# 1975 in Brazil

Events in the year 1975 in Brazil.

## Incumbents
### Federal government

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

### Governors

* Acre: Vacant
* Alagoas:
** Afrânio Lages (until 15 March)
** Divaldo Suruagy (from 15 March)
* Amazonas:
** João Walter de Andrade (until 15 March)
** Henoch da Silva Reis (from 15 March)
* Bahia:
** Antônio Carlos Magalhães (until 15 March)
** Roberto Santos (from 15 March)
* Ceará:
** César Cals (until 15 March)
** José Adauto Bezerra (from 15 March)
* Espírito Santo:
** Artur Carlos Gerhardt Santos (until 15 March)
** Élcio Álvares (from 15 March)
* Goiás:
** Leonino Caiado (until 15 March)
** Irapuan Costa Jr. (from 15 March)
* Guanabara: Antonio de Pádua Chagas Freitas (until 15 March)
* Maranhão:
** Pedro Neiva de Santana (until 15 March)
** Oswaldo da Costa Nunes Freire (from 31 March)
* Mato Grosso:
** José Fragelli (until 15 March)
** Jose Garcia Neto (from 15 March)
* Minas Gerais:
** Rondon Pacheco (until 15 March)
** Aureliano Chaves (from 15 March)
* Pará:
** Fernando Guilhon (until 15 March)
** Aloysio Chaves (from 15 March)
* Paraíba:
** Ernâni Sátiro (until 15 March)
** Ivan Bichara (from 15 March)
* Paraná:
** Emílio Hoffmann Gomes (until 15 March)
** Jaime Canet Júnior (from 15 March)
* Pernambuco:
** Eraldo Gueiros (until 15 March)
** Francisco Moura Cavalcanti (from 15 March)
* Piauí:
** Alberto Silva (until 15 March)
** Dirceu Arcoverde (from 15 March)
* Rio de Janeiro: Floriano P. Faria Lima
* Rio Grande do Norte:
** Jose Pereira de Araújo Cortez (until 15 March)
** Tarcisio de Vasconcelos Maia (from 15 March)
* Rio Grande do Sul:
** Euclides Triches (until 15 March)
** Sinval Sebastião Duarte Guazzelli (from 15 March)
* Santa Catarina:
** Colombo Salles (until 15 March)
** Antônio Carlos Konder Reis (from 15 March)
* São Paulo:
** Laudo Natel (until 15 March)
** Paulo Egídio Martins (from 15 March)
* Sergipe:
** Paulo Barreto de Menezes (until 15 March)
** José Rollemberg (from 15 March)

### Vice governors

* Acre:
** Alberto Barbosa da Costa (until 15 March)
** Omar Sabino de Paula (from 15 March)
* Alagoas:
** José de Medeiros Tavares (until 15 March)
** Antônio Gomes de Barro (from 15 March)
* Amazonas:
** Deoclides de Carvalho Leal (until 15 March)
** João Bosco Ramos de Lima (from 15 March)
* Bahia:
** Menandro Minahim (until 15 March)
** Edvaldo Brandão Correia (from 15 March)
* Ceará:
** Francisco Humberto Bezerra (until 15 March)
** José Waldemar de Alcântara e Silva (from 15 March)
* Espírito Santo:
** Henrique Pretti (until 15 March)
** Carlos Alberto Lindenberg von Schilgen (from 15 March)
* Goiás:
** Ursulino Tavares Leão (until 15 March)
** José Luís Bittencourt (from 15 March)
* Maranhão:
** Alexandre Sá Colares Moreira (until 15 March)
** José Duailibe Murad (from 15 March)
* Mato Grosso:
** José Monteiro de Figueiredo (until 15 March)
** Cássio Leite de Barros (from 15 March)
* Minas Gerais:
** Celso Porfírio de Araújo Machado (until 15 March)
** Levindo Ozanam Coelho (from 15 March)
* Pará:
** Newton Burlamaqui Barreira (until 15 March)
** Clovis Silva de Morais Rego (from 15 March)
* Paraíba:
** Clóvis Bezerra Cavalcanti (until 15 March)
** Dorgival Terceiro Neto (from 15 March)
* Paraná:
** Jaime Canet Júnior (until 15 March)
** Octávio Cesário Pereira Júnior (from 15 March)
* Pernambuco:
** José Antônio Barreto Guimarães (until 15 March)
** Paulo Gustavo de Araújo Cunha (from 15 March)
* Piauí:
** Sebastião Rocha Leal (until 15 March)
** Djalma Martins Veloso (from 15 March)
* Rio Grande do Norte:
** Tertius Rebelo (until 15 March)
** Geraldo Melo (from 15 March)
* Rio de Janeiro:
** Teotônio Araújo (until 15 March)
** Vacant thereafter (from 15 March)
* Rio Grande do Sul:
** Edmar Fetter (until 15 March)
** José Augusto Amaral de Sousa (from 15 March)
* Santa Catarina:
** Atílio Francisco Xavier Fontana (until 15 March)
** Marcos Henrique Büechler(from 15 March)
* São Paulo:
** Antonio José Rodrigues Filho (until 15 March)
** Ferreira Filho (from 15 March)
* Sergipe:
** Adalberto Moura (until 15 March)
** Antônio Ribeiro Sotelo (from 15 March)

## Events
### March

* March 15: The state of Guanabara merges into the state of Rio de Janeiro, in accordance to a complementary law approved the previous year.

### June

* June 4-7: Romanian President Nicolae Ceauşescu arrives in Brasilia for a four-day visit to Brazil and a meeting with President Ernesto Geisel at the Planalto Palace.
* June 27: Brazil signs a nuclear agreement with the Federal Republic of Germany, in Bonn.

### August

* August 15: Embraer exports its first aircraft to Uruguay.

### October

* October 25: The director of journalism at TV Cultura, Vladimir Herzog, is found dead in a simulated suicide on the premises of DOI-CODI in São Paulo.

## Births
### January

* 6 January: Ricardo Santos, beach volleyball player
* 30 January: Juninho Pernambucano, footballer

### April

* 14 April: Anderson Silva, mixed martial artist

### May

* 8 May:
* 10 May: Hélio Castroneves, racing driver

### July

* 14 July: Derlei, footballer
* 16 July: Ana Paula Arósio, actress and model

### August

* 22 August: Rodrigo Santoro, actor

### September

* 7 September: Renato Sobral, martial artist
* 21 September: Acelino Freitas, boxer and politician

### November

* 14 November: Luizão, footballer

## Deaths
### April

* April 21: Ranieri Mazzilli, 23rd and 25th President of Brazil (born 1910)

### November

* November 28: Érico Veríssimo, writer (born 1905)