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
* Alagoas – Teotônio Vilela Filho
* Amapa – Camilo Capiberibe
* Amazonas – Omar Aziz
* Bahia – Jaques Wagner
* Ceará – Cid Gomes
* Espírito Santo – Renato Casagrande
* Goiás – Marconi Perillo
* Maranhão – Roseana Sarney
* Mato Grosso – Silval da Cunha
* Mato Grosso do Sul – André Puccinelli
* Minas Gerais – Antônio Anastasia
* Pará – Simão Jatene
* Paraíba – Ricardo Coutinho
* Paraná – Beto Richa
* Pernambuco – Eduardo Campos
* Piauí – Wilson Martins
* Rio de Janeiro –
* Rio Grande do Norte – Rosalba Ciarlini Rosado
* Rio Grande do Sul – Tarso Genro
* Rondônia – Confúcio Moura
* Roraima – José de Anchieta Júnior
* Santa Catarina – Raimundo Colombo
* São Paulo – Geraldo Alckmin
* Sergipe – Marcelo Déda (until 2 December), Jackson Barreto (starting 2 December)
* Tocantins – José Wilson Siqueira Campos

Vice governors

* Acre – Carlos César Correia de Messias
* Alagoas – José Thomaz da Silva Nonô Neto
* Amapá – Doralice Nascimento de Souza
* Amazonas – José Melo de Oliveira
* Bahia – Otto Alencar
* Ceará – Domingos Gomes de Aguiar Filho
* Espírito Santo – Givaldo Vieira da Silva
* Goiás – José Eliton de Figueiredo Júnior
* Maranhão – Joaquim Washington Luiz de Oliveira
* Mato Grosso – Francisco Tarquínio Daltro
* Mato Grosso do Sul – Simone Tebet
* Minas Gerais – Alberto Pinto Coelho Júnior
* Pará – Helenilson Cunha Pontes
* Paraíba – Rômulo José de Gouveia
* Paraná – Flávio José Arns
* Pernambuco – João Soares Lyra Neto
* Piauí – Wilson Martins
* Rio de Janeiro – Luiz Fernando Pezão
* Rio Grande do Norte – Robinson Faria
* Rio Grande do Sul – Jorge Alberto Duarte Grill
* Rondônia – Airton Pedro Gurgacz
* Roraima – Francisco de Assis Rodrigues
* Santa Catarina – Eduardo Pinho Moreira
* São Paulo – Guilherme Afif Domingos
* Sergipe – Jackson Barreto
* Tocantins – João Oliveira de Sousa

Events

* 2013 protests in Brazil
*January 27 - A nightclub fire in Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul kills at least 242 people.
*May 7 - removed from office, the presidency of the Legislative Assembly of Mato Grosso, accused of embezzling $4.7 million.
*July 23
** World Youth Day began in Rio de Janeiro.
** By the first time since 1975, snows in Curitiba.
*November 14 - National Institute for Space Research (INPE) satellite data revealed a 30% increase of deforestation in the Amazon in 2013.

Deaths

*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'', '' Sagarana: The Duel'') and filmmaker, heart attack.
*February 14 – Fernando Lyra, 74, politician, Minister of Justice (1985–1986), cardiopathy.
*March 6 – Chorão, 42, musician (Charlie Brown Jr.), cocaine overdose.
*March 20 – Emílio Santiago, 66, singer, complications from a stroke.
*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 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 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 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 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 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 by firearm.
*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.

See also

*2013 in Brazilian football

References

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