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 (d. 2020)

February

• Huang Zhiquan, former Governor of Jiangxi Province

March

• March 10 — Li Zhilun, 6th Minister of Supervision of China (d. 2007)
• 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 (d. 2018)
• Guo Boxiong, former general of the People's Liberation Army
• Huang Baosheng, scholar of Sanskrit and Pali (d. 2023)

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 (d. 2014)

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 (d. 2024)

Unknown dates

• Chen Jialin, film director (d. 2022)

Deaths

• January 22 — Xiao Hong, writer (b. 1911)
• February 12 — Zhao Shangzhi, military commander (b. 1908)
• May 25 — Zuo Quan, senior staff officer in the Eighth Route Army (b. 1905)
• May 26 — Dai Anlan, commander of the 200th Division of the National Revolutionary Army (b. 1904)
• May 27 — Chen Duxiu, 1st General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (b. 1879)
• August 14 — Tan Yuling, concubine of China's last emperor Puyi (b. 1920)
• October 13 — Hong Yi, monk, artist and musician (b. 1880)
• December 9 — Dwarkanath Kotnis, Indian physician regarded as an example for Sino-Indian friendship and collaboration (b. 1910)

See also

• List of Chinese films of the 1940s

References