2013 in Brazil

2013 in Brazil
Events from the year 2013 in Brazil.
Incumbents
Federal government
President: Dilma Rousseff
Vice President: Michel Temer
President of the Chamber of Deputies: Henrique Eduardo Alves
President of the Senate: Renan Calheiros
Governors
Acre: Tião Viana
Alagoas: Teotônio Vilela Filho
Amapa: Camilo Capiberibe
Amazonas: Omar Aziz
Bahia: Jaques Wagner
Ceará: Cid Gomes
Espírito Santo: Renato Casagrande
Goiás: Marconi Perillo
Maranhão: Roseana Sarney
Mato Grosso: Silval da Cunha
Mato Grosso do Sul: André Puccinelli
Minas Gerais: Antônio Anastasia
Pará: Simão Jatene
Paraíba: Ricardo Coutinho
Paraná: Beto Richa
Pernambuco: Eduardo Campos
Piauí: Wilson Martins
Rio de Janeiro: Sérgio Cabral Filho
Rio Grande do Norte: Rosalba Ciarlini Rosado
Rio Grande do Sul: Tarso Genro
Rondônia: Confúcio Moura
Roraima: José de Anchieta Júnior
Santa Catarina – Raimundo Colombo
São Paulo: Geraldo Alckmin
Sergipe:
Marcelo Déda (until 2 December)
Jackson Barreto (starting 2 December)
Tocantins: Siqueira Campos
Vice governors
Acre: Carlos César Correia de Messias
Alagoas: José Thomaz da Silva Nonô Neto
Amapá: Doralice Nascimento de Souza
Amazonas: José Melo de Oliveira
Bahia: Otto Alencar
Ceará: Domingos Gomes de Aguiar Filho
Espírito Santo: Givaldo Vieira da Silva
Goiás: José Eliton de Figueiredo Júnior
Maranhão: Joaquim Washington Luiz de Oliveira
Mato Grosso: Francisco Tarquínio Daltro
Mato Grosso do Sul: Simone Tebet
Minas Gerais: Alberto Pinto Coelho Júnior
Pará: Helenilson Cunha Pontes
Paraíba: Rômulo José de Gouveia
Paraná: Flávio José Arns
Pernambuco: João Soares Lyra Neto
Piauí: Wilson Martins
Rio de Janeiro: Luiz Fernando Pezão
Rio Grande do Norte: Robinson Faria
Rio Grande do Sul: Jorge Alberto Duarte Grill
Rondônia: Airton Pedro Gurgacz
Roraima: Francisco de Assis Rodrigues
Santa Catarina: Eduardo Pinho Moreira
São Paulo: Guilherme Afif Domingos
Sergipe: Jackson Barreto
Tocantins: João Oliveira de Sousa
Events
2013 protests in Brazil
January
January 1: Mayors and councilors, who were elected in the 2012 municipal elections, take office in all Brazilian cities.
January 27: A nightclub fire in Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul kills at least 242 people.
March
March 8: Former goalkeeper Bruno Fernandes de Souza is sentenced to 22 years and three months in prison for the death of his ex-girlfriend Eliza Samudio.
March 13: Drug lord Fernandinho Beira-Mar is sentenced in Rio de Janeiro to 80 years in prison for crimes committed in 2002.
March 14: Ex-boyfriend Mizael Bispo de Souza is sentenced to 20 years in prison for the death of lawyer Mércia Nakashima.
March 19: The Federal Senate of Brazil unanimously approves the proposal to expand the rights of domestic workers.
March 29-31: The second Brazilian version of the Lollapalooza music festival is held at the Jockey Club in São Paulo.
May
May 4: Nhá Chica becomes the first laywoman and Afro-Brazilian to be declared blessed by the Catholic Church.
May 7: The president of the Legislative Assembly of Mato Grosso, José Geraldo Riva is removed from office, after being accused of embezzling $4.7 million USD.
June
June 6: Demonstrations against the increase in public transport fares begin in São Paulo and other cities across the country.
June 30: Brazil defeats Spain 3-0 at the Maracanã Stadium in Rio de Janeiro, to win their fourth FIFA Confederations Cup trophy.
July
July 22: Pope Francis arrives in Brazil, for his first international trip.
July 23
World Youth Day begins in Rio de Janeiro.
Snow falls in Curitiba for the first time since 1975.
November
November 14: National Institute for Space Research (INPE) satellite data revealed a 30% increase of deforestation in the Amazon in 2013.
Deaths
January
January 10: Jorge Selarón, 65, painter and ceramist (Escadaria Selarón).
January 15: Clayton Silva, 74, actor and comedian (A Praça é Nossa), cancer.
January 18: Walmor Chagas, 82, actor (Xica da Silva, São Paulo, Sociedade Anônima), apparent suicide by gunshot.
January 22: Lídia Mattos, 88, actress, pneumonia.
January 24: Zózimo Bulbul, 75, actor (Quilombo, Sagarana: The Duel) and filmmaker, heart attack.
February
February 14: Fernando Lyra, 74, politician, Minister of Justice (1985–1986), cardiopathy.
March
March 6: Chorão, 42, musician (Charlie Brown Jr.), cocaine overdose.
March 20: Emílio Santiago, 66, singer, complications from a stroke.
April
April 8: Waldemar Esteves da Cunha, 92, carnival king, respiratory failure and Alzheimer's disease.
April 15: Cleyde Yáconis, 89, film, stage and television actress, ischemia.
April 28: Paulo Vanzolini, 89, zoologist, poet and samba composer (Onze sambas e uma capoeira), complications of pneumonia.
April 30: Tito Buss, 87, Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Rio do Sul (1969–2000).
May
May 5: Peu Sousa, 35, guitarist (Nove Mil Anjos, Pitty) and record producer, suicide by hanging.
May 26: Roberto Civita, 76, businessman, CEO of Grupo Abril, heart failure.
May 28: Silvério Paulo de Albuquerque, 96, Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Caetité (19701973) and Feira de Santana (19731995).
June
June 3: Eugênio Izecksohn, 81, herpetologist (Izecksohn's Toad), professor and author.
June 5: Scarlet Moon de Chevalier, 62, actress, journalist and writer, multiple system atrophy.
June 7: Malu Rocha, 65, actress, prion.
June 12:
José de Lima, 89, Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Itumbiara (19731981) and Sete Lagoas (19811999).
Teodoro Matos Santana, 66, footballer (São Paulo FC), pancreatic cancer.
June 15: Tatiana Belinky, 94, children's writer
June 21: Marcelo Grassmann, 88, engraver and draughtsman.
June 26:
Edward Huggins Johnstone, 91, Brazilian-born American judge, member of the US District Court for Western Kentucky (since 1977).
Nilton Pacheco, 92, Olympic basketball player (1948).
July
July 7: MC Daleste, 20, rapper, shot.
July 8: Claudiney Ramos, 33, Brazilian-born Equatorial Guinean footballer, malaria.
July 13: Bertha Becker, 82, geographer.
July 23:
Dominguinhos, 72, composer and singer, infection and cardiac complications.
Djalma Santos, 84, footballer, two-time World Cup winner (1958, 1962), complications from pneumonia.
August
August 2: Fernando Flávio Marques de Almeida, 97, geologist.
August 5: Jaime Luiz Coelho, 97, Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop and Archbishop of Maringá (1956–1997).
August 10: Joaquim Rufino do Rêgo, 87, Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Quixadá (1971–1986) and Parnaíba (1986–2001).
August 13: Rui Moreira Lima, 94, military fighter pilot.
August 24: Newton de Sordi, 82, World Cup champion footballer (1958), multiple organ dysfunction syndrome.
August 25: Gylmar dos Santos Neves, 83, World Cup champion footballer (1958, 1962), complications from a heart attack.
September
September 1: Joaquim Justino Carreira, 63, Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Guarulhos (since 2011).
September 9: Champignon, 35, musician (Charlie Brown Jr., Revolucionnários, A Banca), suicide.
September 13: Luiz Gushiken, 63, politician and union leader, member of the Chamber of Deputies (1987–1999); Minister of Communications (2003–2005), cancer.
September 27: Oscar Castro-Neves, 73, bossa nova musician.
October
October 8: José Faria, 80, football coach
November
November 6: Jorge Dória, 92, actor and humorist, cardiorespiratory failure.
December
December 2: Marcelo Déda, 53, politician, Governor of Sergipe (since 2007)
December 20: Reginaldo Rossi, 69, singer-songwriter, lung cancer.
See also
2013 in Brazilian football
References
2010s in Brazil
Years of the 21st century in Brazil
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