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 –
• Alagoas –
• Amapa –
• Amazonas –
• Bahia –
• Ceará –
• Espírito Santo –
• Goiás –
• Maranhão –
• Mato Grosso –
• Mato Grosso do Sul –
• Minas Gerais –
• Pará –
• Paraíba –
• Paraná –
• Pernambuco –
• Piauí –
• Rio Grande do Norte –
• Rio Grande do Sul –
• Rondônia –
• Roraima –
• Santa Catarina –
• São Paulo –
• Sergipe –
• Tocantins –

Vice governors

• Acre –
• Alagoas –
• Amapá –
• Amazonas –
• Bahia –
• Ceará –
• Espírito Santo –
• Goiás –
• Maranhão –
• Mato Grosso –
• Mato Grosso do Sul –
• Minas Gerais –
• Pará –
• Paraíba –
• Paraná –
• Pernambuco –
• Piauí –
• Rio Grande do Norte –
• Rio Grande do Sul –
• Rondônia –
• Roraima –
• Santa Catarina –
• São Paulo –
• Sergipe –
• Tocantins –

Events

• 2013 protests in Brazil
• January 27 - A nightclub fire in Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul kills at least 242 people.[1]
• May 7 - José Geraldo Riva removed from office, the presidency of the Legislative Assembly of Mato Grosso, accused of embezzling $4.7 million.[2]
• July 23 – World Youth Day began in Rio de Janeiro.[3]
• November 14 - National Institute for Space Research (INPE) satellite data revealed a 30% increase of deforestation in the Amazon in 2013.[4]

Deaths

• January 10 – Jorge Selarón, 65, painter and ceramist (Escadaria Selarón).[5]
• January 15 – Clayton Silva, 74, actor and comedian (A Praça é Nossa), cancer.[6]
• January 18 – Walmor Chagas, 82, actor (Xica da Silva, São Paulo, Sociedade Anônima), apparent suicide by gunshot.[7]
• January 22 – Lídia Mattos, 88, actress, pneumonia.[8]
• January 24 – Zózimo Bulbul, 75, actor (Quilombo, Sagarana: The Duel) and filmmaker, heart attack.[9]
• February 14 – Fernando Lyra, 74, politician, Minister of Justice (1985–1986), cardiopathy.[10]
• March 6 – Chorão, 42, musician (Charlie Brown Jr.), cocaine overdose.[11]
• March 20 – Emílio Santiago, 66, singer, complications from a stroke.[12]
• April 8 – Waldemar Esteves da Cunha, 92, carnival king, respiratory failure and Alzheimer's disease.[13]
• April 15 – Cleyde Yáconis, 89, film, stage and television actress, ischemia.[14]
• April 28 – Paulo Vanzolini, 89, zoologist, poet and samba composer (Onze sambas e uma capoeira), complications of pneumonia.[15]
• April 30 – Tito Buss, 87, Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Rio do Sul (1969–2000).[16]
• May 5 – Peu Sousa, 35, guitarist (Nove Mil Anjos, Pitty) and record producer, suicide by hanging.[17]
• May 26 – Roberto Civita, 76, businessman, CEO of Grupo Abril, heart failure.[18]
• May 28 – Silvério Paulo de Albuquerque, 96, Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Caetité (1970–1973) and Feira de Santana (1973–1995).[19]
• June 3 – Eugênio Izecksohn, 81, herpetologist (Izecksohn's Toad), professor and author.[20]
• June 5 – Scarlet Moon de Chevalier, 62, actress, journalist and writer, multiple system atrophy.[21]
• June 7 – Malu Rocha, 65, actress, prion.[22]
• June 12
  • José de Lima, 89, Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Itumbiara (1973–1981) and Sete Lagoas (1981–1999).[23]
  • Teodoro Matos Santana, 66, footballer (São Paulo FC), pancreatic cancer.[24]
• June 15 – Tatiana Belinky, 94, children's writer[25]
• June 21 – Marcelo Grassmann, 88, engraver and draughtsman.[26]
• June 26
  • Edward Huggins Johnstone, 91, Brazilian-born American judge, member of the US District Court for Western Kentucky (since 1977).[27]
  • Nilton Pacheco, 92, Olympic basketball player (1948).[28]
• July 7 – MC Daleste, 20, rapper, shot.[29]
• July 8 – Claudiney Ramos, 33, Brazilian-born Equatorial Guinean footballer, malaria.[30]
• July 13 – Bertha Becker, 82, geographer.[31]
• July 23
  • Dominguinhos, 72, composer and singer, infection and cardiac complications.[32]
  • Djalma Santos, 84, footballer, two-time World Cup winner (1958, 1962), complications from pneumonia.[33]
• August 2 – Fernando Flávio Marques de Almeida, 97, geologist.[34]
• August 5 – Jaime Luiz Coelho, 97, Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop and Archbishop of Maringá (1956–1997).[35]
• August 10 – Joaquim Rufino do Rêgo, 87, Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Quixadá (1971–1986) and Parnaíba (1986–2001).[36]
• August 13 – Rui Moreira Lima, 94, military fighter pilot.[37]
• August 24 – Newton de Sordi, 82, World Cup champion footballer (1958), multiple organ dysfunction syndrome.[38]
• August 25 – Gylmar dos Santos Neves, 83, World Cup champion footballer (1958, 1962), complications from a heart attack.[39]
• September 1 – Joaquim Justino Carreira, 63, Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Guarulhos (since 2011).[40]
• September 9 – Champignon, 35, musician (Charlie Brown Jr., Revolucionnários, A Banca), suicide by firearm.[41]
• September 13 – Luiz Gushiken, 63, politician and union leader, member of the Chamber of Deputies (1987–1999); Minister of Communications (2003–2005), cancer.[42]
• September 27 – Oscar Castro-Neves, 73, bossa nova musician.[43]

See also

• 2013 in Brazilian football

References

1. "Death toll rises to 245 in Brazil club fire". Myfox New York. Archived from the original on 18 October 2013. Retrieved 27 January 2013.
2. Lulu Garcia-Navarro (September 30, 2014). "How One Chauffeur Took Down A Corrupt Brazilian Politician". All Things Considered. NPR. Retrieved February 20, 2018.
3. "Roman Catholics attend mass in Rio for World Youth Day". BBC News. 24 July 2013. Retrieved 24 July 2013.
4. "INPE estimated 5,843 square kilometers deforested in the Amazon in 2013". INPE. November 14, 2013. Retrieved February 14, 2017.
5. Artista de escadaria na Lapa, Selarón é encontrado morto (Portuguese)
6. Morre ator Clayton Silva, humorista do bordão 'tô de olho no sinhô' (Portuguese)
7. paraiba-regiao/noticia/2013/01/walmor-chagas-morre-aos-82-anos.html Walmor Chagas morre aos 82 anos (in Portuguese)
8. "Atriz Lídia Mattos morre aos 88 anos no Rio (Portuguese)". Archived from the original on 2013-01-26. Retrieved 2013-10-09.
9. Morre o ator e cineasta Zózimo Bulbul, aos 75 anos (in Portuguese)
10. Morre em SP, aos 74 anos, o ex-ministro Fernando Lyra (Portuguese), O Globo
11. "Filho de Chorão chega ao IML de SP para liberação do corpo do cantor (Portuguese)". Archived from the original on 2013-04-10. Retrieved 2018-09-15.
12. Cantor Emílio Santiago morre no Rio|g1.globo.com (Portuguese)
13. Corpo do primeiro Rei Momo de Santos, Waldemar Esteves da Cunha, é enterrado Archived 2013-08-01 at the Wayback Machine (Portuguese)
14. Atriz Cleyde Yáconis morre em São Paulo, aos 89 anos|UOL Entretenimento (Portuguese)
15. Compositor Paulo Vanzolini morre aos 89 anos em São Paulo (in Portuguese)
16. Bishop Tito Buss dies|catholic-hierarchy.org
17. Peu Sousa, ex-guitarrista de Pitty, é encontrado morto em casa na BA (in Portuguese)
18. Roberto Civita, presidente do Grupo Abril, morre em São Paulo aos 76 anos (Folha de S.Paulo) (in Portuguese)
19. Bishop Silvério Jarbas Paulo de Albuquerque
20. Eugênio Izecksohn, especialista em anfíbios, morre aos 81 anos (O Globo) (in Portuguese)
21. Morre a jornalista e escritora Scarlet Moon, aos 62 anos (Veja) Archived 2013-11-27 at the Wayback Machine (in Portuguese)
22. Atriz Malu Rocha morre aos 65 anos (Folha de S.Paulo) (in Portuguese)
23. Bishop José de Lima
24. Teodoro, campeão brasileiro pelo São Paulo em 1977, morre de câncer (in Portuguese)
25. "Tatiana Belinky, autora de livros infanto-juvenis, morre aos 94 anos". O Estado de S. Paulo (in Portuguese). June 16, 2013. Retrieved 28 April 2014.
26. Morre aos 88 o gravurista Marcello Grassmann (in Portuguese)
27. Judge Edward Johnstone Kentucky Prison Reformer Dead at 91
28. Ex-Flu, medalhista olímpico pela seleção morre aos 92 anos, no Rio (in Portuguese)
29. Mc Daleste | Brazilian Rapper Shot And Killed Onstage
30. Claudiney Ramos morreu vítima de malária (Claudiney Ramos died of malaria) Archived 2013-10-16 at the Wayback Machine (in Portuguese)
31. Morre Bertha Becker, uma das maiores autoridades em Amazônia no Brasil (in Portuguese)
32. Aos 72 anos, morre o músico Dominguinhos (in Portuguese)
33. Former world football champion dies in Brazil
34. Nota de falecimento do professor do IGc e da Poli, Fernando Flávio Marques de Almeida (in Portuguese)
35. Relembre a história do primeiro arcebispo de Maringá, Dom Jaime - Maringá Archived 2013-09-20 at the Wayback Machine (in Portuguese)
36. Bishop Joaquim Rufino do Rêgo
37. Morre herói da FAB que foi piloto de caça na 2ª Guerra Mundial (in Portuguese)
38. De Sordi, campeão mundial de 58, morre aos 82 anos
39. Gilmar, World Cup-Winning Goalkeeper for Brazil, Dies at 83
40. Bishop Joaquim Justino Carreira
41. "Champignon, do Charlie Brown Jr., morre em São Paulo". Veja (in Portuguese). 9 September 2013.
42. Corpo do ex-ministro Luiz Gushiken é velado em São Paulo (in Portuguese)
43. Morre Oscar Castro Neves, um dos precursores da Bossa Nova (in Portuguese)