The following lists events that happened during 1942 in Pahlavi Iran.
Incumbents Shah: Mohammad Reza Pahlavi Prime Minister: Mohammad Ali Foroughi (until March 9), Ali Soheili (March 9 – August 9), Ahmad Qavam (starting August 9)
Births January 4 – Ebrahim Ashtiani, Iranian footballer. January 23 – Bahman Farmanara, Iranian film director. February 16 – Djamchid Chemirani, Iranian musician and composer. February 20 – Arby Ovanessian, Iranian film director, writer and playwright. March 15 – The Iron Sheik, Iranian-American professional wrestler and actor. March 23 – Jalal Talebi, Iranian football player and manager. March 27 – Firouz Abdolmohammadian, Iranian water polo player. April 2 – Esmaeil Hosseini, Iranian cyclist. April 8 – Sonia Balassanian, Iranian-born Armenian artist, poet. April 10 – Hayedeh, Iranian singer. April 21 – Mohammad Mokhtari (writer), Iranian writer. April 23 – Kazem Sadegh-Zadeh, German academic of Iranian descent. April 24 – Shahla Lahiji, Iranian writer. April 26 – Mahbanoo Tata, Ph.D. Purdue University 1967; 1942-2023. May 24 – Esfandiar Zarnegar, Iranian fencer. May 29 – Kambiz Derambakhsh, Iranian designer. June 1 – Faramarz Zelli, Iranian footballer. June 5 – Abbas Duzduzani, Iranian politician. June 6 – Mahmoud Kashani, Iranian politician, academic, writer and lawyer. June 9 – Amir Taheri, Iranian author. June 11 – Fereydoon Shahbazyan, Iranian composer. June 18 – Jamshid Momtaz, Iranian legal scholar. June 20 – Homayoun Behzadi, Iranian footballer. July 11 – Mehdi Fakhimzadeh, Iranian actor, screenwriter, film producer and film director. July 27 – Hossein Erfani, Iranian Voice Actor and Actor. August 15 – Bahman Mofid, Iranian actor. August 23 – Torab Haghshenas, Iranian revolutionary activist, writer and translator. August 24 – Abdollah Saedi, Iranian association football player. August 25 – Abd-al-Hussain Borunsi, Iranian military personnel. August 29 – Mohammad Hashemi Rafsanjani, Iranian politician. September 4 – Alireza Shapour Shahbazi, Iranian archaeologist. October 9 – Ali Mirzaei (footballer), Iranian association football player. October 23 – Kazem Rahimi, Iranian footballer. November 11 – Ali Babachahi, Iranian poet and writer. November 17 – Homa Katouzian, Iranian economist, writer and researcher. December 22 – Asadollah Badamchian, Iranian politician. December 22 – Asghar Sharafi, Iranian footballer and coach. December 26 – Reza Naji, Iranian actor. December 27 – Hossein Zakeri, Iranian mathematician. ? – Abd al-Rahim Aqiqi Bakhshayishi, Iranian religious writer.
Deaths April 29 – Naser Divan Kazeruni, Iranian politician. August 29 – Hassan Ali Nokhodaki Isfahani, Iranian mystic. November 27 – Mohammad Ali Foroughi, Iranian writer and politician. December 20 – Nezam Al Olama Estahbanati, Islamic jurist and scholar. December 29 – Vahid Dasgardi, Iranian poet, literary and journalist. ? – Agha Zia ol Din Araghi, 19th-century Persian Shia jurist. ? – Gulamrza Sharifzade, Azerbaijani actor, publisher, engineer, director of the Azerbaijan State Theater. ? – Muhammad Hossein Gharavi, Iraqi-Iranian faqih and poet.
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