1942 in Sweden

Incumbents

• Monarch – Gustav V
• Prime Minister – Per Albin Hansson

  Events

• RIFA is founded.

  Births

• 14 January – Stig Engström

  Deaths

• 5 July – Karin Swanström, actress, producer and director
• 26 June - Agda Östlund, suffragist and social democrat
• 25 January - Gertrud Adelborg, women's rights activist