# 1993 in Brazil

Events in the year 1993 in Brazil.

## Incumbents
### Federal government

* President: Itamar Franco
* Vice President: vacant

### Governors

* Acre: Vacant
* Alagoas: Geraldo Bulhões
* Amapa: Annibal Barcellos
* Amazonas: Gilberto Mestrinho
* Bahia: Antônio Carlos Magalhães
* Ceará: Ciro Gomes
* Espírito Santo: Albuíno Cunha de Azeredo
* Goiás: Iris Rezende
* Maranhão: Edison Lobão
* Mato Grosso: Jaime Campos
* Mato Grosso do Sul: Pedro Pedrossian
* Minas Gerais: Hélio Garcia
* Pará: Jader Barbalho
* Paraíba: Ronaldo Cunha Lima
* Paraná: Roberto Requião de Mello e Silva
* Pernambuco: Joaquim Francisco Cavalcanti
* Piauí: Freitas Neto
* Rio de Janeiro: Leonel Brizola
* Rio Grande do Norte: José Agripino Maia
* Rio Grande do Sul: Alceu de Deus Collares
* Rondônia: Oswaldo Piana Filho
* Roraima: Ottomar de Sousa Pinto
* Santa Catarina: Vilson Kleinübing
* São Paulo: Luís Antônio Fleury Filho
* Sergipe: João Alves Filho
* Tocantins: Moisés Nogueira Avelino

### Vice governors

* Acre: Vacant
* Alagoas: Francisco Roberto Holanda de Melo
* Amapá: Ronaldo Pinheiro Borges
* Amazonas: Francisco Garcia Rodrigues
* Bahia: Paulo Souto
* Ceará: Lúcio Gonçalo de Alcântara
* Espírito Santo: Adelson Antônio Salvador
* Goiás: Luís Alberto Maguito Vilela
* Maranhão: José de Ribamar Fiquene
* Mato Grosso: Osvaldo Roberto Sobrinho
* Mato Grosso do Sul: Ary Rigo
* Minas Gerais: Arlindo Porto Neto
* Pará: Carlos José Oliveira Santos
* Paraíba: Cícero Lucena Filho
* Paraná: Mário Pereira
* Pernambuco: Carlos Roberto Guerra Fontes
* Piauí: Guilherme Cavalcante de Melo
* Rio de Janeiro: Nilo Batista
* Rio Grande do Norte: Vivaldo Costa
* Rio Grande do Sul: João Gilberto Lucas Coelho
* Rondônia: Assis Canuto
* Roraima: Antônio Airton Oliveira Dias
* Santa Catarina: Antônio Carlos Konder Reis
* São Paulo: Aloysio Nunes
* Sergipe: José Carlos Mesquita Teixeira
* Tocantins: Paulo Sidnei Antunes

## Events
### February

* February 4: President Itamar Franco signs a law that regulates the plebiscite on the form and system of government in Brazil.

### April

* April 21: Eight years after democracy is restored in the country, Brazil holds a constitutional referendum about what form of government and regime the country would go on with. Voters could choose between a republican or monarchic government, and between a presidential or parliamentary regime. The result was 86.6% of votes in favour of a republic and 69.2% in favour of presidentialism, leaving the country's form of government, a presidential republic, unchanged.

### May

* May 21: Judge Denise Frossard sentences Castor de Andrade and 13 other big mobsters; including Capitão Guimarães, Luizinho Drummond, Antonio Petrus Kalil (aka Turcão), and Anísio Abraão David to six years in prison for criminal association. 53 deaths were attributed to the group.

### July

* July 23: The Candelária massacre occurs after eight homeless people, including six minors are killed by several men, who were members of the police.

### August

* August 1: The cruzeiro real becomes the national currency of Brazil, replacing the cruzeiro at a rate of 1000 to 1.
* August 29: Military police in Rio de Janeiro murder twenty-one residents of the Vigário Geral favela.

### October

* October 13-19: American singer Michael Jackson is in São Paulo for his Dangerous World Tour; with two shows at the Morumbi Stadium, on the 15th and 17th of the month.

### December

* December 7: Minister of Finance Fernando Henrique Cardoso announces an economic stabilization program.
* December 17: Brazil's Supreme Federal Court rules that former President Fernando Collor de Mello could not hold elected office again until 2000, due to political corruption.

## Births
### January

* January 4 – Manu Gavassi, singer, songwriter, actress, directress and writer

### February

* February 12 – Rafinha, footballer

### March

* March 5 – Fred, footballer
* March 24 – Gustavo Henrique, footballer
* March 30 – Anitta, singer and dancer

### April

* April 13 – Letícia Bufoni, street skateboarder
* April 15 – Felipe Anderson, footballer
* April 30 – Henry Zaga, actor

### June

* June 27:
** Adair Cardoso, singer and composer
** Camila Queiroz, actress

### August

* August 17:
** Rodrigo Caio, footballer
** Ederson, footballer

### October

* October 23 – Fabinho, footballer

### November

* November 14 – Tabata Amaral, political scientist, education activist and politician

### December

* December 16 – Thiago Braz da Silva, Olympic athlete
* December 22 – Gabriel Medina, professional surfer

## Deaths
### January

* January 13 – Camargo Guarnieri, composer (b. 1907)

### April

* April 2 – Thales Monteiro, basketball player and Olympian (b. 1925)
* April 3 – Leopoldo Nachbin, mathematician (b. 1922)
* April 9 – Lindalva Justo de Oliveira, Roman Catholic nun (b. 1953)
* April 25 – Geraldo Del Rey, actor (b. 1930)
* April 30 – Diva Diniz Corrêa, marine zoologist (b. 1918)

### September

* September 7 – Bruno Giorgi, sculptor (b. 1905)

### December

* December 14 – Aristides Leão, neurophysiologist and researcher (b. 1914)