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
• : Teotônio Vilela Filho
• Amapa: Camilo Capiberibe
• Amazonas: Omar Aziz
• Bahia: Jaques Wagner
• Ceará: Cid Gomes
• Espírito Santo: Renato Casagrande
• : Marconi Perillo
• Maranhão: Roseana Sarney
• Mato Grosso: Silval da Cunha
• Mato Grosso do Sul: André Puccinelli
• Minas Gerais: Antônio Anastasia
• : Simão Jatene
• : Ricardo Coutinho
• Paraná: Beto Richa
• : Eduardo Campos
• : 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
• – Raimundo Colombo
• São Paulo: Geraldo Alckmin
• :
• Marcelo Déda (until 2 December)
• Jackson Barreto (starting 2 December)
• Tocantins: Siqueira Campos

Vice governors

• : Carlos César Correia de Messias
• : José Thomaz da Silva Nonô Neto
• : Doralice Nascimento de Souza
• : José Melo de Oliveira
• : Otto Alencar
• : Domingos Gomes de Aguiar Filho
• : Givaldo Vieira da Silva
• : José Eliton de Figueiredo Júnior
• : Joaquim Washington Luiz de Oliveira
• : Francisco Tarquínio Daltro
• : Simone Tebet
• : Alberto Pinto Coelho Júnior
• : Helenilson Cunha Pontes
• : Rômulo José de Gouveia
• : Flávio José Arns
• : João Soares Lyra Neto
• : Wilson Martins
• : Luiz Fernando Pezão
• : Robinson Faria
• : Jorge Alberto Duarte Grill
• : Airton Pedro Gurgacz
• : Francisco de Assis Rodrigues
• : Eduardo Pinho Moreira
• : Guilherme Afif Domingos
• : Jackson Barreto
• : 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.
• January 27: A nightclub fire in Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul kills at least 242 people.

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.
• 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.
• March 14: Ex-boyfriend Mizael Bispo de Souza is sentenced to 20 years in prison for the death of lawyer Mércia Nakashima.
• March 19: The Federal Senate of Brazil unanimously approves the proposal to expand the rights of domestic workers.
• March 29-31: The second Brazilian version of the Lollapalooza music festival is held at the Jockey Club in São Paulo.

May

• May 4: Nhá Chica becomes the first laywoman and Afro-Brazilian to be declared blessed by the Catholic Church.
• 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.

June

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

July

• July 22: Pope Francis arrives in Brazil, for his first international trip.
• July 23
• World Youth Day begins in Rio de Janeiro.
• 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.

Deaths

January

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

February

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

March

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

April

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

May

• May 5: Peu Sousa, 35, guitarist (Nove Mil Anjos, Pitty) and record producer, suicide by hanging.
• May 26: Roberto Civita, 76, businessman, CEO of Grupo Abril, heart failure.
• May 28: Silvério Paulo de Albuquerque, 96, Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Caetité (19701973) and Feira de Santana (19731995).

June

• June 3: Eugênio Izecksohn, 81, herpetologist (Izecksohn's Toad), professor and author.
• June 5: Scarlet Moon de Chevalier, 62, actress, journalist and writer, multiple system atrophy.
• June 7: Malu Rocha, 65, actress, prion.
• June 12:
• José de Lima, 89, Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Itumbiara (19731981) and Sete Lagoas (19811999).
• Teodoro Matos Santana, 66, footballer (São Paulo FC), pancreatic cancer.
• June 15: Tatiana Belinky, 94, children's writer
• June 21: Marcelo Grassmann, 88, engraver and draughtsman.
• June 26:
• Edward Huggins Johnstone, 91, Brazilian-born American judge, member of the US District Court for Western Kentucky (since 1977).
• Nilton Pacheco, 92, Olympic basketball player (1948).

July

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

August

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

September

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

October

• October 8: José Faria, 80, football coach

November

• November 6: Jorge Dória, 92, actor and humorist, cardiorespiratory failure.

December

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

See also

• 2013 in Brazilian football

References