1936 in Brazil

Incumbents

Federal government

• President: Getúlio Vargas

Governors

• Ceará: Francisco de Meneses PimentelEspírito Santo: João Punaro BleyGoiás: Pedro Ludovico Teixeira
• Maranhão:
• Mato Grosso: Mário Correia da CostaMinas Gerais: Benedito Valadares RibeiroPará: José Carneiro da Gama Malcher
• Paraíba: Argemiro de Figueiredo Paraná: Manuel Ribas
• Pernambuco: Carlos de Lima Cavalcanti
• Piauí: Leônidas Melo Rio Grande do Norte: Rafael Fernandes GurjãoRio Grande do Sul: José Antônio Flores da Cunha
• Santa Catarina: Nereu Ramos
• São Paulo: Armando de Sales Oliveira ; Henrique Smith Baima
• Sergipe: Erônides de Carvalho

Vice governors

• Rio Grande do Norte: no vice governor
• São Paulo: no vice governor

Events

• 15 January – Farroupilha Revolution centennial fair closes.
• 16 April – Pedro Calmon is elected to the Academia Brasileira de Letras.
• 16 October – President Vargas signed the decree, which gives the name of the aviator Alberto Santos Dumont Airport located in Ponta do Calabouço, in the city of Rio de Janeiro, currently named Santos Dumont Airport, Brazil's first civilian airport.

Arts and culture

Films

• Noites Cariocas, directed and written by Enrique Cadícamo and featuring Grande Otelo.

Births

January

• 13 January – Renato Aragão, actor and comedian
• 19 January – Carlos Mário da Silva Velloso, president of the Supreme Federal Tribunal 1999–2001.
• 28 January – Waldyr Boccardo, basketball player

March

• 13 March – Carlos Alberto de Nóbrega, actor, comedian and humorist.
• 12 March – José Mojica Marins, filmmaker, actor, composer, screenwriter, and television horror host
• 26 March – Éder Jofre, architect and boxer

April

• 24 April – Esther Pillar Grossi, educator and politician

May

• 23 May – Wadih Mutran, politician

June

• 22 June – Hermeto Pascoal, composer and multi-instrumentalist

August

• 4 August
• *Joaquim Roriz, politician
• *Alfredo Bosi, historian and literary critic

September

• September 16 – Yara Amaral, actress

October

• October 16 – Agnaldo Timoteo, singer and politician

Deaths

• 11 April - :pt:Aarão Reis, engineer
• 29 October - Maria José de Castro Rebello Mendes, diplomat
• date unknown
• *:pt:Geminiano Lira Castro, politician