Yuling, concubine of China's last emperor Puyi
- October 13 — Hong Yi, monk, artist and musician
- December 9 — Dwarkanath Kotnis, Indian physician regarded as an example for Sino-Indian friendship and collaboration