1923 in Brazil

Events in the year 1923 in Brazil.

Federal government

 * President: Artur Bernardes
 * 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.

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 (died 1968)
 * 22 January – Marcus Vinícius Dias, basketball player (died 1992)
 * 19 April – Lygia Fagundes Telles, novelist and writer (died 2022)
 * 16 August – Millôr Fernandes, journalist, cartoonist, humorist and playwright (died 2012)
 * 30 October – Lourdinha Bittencourt, actress (died 1979)
 * 1 November – Newton Holanda Gurgel, Bishop of Crato 1993-2001 (died 2017)
 * 14 November – Cleyde Yáconis, actress (died 2013)

Deaths

 * 1 March – Rui Barbosa, writer and politician (born 1849)
 * 11 March – Júlia da Silva Bruhns, mother of Thomas Mann (born 1851)