1928 in Brazil

Events in the year 1928 in Brazil.

Federal government

 * President: Washington Luís
 * Vice President: Fernando de Melo Viana

Governors

 * Alagoas:
 * till 7 June: Pedro da Costa Rego
 * 7 June-12 June: José Julio Cansanção
 * from 12 June: Álvaro Correia Pais
 * Amazonas: Ifigênio Ferreira de Sales
 * Bahia: Góis Calmon (till 18 March); Vital Soares (from 19 March)
 * Ceará: José Moreira da Rocha (till 19 May); Eduardo Henrique Girão (19 May - 12 July); José Carlos de Matos Peixoto (from 12 July)
 * Goiás: Brasil Caiado
 * Maranhão: José Magalhães de Almeida
 * Mato Grosso: Mário Correia da Costa
 * Minas Gerais: Antônio Carlos Ribeiro de Andrada
 * Pará: Dionísio Bentes
 * Paraíba:
 * till 22 October: João Suassuna
 * from 22 October: João Pessoa Cavalcanti
 * Paraná: Caetano Munhoz da Rocha; Afonso Camargo
 * Pernambuco: Estácio Coimbra
 * Piauí:
 * till 1 July: Matias Olímpio de Melo
 * from 1 July: João de Deus Pires Leal
 * Rio Grande do Norte: Juvenal Lamartine de Faria
 * Rio Grande do Sul: Antônio Augusto Borges de Medeiros (till 25 January); Getúlio Dornelles Vargas (from 25 January)
 * Santa Catarina: Adolf Konder
 * São Paulo: Júlio Prestes
 * Sergipe: Manuel Correia Dantas

Vice governors

 * Rio Grande do Norte: Joaquim Inácio (starting 1 January)
 * São Paulo: Heitor Teixeira Penteado

Events

 * 22 July - The Estádio Parque São Jorge football stadium in São Paulo is inaugurated.
 * 10 August - The ETA – Empresa de Transporte Aéreo airline is founded; it remains in operation for only a year.
 * 3 December - Disaster of the Dornier J 'Santos Dumont'.
 * date unknown - The Liberator Party (Brazil) is founded for the first time, by members of the Rio Grande do Sul Federalist Party, notably Joaquim Francisco de Assis Brasil.

Books

 * Mário de Andrade - Macunaíma
 * Oswald de Andrade - Manifesto Antropófago

Births

 * 6 January - Carlos Manga, film director (died 2015)
 * 1 March - Maurício do Valle, actor (died 1994)
 * 13 March - Paulo Ribenboim, mathematician
 * 19 March - Dequinha, footballer (died 1997)
 * 23 April - Martim Francisco, association football coach (died 1982)
 * 1 May
 * Delfim Netto, economist, Minister of Finance, Agriculture and Planning of Brazil, professor and congressman
 * Marcelo Pinto Carvalheira, Roman Catholic archbishop (died 2017)
 * 11 May - Dulce Figueiredo, wife of future Brazilian president João Figueiredo (died 2011)
 * 21 June – Fiorella Mari, Brazilian-Italian actress (died 1983)
 * 24 July – Jardel Filho, actor (died 1983)
 * 13 August – Pedro Pedrossian, politician (died 2017)
 * 15 August – Manfredo do Carmo, mathematician (died 2018)
 * 24 September - Aldo Vannucchi, academic
 * 22 October - Nelson Pereira dos Santos, film director (died 2018)

Deaths

 * 30 June - Landell de Moura, Roman Catholic priest and inventor (born 1861)