2003 in Brazil

Events in the year 2003 in Brazil.

Incumbents

Federal government

• President: Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
• Vice President: José Alencar Gomes da Silva

Governors

• Acre: Jorge Viana
• : Ronaldo Lessa
• Amapa: Waldez Góes (from 1 January)
• Amazonas: Eduardo Braga (from 1 January)
• Bahia:
• Otto Alencar (until 1 January)
• Paulo Souto (from 1 January)
• Ceará:
• Beni Veras (until 1 January)
• Lúcio Alcântara (from 1 January)
• Espírito Santo:
• José Ignácio Ferreira (until 1 January)
• Paulo Hartung (from 1 January)
• : Marconi Perillo
• Maranhão: José Reinaldo Tavares
• Mato Grosso: Blairo Maggi (from 1 January)
• Mato Grosso do Sul: José Orcírio Miranda dos Santos
• Minas Gerais:
• Itamar Franco (until 1 January)
• Aécio Neves (from 1 January)
• :
• Almir Gabriel (until 1 January)
• Simão Jatene (from 1 January)
• : Cássio Cunha Lima (from 1 January)
• Paraná:
• Jaime Lerner (until 1 January)
• Roberto Requião de Mello e Silva (from 1 January)
• : Jarbas Vasconcelos
• :
• Hugo Napoleão (until 1 January)
• Wellington Dias (from 1 January)
• Rio de Janeiro:
• Benedita da Silva (until 1 January)
• Rosinha Garotinho (from 1 January)
• Rio Grande do Norte:
• Fernando Antonio Chamber Freire (until 1 January)
• Wilma Maria de Faria (from 1 January)
• Rio Grande do Sul:
• Olívio Dutra (until 1 January)
• Germano Rigotto (from 1 January)
• Rondônia: Ivo Narciso Cassol (from 1 January)
• Roraima: Francisco Flamarion Portela
• :
• Esperidião Amin (until 1 January)
• Luiz Henrique da Silveira (from 1 January)
• São Paulo: Geraldo Alckmin
• :
• Albano Franco (until 1 January)
• João Filho (from 1 January)
• Tocantins: Marcelo Miranda (from 1 January)

Vice governors

• :
• Edison Simão Cadaxo (until 1 January)
• Arnóbio Marques de Almeida Júnior (from 1 January)
• :
• Geraldo Costa Sampaio (until 1 January)
• Luís Abílio de Sousa Neto (from 1 January)
• :
• Maria Dalva de Souza Figueiredo (until 1 January)
• Pedro Paulo Dias de Carvalho (from 1 January)
• :
• Samuel Assayag Hanan (until 1 January)
• Omar José Abdel Aziz (from 1 January)
• : Eraldo Tinoco Melo (from 1 January)
• : Francisco de Queiroz Maia Júnior (from 1 January)
• :
• Celso José Vasconcelos (until 1 January)
• Wellington Coimbra (from 1 January)
• : Alcides Rodrigues Filho
• : Jurandir Ferro do Lago Filho (from 1 January)
• : Iraci Araújo Moreira (from 1 January)
• :
• Moacir Kohl (until 1 January)
• Egon Krakheche (from 1 January)
• :
• Newton Cardoso (until 1 January)
• Clésio Soares de Andrade (from 1 January)
• :
• Hildegardo de Figueiredo Nunes (until 1 January)
• Valéria Pires Franco (from 1 January)
• : Lauremília Lucena (from 1 January)
• :
• Emília de Sales Belinati (until 1 January)
• Orlando Pessuti (from 1 January)
• : José Mendonça Bezerra Filho
• :
• Felipe Mendes de Oliveira (until 1 January)
• Osmar Ribeiro de Almeida Júnior (from 1 January)
• : Luiz Paulo Conde (from 1 January)
• :
• Vacant (until 1 January)
• Antônio Jácome (from 1 January)
• :
• Miguel Soldatelli Rossetto (until 1 January)
• Antônio Carlos Hohlfeldt (from 1 January)
• :
• Miguel de Souza (until 1 January)
• Odaísa Fernandes Ferreira (from 1 January)
• :
• Salomão Afonso de Souza Cruz (1 January-10 November)
• Erci de Moraes (from 10 November)
• : Eduardo Pinho Moreira (from 1 January)
• :
• Vacant (until 1 January)
• Claudio Lembo (from 1 January)
• :
• Benedito de Figueiredo (until 1 January)
• Marília Mandarino (from 1 January)
• :
• João Lisboa da Cruz (until 1 January)
• Raimundo Nonato Pires dos Santos (from 1 January)

Events

January

• January 1: Syndicalist leader and leader of the Workers' Party, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is inaugurated as President of Brazil.
• January 28: 18-year-old Edmar Freitas opens fire on students and classmates in a school in Taiúva, wounding eight people before killing himself.
• January 30: President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva introduces the Fome Zero program, in order to eradicate hunger and extreme poverty in the country.

June

• June 20: An earthquake that reaches a 7.0 magnitude on the Richter scale, hits the state of Amazonas. It is the biggest tremor recorded in Brazil.

August

• August 19: A car-bomb attack on United Nations headquarters in Iraq kills the agency's top envoy Sérgio Vieira de Mello and 21 other employees.
• August 22: An explosion at the Alcântara Launch Center kills 21 scientists. This would become the biggest accident in the history of the Brazilian space program.

September

• September 2: Minister of Culture Gilberto Gil is awarded the Latin Grammy for Latin Recording Academy Person of the Year.

October

• October 20: President Lula da Silva introduces Bolsa Família, a unified social welfare program.

Births

• June 21: Giovana Queiroz, football player

Deaths

January

• January 25: Scylla Médici, First Lady of Brazil (1969-1974) (b. 1907)

March

• March 7: José Márcio Ayres, conservationist and zoologist (b. 1954)

April

• April 24: Gino Orlando, footballer (b. 1929)

May

• May 8: Elvira Pagã, vedette (b. 1920)
• May 25: Almir Chediak, musician and entrepreneur (b. 1950)

June

• June 12: Itamar Assumpção, songwriter and composer (b. 1949)

July

• July 28: Noite Ilustrada, singer-songwriter (b. 1928)
• July 31: Bigode, footballer (b. 1922)

August

• August 6: Roberto Marinho, founder of Grupo Globo, the largest mass media company in Brazil and Latin America (b. 1904)
• August 19: Sérgio Vieira de Mello, United Nations diplomat (b. 1948)

References

See also

• 2003 in Brazilian football
• 2003 in Brazilian television
• List of Brazilian films of 2003