1921 in Brazil

Events in the year 1921 in Brazil.

Incumbents

Federal government

• President: Epitácio Pessoa
• Vice President: Francisco Álvaro Bueno de Paiva

Governors

• :
• till 1 March: José Fernandes de Barros Lima
• 1 March-12 June: Manuel Capitolino da Rocha Carvalho
• from 12 June: José Fernandes de Barros Lima
• Amazonas: César do Rego Monteiro
• Bahia: José Joaquim Seabra
• Ceará: Justiniano de Serpa
• :
• till 14 July: João Alves de Castro
• from 14 July: Eugênio Rodrigues Jardim
• Maranhão: Urbano Santos
• Mato Grosso: Francisco de Aquino Correia
• Minas Gerais: Artur Bernardes
• :
• till 1 February: Lauro Sodré
• from 1 February Antônio Emiliano de Sousa
• : Sólon Barbosa de Lucena
• Paraná: Caetano Munhoz da Rocha
• :
• till 3 June: Otávio Hamilton Tavares Barreto
• from 3 June: Severino Marques de Queirós Pinheiro
• : João Luís Ferreira
• Rio Grande do Norte: Antonio José de Melo e Sousa
• Rio Grande do Sul: Antônio Augusto Borges de Medeiros
• :
• São Paulo:
• :

Vice governors

• :
• :

Events

• February – Antoun Saadeh arrives in Brazil with his father, a prominent Arabic-language journalist.
• May 22 – The Estádio Antônio R. Guimarães is opened at Santa Bárbara d'Oeste.
• October - The government implements a new policy in defense of coffee, for the third time in the history of the Republic.
• date unknown – The Correio da Manhã publishes letters supposedly sent by Artur Bernardes and Raul Soares de Moura, containing insults towards the Armed Forces and Marshal Hermes da Fonseca.

Arts and culture

Films

• Um Crime no Parque Paulista, directed by Arturo Carrari and starring Nicola Tartaglione
• Carlitinhos and Perversidade, short films directed by José Medina

Births

• 13 April – Dona Ivone Lara, singer (died 2018)
• 12 May – Ruth de Souza, actress (died 2019)
• 5 June – Zuzu Angel, fashion designer and political campaigner (died 1976)
• 19 September – Paulo Freire, philosopher (died 1997)
• 26 September - Carlos Zéfiro, artist (died 1992)

Deaths

• 28 January – Luis Soares Horta Barbosa, Deputy Grand Master of Brazil's Freemasons.
• 26 March – Leonel Martiniano de Alencar, Baron of Alencar, lawyer and diplomat (born 1832)
• 14 November – Isabel, Princess Imperial of Brazil, nicknamed "the Redemptress", heiress presumptive to the throne of the Empire of Brazil (born 1846)

References

See also

• 1921 in Brazilian football