Date Victim Office Location Attacker Notes 1897 5 November Carlos Machado de Bittencourt Minister of War Rio de Janeiro , Federal District of Brazil , Brazil Marcelino Bispo de Melo See Attempted assassination of Prudente de Morais 1908 11 August José Plácido de Castro Former President of the Republic of Acre São Paulo , São Paulo , Brazil Unknown 1915 8 September Pinheiro Machado Senator for Rio Grande do Sul and Vice President of the Federal Senate Rio de Janeiro , Federal District of Brazil , Brazil Manso de Paiva [ PT ] 1929 1 July Juquinha Gomes Duarte [ PT ] Mayor of Bauru , São Paulo Bauru , São Paulo , Brazil Moacir de Almeida 1929 26 December Manuel Francisco de Sousa Filho [ PT ] Federal Deputy for Pernambuco Rio de Janeiro , Federal District of Brazil , Brazil Ildefonso Simões Lopes [ PT ] 1930 26 July João Pessoa Cavalcânti de Albuquerque Governor of Paraíba Recife , Pernambuco , Brazil João Duarte Dantas 1971 21 or 22 January Rubens Paiva Former Federal Deputy for São Paulo Rio de Janeiro , Guanabara , Brazil Unknown 1973 25 December Maurício Grabois Former Federal Deputy for the Federal District of Brazil Xambioá , Goiás , Brazil Unknown 1992 17 May Edmundo Pinto Governor of Acre São Paulo , São Paulo , Brazil Unknown 2001 10 September Antonio da Costa Santos Mayor of Campinas , São Paulo Campinas , São Paulo , Brazil Unknown 2001 8 November Aguinaldo Pereira da Silva Mayor of Caraúbas , Rio Grande do Norte Governador Dix-Sept Rosado , Rio Grande do Norte , Brazil Disputed 2002 18 January Celso Daniel Mayor of Santo André, São Paulo Juquitiba , São Paulo , Brazil Unknown 2002 2 June Lídia Menezes Vice Mayor of Magé , Rio de Janeiro Magé , Rio de Janeiro , Brazil Unknown [ 1] 2010 10 December Walderi Braz Paschoalin [ PT ] Mayor of Jandira , São Paulo Jandira , São Paulo , Brazil Unknown 2016 28 September José Gomes da Rocha [ PT ] Former Mayor of Itumbiara , São Paulo , and mayoral candidate Itumbiara , São Paulo , Brazil Gilberto Ferreira do Amaral 2018 14 March Marielle Franco City Councillor of Rio de Janeiro , Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro , Rio de Janeiro , Brazil Ronald Paulo Alves Pereira and Adriano Magalhães da Nóbrega [ 2] [ 3] 2018 26 December Gerson Camata Former Governor of Espírito Santo Vitória , Espírito Santo Marcos Vinícius Moreira Andrade [ 4]