2013 in Brazil

Events from the year 2013 in Brazil.

Incumbents

Federal government

• President : Dilma Rousseff
• Vice President : Michel Temer
• President of the Chamber of Deputies : Henrique Eduardo Alves
• President of the Senate : Renan Calheiros

Governors

• Acre : Tião Viana
• Alagoas : Teotônio Vilela Filho
• Amapa : Camilo Capiberibe
• Amazonas : Omar Aziz
• Bahia : Jaques Wagner
• Ceará : Cid Gomes
• Espírito Santo : Renato Casagrande
• Goiás : Marconi Perillo
• Maranhão : Roseana Sarney
• Mato Grosso : Silval da Cunha
• Mato Grosso do Sul : André Puccinelli
• Minas Gerais : Antônio Anastasia
• Pará : Simão Jatene
• Paraíba : Ricardo Coutinho
• Paraná : Beto Richa
• Pernambuco : Eduardo Campos
• Piauí : Wilson Martins
• Rio de Janeiro : Sérgio Cabral Filho
• Rio Grande do Norte : Rosalba Ciarlini Rosado
• Rio Grande do Sul : Tarso Genro
• Rondônia : Confúcio Moura
• Roraima : José de Anchieta Júnior
• Santa Catarina – Raimundo Colombo
• São Paulo : Geraldo Alckmin
• Sergipe :
  • Marcelo Déda (until 2 December)
  • Jackson Barreto (starting 2 December)
• Tocantins : Siqueira Campos

Vice governors

• Acre : Carlos César Correia de Messias
• Alagoas : José Thomaz da Silva Nonô Neto
• Amapá : Doralice Nascimento de Souza
• Amazonas : José Melo de Oliveira
• Bahia : Otto Alencar
• Ceará : Domingos Gomes de Aguiar Filho
• Espírito Santo : Givaldo Vieira da Silva
• Goiás : José Eliton de Figueiredo Júnior
• Maranhão : Joaquim Washington Luiz de Oliveira
• Mato Grosso : Francisco Tarquínio Daltro
• Mato Grosso do Sul : Simone Tebet
• Minas Gerais : Alberto Pinto Coelho Júnior
• Pará : Helenilson Cunha Pontes
• Paraíba : Rômulo José de Gouveia
• Paraná : Flávio José Arns
• Pernambuco : João Soares Lyra Neto
• Piauí : Wilson Martins
• Rio de Janeiro : Luiz Fernando Pezão
• Rio Grande do Norte : Robinson Faria
• Rio Grande do Sul : Jorge Alberto Duarte Grill
• Rondônia : Airton Pedro Gurgacz
• Roraima : Francisco de Assis Rodrigues
• Santa Catarina : Eduardo Pinho Moreira
• São Paulo : Guilherme Afif Domingos
• Sergipe : Jackson Barreto
• Tocantins : João Oliveira de Sousa

Events

• 2013 protests in Brazil

January

• January 1 : Mayors and councilors, who were elected in the 2012 municipal elections, take office in all Brazilian cities. ^[1]
• January 27 : A nightclub fire in Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul kills at least 242 people. ^[2]

March

• March 8 :
  • Former goalkeeper Bruno Fernandes de Souza is sentenced to 22 years and three months in prison for the death of his ex-girlfriend Eliza Samudio. ^[3]
  • Journalist Rodrigo Neto was killed by two unidentified men who were suspected militia members.
• March 13 : Drug lord Fernandinho Beira-Mar is sentenced in Rio de Janeiro to 80 years in prison for crimes committed in 2002. ^[4]
• March 14 : Ex-boyfriend Mizael Bispo de Souza is sentenced to 20 years in prison for the death of lawyer Mércia Nakashima. ^[5]
• March 19 : The Federal Senate of Brazil unanimously approves the proposal to expand the rights of domestic workers. ^[6]
• March 29 - 31 : The second Brazilian version of the Lollapalooza music festival is held at the Jockey Club in São Paulo. ^{[7] [8]}

May

• May 4 : Nhá Chica becomes the first laywoman and Afro-Brazilian to be declared blessed by the Catholic Church. ^[9]
• May 7 : The president of the Legislative Assembly of Mato Grosso, José Geraldo Riva is removed from office, after being accused of embezzling $4.7 million USD. ^[10]

June

• June 6 : Demonstrations against the increase in public transport fares begin in São Paulo and other cities across the country. ^[11]
• June 30 : Brazil defeats Spain 3-0 at the Maracanã Stadium in Rio de Janeiro, to win their fourth FIFA Confederations Cup trophy. ^[12]

July

• July 22 : Pope Francis arrives in Brazil, for his first international trip. ^[13]
• July 23
  • World Youth Day begins in Rio de Janeiro. ^[14]
  • Snow falls in Curitiba for the first time since 1975.

November

• November 14 : National Institute for Space Research (INPE) satellite data revealed a 30% increase of deforestation in the Amazon in 2013. ^[15]

Deaths

January

• January 10: Jorge Selarón, 65, painter and ceramist (Escadaria Selarón). ^[16]
• January 15: Clayton Silva, 74, actor and comedian ( A Praça é Nossa ), cancer. ^[17]
• January 18: Walmor Chagas, 82, actor ( Xica da Silva , São Paulo, Sociedade Anônima ), apparent suicide by gunshot. ^[18]
• January 22: Lídia Mattos, 88, actress, pneumonia. ^[19]
• January 24: Zózimo Bulbul, 75, actor ( Quilombo , Sagarana: The Duel ) and filmmaker, heart attack. ^[20]

February

• February 14: Fernando Lyra, 74, politician, Minister of Justice (1985–1986), cardiopathy. ^[21]

March

• March 6: Chorão, 42, musician (Charlie Brown Jr.), cocaine overdose. ^[22]
• March 20: Emílio Santiago, 66, singer, complications from a stroke. ^[23]

April

• April 8: Waldemar Esteves da Cunha, 92, carnival king, respiratory failure and Alzheimer's disease. ^[24]
• April 15: Cleyde Yáconis, 89, film, stage and television actress, ischemia. ^[25]
• April 28: Paulo Vanzolini, 89, zoologist, poet and samba composer ( Onze sambas e uma capoeira ), complications of pneumonia. ^[26]
• April 30: Tito Buss, 87, Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Rio do Sul (1969–2000). ^[27]

May

• May 5: Peu Sousa, 35, guitarist (Nove Mil Anjos, Pitty) and record producer, suicide by hanging. ^[28]
• May 26: Roberto Civita, 76, businessman, CEO of Grupo Abril, heart failure. ^[29]
• May 28: Silvério Paulo de Albuquerque, 96, Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Caetité (1970–1973) and Feira de Santana (1973–1995). ^[30]

June

• June 3: Eugênio Izecksohn, 81, herpetologist ( Izecksohn's Toad ), professor and author. ^[31]
• June 5: Scarlet Moon de Chevalier, 62, actress, journalist and writer, multiple system atrophy. ^[32]
• June 7: Malu Rocha, 65, actress, prion. ^[33]
• June 12:
  • José de Lima, 89, Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Itumbiara (1973–1981) and Sete Lagoas (1981–1999). ^[34]
  • Teodoro Matos Santana, 66, footballer (São Paulo FC), pancreatic cancer. ^[35]
• June 15: Tatiana Belinky, 94, children's writer ^[36]
• June 21: Marcelo Grassmann, 88, engraver and draughtsman. ^[37]
• June 26:
  • Edward Huggins Johnstone, 91, Brazilian-born American judge, member of the US District Court for Western Kentucky (since 1977). ^[38]
  • Nilton Pacheco, 92, Olympic basketball player (1948). ^[39]

July

• July 7: MC Daleste, 20, rapper, shot. ^[40]
• July 8: Claudiney Ramos, 33, Brazilian-born Equatorial Guinean footballer, malaria. ^[41]
• July 13: Bertha Becker, 82, geographer. ^[42]
• July 23:
  • Dominguinhos, 72, composer and singer, infection and cardiac complications. ^[43]
  • Djalma Santos, 84, footballer, two-time World Cup winner (1958, 1962), complications from pneumonia. ^[44]

August

• August 2: Fernando Flávio Marques de Almeida, 97, geologist. ^[45]
• August 5: Jaime Luiz Coelho, 97, Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop and Archbishop of Maringá (1956–1997). ^[46]
• August 10: Joaquim Rufino do Rêgo, 87, Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Quixadá (1971–1986) and Parnaíba (1986–2001). ^[47]
• August 13: Rui Moreira Lima, 94, military fighter pilot. ^[48]
• August 24: Newton de Sordi, 82, World Cup champion footballer (1958), multiple organ dysfunction syndrome. ^[49]
• August 25: Gylmar dos Santos Neves, 83, World Cup champion footballer (1958, 1962), complications from a heart attack. ^[50]

September

• September 1: Joaquim Justino Carreira, 63, Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Guarulhos (since 2011). ^[51]
• September 9: Champignon, 35, musician (Charlie Brown Jr., Revolucionnários, A Banca), suicide. ^[52]
• September 13: Luiz Gushiken, 63, politician and union leader, member of the Chamber of Deputies (1987–1999); Minister of Communications (2003–2005), cancer. ^[53]
• September 27: Oscar Castro-Neves, 73, bossa nova musician. ^[54]

October

• October 8: José Faria, 80, football coach ^[55]

November

• November 6: Jorge Dória, 92, actor and humorist, cardiorespiratory failure. ^[56]

December

• December 2: Marcelo Déda, 53, politician, Governor of Sergipe (since 2007) ^[57]
• December 20: Reginaldo Rossi, 69, singer-songwriter, lung cancer. ^[58]

See also

• 2013 in Brazilian football

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