2013 in Brazil

Events from the year 2013 in Brazil.

Incumbents

President: Dilma RousseffVice President: Michel TemerPresident of the Chamber of Deputies: Henrique Eduardo AlvesPresident of the Senate: Renan Calheiros

Acre: Tião VianaAlagoas: Teotônio Vilela FilhoAmapa: Camilo CapiberibeAmazonas: Omar AzizBahia: Jaques WagnerCeará: Cid GomesEspírito Santo: Renato CasagrandeGoiás: Marconi PerilloMaranhão: Roseana SarneyMato Grosso: Silval da Cunha[List of Governors of List of Governors of Mato Grosso|Mato Grosso do Sul|Mato Grosso do Sul]: André PuccinelliMinas Gerais: Antônio AnastasiaPará: Simão JateneParaíba: Ricardo CoutinhoParaná: Beto RichaPernambuco: Eduardo CamposPiauí: Wilson MartinsRio de Janeiro: Sérgio Cabral FilhoRio Grande do Norte: Rosalba Ciarlini RosadoRio Grande do Sul: Tarso GenroRondônia: Confúcio MouraRoraima: José de Anchieta JúniorSanta Catarina – Raimundo ColomboSão Paulo: Geraldo AlckminSergipe:

Acre: Carlos César Correia de MessiasAlagoas: José Thomaz da Silva Nonô NetoAmapá: Doralice Nascimento de SouzaAmazonas: José Melo de OliveiraBahia: Otto AlencarCeará: Domingos Gomes de Aguiar FilhoEspírito Santo: Givaldo Vieira da SilvaGoiás: José Eliton de Figueiredo JúniorMaranhão: Joaquim Washington Luiz de OliveiraMato Grosso: Francisco Tarquínio DaltroMato Grosso do Sul: Simone TebetMinas Gerais: Alberto Pinto Coelho JúniorPará: Helenilson Cunha PontesParaíba: Rômulo José de GouveiaParaná: Flávio José ArnsPernambuco: João Soares Lyra NetoPiauí: Wilson MartinsRio de Janeiro: Luiz Fernando PezãoRio Grande do Norte: Robinson FariaRio Grande do Sul: Jorge Alberto Duarte GrillRondônia: Airton Pedro GurgaczRoraima: Francisco de Assis RodriguesSanta Catarina: Eduardo Pinho MoreiraSão Paulo: Guilherme Afif DomingosSergipe: Jackson BarretoTocantins: João Oliveira de Sousa

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 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.
*Journalist Rodrigo Neto was killed by two unidentified men who were suspected militia members.
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 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 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.

November 14: National Institute for Space Research satellite data revealed a 30% increase of deforestation in the Amazon in 2013.

February 14: Fernando Lyra, 74, politician, Minister of Justice, cardiopathy.

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, complications of pneumonia.
April 30: Tito Buss, 87, Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Rio do Sul.

May 5: Peu Sousa, 35, guitarist 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 and Feira de Santana.

June 3: Eugênio Izecksohn, 81, herpetologist, 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 and Sete Lagoas.
*Teodoro Matos Santana, 66, footballer, 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.
*Nilton Pacheco, 92, Olympic basketball player.

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, complications from pneumonia.

August 2: Fernando Flávio Marques de Almeida, 97, geologist.
August 5: Jaime Luiz Coelho, 97, Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop and Archbishop of Maringá.
August 10: Joaquim Rufino do Rêgo, 87, Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Quixadá and Parnaíba.
August 13: Rui Moreira Lima, 94, military fighter pilot.
August 24: Newton de Sordi, 82, World Cup champion footballer, multiple organ dysfunction syndrome.
August 25: Gylmar dos Santos Neves, 83, World Cup champion footballer, complications from a heart attack.

September 1: Joaquim Justino Carreira, 63, Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Guarulhos.
September 9: Champignon, 35, musician, suicide.
September 13: Luiz Gushiken, 63, politician and union leader, member of the Chamber of Deputies ; Minister of Communications, cancer.
September 27: Oscar Castro-Neves, 73, bossa nova musician.