# 1987 in Brazil

Events in the year 1987 in Brazil:

## Incumbents
### Federal government

* President: José Sarney
* Vice President: Vacant

### Governors

* Acre:
** Iolanda Fleming (until 15 March)
** Flaviano Melo (from 15 March)
* Alagoas:
** José de Medeiros Tavares (until 15 March)
** Fernando Collor de Mello (from 15 March)
* Amazonas:
** Gilberto Mestrinho (until 15 March)
** Amazonino Mendes (from 15 March)
* Bahia:
** João Durval Carneiro (until 15 March)
** Waldir Pires (from 15 March)
* Ceará:
** Gonzaga Mota (until 15 March)
** Tasso Jereissati (from 15 March)
* Espírito Santo:
** José Moraes (until 15 March)
** Max Freitas Mauro (from 15 March)
* Goiás:
** Onofre Quinan (until 15 March)
** Henrique Santillo (from 15 March)
* Maranhão:
** Luís Rocha (until 15 March)
** Epitácio Cafeteira (from 15 March)
* Mato Grosso:
** Wilmar Peres de Faria (until 15 March)
** Carlos Bezerra (from 15 March)
* Mato Grosso do Sul:
** Ramez Tebet (until 15 March)
** Marcelo Miranda Soares (from 15 March)
* Minas Gerais:
** Hélio Garcia (until 15 March)
** Newton Cardoso (from 15 March)
* Pará:
** Jader Barbalho (until 15 March)
** Hélio Gueiros (from 15 March)
* Paraíba:
** Milton Bezerra Cabral (until 15 March)
** Tarcísio Burity (from 15 March)
* Paraná:
** João Elísio Ferraz de Campos (until 15 March)
** Alvaro Dias (from 15 March)
* Pernambuco:
** Gustavo Krause (until 15 March)
** Miguel Arraes (from 15 March)
* Piauí:
** Bona Medeiros (until 15 March)
** Alberto Silva (from 15 March)
* Rio de Janeiro:
** Leonel Brizola then Moreira Franco
* Rio Grande do Norte:
** Radir Pereira de Araujo (until 15 March)
** Geraldo José Ferreira de Melo (from 15 March)
* Rio Grande do Sul:
** Jair de Oliveira Soares (until 15 March)
** Pedro Simon (from 15 March)
* Rondônia:
** Ângelo Angelin (until 15 March)
** Jerônimo Garcia de Santana (from 15 March)
* Santa Catarina:
** Esperidião Amin (until 15 March)
** Pedro Ivo Campos (from 15 March)
* São Paulo:
** André Franco Montoro (until 15 March)
** Orestes Quércia (from 15 March)
* Sergipe:
** João Alves Filho (until 15 March)
** Antônio Carlos Valadares (from 15 March)

### Vice governors

* Acre: Edison Simão Cadaxo (from 15 March)
* Alagoas: Moacir Andrade (from 15 March)
* Amazonas: Vivaldo Barros Frota (from 15 March)
* Bahia:
** Edvaldo de Oliveira Flores (until 15 March)
** Nilo Moraes Coelho (from 15 March)
* Ceará:
** José Adauto Bezerra (until 15 March)
** Francisco Castelo de Castro (from 15 March)
* Espírito Santo:
** José Moraes (until 15 March)
** Carlos Alberto Batista da Cunha (from 15 March)
* Goiás: Joaquim Domingos Roriz (from 15 March)
* Maranhão:
** João Rodolfo Ribeiro Gonçalves (until 15 March)
** João Alberto Souza (from 15 March)
* Mato Grosso: Edison de Oliveira (from 15 March)
* Mato Grosso do Sul:
** Vacant (until 15 March)
** George Takimoto (from 15 March)
* Minas Gerais: Júnia Marise de Azeredo Coutinho (from 15 March)
* Pará:
** Laércio Dias Franco (until 15 March)
** Hermínio Calvinho Filho (from 15 March)
* Paraíba:
** Antônio da Costa Gomes (until 15 March)
** Vacant (from 15 March)
* Paraná: Ary Veloso Queiroz (from 15 March)
* Pernambuco: Carlos Wilson Rocha de Queirós Campos (from 15 March)
* Piauí: Lucídio Portela Nunes (from 15 March)
* Rio de Janeiro:
** Darcy Ribeiro (until 15 March)
** Francisco Amaral (from 15 March)
* Rio Grande do Norte:
** Vacant (until 15 March)
** Garibaldi Alves (from 15 March)
* Rio Grande do Sul:
** Cláudio Ênio Strassburger (until 15 March)
** Sinval Sebastião Duarte Guazzelli (from 15 March)
* Rondônia: Orestes Muniz Filho (from 15 March)
* Santa Catarina:
** Victor Fontana (until 15 March)
** Casildo João Maldaner (from 15 March)
* São Paulo:
** Vacant (until 15 March)
** Almino Afonso (from 15 March)
* Sergipe:
** Antônio Carlos Valadares (until 15 March)
** Benedito de Figueiredo (from 15 March)

## Events
### February

* 1 February: The National Constituent Assembly is installed by the President of the Supreme Federal Court, José Carlos Moreira Alves.
* 25 February: The Central Bank of Brazil decides to intervene in banks in the states of Maranhão, Ceará, Mato Grosso, Rio de Janeiro and Santa Catarina.

### June

* 12 June: President José Sarney announces the launch of the Bresser Plan, which freezes rents and wages.

### July

* July 26: Around 70 people are killed, after a crash between two tourist buses and a Voyage car on BR-040, which connects Rio de Janeiro to Belo Horizonte in Nova Lima, Minas Gerais.

### August

* 1 August: Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is chosen as a candidate for the presidency of the Republic by the Workers' Party.

### September

* 13 September: A radioactive object is stolen from an abandoned hospital in Goiânia, Brazil, contaminating many people in the following weeks and causing some to die from radiation poisoning.

### December

* 7 December: Brasília is declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO.

## Births
### January

* January 10: César Cielo, swimmer
* January 15: Jesus Luz, model and DJ

### March

* March 20: Jô, footballer

### April

* April 22: David Luiz, footballer

### June

* June 6: Cássio, footballer
* June 25: Hugo Bonemer, actor

### July

* July 7: Alex Pereira, mixed martial artist
* July 23: Luiz Gustavo, footballer

### October

* October 11: Andressa Urach, model & reality television star

### December

* December 13: Weverton, footballer
* December 18: Deiveson Figueiredo, mixed martial artist
* December 31: Maiara & Maraisa, musical duo

## Deaths
### February

* February 2: Carlos Castilho, footballer (b. 1927)

### August

* August 17: Carlos Drummond de Andrade, poet and writer (b. 1902)

### September

* September 18: Golbery do Couto e Silva, general and politician (b. 1911)