# 1977 in Brazil

Events in the year 1977 in Brazil.

## Incumbents
### Federal government

* President: General Ernesto Geisel
* Vice President: General Adalberto Pereira dos Santos

### Governors

* Acre: Vacant
* Alagoas: Divaldo Suruagy
* Amazonas: Henoch da Silva Reis
* Bahia: Roberto Santos
* Ceará: José Adauto Bezerra
* Espírito Santo: Élcio Álvares
* Goiás: Irapuan Costa Jr.
* Maranhão: Oswaldo da Costa Nunes Freire
* Mato Grosso: Jose Garcia Neto
* Mato Grosso do Sul: Vacant
* Minas Gerais: Aureliano Chaves
* Pará: Aloysio Chaves
* Paraíba: Ivan Bichara
* Paraná: Jaime Canet Júnior
* Pernambuco: Francisco Moura Cavalcanti
* Piauí: Dirceu Arcoverde
* Rio de Janeiro: Floriano P. Faria Lima
* Rio Grande do Norte: Tarcisio de Vasconcelos Maia
* Rio Grande do Sul: Sinval Sebastião Duarte Guazzelli
* Santa Catarina: Antônio Carlos Konder Reis
* São Paulo: Paulo Egídio Martins
* Sergipe: José Rollemberg

### Vice governors

* Acre: Omar Sabino de Paula
* Alagoas: Vacant
* Amazonas: João Bosco Ramos de Lima
* Bahia: Edvaldo Brandão Correia
* Ceará: José Waldemar de Alcântara e Silva
* Espírito Santo: Carlos Alberto Lindenberg von Schilgen
* Goiás: José Luís Bittencourt
* Maranhão: José Duailibe Murad
* Mato Grosso: Cássio Leite de Barros
* Mato Grosso do Sul: Vacant
* Minas Gerais: Levindo Ozanam Coelho
* Pará: Clovis Silva de Morais Rego
* Paraíba: Dorgival Terceiro Neto
* Paraná: Octávio Cesário Pereira Júnior
* Pernambuco: Paulo Gustavo de Araújo Cunha
* Piauí: Djalma Martins Veloso
* Rio de Janeiro: Vacant
* Rio Grande do Norte: Geraldo Melo
* Rio Grande do Sul: José Augusto Amaral de Sousa
* Santa Catarina: Marcos Henrique Büechler
* São Paulo: Ferreira Filho
* Sergipe: Antônio Ribeiro Sotelo

## Events
### April

* April 1: President Ernesto Geisel closes the National Congress of Brazil to control presidential succession as conflict erupts between him, the duristas, Congress, the Church, and the media.
* April 14: President Geisel signs constitutional amendment n°8 and reopens the National Congress of Brazil.

### June

* June 23: In a second ballot by 226 votes in favor and 159 against; the National Congress of Brazil approves a constitutional amendment by Senators Nelson Carneiro and Acioli Filho, that legalizes divorce.

### August

* August 3: Writer Rachel de Queiroz becomes the first woman elected to the Brazilian Academy of Letters.
* August 17: Jorge Amado's novel Tieta do Agreste is published, which becomes one of his best-selling works.

### October

* October 1: Pelé, playing for the New York Cosmos, scores his last goal to defeat Santos FC 2-1, at Giants Stadium, in East Rutherford, New Jersey, United States. This would be his last official game, thus saying goodbye to his professional football career.
* October 11: President Ernesto Geisel signs a law, creating the state of Mato Grosso do Sul.

### December

* December 26: President Ernesto Geisel signs a law that legalizes and regulates divorce.

## Births
### March

* 27 March: Vítor Meira race car driver

### April

* 1 April: Vitor Belfort, MMA fighter

### June

* 8 June: Falcão, footballer

### July

* 20 July: Susana Werner, model and actress
* 30 July: Fabrício Werdum, Jiu-Jitsu practitioner

### August

* 24 August: Denílson, footballer

### September

* 14 September: Alex, footballer

### October

* 31 October: Larissa Maciel, actress

### November

* 6 November: Demian Maia, mixed martial artist
* 8 November: João Rodrigo Silva Santos soccer player (d. 2013)

### December

* December 12: Evangelista Santos, mixed martial arts fighter

## Deaths
### January

* 22 January: Maysa Matarazzo, singer (b. 1936)

### February

* 13 February: Carolina Maria de Jesus, memorialist (b. 1914)

### March

* 18 March: Carlos Pace, racing driver,(b. 1944)

### July

* 21 July: Zózimo, World Cup-winning footballer (b. 1932)

### December

* 9 December: Clarice Lispector, writer (b. 1920)