1999 in Brazil

Events in the year 1999 in Brazil.

Incumbents

Federal government

* President: Fernando Henrique Cardoso
* Vice President: Marco Maciel

Governors

* Acre:
** Orleir Messias Cameli (until 1 January)
** Jorge Viana (from 1 January)
* Alagoas:
**Manoel Gomes de Barros (Mano) (until 1 January)
**Ronaldo Lessa (from 1 January)
* List of Governors of Amapa, Amapa: João Capiberibe
* List of Governors of Amazonas, Amazonas: Amazonino Mendes
* List of Governors of Bahia, Bahia:
**Paulo Souto (until 1 January)
**César Borges (from 1 January)
* List of Governors of Ceará, Ceará: Tasso Jereissati
* Governor of Espírito Santo, Espírito Santo:
**Vitor Buaiz (until 1 January)
**José Ignácio Ferreira (from 1 January)
* :pt:Lista de governadores de Goiás, Goiás:
**Helenês Cândido (until 1 January)
**Marconi Perillo (from 1 January)
* List of Governors of Maranhão, Maranhão: Roseana Sarney
* List of Governors of Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso: Dante de Oliveira
* List of Governors of Mato Grosso do Sul, Mato Grosso do Sul: José Orcírio Miranda dos Santos (from 1 January)
* List of Governors of Minas Gerais, Minas Gerais:
**Eduardo Brandão Azeredo (until 1 January)
**Itamar Franco (from 1 January)
* :pt:Lista de governadores do Pará, Pará: Almir Gabriel
* :pt:Lista de governadores da Paraíba, Paraíba: José Maranhão
* List of Governors of Paraná, Paraná: Jaime Lerner
* :pt:Lista de governadores de Pernambuco, Pernambuco:
**Miguel Arraes (until 1 January)
**Jarbas Vasconcelos (from 1 January)
* :pt:Lista de governadores do Piauí, Piauí: Mão Santa
* List of Governors of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro:
**Marcello Alencar (until 1 January)
**Benedita da Silva (from 1 January)
* Governors of Rio Grande do Norte, Rio Grande do Norte: Garibaldi Alves Filho
* List of Governors of Rio Grande do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul:
**Antônio Britto (until 1 January)
**Olívio Dutra (from 1 January)
* List of Governors of Rondônia, Rondônia: José de Abreu Bianco
* Governor of Roraima, Roraima: Neudo Ribeiro Campos
* :pt:Lista de governadores de Santa Catarina, Santa Catarina:
**Paulo Afonso Vieira (until 1 January)
**Esperidião Amin (from 1 January)
* List of Governors of São Paulo, São Paulo: Mário Covas
* :pt:Lista de governadores de Sergipe, Sergipe: Albano Franco
* List of Governors of Tocantins, Tocantins: José Wilson Siqueira Campos (from 1 January)

Vice governors

* :pt:Lista de vice-governadores do Acre, Acre:
**Labib Murad (until 1 January)
**Edison Simão Cadaxo (from 1 January)
* :pt:Lista de vice-governadores de Alagoas, Alagoas: Geraldo Costa Sampaio (from 1 January)
* :pt:Lista de vice-governadores do Amapá, Amapá:
**Antônio Hildegardo Gomes de Alencar (until 1 January)
**Maria Dalva de Souza Figueiredo (from 1 January)
* :pt:Lista de vice-governadores do Amazonas, Amazonas: Samuel Assayag Hanan (from 1 January)
* :pt:Lista de vice-governadores da Bahia, Bahia:
**César Borges (until 1 January)
**Otto Alencar (from 1 January)
* :pt:Lista de vice-governadores do Ceará, Ceará:
**Moroni Bing Torgan (until 1 January)
**Benedito Clayton Veras Alcântara (from 1 January)
* :pt:Lista de vice-governadores do Espírito Santo, Espírito Santo
**José Renato Casagrande (until 1 January)
**Celso José Vasconcelos (from 1 January)
* :pt:Lista de vice-governadores de Goiás, Goiás: Alcides Rodrigues Filho (from 1 January)
* :pt:Lista de vice-governadores do Maranhão, Maranhão: José Reinaldo Carneiro Tavares
* :pt:Lista de vice-governadores de Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso:
**José Márcio Panoff de Lacerda (until 1 January)
**José Rogério Sales (from 1 January)
* :pt:Lista de vice-governadores de Mato Grosso do Sul, Mato Grosso do Sul:
**''Vacant'' (until 1 January)
**Moacir Kohl (from 1 January)
* :pt:Lista de vice-governadores de Minas Gerais, Minas Gerais:
**Walfrido Silvino dos Mares Guia Neto (until 1 January)
**Newton Cardoso (from 1 January)
* :pt:Lista de vice-governadores do Pará, Pará:
**Hélio Mota Gueiros Júnior (until 1 January)
**Hildegardo de Figueiredo Nunes (from 1 January)
* :pt:Lista de vice-governadores da Paraíba, Paraíba: Antônio Roberto de Sousa Paulino
* :pt:Lista de vice-governadores do Paraná, Paraná: Emília de Sales Belinati
* :pt:Lista de vice-governadores de Pernambuco, Pernambuco:
**Jorge José Gomes (until 1 January)
**José Mendonça Bezerra Filho (from 1 January)
* :pt:Lista de vice-governadores do Piauí, Piauí:
**Osmar Antônio de Araújo (until 1 January)
**Osmar Ribeiro de Almeida Júnior (from 1 January)
* :pt:Lista de vice-governadores do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro:
**Luiz Paulo Correa da Rocha (until 1 January)
**Benedita da Silva (from 1 January)
* :pt:Lista de vice-governadores do Rio Grande do Norte, Rio Grande do Norte: Fernando Freire
* :pt:Lista de vice-governadores do Rio Grande do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul:
**Vicente Joaquim Bogo (until 1 January)
**Miguel Soldatelli Rossetto (from 1 January)
* :pt:Lista de vice-governadores de Rondônia, Rondônia:
**Aparício Carvalho de Moraes (until 1 January)
**Miguel de Souza (from 1 January)
* :pt:Lista de vice-governadores de Roraima, Roraima:
**Airton Antonio Soligo (until 1 January)
**Francisco Flamarion Portela (from 1 January)
* :pt:Lista de vice-governadores de Santa Catarina, Santa Catarina:
**José Augusto Hülse (until 1 January)
**Paulo Roberto Bauer (from 1 January)
* :pt:Lista de vice-governadores de São Paulo, São Paulo: Geraldo Alckmin
* :pt:Lista de vice-governadores de Sergipe, Sergipe:
**José Carlos Machado (until 1 January)
**Benedito de Figueiredo (from 1 January)
* :pt:Lista de vice-governadores do Tocantins, Tocantins:
**Raimundo Nonato Pires dos Santos (until 1 January)
**João Lisboa da Cruz (from 1 January)

Events

January

* January 1: Fernando Henrique Cardoso begins his second term as president of Brazil.
* January 24: ''Central Station (film), Central Station'' by Walter Salles, wins the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

February

* February 1: Antônio Carlos Magalhães (Democrats (Brazil), PFL/Bahia, BA) and Michel Temer (PMDB/São Paulo (state), SP) are re-elected, respectively, as presidents of the Federal Senate (Brazil), Federal Senate and the Chamber of Deputies (Brazil), Chamber of Deputies.

March

* March 11: A 1999 Southern Brazil blackout, blackout affects the Federal District (Brazil), Federal District, as well as ten states in the South Region, Brazil, South, Southeast Region, Brazil, Southeast, and Central-West Region, Brazil, Central-West regions.
*March 21: After 94 days, the kidnapping of Wellington Camargo (brother of the country duo Zezé di Camargo & Luciano) ends. Camargo was found in a bush on the side of a road in Guapó and the kidnappers were arrested.
*March 22: The newspaper ''Agora São Paulo'' is launched to replace ''Folha da Tarde''.

May

* May 10th: The television network Rede Manchete ceases broadcasting, due to a growing decrease in audience, excessive interest on the station's debt and that of the Bloch Group; management failures and salary arrears since the previous year. The network later becomes RedeTV!.

June

* June 6: In São José dos Campos, 345 prisoners escape from Putim prison through the front gate.

July

* July 18: 1999 Copa América final, Brazil defeats Uruguay 3-0, earning their sixth Copa América championship.
* July 26 - Truckers go on a national strike for four days in a row. Drivers claimed toll tariff reduction, tax exemption and retirement regulation.

September

* September 29: Francisco de Assis Pereira, "The Park Maniac", is sentenced to 121 years in prison for the death of ten women in the State Park, in São Paulo.

November

* November 3: Mateus da Costa Meira, a 24-year old medical student, Morumbi Shopping shooting, kills 3 people in a theater with a submachine gun.

December

* December 11: Unsuccessful launch of VLS-1 V02 occurs.

Births

January

*14 January: Emerson Royal, footballer

March

*27 May: Matheus Cunha, footballer

August

*13 August: Giulia Be, singer
*15 August: Paola Reis, BMX rider

October

*8 October: Camila Rossi, rhythmic gymnast

December

*28 December: Ary Borges, footballer

Deaths

March

*7 March: Antônio Houaiss, writer and lexicographer (born 1915 in Brazil, 1915)
*12 March: Bidu Sayão, opera singer (born 1902 in Brazil, 1902)
*24 March: Ladjane Bandeira, journalist and artist (born 1927 in Brazil, 1927)

April

*1 April: Marcos Rey, writer (born 1925 in Brazil, 1925)

May

*18 May: Dias Gomes, dramatist (born 1922 in Brazil, 1922)
*22 May: Milton Banana, bossa nova and jazz drummer (born 1935 in Brazil, 1935)
*29 May: João Carlos de Oliveira, athlete (born 1954 in Brazil, 1954)

June

*12 June: Carlos Kroeber, actor (born 1934 in Brazil, 1934)
*19 June: Heloísa Helena (actress), Heloísa Helena, actress (born 1917 in Brazil, 1917)

July

*16 July: Franco Montoro, politician (born 1916 in Brazil, 1916)

August

*27 August: Hélder Câmara, Catholic archbishop (born 1909 in Brazil, 1909)

October

* 8 October:
**Manfredo Fest, bossa nova and jazz pianist (born 1936 in Brazil, 1936)
**Zezé Macedo, comedian and actress (born 1916 in Brazil, 1916)
* 30 October: Nise da Silveira, psychiatrist and student of Carl Jung (born 1905 in Brazil, 1905)

November

*19 November: Plínio Marcos, writer and actor (born 1935 in Brazil, 1935)
*22 November: Flávio Costa, football player and coach (born 1906 in Brazil, 1906)

December

*3 December: Edmond Safra, Lebanese-born banker (born 1932 in Brazil, 1932)
*8 December: Toninho (footballer, born 1948), Toninho, footballer (born 1948 in Brazil, 1948)
*24 December: João Figueiredo, 30th President of Brazil (born 1918 in Brazil, 1918)
*29 December: José Cláudio dos Reis, sports administrator (born 1939 in Brazil, 1939)

See also

*1999 in Brazilian football
*1999 in Brazilian television

References

{{Latin America topic, 1999 in

1999 in Brazil,
1990s in Brazil
Years of the 20th century in Brazil
1999 by country, Brazil
1999 in South America, Brazil