1951 in Brazil

Events in the year 1951 in Brazil.

Incumbents

Federal government

* President of Brazil, President:
**Marshal Eurico Gaspar Dutra (until 30 January)
**Getúlio Vargas (from 31 January)
* Vice President of Brazil, Vice President:
**Nereu Ramos (until 30 January)
**Café Filho (from 31 January)

Governors

* :pt:Lista de governadores de Alagoas, Alagoas:
**Silvestre Pericles (until 31 January)
**Arnon de Mello (from 31 January)
* List of Governors of Amazonas, Amazonas:
**Leopoldo da Silva Amorim Neves (until 31 January)
**Álvaro Botelho Maia (from 31 January)
* List of Governors of Bahia, Bahia:
**Otávio Mangabeira (until 31 January)
** Régis Pacheco (from 31 January)
* List of Governors of Ceará, Ceará:
**Faustino de Albuquerque (until 31 January)
**Raul Barbosa (from 31 January)
* Governor of Espírito Santo, Espírito Santo:
**Carlos Fernando Monteiro Lindenberg (until 31 January)
**Jones dos Santos Neves (from 31 January)
* :pt:Lista de governadores de Goiás, Goiás:
**Hosanah Guimarães (until 31 January)
**Pedro Ludovico Teixeira (from 31 January)
* List of Governors of Maranhão, Maranhão:
** Sebastião Archer (until 31 January)
** Traiaú Rodrigues Moreira (from 31 January)
* List of Governors of Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso:
**Jari Gomes (until 31 January)
**Fernando Corrêa da Costa (from 31 January)
* List of Governors of Minas Gerais, Minas Gerais:
**Milton Soares Campos (until 31 January)
**Juscelino Kubitschek (from 31 January)
* :pt:Lista de governadores de Pará, Pará:
** Alberto Engelhard (until 25 January: )
** Waldir Bouhid (25 January-27 January)
** Arnaldo Lobo (27 January-9 February)
** Abel Nunes de Figueiredo (9 February-20 February)
** Zacarias de Assumpção (from 20 February)
* :pt:Lista de governadores da Paraíba, Paraíba:
**Osvaldo Trigueiro (until 31 January)
**José Américo de Almeida (from 31 January)
* List of Governors of Paraná, Paraná:
**Moisés Lupion (until 31 January)
**Bento Munhoz da Rocha Neto (from 31 January)
* :pt:Lista de governadores de Pernambuco, Pernambuco:
**Alexandre Barbosa Lima Sobrinho (until 31 January)
**Agamenon Magalhães (from 31 January)
* :pt:Lista de governadores do Piauí, Piauí:
**José da Rocha Furtado (until 31 January)
**Pedro Freitas (from 31 January)
* :pt:Lista de governadores do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro:
**Macedo Soares (until 31 January)
**Amaral Peixoto (from 31 January)
* Governors of Rio Grande do Norte, Rio Grande do Norte:
** José Augusto Varela (until 31 January)
** Jerônimo Dix-Sept Rosado (31 January-16 July)
** Silvio Piza Pedrosa (from 16 July)
* List of Governors of Rio Grande do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul:
**Walter Só Jobim (till 31 January)
**Ernesto Dornelles (from 31 January)
* :pt:Lista de governadores de Santa Catarina, Santa Catarina:
**Aderbal Ramos da Silva (until 31 January)
**Irineu Bornhausen (from 31 January)
* List of Governors of São Paulo, São Paulo:
**Ademar de Barros (until 31 January)
**Lucas Nogueira Garcez (from 31 January)
* :pt:Lista de governadores de Sergipe, Sergipe:
** Jose Rollemberg (until 31 January)
** João Dantas Martins dos Reis (31 January-17 February)
** Edélzio Vieira de Melo (17 February-12 March)
** Arnaldo Rollemberg Garcez (from 12 March)

Vice governors

* :pt:Lista de vice-governadores de Alagoas, Alagoas:
**Francisco de Menezes Pimentel (until 31 January)
**Antônio Guedes de Miranda (from 31 January)
* :pt:Lista de vice-governadores do Ceará, Ceará: Stênio Gomes da Silva
* :pt:Lista de vice-governadores do Espírito Santo, Espírito Santo:
**José Rodrigues Sette (until 31 January)
**Francisco Alves Ataíde (from 31 January)
* :pt:Lista de vice-governadores de Goiás, Goiás: Jonas Ferreira Alves Duarte (from 31 January)
* :pt:Lista de vice-governadores do Maranhão, Maranhão:
**Saturnino Bello (until 31 January)
**Renato Bayma Archer da Silva (from 31 January)
* :pt:Lista de vice-governadores de Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso: João Leite de Barros (from 31 January)
* :pt:Lista de vice-governadores de Minas Gerais, Minas Gerais:
**José Ribeiro Pena (until 31 January)
**Clóvis Salgado da Gama (from 31 January)
* :pt:Lista de vice-governadores da Paraíba, Paraíba:
**José Targino Pereira da Costa (until 31 January)
**João Fernandes de Lima (from 31 January)
* :pt:Lista de vice-governadores do Piauí, Piauí:
**Osvaldo da Costa e Silva (until 31 January)
**Tertuliano Milton Brandão (from 31 January)
* :pt:Lista de vice-governadores do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro: Tarcísio Miranda (from 31 January)
* :pt:Lista de vice-governadores do Rio Grande do Norte, Rio Grande do Norte:
**Tomaz Salustino (until 31 January)
** Sylvio Pedroza (31 January-16 July)
**''Vacant'' (from 16 July)
* :pt:Lista de vice-governadores de São Paulo, São Paulo:
**Luís Gonzaga Novelli Júnior (until 31 January)
**Erlindo Salzano (from 31 January)
* :pt:Lista de vice-governadores de Sergipe, Sergipe: Edelzio Vieira de Melo (from 31 January)

Events

*''date unknown''
**The Brazilian Medical Association is founded.
**The Escola Superior de Propaganda e Marketing is founded in São Paulo.

January

*18 January: Getúlio Vargas is proclaimed president-elect by the Superior Electoral Court.
*13 January: Getúlio Vargas assumes his second term as the List of Presidents of Brazil, 17th President of Brazil, this time elected by direct vote.

March

*Unknown Date: Clarice Lispector returns from London with her husband, Maury Gurgel Valente, following a miscarriage.

June

*12 June: ''Última Hora (Brazil), Última Hora'', a tabloid newspaper, is founded by Samuel Wainer and personally endorsed by President Vargas.

July

*3 July: President of Brazil, President Getúlio Vargas signs the ''Afonso Arinos Law'', which prohibits racial discrimination in Brazil.
*12 July: A Linhas Aéreas Paulistas plane collides with a tree located 3 kilometers from the runway at the Aracaju airport, killing 32 passengers and crew.

Arts and culture

Books

*Ștefan Baciu - ''Analiza cuvântului dor''

Films

*''Agüenta Firme, Isidoro'', directed by Luiz de Barros.
*''Aí Vem o Barão'', directed by Watson Macedo, starring Oscarito, José Lewgoy and Eliana.
*''Amazon Symphony'', directed by Anelio Latini, starring Almirante.
*''Quando a Noite Acaba'', starring Tônia Carrero.
*''O Saci (film), O Saci'', directed by Rodolfo Nanni, starring Paulo Matozinho.

Births

January

*2 January:
**Lula Ferreira, professional basketball coach
**Waldir Peres, footballer (died 2017 in Brazil, 2017)

April

*9 April: Sérgio Rezende, filmmaker
*29 April: Vinicius Cantuária, jazz musician

July

*12 July: Carlos Minc, geographer, environmentalist and politician

August

*13 August: Beto Guedes, singer, songwriter, and guitarist
*14 August: Rita Segato (in Argentina), anthropologist, feminist and academic

October

*20 October: José Gomes Temporão, doctor and politicianBiography of José Gomes Temporão at the Ministry of Health official website

Deaths

August

*2 August: Joseph Franz Seraph Lutzenberger, German-born architect and artist (born 1882 in Brazil, 1882)

November

*13 November: Walter de Souza Goulart, footballer (born 1912 in Brazil, 1912)

References

See also

*1951 in Brazilian football
*List of Brazilian films of 1951

{{Latin America topic, 1951 in

1951 in Brazil,
1950s in Brazil
Years of the 20th century in Brazil
1951 by country, Brazil
1951 in South America, 1951 in South America