1923 in Brazil

Incumbents

Federal government

• President: Artur Bernardes
• [Vice President of Brazil|President of Brazil|Vice President]: Estácio de Albuquerque Coimbra

Governors

• Alagoas: José Fernandes de Barros Lima
• Amazonas: César do Rego Monteiro
• Bahia: José Joaquim Seabra
• Ceará:
• * till 12 July: Justiniano de Serpa
• * from 12 July: Ildefonso Albano
• Goiás:
• * till 27 July: Eugênio Rodrigues Jardim
• * from 27 July: Miguel da Rocha Lima
• Maranhão:
• * till 20 January: Raul da Cunha Machado
• * from 20 January: Godofredo Mendes Viana
• Mato Grosso: Pedro Celestino Corrêa da Costa
• Minas Gerais: Raul Soares
• Pará: Antônio Emiliano de Sousa
• Paraíba: Sólon Barbosa de Lucena
• Paraná: Caetano Munhoz da Rocha
• Pernambuco: Sérgio Teixeira Lins de Barros Loreto
• Piauí: João Luís Ferreira
• Rio Grande do Norte: Antonio José de Melo e Sousa
• Rio Grande do Sul: Antônio Augusto Borges de Medeiros
• Santa Catarina:
• São Paulo:
• Sergipe:

Vice governors

• Rio Grande do Norte:
• São Paulo:

Events

• 3 May - Brazil sign the Pan-American Treaty.
• 13 August - Grand opening of the Copacabana Palace hotel in Rio de Janeiro.date unknown
• * The Brazilian Society of Chemistry is founded.
• * Brazil's first radio broadcasting station, the Radio Society of Rio de Janeiro, is founded; it is still working under the name Rádio MEC.
• * Medeiros e Albuquerque becomes President of the Academia Brasileira de Letras.
• * Construction of the Basilica of Our Lady of Lourdes, Belo Horizonte was completed.

Arts and culture

Films

• A Canção da Primavera, directed by Igino Bonfioli and Cyprien Segur.
• Augusto Anibal quer casar, directed by Luiz de Barros
• João da Mata, directed by and starring Amilar Alves

Births

• 11 January – Sérgio Porto, writer
• 22 January – Marcus Vinícius Dias, basketball player
• 19 April – Lygia Fagundes Telles, novelist and writer
• 16 August – Millôr Fernandes, journalist, cartoonist, humorist and playwright
• 30 October – Lourdinha Bittencourt, actress
• 1 November – Newton Holanda Gurgel, Bishop of Crato 1993-2001
• 14 November – Cleyde Yáconis, actress

Deaths

• 1 March – Rui Barbosa, writer and politician
• 11 March – Júlia da Silva Bruhns, mother of Thomas Mann